Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (June 3)
I was a huge fan of the original live-action Turtle films, the 1990 original and 1993 sequel Secret of the Ooze. They are camp-awesome. Before Batman Begins brought the gritty to comic book films, those two films, especially the first, brought a level of gravitas missing from the bright, colorful and CGI’ed world of these Turtles. I got nothing against any of those things or how this take actually uses characters like Rocksteady, Bebop and Krang. But whether because I was weaned on the originals or the marketing, I have zero interest in this sequel Out of the Shadows or its predecessor. That said, the 2014 first was a hit and going further “out there” with the mythology is the right move I think. Expect this one to kick Alice to the curb and scoop up the kids as summer break starts.
