A crime wave is sweeping the city. The only person who seems to have any lead on the culprits is TV new reporter April O'Neil, but the police commissioner is not taking her theories about ancient Ninja clans very seriously.
Fortunately, there is someone who can find and fight the nefarious criminals behind the city's trouble. Four someones, in fact. Four sewer-dwelling, pizza-eating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And a guy in a hockey mask. Five someones! Oh, and the talking mutant rat who trained the turtles in their ninja skills. Six someones!
When our heroes in a half shell save Ms O'Neil from those supposedly non-existent ninja clan ne'er-do-wells, you can be sure that it's the start of a totally tubular, radical and awesome adventure. Or at least, you can be sure the turtles will think so.
The TMNT (as those of us who like to type less call them) debuted in their self-titled black and white comic book series in 1984, snared a tabletop roleplaying game license a year later, and exploded onto the small screen (in highly sanitised form) in 1987 with an animated series that ran for ten seasons. This, their first big screen outing, appeared three years later. The plot's more or less a remix of the first fifteen or so issues of the original comic book, though the tone slants fairly heavily to the family-friendly sensibilities of the TV show.
Is it any good? Well ... not really. But it's actually quite good fun despite all that. If you're in the mood for a lightweight action-adventure film that doesn't take itself very seriously (and I mean, it is about a bunch of mutant turtle ninja teenagers, so you should probably expect that), then you could certainly find worse ways to spend 80 minutes.
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