Learning of her hopes to bring down the criminal mastermind Super Fly (Ice Cube), who’s been terrorizing the city with his evil crew of fellow mutants, they decide to help her in her ambitious mission, reasoning that if they become heroes the city’s human denizens may embrace them and they can live normal lives. The story kicks in when the Turtles (Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon) meet April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri, The Bear), in this rendition an ambitious teen reporter at her high-school television station who went viral after she unfortunately had an epic vomiting session while on the air. Suffice it to say that the mutant, martial-arts expert rodent hasn’t exactly warmed to the human population in New York City as a result of the way they’ve treated him over the years. That story is told in flashback, related by the quartet’s adoptive rat father Splinter (Jackie Chan, voicing his role with gusto) to his sons to explain why he’s kept them isolated from the human world. Three other writers besides longtime creative partners Rogen and Goldberg contributed to the screenplay, which not surprisingly turns out to be an origin story. But I can report that this CGI-animated effort is the most engaging version I’ve encountered thus far, which bodes well for those who haven’t grown up as TMNT lovers.
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Those looking for an in-depth analysis of the film’s handling of the long-running media franchise created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman - one that has seen innumerable incarnations from its comic-book origins, including animated and live-action television series and films, not to mention mega-selling toys, video games and other merchandise - will have to look elsewhere my exposure has strictly been of the casual kind. Screenwriters: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cantu, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Brady Noon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph
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