Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
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But what resonates most in this coming of age story is not the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” bed sheets, or the Golden Era hip-hop songs punctuating each attempted ollie, but the uncomfortable -- and inescapably powerful -- truth that bad-influence kids you fall in with can sometimes do as much good in your formative years as harm.
One of the first things we see is a bed covered with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” sheets, followed by shelves neatly lined with CDs and cassette tapes.
With its city-block-levelling action sequences that recall Transformers, to the characters’ adolescent enthusiasm that mirrors similar moments in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, Power Rangers feels late to the party, its every move telegraphed by earlier films.
At its best, Power Rangers is a throwback to the likes of Masters of the Universe and the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Perhaps the two most obvious pieces of franchise DNA present in this film are ones you shouldn't want to emulate: Michael Bay’s Transformers and the Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
But in that sense, it's similar to the recent "Transformers" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movies, which also reconfigured youth-culture franchises into ugly displays of digital neo-realist carnage.
Even 2014’s “ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ” had the sense to embrace its source material’s color and zip.
There have been big examples of that with the recent Transformers movies and the recent two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films (notice a patterned connection there?
Esta película se une a muchas otras locuras ochenteras y noventeras ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Robocop , Mimic , The Boogens , Tremors , What Waits Below , The Strangeness …) en las que se retrata el miedo a sociedades enterradas; un miedo tan común que encontró su reflejo en el mundo de Turanga Leela en Futurama .
Jokes about video games and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, cut with some wry observational humor about being a young Pakistani man in post-9/11 America: Yes.