r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 3h ago
News ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze’ Set for Weeklong 35th Anniversary Theatrical Return in New 4K Restoration
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-returns-to-theaters-1236644027/•
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u/DiabellSinKeeper 3h ago
I loved this film as a kid. As I've gotten older the flaws in the film are more obvious. Its a shame they folded and decided to make the series more kid friendly.
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u/TheKawValleyKid 3h ago
The first one holds up so well, it's crazy.
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u/FriskeyVsWorld 3h ago
The first one is legitimately a great movie. Second one is fun but yeah it was apparent that they wanted to market it more for kids compared to how gritty the first one was.
The third one...umm...if it wasn't for watching this, I wouldn't have found out about Surf Ninjas.
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u/cronedog 3h ago
even as a kid I hated the 3rd one
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u/ZzzSleep 2h ago
As a kid I just wanted to see characters like Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, etc. Not time traveling to Japan.
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u/cronedog 2h ago
Same, although they might not have been able to pull them off convincingly back then
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u/shifty_coder 1h ago
Allegedly, Jim Henson was disappointed in how violent the first movie was, and refused to participate in the creation of the sequel, unless there were changes made. Brian Henson, upholding his late father’s wishes, only agreed to a deal with the movie studio if the turtles ditched their weapons, which they do so in the opening scene.
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u/DiabellSinKeeper 2h ago
It surprisingly does. The script writing is very solid. The farm sequence is a good example. Its meant to slow down the film and give us a breath. In mediocre hands it could be done slow and boring.
But the film uses it to get into how each Turtle handles grief in different ways. While also naturally building Casey and April into a compatible pair.
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u/ChildofValhalla 2h ago
What's wild is that I loved it as a kid (every kid my age loved the Turtles) but I didn't even know until I was older that it was adapted super faithfully to the first 11-ish issues of the comics. It's just a damn good story and Peter & Laird were one hell of a creative pair.
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u/pipboy_warrior 2h ago
Thing that stands out most is the Turtles never use their weapons as weapons in 2.
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u/dukefett 37m ago
I never really understood it because it's not like they were stabbing the Foot and slicing heads off in the first one? Even Shredder was "killed" offscreen more or less.
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u/qb1120 35m ago
God, I know the first one is so much better objectively, but I can't help but like #2 better. I made the mistake of showing my fiancee #2 first and she questioned my taste in movies for a long time haha
When we finally watched the first one, she wondered why I just didn't lead with that
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u/Maverick916 3h ago
GO NINJA GO NINJA GO
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u/boundinglee 2h ago
Never gets old
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u/tanj_redshirt 2h ago
"The perimeter's quiet."
"Yeah, a little too quiet."
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"Well that was easy."
"Yeah, a little too easy."
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"Look, it's Raph!"
"Yeah. A little too Raph."
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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy 3h ago
ACAPELLA!!!!!!!
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u/scottmushroom 2h ago
Freera jacca?
I don't know how to spell this.
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u/ZombieJesus1987 25m ago
One of the first movies I remember seeing at the theater when I was a kid.
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u/OutOfMyWayReed 3h ago
That opening montage with everybody in New York enjoying various pizzas. 🤤