Cowabunga
After my love affairs with Thomas the Tank Engine and Ghostbusters came a love for Teenage Mutant Hero (Ninja) Turtles. I watched the cartoon, I had all the toys, the NES (and SNES) games and watched each three of the live-action films in awe.
Thinking back on the films now, however, I can’t help but feel a bit cringed. (I’m not sure if grammatically that’s the correct use of the word. But sometimes you just gotta say: “The laws of words and sentence structure - who gives a smeg?!”)
Anyway, yes - the original films entertained me greatly all of ten or so years ago. But now my fond memories of them stay in the past, save for nostalgia. It’s hard to say exactly why; they just seem a bit too gimmicky to want to watch at this age.
Having said that, I am fairly interested to see them again now - having just seen the teaser trailer to the all new Turtles film due out next year. It looks awesome and the cgi is probably the best of all the wholly-cgi films I’ve ever seen.
Few films excite me like this so it’s great when they do come along. And given I accidentally stumbled across the teaser (I didn’t even know they were making another Turtles film) I am feeling quite excited indeed.
Turtle power!