Turtles Forever (2009)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet their match -- Literally! The modern, gritty Ninja Turtles must team up with their classic cartoon counterparts to stop two Shredders and their plans of multi-dimensional scale.

Directors:

Roy Burdine, Lloyd Goldfine (co-director)

Writers:

Kevin Eastman (character), Peter Laird (character)

Stars:

Michael Sinterniklaas, Wayne Grayson, Sam Riegel

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Sinterniklaas	...	Leonardo (voice)
Wayne Grayson	...	Michelangelo (voice)
Sam Riegel	...	Donatello (voice) (as Sam Regal)
Gregory Abbey	...	Raphael (voice) (as Greg Abbey)
Darren Dunstan	...	Splinter (voice)
Marc Thompson	...	Casey Jones (voice)
Veronica Taylor	...	April O'Neil (voice)
Scott Rayow	...	The Shredder / Ch'rell (voice) (as Scottie Ray)
Greg Carey	...	Hun (voice)
Karen Neil	...	Karai (voice) (as Karen Neill)
Dan Green	...	Leonardo 1987 (voice)
Johnny Castro	...	Michelangelo 1987 / Rocksteady (voice)
Tony Salerno	...	Donatello 1987 (voice) (as Anthony Haden Salerno)
Sebastian Arcelus	...	Raphael 1987 (voice)
David Wills	...	Splinter 1987 / Mirage Shredder (voice)

Storyline

An out of the ordinary encounter with strange alien ooze mutates four ordinary pet turtles Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello into talking, walking, fighting green machines! Together, these brothers train with the legendary sensei rat, Splinter, to master the martial art of Ninjitsu. In this truly turtle powered tale, the turtles from one dimension meet the turtles from another dimension when a teleporting mishap occurs. What the shell is going on? Together, the turtles must locate the Technodrome to fix this mess! Meanwhile, Shredder tracks down his counterpart, Ch'rell, who devises a master plan to travel back to the Prime Universe to get rid of the turtles once and for all! As worlds collide, the turtles come face to face with classic characters like Casey and April, and a slew of enemies including Krang, Hun, the Foot Soldiers, the Purple Dragons, Bebop and Rocksteady!

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Plot Keywords:

ninja | anthropomorphic animal | anthropomorphic animal as protagonist | anthropomorphic turtle | mutant animal | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes four ninjas just aren't enough!

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

G

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) series from the 1980s, the Turtles often broke the fourth wall, and talked directly to the audience. This wasn't the case however with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) series. This is made reference to in this movie, as the 1980s Turtles break the fourth wall several times. Until finally, Hun gets fed up and begins to violently shake the 1980s Raphael, while asking, "Why do you keep doing that?! Who are you talking to?! There's no one there!"

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Quotes

Donatello 1987: Okay guys, here's everything we'll need to take down the Technodrome. Exploding throwing stars, Anti-Technodrome roller skates, SPF 1000 sunblock.
Raphael 1987: And I've got the pizzas! We're good to go!
Leonardo: ...You're joking, right?
Raphael: We came all the way to "Wacky World" for this junk?

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Alternate Versions

For several months, 4kids' website featured a "Director's Cut" of the movie which contained eight minutes of footage that were cut from the TV broadcast, and eventually Paramount's 2010 DVD as well. Among the scenes restored:

• The Turtles using sonar to search for the Technodrome underground
• Karai explaining that she found the Technodrome when her monitoring systems revealed that Ch'rell had changed location
• Karai claiming the Technodrome for the Foot Clan
• Splinter settling an argument between the 1988 and 2003 Turtles
• Casey and April fighting robotic Foot Ninjas
• Leonardo detailing Shredder's scheme to the Mirage Turtles
• Shredder nearly disintegrating himself and Karai (among others) while strangling the Mirage Turtles
• Various gags and one-liners

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Connections

Follows Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

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Soundtracks

Back To The Sewer
Written by Russell Velazquez

User Reviews

OMG, What a wonderfully done movie for 3 generations of fans

This movie is for fans and non-fans alike. It starts off with the Turtles in it's latest incarnation (2003 4kids series) viewing a news report of a robbery broken up by four turtles..but not by them..

At a risk of spoiling, I will not go into further detail. As a fan of the shows and the various versions of the Turtles, I really enjoyed this movie.

Funny thing is this movie wasn't promoted well, if not at all (which is sad because this could have been released in the theaters and would have made a lot of money... I happened upon this movie by accident and have a "Kool-Aid smile" for it's humor, story, action, and nostalgia. This made for TV movie did what the previous shows and the theatrical release did not.

It gave the fans a action packed, humor-filled completion to a wonderful franchise... Thank you to all that were involved....And here's hoping that this was not the end to it all.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 November 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever

Company Credits

Production Co:

4 Kids Entertainment, Dong Woo Animation Co., Image Comics

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1