Turtle Power!
Liz and Valerie, at the prompting of friends, caught a late show of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Unlike the TV show and previous films, this one was computer-generated instead of hand-drawn or live action. Voice talents include the late, great Mako as Splinter (Valerie still gets teary-eyed thinking about him), Sarah Michelle Gellar as April O'Neil, Zhang Ziyi as the head of the Foot Clan (aka Foot Soldiers, a parody-tastic title), Patrick Stewart, Laurence Fishburne, et al.
This is certainly not an intellectually challenging movie, nor is it terribly well written. Everything moves so quickly that character development is fairly limited, and the action at the end is over so fast that it takes some time for any emotional impact to sink in. But hey, if you're watching this movie, you probably know who the characters are and what they're like, so it's fun to see where they ended up after the last time you saw them; it's kind of like catching up with old pals. ("Mikey! Dude! How's it hangin', bro?")
Liz and Valerie had a good time, and the general consensus was that it could have been much, much worse. Like maybe if Michael Bay had done it... But hey, Transformers could be good, right? Right?
This is certainly not an intellectually challenging movie, nor is it terribly well written. Everything moves so quickly that character development is fairly limited, and the action at the end is over so fast that it takes some time for any emotional impact to sink in. But hey, if you're watching this movie, you probably know who the characters are and what they're like, so it's fun to see where they ended up after the last time you saw them; it's kind of like catching up with old pals. ("Mikey! Dude! How's it hangin', bro?")
Liz and Valerie had a good time, and the general consensus was that it could have been much, much worse. Like maybe if Michael Bay had done it... But hey, Transformers could be good, right? Right?
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