OOTS on it's own merits? (or Lack therof)

[sethmartin]

Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan

Yes, except this movie ignores the first one all by itself. Shredder looks totally different- from scars and bald head, to younger Japanese man- and survives a fall from the top of a skyscraper in a metal suit- and the idea the ooze somehow got through the suit to him and healed and changed his appearance- is a cute little head cannon all unto itself. Eric Sachs? Pivotal part of the 1st movie's version of the origin, shredder' adopted son and heir, chief scientist responsible for the turtle's mutation, and killer of April's father- smacked by Vern with a microscope, falls unconscious in a lab, and is never heard from again. Instead, Baxter Stockman and his TCRI company are substituted in for Eric Sachs and Sachs industries as if they'd always been there.

No mention of a giant robot samurai falling from a building where a dangerous chemical was being released, no metion of Sachs, a major funder of the city's police force (according to the 1st movie), being involved with the foot, no explanation as to why Karai looks different and younger. Just 'Shredder lost to the TMNT and went to jail'. Yeah, no way in heck I'm accepting this as being in the same universe of the first movie.

Baxter is a real scientist in this, though. I don't know what Eric Sacks was suppose to be other than a wealthy business man. They do show a shot of Shredder on the ground from the first movie. But it's never explained how he survived the fall. I guess the mutagen on his finger healed him. Either way, this movie ignores it.