I begin my Turtles marathon this week, leading up to the new movie on Thursday, by starting out with the first movie. As cheesy and silly as it is, I still think it's really fun. The action is great, the few big fight scenes are both funny and entertaining, and I still just feel like a kid when I watch it. It's not without its faults though and I think it's kinda something that could be comparable to the new movie coming up. I feel the new one has sorta lost it from the start just on the Turtles designs, but complaints made about changes to the origins and such, might not be the worst thing as they did in the first movie. Splinters origin is different from the original cartoon and it makes little sense when you think about it. Shredder is kind of a shitty villain who only has like two big moments, the best at the end, and he gets "killed off" rather poorly. Also bad soundtrack for it. No turtles theme or at least a new memorable one, and there isn't anything licensed for the film? A bad rap song for the ending? Yeesh...
It's gotten me to tune my expectations of what I hope to get out of the new movie. I still don't think it'll be great, there's so much that is looking to fail, but we'll see...Honestly, knowing the next two movies, it's possible the new movie might not be the worst Turtles movie lol