Paul Rudd is a scene stealer in this visually appealing mostly ugly film Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr, Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Jo...
Paul Rudd is a scene stealer in this visually appealing mostly ugly film
Cast:
Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr, Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, John Cena, Rose Byrne,
Paul Rudd, Ice Cube, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan, Maya Rudolph,
Rating:
3/5
This is Seth Rogen
and his partner, Evan Goldberg’s tamest and weakest script. They seem to play
it safer here than they did earlier with many other films. The film feels
like one of the hallucinatory scenes in one of the stoner comedies Rogen did in
the early and late 2000s. The animation is strikingly
similar to that of Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse and at times feels like a
total rip-off but at times does something of its own making it entirely
different from Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse. It is both visually appealing
and ugly at the same time.
After years of being
sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts
of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their
new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they
soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed
upon them.
The direction is
pretty basic for an animated film. The ensemble cast of voice actors is fantastic with Jackie Chan and Paul Rudd being the scene stealers, especially
Paul Rudd. Every scene his character is in, you only focus on him and nobody
else. His comic timing and dialogue delivery are par excellence. Seth
Rogen is pretty good too. There’s even MrBeast in this for some reason. John
Cena and Rose Byran are also good as are the four actors voicing the turtles (Micah
Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon). Ayo Edebiri is passable.
Maya Rudolph is there for like two scenes but is good. Ice Cube is simply
excellent as Superfly. Much like Paul Rudd, his comic timing and dialogue
delivery is excellent.
Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a film to watch once and then
forget about until you re-watch it many years later.
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