I was really hoping this sequel of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows is going to be better than the first movie, but it's as if Michael Bay, Dave Green and the writers couldn't care less about storytelling and just threw in more CGI and explosions to distract audiences from the poor dialogue.
Nothing about the movie and its progression made sense. First was the pants that Megan Fox wore in the beginning that just suddenly disappeared (though I did appreciate the throwback to the old cartoon hairstyle, as ugly as it was on Fox).
Then there was Stephen Amell's Casey Jones taking down a handful of the Footclans single-handedly. What kind of ninjas are these idiots? Even Karai, supposed leader of the Footclan and Shredder's right hand, was no match for Fox's April O'Niell and Will Arnett's Vernon. Crazy.
And how is it that the TCRI had no one in the entire building that April and Vernon can just walk in and out?
One of the movie's mistake was to have Krang, Baxter Stockman, Bebop and Rocksteady with cartoon personalities. The words that came out of their mouths would have worked back in the cartoons but not in a real-life portrayals.
And Baxter Stockman and Donatello seemed to know just about everything when it came to alien technology. They make Tony Stark look like an amateur.
The introduction scenes to Krang and Casey Jones were horrible, probably because the dialogue was horrible throughout. And nothing stood out more horribly than how the setup of the dynamic between the four Turtles was that they couldn't work as a team, and then magically just before the final fight, they became a team.
Nobody cared about this movie when they made it and that's a real shame. Just like the Transformers movies that got progressively worse, TMNT has no hope at all under Bay and his Platinum Dunes.
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