Four skilled stuntmen desperately flail around in suffocating Muppet suits for 90 minutes, occasionally colliding with emerging pop culture monoliths such as mainstream hip hop, in service to the higher purpose of getting kids to spend money on shit. The only reason Bart Simpson doesn’t have a speaking role in this film is because it was cheaper to have David Warner awkwardly hold a Bart Simpson glass.
Michelangelo constantly name-drops Wrestlemania and Arnold Schwarzenegger (and, bizarrely, Casablanca). Pizza is literally everywhere, spread across this movie’s version of New York like a bacterial infection.
#TMNT 2 MOVIE#
Boy, the years, they do pass.Īnyway, the Green Machine’s second outing arguably represents the height of both TMNT’s cultural saturation and its popularity as a brand, which is another way of saying this movie is out of its fucking mind. The first film showed us that it’s only a matter of time until government scientists descend on Central Park to collect Raphael’s bullet-riddled corpse after he chases the wrong purse snatcher from a midnight screening of Dr. Michelangelo was for sure going to get really into heroin. Look at the way they scarf down ‘za and zoom around on skateboards – there is no universe in which Splinter was not going to outlive all four of them. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze turns 30 this year, which is much older than any of its mutant ninja heroes were ever intended to be.
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