[.ca] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

STILL FUNNY!:
THIS MOVIE IS NOT SO BAD AS EVERYONE SAID IT WAS. IT'S A GREAT MOVIE WHICH HAS EVERYTHING AND IS'NT AS BORING AS THE FIRST TWO. IT'S A GREAT MOVIE!

Give and Take:
The first Turtles movie was great in the fact that it took on the tone of the comics rather than the TV show (more grim, more adult). The second, after much backlash from parents, went in the total opposite direction and turned it into camp. This installment is a nice ballance of the two. Granted, the costumes are not up to par with the first two, and the plot is not the most original (nor feasible), but they take a back seat to the jokes. The first two TMNT movies focused more on plot and action with an occassional joke to keep things light. Writer/director Stuart Gillard's time travel story, while not the strongest, opens the door to many jokes and gags, which is what makes this movie stand out among the others. It's a nice change of pace, in my opinion. Kudos to Elias Koteas in this film (he deserves to be the first in the credits). His 15th century counterpart isn't the best, but he makes up for it when Casey Jones is forced to "babysit" four ancient Japanese warriors in modern-day New York (favorite bit is still the hockey scene). For those who were more interested in plot, this is not the best place to start in the series, but if you enjoy a good line of jokes and gags, I'd definitely recommend this one!

You have -got- to be kidding me.:
How can anyone say this movie is -good-? The animatronics were horrible...the turtles looked nowhere as realistic as the suits in the second and first movies. Splinter looked the worst of all...and check out the object interaction with him and the window at the beginning after Raphael has a temper tantrum. He moves his hands with the window to slide it down, but they don't actually *touch* the window. Since -when- did he learn telekinetesis? O_o Anyhoo. The script totally reeks. Come on, time travel? That's a bit farfetched, even by a standard TMNT comic plot, and something was just a bit offsetting about seeing Raphael flying kites and cooling his temper down like that. The only reason I gave this two stars was: THEY BROUGHT CASEY JONES BACK! He was one of the best characters, and even though he isn't in it much (bah, forget that character that's supposed to somehow *coincidentally* look like Casey in the movie.), Elias Koteas does a great job. Other than that and the nice sceneries, the movie stinks worse than a sewer on a hot day.

Soooo you people dont like it huh..well hell I do!!:
AWESOME!!I loved this movie,it was hilarious,and there were good action scenes and I mean GOOD!There are two things I have to say about this movie.One,is that the turtles are better at using there weapons in the third film then in the first two movies.Especially Donnie and Raph,Donatello can really whack the stick around alot better then he does in the first movie, if you compare the two you will notice.Two,they mostly base the story on Michelangelo wich is okay an all,I like how his voice doesnt change much through out every turtle movie.Look people the movie is down right good and if you hate it,then I suggest you get the hell out of here.I hope I havent gone over the top with my reveiw.

So what if it's not the first movie, It's still good!:
People complained over and over about how bad this movie was, well now I've finally got to see it again after 10 years! I loved it when I was seven and I love it even more now! This movie was NOT a bad movie,In fact I feel this one was nearly as good as the first film, much lighter and goofier but it still deserves second place. This was much better than the second movie to me. The first movie was dark,serious, and great! The second film was okay but came across as a bit too goofy at times to me(But I still loved it!^-^) and the third movie was, like another customer said, a combo of the two. And as for the animatronics...I didn't see anything wrong with them, they looked exacally like the second movie costumes with better facial expressions! Do I reccommend this movie? Hell yeah! It's not as good as the first movie but that doesn't make it a bad film. Some customers here have said that the storyline is too farfetched for the TMNT-verse, and again I disagree. The comics,old toon,and the brilliant new toon have all taken the fans of the series to new places. In fact I believe this movie was loosly based on a Michealangelo comic from the Mirage series,the one where Mikey writes this little story about him being in ancient Japan and helping people there. Anyway, I'll end my review here. I loved this movie and I'm sure most Ninja Turtles fans will enjoy it too.