a5c7b9f00b After facing Shredder, who has joined forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady to take over the world, the Turtles must confront an even greater nemesis: the notorious Krang. 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&#39;Neill does some snooping and learns a scientist named Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder. He plans to break him out while he&#39;s bringing transported. April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can&#39;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&#39;s minions, the Foot Clan. She is saved by a man named Casey Jones who was the one transporting Shredder. The Turtles show up and they try to work together. In the melee, the mutagen ends up with the police. Knowing Shredder will try and get it back, April tries to get it first and she asks Vern to help. Eventually she and Casey are arrested. The Turtles get the mutagen and Donatello analyzes it, learns it could make them human, which he tells Leonardo who tells him to forget it and not to tell the others. But Michelangelo tells Raphael who feels that Leonardo doesn&#39;t respect them. As long time TMNT fans, my sweetie and I loved this movie! It explored a theme I haven&#39;t seen in the comics, TV series, or other movies – what they would do if given the chance to be human. This rougher, tougher, more intimidating look for the Turtles fit in quite nicely with this subplot. The police initially saw themmonsters. That hit Michelangelo particularly hard. You could see how badly he wanted to fit in. His moment in the Halloween parade reminded me of Quasimodo joining Topsy Turvy Day&#39;s festivities in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.<br/><br/>That&#39;s precisely why Leonardo wanted Donatello to keep it a secret that the purple ooze could be reverse engineered to make them human. And they couldn&#39;t tell Raph for the very reason they witnessed once he discovered the truth. He&#39;s a loose cannon. His and Mikey&#39;s plan put April and Casey in jeopardy.<br/><br/>I like these versions of the human characters. April is smarter than in some version and is braver than in most. She was blond at the beginning and is usually brunette. Will we ever see hera redhead? I questioned Casey being so clean cut initially, but this is a smarter, more focused Casey Jones who is still a Looney Tune with a bad temper. That scene in the bar proved that was really Casey.<br/><br/>Vernon was better in this movie than in the last. He was the self-centered glory hound he was in the original TV series, and there was much less of him.<br/><br/>The humans had their place in the movie, and I&#39;m glad they took a backseat to the turtles. In the last movie, the people were a bit too prominent.<br/><br/>Bebop and Rocksteady were a fun addition. I love how Casey considered whether they would be stupid enough to go to their old hangout after breaking out of the police van and said, &quot;Yeah, they are,&quot; just after I said it. The movie held true to the characters while modernizing them. Their idea to form their own foot clan and move up to &quot;a leg clan&quot; was hysterical,was their resolve to no longer be errand boys breaking within a minute of their declaration.<br/><br/>I love the messages in this movie. Being an outcast sucks. People hate and fear what they don&#39;t know. Mikey&#39;s expression when he said he saw hate in the people&#39;s eyes when the police chief called them monsters was heartbreaking. The Turtles considered being human but learned not to change who you are to fit in. The turtles were the only ones who could save Earth, because their biological makeup allowed them to get close to the Technodrome whereas humans couldn&#39;t. So good they didn&#39;t turn human! The movie taught not to write off anyone based on first impressions. The police and the Turtles gave each other another chance. The Turtles learned people could come to accept them, and the police saw they weren&#39;t monsters.<br/><br/>The brothers also learned that appreciating each other&#39;s uniqueness and playing off one another&#39;s strengths is how to save the day, not expecting everyone to be the same. Leo&#39;s frustration and cognitive rigidity was so me, but he came around and learned that lesson too.<br/><br/>There were so many great scenes that were just plain fun, like the Turtles watching the Knicks game – especially the spit balls and pizza. And when they all said what they had that others don&#39;t, and Raph exclaimed, &quot;Garbage truck!&quot; instead of, &quot;Turtle power!&quot; That still makes me laugh out loud. And that TMNT theme at the end that blended the original TV series theme song with &quot;Ninja Rap&quot;. I bought it on iTunes.<br/><br/>I watched part of TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze last night on DVD upon returning home from the new movie, and I saw parallels between both sequels. In both Secret of the Ooze and Out of the Shadows, Shredder is back, and he creates two mutants of his own. TGRI / TCRI is prominent in both. The Turtles enlist the help of a crucial human ally – Casey in Out of the Shadows and Keno in Secret of the Ooze. I wonder if that was all intentional. And &quot;Ninja Rap&quot; is in both movies too.<br/><br/>Oh, and the Easter eggs in this movie! Kevin Eastman is the pizza delivery guy, and when Mikey snaps up the pizza and drops off the payment, he calls out, &quot;Thanks, Kevin!&quot; Donatello and all his gadgets were so original series – especially the purple turtle face that appeared on the wrist device he made for April. Hints of the original TV theme song were throughout the movie, the best being when they honked the horn of the garbage truck, and it was the tune of Heroes In A Halfshell. That part makes me smile just thinking about it. And, of course, that medley at the end! It was so awesome that I mentioned it twice. And Casey telling the police the Turtles came from New Hampshire. They really did!! And then, of course, Krang and the freaking Technodrome screams original series! I love Casey&#39;s realization that the Turtles were the ones who saved him when he saw the trash truck. He sounded out of his mind when telling the police chief about the Turtles in a garbage truck that shot manhole covers – another nod to the original cartoon.<br/><br/>Great movie overall! Lots of fun for longtime fans, lots of action and humor and the Turtles being four teenage brothers. We loved it! When you make a sequel, make sure it&#39;s better than the first or at leastgoodthe first one in every way. Out Of The Shadows has a better story line than it&#39;s predecessor, it has a much more energetic and extremely catchy film score, the performances, editing and directing are a lot better.<br/><br/>The first movie is forgettable, but Out Of The Shadows will be remembered due to it being watched more than once, it&#39;s so entertaining that you&#39;ll want to experience the chaos and fast-paced action again and again. The movie suffers from being the same shapeso many modern blockbusters, and the plot in the second half of the film is basically another riff on the “reach the glowing doodad on a roof to prevent the end of the world” structure. But the focus on the Turtles and the film’s overall amiable sense of goofball humor carries the day.
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