YOur first thoughts on the TMNT movie

[Jarrah White]

Back in the 90's most fans of the turtles only knew the turtles from the old toon, they had no idea that they started off as sinister comic book characters. Had no idea that they were watching a cartoon that bares almost no resemblence to the comics it's inspired from, the changing of Splinter's origin, Dimension X, the Utrom inspired Krang, and Bebop & Rocksteady just to say a few. The first film was based on the comics, not the TV show which most fans at the time were familiar with.

My question to those fans is this; when you first saw that film what was your first thoughts of it? Did these questions ever flash your mind; Why is Splinter Yoshi's pet rat? What happened to Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady? Why was there no Technodrome?

[Demonfox38]

The first time I saw it, I wondered, "How do they get a puppet to look wet without damaging it?" To say the least, the whole torturing Splinter thing kinda bugged me.

Well, I don't know. It was after I first watched Star Wars. My mind was having enough issues comprehending Wookies.

[Karpo_007]

The first time I saw it, I remember I wondered why Splinter wasn't Hamato Yoshi and all that, but thought it was still a very cool movie.

[raphael_is_cool]

To be honest I can't remember the first film as a kid, it was turtles so I just loved it. I paid no attention to that

Although I do remember thinking how funny it was seeing a little splinter copying his owner/master doing martial arts, how cute

[spikealike]

- I wondered why Bebop, Rocksteady and Krang weren't in it.
- I didn't have a clue who Casey Jones was.
- I wondered why Raphael wasn't as sarcastic etc
- I wondered why they changed it so Splinter was a rat all along

[Jarrah White]

[Taloniss]

I never really thought of the differenecs. Never really mattered, since I loved the first movie since the day I saw it. I did wonder why they didn't bother to use Bebop and Rocksteady in the second movie though. Tokka and Rahzar were ok, but Bebop and Rocksteady would have been cool.

[Bowser_Koopa]

when i first saw the second movie i thought tokka and rahzar were excuses for bebop and rocksteady XD XD

[jeff the cheff]

Originally Posted by Bowser_Koopa

when i first saw the second movie i thought tokka and rahzar were excuses for bebop and rocksteady XD XD

They were.

I didn't think much as a kid, I always liked the movie better and it was what really got me into the turtles.

[MW8979]

I was definately anticipating R & B in it, and Krang, considering he's probably my favourite character from the old show. So in that respect, I was unpleasantly surprised..... That aside, I was of course still impressed by the movie, mainly because of all the action in it (that I didn't expect).

[Roseangelo]

Before TMNT 2 came out, none of the trailers showed you pictures of Tokka and Rahzar, only shadows of them. So I think everyone expected it to be Bebop and Rocksteady.. I sure did. Playground rumors were that Bebop and Rocksteady would be in movie 2, Krang in movie 3.

[Bowser_Koopa]

i never saw those trailers as a kid, they never got here

[Coola Yagami]

I was surprised by the changes, but I always dismissed em as typical movie-changes... like how Penguin was a birdman thing in the Batman Returns movie.

[TOAST]

i loved the first one, second was even better
when i was little i was scared of shredder, whenever hed come on the tv id run away behind the couch and only come back when the "turtle guys" were on the tv. toast you were a crazy crackhead

[TMNT-Leonardo]

I thought they screwed every fact up! Don't get me wrong, I never read the old comic, I knew it from the show. But it was a good movie.

[raphael90]

I was like seven or eight when I saw the first Turtle movie, I think we rented it. I can't really remember a whole lot about my first impressions since I was so young, but here's a few I remember. Now these may sound silly or a tad inaccurate but remember they are what I remember thinking back then.

*the sight of Michaelangelo actually paying for the pizza I thought was strange...maybe because in the cartoon the Turtles just miraculously always had pizza around.

*I thought the pizza the Turtles ate wasn't very appetizing...didn't remind me of Pizza Hut pizza which I ate quite bit of at that age

*the fight in April's apartment was a bit more intense to me at that age. I seem to remember when the floor collapsed under the Turtles they sank slowly not instantly like it really is. Also back then fire scared me alot, and the scene with April's apartment engulfed in flame kinda disturbed me

* I thought Tatsu actually killed the ninja in the locker room when he threw that fit of rage. I thought poor boy, he's dead. Seriously.

* I noticed even at that age the story was different with Hamato Yoshi, I didn't particularly like the change.

[Coola Yagami]

I remember a few things...

I was surprised they ate normal pizza, and that they served splinter a slice- well sorta, but he did have a plate there ready

Surprised by raph's character and all his 'damn damn' stuff, but he still had a few wisecracks. But it's ok, he was more of a bad ass

loved all the real cool martial arts action. backflips, jumpkicks, nunchuck tricks, the whole deal.

surprised by all the stuff like raph being almost dead, splinter being thought to be dead, shredder bitchslapping splinter in his already feeble condition...

what surprised me most was casey Jones. when i heard rumors that he was in it i couldn't believe it. at the time for me, casey was just another action figure character, and to put casey in the FIRST tmnt movie woulda been like putting in Mondo Gecko or Rat King in there. I was a bit disappointed that casey took his mask off for the rest of the movie and the whole trying to get with april bit.. back then i was in the 'april's mine!' age and didn't like it when she was eventually falling for him.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

I actually was into the Mirage Comics BEFORE getting into the old-cartoon, but I was still expecting the movie to be based on the cartoon because of the colored masks. I was pleasantly surprised that they based it on the comic despite the colored masks.

I was also surprised there was almost no sci-fi in it. But it was just a great Martial-arts movie. I loved it then. I love it now.

(And, as a kid I was kinda giggling over them saying "damn")

[J Legault]

I never seen it in theatures. I was too young to know the movie.

It was about 11 years later I rent the Movie for the first time and I like it. I thought it was based off the old cartoon but that was before I found this messageform or any info on the Mirage TMNT.

[Savanti Romero]

My first thought's were, "That's a much better story for why Splinter's a rat. It makes a lot more sense."


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