The first drawback of the film, which was recognized by the authors themselves, is the design of the characters. Turtles made huge, ugly boogies. Do you know where the word “teen” comes from? They're 16 years old. And in the movie, they look 40. Shredder in general is almost no different from Megatron, and in all this so greasy handwriting Bay junk that the film looks like another popcorn slag about transformers. Megan Fox as April is a ridiculous miscast in which only a dull person will not see a blatant blat (I’m sure she knew how to make Bay feel good).
And even if you don’t count the monstrously bad character incarnation, the film is a complete disappointment, everything is bad about it. You need to experiment and cut innovations in your own new story, but the remake should be done in a way that preserves everything that fans love, and introduce new things very carefully. Here for fan love walked boots:
- April was fired from Channel 6 in the beginning, and we know her as a journalist. Who is she now?
- The newspaper boss went from being a white man to seeing who. You know how that's explained? It's just that a white man can't yell at a white woman. Only a black woman can yell at her. I'm tired of this Western legal pyramid.
- Splinter doesn't look like a rat at all, he looks like a donkey.
- Vernon, who was a coward in the animated series, became a hero here and takes care of April, that is, he replaced Casey well. Yeah, I agree, he's made a less annoying character here, and that's kind of a good thing. But then was he even needed?
- The Foot clan, a ninja group with its cultural background (albeit sometimes robots), is depicted here as mere terrorists with machine guns.
- They rewrote the history of the turtles - now they are April's pets. It never happened!
- Splinter has no connection with Japan at all. Therefore, he learned Japanese culture and martial arts to the level of a master in one book. I can't read. And Japanese weapons generally originated in the sewers. In principle, the entire original of the characters here is compressed to the limit as something superfluous.
This was a list of the trampling of the canon, and now a list of just idiots:
- The turtles force April to remove one picture, but they don’t stop her from making another.
- So she's got a picture, but she's not showing it to her boss, even though that's the only real proof she's right. Then why even this picture in the story?
- How do Shredder and Splinter know each other? And especially how can they hate each other? In the original it was a long-standing clan feud of ninjas, but here the bandit and the rat never met.
Shredder has been raising Sax since he was a kid. He's not that mean! He couldn't have known then that the boy would grow up to be a big boss, so he did it from the heart.
- How was Sacks ever going to treat people with his chemical that kills them instantly? It also requires a slow-acting substance.
- Why would he and Shredder do that at all? To get rich? They're not poor, they have a skyscraper, technology, an army.
- This treatment plan came to Shredder decades ago. Did he wait that long?
- And they are going to spray it in the open directly from the roof of their skyscraper? I thought it was better to do it quietly. You know, don't let your company shut you down.
- Shredder beat Raphael, and nothing prevented him from killing all the Glavheroes. And he just turned around and left. For no reason.
- The turtles were pumped out almost all the blood, and they were instantly brought to their senses by an injection of adrenaline. The body does not work on one adrenaline.
- Turtles should hide from the public, so they draw their character everywhere, drive at the end of the film in a glowing rumbling car.
- Funeral of physics and logic. Shooting in impenetrable shells, when you could shoot on the legs. Bouncing bullets back into the enemy while maintaining kill speed. Running from jeeps on their own ass in the snow Spraying the toxin over New York City is like Amazing Spider-Man. Shredder for some reason jumps on April to fly with her into the abyss, although he could calmly approach, take the substance, and throw it away.
So this is a typical Bay Bacchanalia with lots of special effects and zero script work. And I don’t need to be told that the director is actually Jonathan Libesman, and he’s just a fake figure. Bay just covered himself up with someone else's name to have all the dogs hang on him. Everybody understands.