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A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas.

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Raphael (voice) / Man in Cab
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Michaelangelo / Pizza Man
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Leonardo / Gang Leader
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Tatsu (voice)
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Storyline

Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad, bad guy Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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turtle | ninja | rat | combat | pizza | See more »

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30 March 1990 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie  »

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$13,500,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$135,270,000 (USA)
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Trivia

To get the right design for the sets, production designer Roy Forge Smith and art director Gary Wissner, went to New York City four months prior to filming and took still photographs of rooftops and other various locations. See more »

Goofs

While fleeing the Foot Clan in the junk shop, the same brief scene of Donatello turning and punching out one of the Foot is used twice. See more »

Quotes

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April: Much more than just a series of small, isolated incidents, it's now apparent that an organized criminal element is at work and at the moment, business is good. So good in fact that there appear to be no eyewitnesses to any of these crimes. With complaints ranging from purse snatching to breaking and entering, police switchboards have been swamped with the angry voices of more and more citizens who have fallen prey to the recent surge of crime that continues to plague the city. ...
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Crazy Credits

The film title appears from behind the corner of the sewer, just before the Turtles come around it and are fully seen for the first time. See more »

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References Moonlighting (1985) See more »

Soundtracks

"EVERY HEART NEEDS A HOME"
Written by Paul Peterson, Carl Sturken, and Evan Rogers
Performed by St. Paul
Courtesy of Atlantic Records
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A Great Film
20 January 2000 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Ninja Turtles. Anyone born in the 1980's remembers the phenomenon that swept the country during the late 80's and early 90's. And this movie proves what was once a big icon fad that was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This movie is well made for a kids movie, and it is my favorite of the series of films. I even like this more than the TV show. It has more drama and action than the other parts. And it's dark, I like that in a kids movie.


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