Cole Gilbertson

Great to see Michael Keaton as Batman again. His part felt substantial, which was a welcome surprise. CGI wasn't very good, mostly faces, but over all the movie was satisfying.

Absolutely the best show I've seen in years!

This isn't Star Wars, it's House of Cards in space. 80% boring conversations and 20% predictable drama. Where are the aliens? Seriously, where?

I've seen a lot of zombie shows and movies. This might be my new favorite. It's a must watch. Without spoiling anything, if it starts to feel a little too weird, push through, it's worth it. The weird is pretty well handled, and only enhances the experience.

Best of the three! So to leave a review, which is optional, it needs to be at least thirty words. That's pretty dumb. I need seven more words. So there.

I laughed once. The rest was almost physically painful. I stopped watching multiple times, but eventually slogged through it. Walking away from a horror movie where the highlight was when I laughed once is pretty telling. I love the Critters movies. Everything before this anyway. Critters Attack on the on the other hand is one of the most irritating, dumb, poorly written movies I have ever seen. I watch a lot of B horror movies, and I know what to expect from them. The dialogue usually at least makes sense even if it's not well written. This makes a mockery of the original franchise. They took this movie and made it into one of those mid 90s straight to vhs kids movies like Little Bigfoot or A Gnome Named Gnorm. This is a joke. A bad one.

No spoilers. This movie is a ton of fun. The cgi might be the best I've ever seen. Funny, exciting, and full of bits of nostalgia. Going a second time, and I haven't done that since the first Deadpool movie.

This doesn't feel like a TMNT movie. Rogen's turtles feel more like teenagers, sure, but that's the extent of the improvements, if you can call it that. I wanted to like it, but he has thrown away the things that make the TMNT franchise entertaining and threw away origin stories for at least eight characters. SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT! Splinter got to be a cool guy for one scene, but doesn't show the kind wisdom and world knowledge that he's known for in every previous iteration. Instead we get a bigoted Father figure that even in realizing he's wrong, admits he won't change his ways. Those eight characters I mentioned? Eight of the featured mutants. They all came from the same experiment, grown in test tubes. Bebop and Rocksteady are diminished to background characters with no personality. Bebop was born a pig mutant with no history with the turtles, yet still has his turtle shell pauldrons. A half dozen or so other mutants are shoehorned in for no other reason than Rogen played with the toys as a kid. Mondo Gecko was given more personality than anyone outside the turtles and April. Mondo is great, but the rest of the "villains" are basically just present in the movie. The ending with the turtles just going to regular school was dumb. It might be the worst part of it. They're meant to be humble heroes fighting largely from the shadows with some exceptions and doing so in spite of the fact the world wouldn't accept them as "normal people". They use disguises to walk around in public, and acknowledge that most humans would fear or hate them. They continue to help humans because they know they are in a unique position to do so. They're supposed to be taught by Splinter that it's the right thing to do. We got a taste of that in this movie, but it didn't come from Splinter. It's a throw away line by Leo and they're immediately accepted by the people of New York. The only reason I'm not giving one star is because the fight scenes are pretty fun.

I hadn't even watched a trailer for it, so I went in blind. It's an inconsistent jumbled mess. Kinda fun, with a few laughs here and there, otherwise just okay. It's different though, so if you're tired of overly predictable dribble, give this a shot.

No spoilers. I thought it was great until the last half hour or so. It felt like the third act was written by completely different people who read a summary of what the first two acts were about. Wasted opportunity to set up other heroes/franchises imo.