Pros & cons about TMNT: OotS' failure at the box office

[chrisdude]

Originally Posted by neatoman

After thinking about it I came to a conclusion as to how using the Fred Wolf cartoon as a blueprint for this movie might have been it's downfall, albeit hardly the only reason, the reason nostalgia doesn't seem to work here:

It expected that enough 30-35 year olds would get excited for a movie that looked like (and was) the kind of loud and juvenile movie only little kids would like.

It all might've worked had it not been for the first movie. Imagine the hype there could of been, had all these Fred wolf elements been in the first film's trailers.