I saw this in theatres when I was seven. I've wanted to be a ninja ever since.

One of my all time guilty pleasures and you know what, it still stands up more or less today. Ok so some of the special effects are a bit ropey, the plot is close to non existent and the acting is generally atrocious, but it's fun.

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Elias Koteas has hair!!

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Sam Rockwell is in it

This is by far not the worst movie I have ever seen. Actually it is still pretty entertaining and I got some good laughs out of it. Yes there probably is some nostalgia talking here but this was way better than The Innkeepers. I love that there is no CGI and the makeup effects and puppet work are great. You could definately watch a worse movie. Cowabunga dude.

"I love been a turtle!!"

A simple and common story about four turtles than where raise and train in the art of ninja by a rat, if that premise sounds interesting to you, well, you will have a great time watching The Ninja Turtles.

I have not watch this in more than a decade, I have to say, it brought me back to my childhood, and even do I have a more critical aye for films than 10 years ago (I think), I let the cheesy dialogue and the simple story pass, because it was very entertaining re-visiting this world.

One last thing, maybe the most important, a shout out to the Jim Henson's Creature Shop, watching talking, jumping and fighting around four over size turtles using animatronics beats CGI any day in my book.

"December of Madness"

all nostalgia but still love this

What inspired me to watch this film for the first time was that a good friend informed me the voice of Shredder in the 1980's/1990's cartoon was Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

First time viewing and being big fan of the cartoon and I was pleased this film stuck really close to it. To the point that there was tension between Raphael, Leonardo just like the cartoon. Yeah really good fun.

Splinter kept making us laugh during this film for some reason. Maybe because he had all the wise sayings...keeping it real as he should. After we looked up who was the voice of Splinter, the wisest of rats, and to our surprise it was none other than Kevin Clash the voice of Elmo. Also when the credits rolled we noticed that Corey Feldman was the voice of Donatello. Totally cowabunga dudes!!

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES lives in a dysfunctional 90's pop world, where risks were more taken than not, and the pop culture storm heavily relied on the film industry. There's no denying that this is not a well-made film. It's dark, the turtles themselves are kitschy, and many human characters are utterly useless. Yet...there's a part of me that may never live down what TMNT brings to young people. Does it hold up after all these years? Not really, although don't count out some of the clever tongue-in-cheek humor that seems to be the only thing keeping this pre-teen revelry afloat after all this time.

"God, I LOVE BEING A TURTLE!" - Michaelangelo

A complete guilty pleasure, I watched this a ridiculous amount of times as a kid and its surprising how well this holds up still. Even now It is very funny and very entertaining It's uniquely dark for a very comedic and strange narrative. This might be my nostalgia speaking but man, I love this movie.

One of my all time guilty pleasures and you know what, it still stands up more or less today. Ok so some of the special effects are a bit ropey, the plot is close to non existent and the acting is generally atrocious, but it's fun.

and...

and...

Elias Koteas has hair!!

and...

and...

Sam Rockwell is in it

This movie still holds up extremely well for me. If i was forced to make a list of my favorite movies it would rank extremely high. If it were a list of influential movies of my childhood it'd easily be in my top 5 fighting it out amongst Batman and Goonies. It's shot extremely well, much better than it had all rights to be in 90.

DE PUTA MADRE

Captures the spirit - and some of the edge - of the original comics. Kudos to the writers; the dialogue in this movie is absolutely golden. But where is the Director's Cut?

One of the most influential 90's movies of all time.

'PIZZA TIME!'

One of the prime examples of film that has not aged well.

Although I still enjoy the second film much more than this, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a fun adventure with some nice (at the time) puppet tricks & a good sense of humour to help distract you from it's weaker elements.