I think they simply just don't get it. Its just not his/their type of thing is all. I also noticed in that review for the first film that Ebert seemed to not be a big fan of the turtles origin lol. Oddly enough though I was reading Ebert's review for the Simpsons and he said something somewhat positive about the turtles movie:
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I'm not generally a fan of movies spun off from TV animation. "The Flintstones" and "Ninja Turtles" moved me only marginally.
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I doubt he's talking about the older films, perhaps he's talking about TMNT.