Category: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, Steve Barron)

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles uses Central Park as an establishing shot for an apartment at 11th and Bleecker. I’ll let you Google Map that one. The film’s worth talking about for four reasons—the amazing animatronics, the editing, the anti-Japanese sentiment and Judith Hoag. It’s also amusing to watch for Sam Rockwell sightings, but that one…

  • I recently read how the in-joke of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is their origin was a side effect of Daredevil’s origin; subtle homage. Not so here, in IDW’s relaunch. Instead, here the Turtles and Splinter (and a big bad rabbit) are the result of some genetic experiment. The issue’s split between modern day and flashback.…