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- 2024
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Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 9, 2024
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5.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
80
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
80
100% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is definitely fun to watch and is certainly more sophisticated than the Turtles’ original animated adventures.
Tales functions better as family-friendly escapism than as a sneaky commentary on serious topics. What the series is sincere about are the joys and frustrations of a family. When the Turtles are finally reunited, the support they show each other feels all the richer because we understand so well what it means to each of them individually.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
5.1
45% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
5.1
45% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
(Preamble is for TMNT fans, skip to the second paragraph for the actual review of this show) It's really strange seeing people constantly saying "THIS IS NOT WHAT TMNT IS ABOUT", when they themselves don't even understand what TMNT has always been. A joke. The comics themselves put effort in and were not a joke, but there was plenty of humor in the absurdity of its premise and name alone (and thats not even mentioning how many satirical elements were in the original comic). So many weirdo edgy teens/adults keep on screeching about how The Last Ronin and the Batman crossover are the last time we saw "the real turtles". Have you seen the 80s cartoon? It was a self-aware non-stop cheese joke fest to sell toys. The 2003 series was much more story focused and series, yet still maintained a lot of humor and the 2012 series was equally as great. Rise was a bit of an embarrassing misstep that was more of an attempt to capture some of the Teen Titans Go! audience with horrible, outdated (even at the time of its release) humor. An overly flashy animation style that had horrible staging making the action a nonsensical mess that matched terrible, non-existent storyline that randomly chooses to take its schmaltzy self seriously when it hasn't built up the world, characters, nor any significant plot. Thats why Tales of the TMNT is a wonderful course correction.
The point of TMNT is to be interesting, fun, and MALLEABLE. It can be serious like the first film, original comics as well as the IDW comics. It can be jokes and fun like the original cartoon or it can be a mixture of both like the 2012 cartoon. Tales of the TMNT is leaning a bit more on the jokey side, and has decided to explore the turtles as their own characters, purposefully separating them from each other so they can find out who they are outside of their family. Something I'm sure lots of kids/teens can relate to and will find fun. As for the adults, the action and art style of this show are both gorgeous. Unlike Rise, there is proper choreography and staging in this show that at times feels like it belongs in a film. The art style is grungy and graffitiesque, all while maintaining a sense of cohesion with humans and mutants as well as their environments that Rise also failed to have. While not all the humor works for everyone, it is nowhere near as bad as Rise's dialogue/jokes, and will be fun for adults and not just very young kids. The show does lose a bit of steam in it's second arc, but overall, is pretty great.
Going back to the writing, when there are emotional moments in this show, it actually feels earned. The focus on the "Teenager" in teenage mutant ninja turtles and allowing the kids voicing them to improvise adds authenticity and distinct personalities from one another without having to be as simplistically/radically different from one another like in the 80s, nor just making them all the exact same character like in Rise. To sum up, Rise had a lot of money and hard work put into it, but unfortunately resulted in a really bad show. A show that ACTUALLY forgot what the TMNT franchise is. It didn't care about plot, characters, writing, cohesive art styles, all it cared about was spectacle and showing off how fluid they can make characters move. This new show is the opposite of that. It's experimenting with genuine interest in exploring ideas, rather than just to be lazily different for the sake of it like Rise. Give it a shot, especially if you have kids you want to watch something with, or by yourself.
I mention watching by yourself because I think a lot of adults/edgy teens who hate seeing the turtles be TEENAGERS and not be 100% serious and dark, makes them feel insecure. Insecure that they're watching something thats not targeted at them. When something is done well though, it can be enjoyed by anyone, it's okay to enjoy things that aren't serious, try to remember that and then maybe you wont be so harsh on Tales.
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this show was outright bad, i found characters, and the writing to be irritable, inconsistent and bad, the turtles all act like bad peter parker caricatures, the only saving grace being animation, but that bar isn't particularly high in this day and age where something is suddenly bad if the animation isn't groundbreaking.
11/100
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The first half of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles never reaches the heights of Mutant Mayhem. But it still plants a unique flag in the ground by beautifully reimagining the film’s animation style, retaining most of the key elements that made Mutant Mayhem amazing, and telling a story that delves into the psyches of the individual Turtles.
If you loved Mutant Mayhem, you’ll also enjoy Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which makes for a terrific follow-up that expands the world and sees the four boys grow as individuals. While it does suffer from some pacing issues and stiff animation from time to time, the series more than makes up for that overall with its humor and wonderful characters.
I'm sure there was a lot of work put into producing **** I even get the approach of trying to make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look and act more like teenagers. But I mean, why do they have to look like malnourished pencil-necked children who don't drink their milk? Why do they have to joke about literally everything? Why can't they show any respect to Splinter who they make to be a bumbling idiot? I'm all for something new, but I just don't understand what the thinking is for this and Mayhem.
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It's just one one-liner after the other. The show is void of any sense of adventure and instead relies on James Gunn-style "he's right behind me, isn't he?"
None of the joy of the 80s cartoon. None of the heart of the 2012 Turtles. Plus the animation style feels disjointed.
I think the animation style is kind of cool to be honest, but if you're trying to enjoy a kids' cartoon it feels distracting. Kind of felt the same way about the recent movie.
All in all you will not be missing much. Better to just rewatch the 2012 version. But that's just my personal opinion.
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Production Company:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studios
- Point Grey Pictures
Initial Release Date: Aug 9, 2024
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-Y7
Awards
Hollywood Professional Association Awards
• 1 Nomination