Jeff Martin

It looks beautiful. The animation is top notch. The character acting is really well done. It has a cozy feel. The FX are really well done. The problem with this family film is when trying to make a Christmas classic; if you include today's social, political and cultural memes it dates it very quickly and in many years people will look back at it and laugh or roll their eyes at the agenda driven messaging or be confused at what they mean. Also the mockery of the nativity scene in a Christmas movie is really in bad taste. Second they show that the kids watch "love actually" Every year, which is not an appropriate movie for kids to watch as there is a stand in sex scene for rehearsal of porn. I wish they kept the social politics out of it and kept it wholesome and it would have been a Christmas classic.

I'm a 80s baby teenage mutant ninja turtle super fan. I grew up on the turtles and loved them so much. The good: cool art style. Love the added 2D FX. The style can be busy at times though visually. Some of the fight scenes were fun to watch. The bad: You can tell Seth is all over this thing. His jokes, his music taste is like a mash of songs from all his previous movies. Why is splinter Chinese and not Japanese? he is supposed to teach the turtles the ways of the ninja hence the name ninja turtles. Ninjas are Japanese. Where is Shredder and the footclan? The turtles all talk at the same time. Non stop talking and action. Needs more slower paced scenes. Cell phones. They are so lame in movies. They make story telling so simple and less fun. my rule is no cell phones to explain all the plot. No classic turtle taglines made me sad. No kowaBunga and high five slap in the air. The turtles don't have their classic surfer dude talk. I guess that was more for the 80s Why did beebop and rocksteady side with the turtles... I guess this isn't for me or the old generation. Must be for the new.