Just saw it No real spoilers

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In chicago, they did a free preview screening. Pretty neat.

Anyone else on this forum at the same screening?

Anyway the movie was ok. It was too myspace-ish modern teenager for my tastes, the turtles that is. They seemed too suburban, though I guess that's not much worse than surfers.

If you wanted something deep, dark, and somewhat realistic like the original mirage comics, then the 1990 movie is perfect. If you wanted something more attune to power rangers then this movie is just right for you. I know we've seen the styles and everything for like a year now, but I wanted to hold my opinion until I saw the movie itself, and it still bothers me. April looks like a bratz/barbie doll and how the heck did she learn ninjitsu better than someone like karai? I think the movie would have benefited with more realistic proportions on everyone. The lips bugged me, it seemed like they had less lips and more gelatin hole openings in their faces. The monsters didn't play a very big part like I thought they would. The movie felt sort of short overall but dragged at times. The brotherly love thing was a bit much but I like the overall message they gave with it.

Really it just didn't feel like Ninja Turtles to me, I like that they were doing their own thing but from the designs to the script it just didn't click with me personally. Some of the voices were better than others and I think they made Leonardo a lot cooler than they ever had before. I might see it again when it opens, but I can't see this film being the definitive turtles movie. It's going to get dated pretty fast, especially with all the odd choices of music. (The score itself though was great and it seemed pretty retro at times, like the original movie's music.)

PS I wanted to add that I really liked the backgrounds and a lot of the animation other than the humans/turtles. The monsters were pretty well done too.