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Originally Posted by Roseangelo

Spoiler:

So he watches internet videos (because apparently they have the internet [and, later, cell phones]) and they all become ninja masters.

I have no words.

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

Spoiler:

At least in the book (and god, I hope they changed these for the movie), there are a lot of really weird references to 90s pop culture. And the weirdest things. The Spice Girls, Phish, Depeche Mode, Party of Five.

If this movie targets kids, why the heck do they expect kids to know any of this?
And as for parents: I always thought that TMNT are more associated with 80s, than mid-90s.

Originally Posted by Barkworm

The origin sounds dumb of course but almost all Ninja Turtles origin stories are dumb. When I was a kid and saw the first film I cringed when I saw the rat learning Ninijtsu. IDW is probably the only version that makes sense overall.

Nah, this is worse.
At least, rat-Splinter "learned" martial arts form a real master, while MM Splinter and Turtles learn it from it videos?! Like WTF?

Also, FW also has no issues with "how Turtles had learnt martial arts" - Splinter being Hamato Yoshi sidesteps this problem.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Plastering Turtle Tots around with a lot of "Hey, guess what we have?? We have TEEEEEEENS!!" seems pretty sus. Like, they think they know there's a big part of the fandom that's into that stuff, and I've been in the fandom long enough to know that they're right. There's some real sickos out there.

Sorry, Andrew, but I feel this is a pile ********.