Rate Your Trailer Hype

[Powder]

Some pleasant surprises were afoot. Not as much hate going around. Let's see where y'all stand on this one. (Poll incoming)

I'm surprised it was a decent trailer, this flick looks like it'll be significantly better than the last. Voted Cautiously Optimistic...!

[CyberCubed]

Looks like it'll definitely be better than the first movie, but by how much, I'm not sure. Looks like it'll have some exciting action scenes at least.

At least we have an Asian Shredder from the start and no false "white man Eric Sachs" eating away screentime, and it seems the Turtles all got nose jobs somewhere because their nostrils are a lot smaller. Still don't like Donnie wearing glasses at all though. And thank god Bebop is black before mutation as well.

Other than that who knows. Casey looks awesome at least, and I'm oddly glad to see Vernon return too.

[MrTMNT2012]

A marked improvement in terms of accuracy to the source material and more respect given to the art of film-making in general.

Love how, unlike Transformers, each movie has a different feel and a distinct action set-piece as oppose to the same old 'big fight on a skyscraper'. Last movie had the snow chase, this time we have a water siege...with a tank. Badass af!

[TurtleTitan97]

I was.....unimpressed.

[Autbot_Benz]

This movie looks great its Fred Wolf on Bayroids

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Huge improvement; still skeptical.

[Leo656]

It's every single thing I expected it to be and I am not a fan.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Leo656

It's every single thing I expected it to be and I am not a fan.

Leo, you hack. There are TURTLES in this movie!!!! How can you not love it!?

Wait, not turtles. Sorry. Galapagos Tortoises, to be precise.

[Leo656]

And they raided Magic Mike's wardrobe for some f***ing reason.

I agree with those who say it's an improvement over the last one. I also say that 100 times 0 is still 0. So it can be a hundred times better than the first and that still wouldn't matter much. It's mostly everything the last one was, with more bad CGI and awful "jokes".

[sdp]

We didn't get the mirage inspired film Laird promised before he sold the franchise so everyone dismissed the new movie without giving it a chance. Of course Bay/Fox being involved didn't help and neither did the turtle designs but the first movie was able to get the personalities of the turtles right so while the convoluted everyone is connected to the origin of the turtles I always thought it had potential and could be redeemed in a future movie and this movie seems to be doing that. This is already a wacky universe so let's have fun with it and see all the weird crazy sci-fi crap that wouldn't fit in any other more serious TMNT movie universe.

[Sighphi]

not sure yet.
The biggest problem with the last movie is the story.
It was stupid.
This movie can look better than the last but if it's the same Bay-lite approach, it's not really going to that much of a step above.

[Leo656]

Anyone who says that Dumb Jock Raphael, Creepy Perv Mikey and King Of All Nerds Donatello were "perfect" representations of the Turtles' personalities... I seriously think your TMNT Lenses have some smudges on them. At least *I* have never seen or imagined the Turtles as anything like those guys.

Those aren't characters, they're caricatures.

[sdp]

I never said perfect, I said they got it right. And more than their personalities I meant to say their interactions with one another. The turtles personalities have always been a caricature in most incarnations.

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Anyone who says that Dumb Jock Raphael, Creepy Perv Mikey and King Of All Nerds Donatello were "perfect" representations of the Turtles' personalities... I seriously think your TMNT Lenses have some smudges on them. At least *I* have never seen or imagined the Turtles as anything like those guys.

Those aren't characters, they're caricatures.

Bingo again.

And honestly... getting the Turtles' personalities "right" is the absolute bare minimum. That shouldn't be difficult. But even then, at best, the movie fired for the bullseye and hit the outer rim of the dartboard. And that was the thing the movie did best.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Bry

Bingo again.

And honestly... getting the Turtles' personalities "right" is the absolute bare minimum. That shouldn't be difficult. But even then, at best, the movie fired for the bullseye and hit the outer rim of the dartboard. And that was the thing the movie did best.

Don't forget the blue turtle, ol' whatsisface. Leon? Was that it?

[Technogeek29]

Originally Posted by TurtleTitan97

I was.....unimpressed.

I caught that reference.

[plastroncafe]

I kind of like dumb-jock Raph, to be honest. Of the four of them he was the only one who came closest to entertaining me as I slogged through the movie that is now the first of a series.

Cripes, that's a depressing sentiment...

[Technogeek29]

Ok I'm not seeing it discuss but I must know. Who the heck are the aliens? Utroms? Triceratons? (highly doubt) Dimension X weirdness?

[pennydreadful]

It ain't my bag. Like Leo said, given how craptacular the first one was, this one looking like it's an improvement on BayTurtles 1 doesn't really hold much bank. They set the bar so low that an ant could step over it.

[Candy Kappa]

It looks better, but still ain't seeing it in the cinema.