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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
It was much easier to enjoy this one as there wasn’t a heap of broken backstory distracting me the whole time; but good grief, this should just be called “Fan Service: The Movie”
Baxter Stockman, Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, The Technodrome, Casey Jones…oh, and the theme song. Ah, but Baxter Stockman didn’t turn into the fly yet; so at least they’re saving something for a third one.
Third one needs to remake Pizza Power for the credits.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
“How did you get my number?” while a Skype logo is visible on the screen…I don’t really think Skype works that way.
Oh, I wasn’t expecting Whoopi Goldberg.
OK, that’s a bit BS. April’s father being professor scientist man, who is responsible for everything, is basically just like in that other Spider-Man movie where Peter Parker’s father is professor scientist man.
Eric Sacks feels like a Willem Defoe character.
I really like how Splinter was portrayed here.
So unlike with Spider-Man, I have significantly more experience with TMNT to know whenever they are “screwing up” the lore; but none of the previous material has ever been consistent with each other in the first place, so I don’t object to changes that aren’t stupid; but there are more than a few changes here that are stupid.
Rating: 6 cheese pizza out of 10 cheese pizza.
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
I’ve always like this. The creepy old mansion, the treasure hunt, the secret passageways.
I’ve never been a Scrappy-Doo hater; but then again, this for the most part was my only exposure to him. Maybe I would be if I had grown up on the original Scooby-Doo Where Are You first and then transitioned into Scrappy-Doo.
The background music for this is quite odd, though I don’t really have any other old-school Scrappy-Doo fresh in my head right now so I can’t say if the soundtracks were always that…eclectic?
When I a “young’n” and saw the dancing pants for the first time I thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Well, that was a thing, again.
Almost thought I put the wrong movie in for a second.
They completely lost sight of the source material.
Ugh, not feather fingers again…
What’s the airspeed velocity of a wolf-laden goose?
OK, that’s a little clever with the double meaning behind eat food, get gas.
This kind of feels like it’s…borrowing…a bit too much from Pocahontas and The Lion King; I mean, technically not really; but…
OK, so everybody has little people inside their heads.
Do the little people inside everyone’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Do the little people inside the little people’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Do the little people inside the little people’s heads inside the little people’s heads have little people inside their heads?
Is it turtles all the way down?
Yep; It’s a Wonderful Life but with Shrek instead is pretty accurate.
They should have played All Star during the credits.
So…after investigating the “based on a book” thing in the credits I found this:
It’s OK; but the plot doesn’t feel like it resolved very smoothly. It’s like the writers got to the big showdown at the theater and went, “OH CRAP WE ONLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES LEFT!”
Merlin showed up and my reaction was, “oh hey, it’s Eric Idle!” Really appropriate for him to be a wizard again as he also voiced Rincewind in the Discworld games. And actually, I’m not the only one to have noticed this, Merlin even looks quite similar to Terry Pratchett.
Hmm, I don’t really have anything specific to say. I guess I can go from this back to the other remaining Shreks, which I haven’t seen yet. Although it’s been so long since I’ve seen I and II that I don’t really remember everything that happened in them.
The time period that this was made is kind of being weird for me.
Mayor Turkey Lurkey talks and I think, “oh, they got a Don Knotts sound-alike”, except he was still alive then; that’s actually Don Knotts.
Time-out during dodge-ball and they all whip out flip-phones; well, yeah, they would have in 2005.
I was not expecting to hear Patrick Stewart.
OK, that may be an ancient trope but it’s worth repeating. Pulling the fire alarm does not set off the sprinklers. Heat is what sets them off, a small glass tube explodes when the liquid inside reaches a certain temperature.
Spice Girls karaoke?? That was five years out of date, even back then.
Now it’s some kind of weird sci-fi??
So many more names that I like; let’s just end with this. I kind of wish I could watch a full version of the movie at the end of the movie with Adam West.