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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 58HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is about as predictable as movies get these days.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe castmembers portraying Splinter and the turtles achieve a persuasive level of realism that was never possible with the elaborate puppetry required for the original film series and adequately fulfill expectations for their characters.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThe action beats are bigger and better than they’ve ever been in a Ninja Turtle film — brawls, shootouts, a snowy car-and-truck chase with big explosions and what not. But in between those scenes is an awful lot of chatter and exposition. For a film that aims younger (save for the die-hards who grew up with this franchise), that’s deadly dull.
- 40VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangNeither a particularly good movie nor the pop-cultural travesty that some were dreading.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfUtterly inessential, this slightly cheap-looking reboot of the Turtles franchise is froth too — it might even be too tame for the kids who make up the target audience.
- 30TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously, until it doesn't, and that operates at two speeds: tortoise (ponderous) and hare (head-spinning).
- 30Film.comFilm.comTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn’t a movie; it’s a brand re-launch that’s going to satisfy stockholders far more than it’s going to entertain the people who paid to watch it.
- 20The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinTMNT confuses “dimly lit” for “gritty” and humorless for substantive. It’s afraid of being too fun or too light, and doesn’t seem to know whether it wants to be a Nolan film or a 21 Jump Street-style spoof.