Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

The Turtles get into another battle with their enemy the Shredder, who has acquired new allies: the mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady and the alien being Krang.

Director:

Dave Green

Writers:

Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

Stars:

Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry

10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Megan Fox	...	April O'Neil
Will Arnett	...	Vernon Fenwick
Laura Linney	...	Chief Vincent
Stephen Amell	...	Casey Jones
Noel Fisher	...	Michelangelo
Jeremy Howard	...	Donatello
Pete Ploszek	...	Leonardo
Alan Ritchson	...	Raphael
Tyler Perry	...	Baxter Stockman
Brian Tee	...	Shredder
Stephen Farrelly	...	Rocksteady (as Sheamus)
Gary Anthony Williams	...	Bebop
Peter Donald Badalamenti II	...	Splinter (as Peter D. Badalementi)
Tony Shalhoub	...	Voice of Splinter (voice)
Brad Garrett	...	Krang (voice)

Storyline

The Turtles continue to live in the shadows and no one knows they were the ones who took down Shredder. Vernon is the one everyone thinks is the one who took Shredder down. April O'Neill does some snooping and learns a scientist named Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder. He plans to break him out while he's bringing transported. April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can't. Stockman tries to teleport Shredder but he some how ends up in another dimension and meets a warlord named Krang who instructs Shredder to assemble a teleportation device he sent to Earth a long time ago. He gives Shredder some mutagen which he uses to transform two criminals who were also in the transport with him, Rock Steady and Bebop, into mutants. They then set out to find the device. April saw the transformation while investigating Stockman. She takes the mutagen and is chased by Shredder's minions, the Foot Clan. She is saved by a man named Casey Jones who was the one transporting Shredder. The ...

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | based on comic book | turtle | based on cartoon | rat | 

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Taglines:

Only one team can defend us all.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook [United States] Official site

Country:

USA Hong Kong China Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 June 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$135,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$35,316,382, 5 June 2016, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$82,051,601

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$245,623,848

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Platinum Dunes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos DTS (DTS: X) Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Pete Ploszek provided both motion-capture and voice for Leonardo after Johnny Knoxville didn't return to voice Leonardo, of which was originally intended to be the case with the first film before Knoxville stepped in for unknown reasons.

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Goofs

When we first see the Technodrome building itself and Donnie is analyzing it on his computer, we see a number on the screen slowly counting upwards. In one shot the number is in the 331,000 range. A few shots later, it passes by this number again.

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Quotes

[first lines]
[the Turtles train at the Chrysler building]
Leonardo: Okay guys, let's do this! Turtle formation!
[the Turtles dogpile each other]
Leonardo: What happened to Turtle formation?
Michelangelo: Turtle formation? I thought you said Squirrel formation!
Raphael: Why would he say Squirrel formation, you idiot?

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Crazy Credits

When the film title appears in the closing credits, a comic symbol appears at the top left that features the four Turtles and the number 2. This is a homage to the Turtles' comic origins, and represents this being the second film in the Platinum Dune series.

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Connections

References Star Trek (1966)

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Soundtracks

Not Food
Written & performed by John Debney

User Reviews

Better, but not quite good

It's weird to think that with something like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", you might lower your expectations. If something's really popular, shouldn't you make your expectations higher which is why everyone complains about "The Phantom Menace"? Anyway, this movie was just okay, but I will give it props for being an improvement over the original. This is a movie where they just want to put in all the popular characters for the fans. For the most part, it worked out. We got Baxter Stockman, Bebop and Rocksteady, Krang, and Casey Jones. Even though I haven't seen the newer TMNT shows, I still know who all those guys are.

The effects haven't improved much, which is what really weighed this down. A lot of this is stupid action, but the franchise itself was never meant to be that intelligent. Still, the bad seems to outweigh the good as I found the dialogue predictable and it was pretty annoying to hear that tired cliché of people being scared of something they don't understand. The original Ninja Turtles movies just seemed to capture the spirit more. I'll give this movie for once again, having all these characters. They're mostly in character even though Krang should have had more screen time. It's certainly more servicey than a lot of other TMNT media. Maybe I really should get into the newer shows. **1/2