Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Steve Barron

Writers (WGA):

Kevin Eastman (characters) and
Peter Laird (characters) ...

Release Date:

30 March 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Lean, Green And On The Screen.

Plot:

A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Plot Keywords:

Police Chief | Part Of Trilogy | Skateboarding | Chillin' | Super Villain

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Oct. 19	4:00 PM	FAM
Sun. Oct. 19	10:00 PM	FAM

Cast

Judith Hoag	...	April O'Neil
Elias Koteas	...	Casey Jones
Josh Pais	...	Raphael / Man In Cab (voice)
Michelan Sisti	...	Michaelangelo / Pizza Man
Leif Tilden	...	Donatello / Foot Messenger
David Forman	...	Leonardo / Gang Leader
Michael Turney	...	Danny Pennington
Jay Patterson	...	Charles Pennington
Raymond Serra	...	Chief Sterns
James Saito	...	The Shredder / Oroko Saki
Toshirô Obata	...	Tatsu (as Toshishiro Obata)
Sam Rockwell	...	Head Thug
Kitty Fitzgibbon	...	June
Louis Cantarini	...	Cab Driver
Joe D'Onofrio	...	Movie Hoodlum #1 (as Joseph D'Onofrio)

Also Known As:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (USA) (long title)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Original Movie (USA) (DVD box title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA | Hong Kong

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:10 (original rating) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 | Italy:T | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (cut) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2003) (uncut) | USA:PG | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Castle Hayne, North Carolina, USA

Company:

888 Productions

Trivia:

All three newswomen seen or mentioned in the film have the name of a month in spring: April, May, and June.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: The exact same sound effect (a metallic "rub") is used both when Shredder turns towards Danny after his speech, and when he lifts his spike to Splinter's neck to threaten him- yet they are two completely different actions, and the first instance doesn't even warrant the sound effect in the first place.

Quotes:

Raphael: I do hope there's more o' them.

Movie Connections:

References The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Soundtrack:

TEQUILA

This movie will always be a part of me...

I was just a little kid when I first started collecting turtle stuff, Comics, figures, and trade cards, as well as many other things.. I remember one day I came home to find that my mother had thrown out every action figure and card I had, as well as most of my comics.. She replaced them with a phone and a fish tank.. She said I was getting too old for kid toys, and that I would grow out of them any way.. I was about 9... So when the movie was released I was the first one there on the first day it was released to theaters.. I collected some of the figures later on, but I never had a collection that was even close to my first.. I have almost every cartoon movie made on tape, several copies of all three live action movies, and this one on DVD... I never grew out of the turtles, and I know I never will.. I know all three movies word for word... When every one grows up, a part of them, a big part dies, and we forget what we loved so much as children.. Our Imagination dies, and an adult is born.. I simply refuse to let my heros go.. While the years pass and the turtles are forgotten, they will forever be a reminder to me of the times I could spend hours on end with nothing but myself and my action figures that came to life right in front of me with nothing more than my imagination....