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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 6.5
A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas. Director:Steve Barron |
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Cast
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Raphael (voice) /
Man in Cab
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Michelan Sisti | ... |
Michaelangelo /
Pizza Man
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David Forman | ... |
Leonardo /
Gang Leader
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| Robbie Rist | ... |
Michaelangelo
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| Corey Feldman | ... |
Donatello
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| Brian Tochi | ... |
Leonardo
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Michael Turney | ... | |
| Kevin Clash | ... |
Splinter
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Toshishiro Obata | ... | |
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David McCharen | ... |
The Shredder /
Oroko Saki
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| Michael McConnohie | ... |
Tatsu
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
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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Release Date:
30 March 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie See more »Box Office
Budget:
$13,500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$135,270,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
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Sound Mix:
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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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Written by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight
Performed by Spunkadelic
Courtesy of SBK Records
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Did You Know?
Trivia
After design sketches were created, the construction team used the studios' backlot to create some of the sets. There were problems with the manholes that led to the Turtles' home, in that an eight-foot square room had to be constructed beneath them, but found water at about five-feet, and thus had to pour concrete into the underground rooms to keep the water out. See more »Goofs
Shortly after Casey is seen chopping vegetables with a sword, there is a shot of all of the turtles gathered in one room. In the bottom center of the screen, you can see a mic cord coming out of the bottom of a turtle's shell and going down his left leg. This is Leonardo. Behind him, another more visible cord can be seen coming out of the left side of Raphael's shell. See more »Quotes
[first lines]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 »Soundtracks
"9.95"Written by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight
Performed by Spunkadelic
Courtesy of SBK Records
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I dare anyone to hate this movie. Come on. I triple dog dare you. Sit in front of the TV with a bunch of your friends and just try not to like it. You can't. It's impossible. I was a full fledged turtle fan back in the day (I don't think the fad lasted long enough for us to earn Trekker-type names) and of course at that point, I thought it was the Gone With the Wind of our time. That, obviously, it's not. But there is something just incredibly charming about a bunch of giant turtles acting like typical sit-com kids. One even gets yelled out for sneaking out past curfew to see Critters 2. If it comes on TV, even my dad has to pause to watch at least one fight scene. If someone in a college dorm pops it in, legions of kids will exclaim "Holy sh*t! Is that Ninja Turtles?" and then plop right down in front of the TV to watch. You have to give a lot of credit to the guys who made this film. It was released in the height of the craze so they could have thrown anything on the screen and it would have been a hit. (See Ninja Turtles 2). But instead, they tried to make it the best film they could, despite the subject matter. They came up with an almost relevant, after school special type plot. The jokes and references range from Moonlighting to John Steinbeck, and the fight scenes are done in the spirit of a Jackie Chan flick. Add the fact that there are giant turtles doing the fighting, and you get a funny, imaginative, and just plain likeable movie no matter what your age. Sure, it's about pizza loving ninja turtles. But it is the best movie that could ever be made about pizza loving ninja turtles. That has to count for something.