The pizza party looms.
At the end of the week, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” arrives to kick shell, take names, and chow down on all of the toppings. Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo get some help from Megan Fox and Will Arnett in their latest live-action incarnation, but should you join in on the fight as well?
Here’s a small slice of what critics are saying about the new “Ninja Turtles” movie, based on the first reviews that just arrived this week:
The (Somewhat Spoilery) Story
“We open on New York City besieged with the Foot Clan’s crime wave, and TV reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) attempting to break some actual news in the case so she can stop doing fluffball pieces about exercise trends. Despite the protests of her lovestruck comic-relief cameraman Vernon (Will Arnett), April goes running into a subway station that screaming people are fleeing, where she spots not only Foot-soldiers but also four shadowy figures fighting back.
“They turn out to be our titular heroes, and in this telling, it turns out they were once April’s pets, part of an experiment being conducted by her scientist father alongside industry mogul Eric Sachs (William Fichtner). During the mysterious fire that cost her father his life, young April set the four turtles and a rat free in the sewers, where they grew up into bi-pedal mutant creatures who studied the ways of the ninja. Sachs, who has pledged to support the NYPD in their battle against the Foot Clan, is thrilled ...
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