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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    2016-07-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    THE hard-shelled superheroes are back in this sequel to their 2014 franchise reboot, also featuring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Laura Linney.

    The film, frenetically directed by Dave Green (“Earth to Echo”), doesn’t exactly take its time getting started, beginning with a manic segment in which the four hard-shelled heroes leap off the Chrysler Building. They then proceed to watch a New York Knicks game from the rafters of Madison Square Garden while chowing down on their trademark pizza, causing the team to miss a shot after an errant slice accidentally falls on the court.

    TMNT fans will be pleased by the appearance of many of the familiar characters, including intrepid journalist April O’ Neill (Fox); the smarmy Vern (Will Arnett), who’s been treated as a hero and given the key to the city after taking the credit for the Turtles’ exploits in the last adventure; and Casey Jones (Stephen Amell), the corrections officer turned crime-fighting vigilante armed with a hockey mask and stick.

    The villains include the returning Shredder (Brian Tee); his dimwitted goons Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (wrestler Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), who are transformed into a rhino and warthog early on; mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry); and the disembodied alien brain Krang (unrecognizably voiced by Brad Garrett), whose looks are enough to turn children off eating grilled calamari for the rest of their lives.

    You’ll have to turn to other sources to find out the details of the narrative, which involves Krang attempting to destroy the world via a magical “purple ooze” that affects DNA.

    It doesn’t matter anyway, because the thin plot is essentially an excuse for a constant series of action-movie set pieces — including the heroes jumping out of one plane onto another plane, and then landing in whitewater rapids that send them over a waterfall — that wouldn’t be out of place in a “Fast and Furious” picture. As if to acknowledge the debt, one of the Turtles mutters to himself, “What would Vin Diesel do?” before executing one of his stunts.

    The film fares best when it slows down a bit and allows the Turtles’ personalities, which are quite engaging, to shine through via their amusing comic banter. There’s genuine fun to be found in such scenes as when Michelangelo gleefully marches in a Halloween parade without anyone glancing twice, although the joke is undermined by a gratuitous reference to producer Michael Bay’s other franchise, “Transformers.”

    Noel Fisher (Michelangelo), Alan Ritchson (Raphael), Jeremy Howard (Donatello) and Pete Ploszek (Leonardo) expertly go through their motion-capture paces, and their vocal work is not to be faulted. They certainly outshine most of the strictly human cast, which also includes three-time Oscar nominee Laura Linney, who may indeed be giving the best performance of her career simply by keeping a straight face during her turn as a New York City police commissioner.

    (SD-Agencies)

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