Lets Talk Next Mutation.
 

What was so bad?

Yeah the voice acting wasn't to good, neither was the puppets. But... the show now that I just had a re watch of them were frankly not all to bad.

How about some opinions up for this show? I frankly don't mind it at all.

Venus comes off as a..... Mary sue. But I was very much entertained by this show.

I haven't finished the show yet but it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be based on opinions on the net.

I thought Venus was going to be a lot more irritating.

The voice acting was horrible. The turtles acted more silly then the OT turtles in Turtles Forever, and was down right dumb. most villains had potential but ended as a big "Meh"

2 clip-show episodes in the same freakin' season, way to go!

A shinobi is NOT a Chinese Shaman, it's just another word for NINJA.
Venus was okay, but still badly handled, didn't mind the turtles being blood related, it don't change the fact that the turtles are brother and splinter is their father.
And Shell boobs... she looks like a bad fan-made gender bender turtle, she only missed hair and she'd fit dA right away.

The suits was cheap looking, the dead soulless faces and their eyes... ugh!
And the character style was not a good one, Splinter looked like the stole some school mascot.
Action okay, the suits where more mobile, but still looked home made.

The Foot was pathetic characterized and Shredder looked okay, but had more of a Power Ranger villain look then The Shredder.

That sock puppet minion to Dragon Lord was terrible, the rank was a okay but not memorable adversaries.

The annoying, horrible overused slap stick sounds, made me almost falcon punch my computer watching the show.

I enjoyed the voice acting actually. It was interesting, and yes some of it was really bad.

and then there was the stupid animal roar from the car.

and the power rangers cross over, which just happened once and they never talked about it again, weird... shouldn't the turtles help the ranger in the end of the season since they where canonized into the power rangers verse, or where they just lazy eating pizza and watching Venus doing Yoga.

Dear god, this reminds me of the one thing I really disliked about this show. The darn turtle just freakin laid hit on upon hit on on Venus. It was awkward.

"You can dip in my chi pool any time"

Except they were not well thought out hit ons.

"Your a full fledge mutant hotty."
"You know I... Work out every day!"

Oh... you writers.

Yeah... wtf?

I consider The Next Mutation to be a concept that had potential but then was horribly executed. But in a weird way, I kinda like bad things like that because they get my creative mind racing. I mean, if a show/movie/book/whatever is really good, I like playing with the ideas. But if it's really bad, I just get into this endless loop of "Well, I would have done it this way..." I actually did try to rewrite TNM several years ago.

But, yeah, despite all my eye-rolling, I did enjoy it for what it was. For the demographic it was meant for, as a silly, non-serious, action series, it had its moments.

Well who am I to judge, I've only seen one episode plus the Power Rangers crossover and remember tiny glimpses from my childhood. I use to think Next Mutation was a movie when I was little. But what I do know is that its just terrible, but outta curiosity I might watch the one and only season just because I'm a TMNT fan.

And was it true that there was going to be an animated 2nd season with April and Casey that got canceled?

in overall it's worth a watch for the sheer cheesiness.

it's not as bad as Star Wars Holiday Special

The cheesiness makes Next Mutation watchable. I will admit to laughing at some of its sheer pathetic cheesiness. Which is why I like this show. It made not have been as purposely made to be cheesy but it just makes the show.

I sat through it today, and I quite enjoyed it. I will say, I find this show better then 2k3. 2k3 was cheesy in a bad way.

But oh well, it was just my taste. But there is no doubt it was still not that good.

The sound-effects.

I've never seen a show whose watchability would be so dramatically increased just by removing most of the sound-effects. Whizz, boink!

Awe, but the noises were just to adorable. They made my day, especially when bizarre noises came out of something that would make no noise lol.

So did I, since I have that 'East Meets West' or whatever VHS tape that edited the first...3-5 episodes or so together.

I liked it okay as a kid, and it's interesting for me to watch clips of episodes with the hunter guy now as he's a well-known anime voice actor, but overall...yeah...

Sadly, I'd probably buy it if it came out legit over here though, for completionist sake.

Believe me bro the nex mutation toys are some of THE best tmnt toys out there, howeVER........ ...

i watched couple clips on youtube.

I couldnt BELIEVE how bad the show is,the stupid voice and fightin themes,the turtles act like buncha 4 yrs old w customs on(well, maybe giant sized 4 yrs old but still).

I'd rather not, but since you brought it up...
The sound effects, same reason I could never make it through an ep of Power Rangers... not that I ever intentionally tried to. I was just too nice a guy to tell people to stop watching that ritalin-infused irritation in my presence.
Oh, come on. You know chicks dig that kinda relentless attention. Even Johnny Bravo knows that.