TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

By Matt Paprocki With the fad in full swing, season five of the insanely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became more about marketing than entertainment. Plot lines show the writers were completely out of ideas, the introduction of new mutants is ...

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By Lucas McNelly I have this friend who married a karate instructor, which isn't by itself all that remarkable, except that it allows everyone else to refer to him as "the ninja" and give them Christmas presents of plastic throwing stars and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures and the like. It's on...

By Matt Paprocki That’s not to say the season is a complete loss. The episode "Splinter Vanishes" is an obvious inspiration for the recent re-imagining animated TMNT movie, splitting the team up as they go their separate ways. "Foot Soldiers are Revolting" is more in tone with earlier episodes, somewhat h...

By Tall Writer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toppled the mighty Spartans in 300 at the box office, but does the latest “heroes in a half shell” installment really win the war at the multiplexes? Recommended with reservations and rated PG for action violence.

By Chris Beaumont I was interested to find that there were a number of celebrities who lent their voices. Among those stars was Mako, who died during the production last year making this his last big screen appearance having voiced Master Splinter. Other stars include Sarah Michelle Gellar as April O'Neil,...

By Kaonashi The story takes place over a year after the Turtles have defeated the Shredder and his organization, the Foot Clan. Since then the Turtles have separated emotionally and geographically. Master Splinter (Mako) has sent Leonardo into the desolate jungles of South America to learn how to be...

By Matt Paprocki It’s appalling to think that the last truly great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was on the Super NES, in a drastically under appreciated fighting game, Tournament Fighters. Over a decade later, numerous pieces of hardware, and countless technology revolutions later, we end up with...

By Matt Paprocki If you were a kid back in the early 90's and walked into an arcade, one thing was assured: Konami had you covered. You were likely surrounded by ridiculously loud G.I. Joe cabinets, The Simpsons were spouting off trademark witty humor in another, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machine w...

By Donnie Marler Oh! Sorry. You caught me. I’ve had that silly song stuck in my head for the past few days. Ever since I began helping Brendan with the task of painting his room in a Ninja Turtles theme. To a four-year-old, a green, purple, red, and orange room ‘rocks,’ in his words. To a Papa, it’s the next thing to ex...

By Matt Paprocki Shredder and cohort Krang need energy to power their super battle station the Technodrome, ... This is still a classic animated series for a reason. ... to fans and will be releasing all future Ninja Turtle seasons in full, in box sets. ...

By Modern Pea Pod When I was a child, I would wake up early every Saturday morning and watch cartoons with my dad. Usually, over huge bowls of Frosted Flakes, we would coast through the adventures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which my mother never wanted me to watch for fear that I would pick up the phra...

By Matt Paprocki Still in season three, Volume 5 of the Ninja Turtles animated series on DVD continues with plots of alternate characters. Leatherhead, Rat King, Usagi Yojimbo, Casey Jones, and a group of cheap knock-off frogs all make their appearances, likely more for marketing reasons than variety. T...

By Matt Paprocki Season three would bring in new characters, and this volume introduces the violent Dirty Harry knock-off Casey Jones. The Rat King, and Baxter Stockman, revealed in previous DVD editions, make their way into a few episodes here as well. Out of the 12 included half-hour long shows, a few cla...