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I finally watched âTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowsâ and I wrote down all my reactions:
Here it goes... COWABUNGA MY TURTLE DUDES.
Ooooh I love the use of ninja throwing stars for the Paramount stars.
Iâm also digging the music.
TURTLE FORMATION
Omg, Mickey, no squirrel formation. (I donât want to see those creepy squirrels from the 2012 series.)
Honestly, even though the plot of the 2014 film wasnât great (hopefully this one will be better), they had the personalities down to a tee, and itâs great to see thatâs still the case.
The way they depict the sibling relationship between Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mickey is so awesome to watch. Not to forget: the fact that they actually act like teenagers is such a plus.
Case in point: Donnie repeatedly telling Raph to âdo it do it do it do it do it [the shellskateboarding thing]â. I love it.
Hahahaah, Kevin the pizza guy. Such a nice Kevin Eastmann cameo!
Donnie: âWhen I say Knicks you say Go.â Iâm reminded of the failed âWhen I say Vol you say Tron.â speech. But at least the bros got it right.
Vern The Falcon? Oh no....
Hahaha, shooting the little spit balls at Vern and then mimicking his falcon. See, such teenagers.
APRIL IS CALLING DONNIE.
I REPEAT APRIL IS CALLING DONNIE.
Yes, I ship them. Shush.
Also, that blonde wig + glasses look really good on Megan Fox?Â
Baxter Stockmann... Heâd go with a FLY FORMATION.
Donnie to April: âDo you need us there?â Awwww.
April to Donnie:Â âThat birthday present that you made for me?â AWWW.
Yes, April, explain Baxter the difference between geek and nerd.
Omg, Baxter, that laugh.
Ofc there needs to be some Megan Fox fanservice... /eyeroll (She was pretty badass going undercover, but still that was unnecessary.)
HAHAHA I LOVE THE DONNIE SMILEY FACE ON HER WATCH WHEN THE DOWNLOAD OF THE FILES IS COMPLETE!
Oh no, the pizza slice on the basketball court....
Poor Mikey, he just want to âLIVE UP THERRRREEE. Up there where flowers bloom.â (And now I have that South Park song stuck in my head.)Â
Also, a Transformers reference, really?
Wait;;; How are the copied files on Aprilâs watch being deleted? She downloaded them? She wasnât streaming them....
But good on her for discovering that Baxter is working with Shredder (where did that hunch come from though?) and that he + the Foot Clan plan on breaking him out when heâs being transferred.
Casey Jones as a law enforcer? Thatâs new?Â
Ngl, I donât really like that detail. It doesnât suit him.
BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY!!!!! :D
Itâs not a Michael Bay production without car explosions. /eyeroll (again)
Also, NYC believes that Vern stopped the Shredder. Why didnât the NY police ask him to accompany this super important transfer?
Hahaha, that tmnt themeâd honk. I LOVE.
Great updates on the Turtle Shell, Donnie.
Raph when taking out the last of three foot bikers: âThatâs how I roll. Thatâs how you roll.â
Why didnât Raph stay on the bike? He could cover more ground that way.
Soooo, Baxter knows of the Turtles.Â
I love how personalised the Turtle Shell is.
Hi there, Krang!Â
So, lemme get this straight: Krang needs the three teleport devices he sent to Earth to join them into an arch capacitor to teleport the Technodrome to Earth to conquer it. But he was able to teleport Shredder to where he was. Something does not add up there...Â
So many plotholes.
But whatever, Iâm still enjoying this. :)Â
Donnie and April make such a great team.
But how is she going to get to the TCRIâs mainframe? (Also, how is she going undercover everywhere? Isnât she recognised as a television reporter?)
Chief: âManhole covers?â
That was some nice exposition on Jones wanting to become a detective. Like really? It was so odd to tell your superior whoâs clearly mad at you that.
The casting for Bebop and Rocksteady is so spot on.
Itâs still weird not to have the Shredder vs Splinter backstory. It feels like Splinter is just there now? Heâs more important than that. :(
Is that barkeep the Vulture from b99?Â
Quickly looked it up, yep, thatâs Dean Winters. :D
Itâs not a Turtles movie without some Vanilla Ice. ;)
Reporter thing aside... Why go on this important undercover mission on high heels? Everyone can hear you. Thatâs not stealthy there, April.Â
I get that the purple ooze is different (iirc from the 1987 series) - although Iâm not a fan of a different kind of mutagen -, but why not mention the green ooze? They have the green mutagen from the previous film that mutated the Turtles and Splinter? Or am I completely remembering the 2014 film wrong?
Also, how did Shredder shoot two darts into two different directions?Â
Yes, that gun has two barrels, but he shot both darts practically at the same time?
Also, how are they mutating into a warthog and a rhinoceros without the DNA from those animals?Â
The way they transformed, that sequence, was pretty cool, though.
Hmm, so we all have a dormant animal gen. Itâs an explanation for not needing the animal DNA, I guess.
YES TO HBIC APRIL OâNEIL!
So Casey wants to be a detective, but then suits up as the Hockey Vigilante we know and love. That really doesnât make much sense.
April to Casey: âStacey Moans?â
Staceyâs mom has got it going on.... And now Iâve got that song stuck in my head, haha.
Amell physically makes a good Casey Jones. But Iâm sorry to say, heâs so stiff and mainly has two faces: this :| or this :D. Iâm not a big fan of this casting. Iâm okay with it, but idk. ¯\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
And Koteas is forever my favourite Casey Jones.Â
Casey to the turtles: âDo not eat us humans.â Are we really going with that joke?
I love Mickeyâs introduction of the Turtles to Casey. :D
DONNIEâS POSE . <3
Haha, Mikey and Raph keeping Casey out of the huddle.
Leo about Casey:Â âRaph, grab Friday the 13th.â Great reference.
Casey: âAnd have the most pretentious names ever.âÂ
âIs it me youâre looking for?â ⍠Omg, Splinter listening to pop ballads. I love. xD
Of course Donnie could turn the ooze so they could become humans.
Donât keep secrets from your brothers, Leo.Â
Awww, Mickey. The one who wants to be among humans the most. :(
A Turtle Christmas album?? I WANT!
Leo:Â âThereâs only one vote that counts in this family: Mine!â Harsh, bro.
Awww, ofc Donnie loves museums. :)
Casey to Vern:Â âSee you there.â Mikey to Vern:Â âSee you there.â Vern:Â âHe already said that.â That made me laugh more than it should have.
I love how Leo and Donnie are riding the subway like that.
Theyâre not monsters. :â(
I want to give Mickey a big hug.
Leo to Splinter:Â âI canât get them all on the same page, to think with one mind.â Splinter to Leo:Â âYou shouldnât want them all to think the same. Itâs their different points-of-view that makes the team strong. A good leader understands this. A good brother accepts it.â I love this.Â
Seriously, the personalities and the interactions are so on point.
Where did Beebs and Rock get a tank???
So many fistbumps in this film, omg.
I forgot to mention this before, but I like that Donnie isnât as muscle-y as the others. I do like these different personal designs.
Also, Donnie easily jumping to go to the other plane. That was great.
Raph:Â âWhat would Vin Diesel do? No regrets, no fear.â Hahahaha.
Whoa, really, shooting from a tank inside a plan? âDude seriouslyâ is the right reaction.
Also, how is Donnie able to stay inside that open cockpit???Â
Lbr, Donnie is the mvp in this film.
âTHIS PIG IS FLYING!â Hahahahahaha.
Raph seeing that turtle. A reference to Spike, maybe? :D
Okay, that entire river sequence was AWESOME!!!Â
I wouldnât change one things about it: from seeing the turtles swim under water, to Raph saving Donnie from the tank missile, to the four of them hiding in their shell (along with that��âploempâ sound effect) when going down the water fall.
Leo (sarcastically):Â âThanks, guys. Real time effort.â Wow, way to be a dick there. :/
âJustice comes in all shapes and sizes.â That explains Casey Jones suiting up in his hockey vigilante get-up, I guess. But idk, that little plot could have been written better.
Come on, Vern, you can step up. :)
Oh no, Vern missing the obvious there with the location of the data storage of that hidden camera. hashtag relatable
Leo: âWe may be brothers, but weâre not a team.â That hurts....
But that portal technically isnât your science, Baxter, itâs Krangâs. The names you mentioned might become footnotes, but so would you.
Donnie gathered all that information rather quickly? Unbelievable quickly?
But again, heâs the mvp!
I love that old video console on Donnieâs wrist.
Theyâre turtles forever. :)
I really thought Shredder was going to say that Baxter would always the same, aka âa fly on the wallâ instead of âa footnoteâ.
Vern:Â âWhen something bad happens, you want to be with the turtles.â That is true.
Haha, oh u Shredder. You betrayed Baxter to have all the glory, but you didnât consider Krang would betray you?
KRANG DOESNâT SHARE FOOD.
Oh, I noticed that Triceration next to Shredder! :D
Wow, Jade spoke for once. :o
I like the way the police protected the Turtles from being seen by the public.
Raph:Â âSURFâS UP, NY!â
Again with the heels, OâNeil?
I love that shot with the four turtles standing on the edge of the almost finished Technodrome.
Mikey calling Krang âa chewed up piece of gumâ and then Leo continuing with âBubbliciousâ, haha.
Mickey:Â âIâm vertical.â
Mickey is the second mvp this film.
I really really love that Donnie and Mickey get most screentime this film.
Great how Casey tricked Beebs and Rock like that. :)
TEAM EFFORT, BB!
Leo:Â âWe got something nobody else has.â Leo, Donnie and Mickey:Â âTurtle power!â while Raph:Â âGarbage truck!â Hahahaha.
But seriously: TURTLE POWER!
Finally, April being a reporter again.
Chief to the turtles: âLast name?â Hamato immediately came to mind, tbh.
Some Capril flirting. ;)
HEROES IN A HALF SHELL! âŤ
I love the comic style in the end credits.Â
But see: Splinterâs actor isnât even mentioned in the special part of the end credits. He deserves better and more.
All in all, despite its flaws (too many expositions or Krang being the main villain with hardly any screentime f.e.), I really enjoyed watching this. Itâs so much better than the 2014 one.Â
(I do hope for actual one on one friendship between Donnie and Mickey next time, though. I love the turtles most together, but separate friendships I love them the most.) (And on that note: Where was my Raph&Casey romance friendship?)
#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt out of the shadows#tmnt 2016#apritello#capril#zoe liveblogs#zoe liveblogs tmnt#i'm so incredibly late watching this i know#unfortunately i didn't get to see this one at the cinema#unlike with the 2014 film#when my stepsis and i got the entire room to ourselves#that was so awesome!#but i'm finally watching it now#because i've been working hard the past couple of days and dealing with a lot of irl stuff#so tonight i'm going to relax by finally watching this#and liveblogging as i watch it
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