Cowabunga dudes. Cowa-muthafu**in’-bunga indeed.
Until the release of Home and Away: The Movie – and we keep our fingers crossed that Alf Stewart on the big screen will become reality in the not-too distant future – it’s hard to think of a movie adaptation more exciting for children of the 90s than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It has been done before, of course (who could forget the 1991 classic, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II – The Secret of the Ooze’?) but there has been enough of a gap for fans of the original cartoon series to get excited all over again about the forthcoming release of the latest big screen adventures of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Splinter et al.
The movie has been in the works for some time and is scheduled for release in August and yesterday we were treated to a first glimpse of what’s in store from the director Jonathan Liebesman and the producer, the one and only Michael Bay.
From the brief glimpse of the trailer, it has Bay’s stamp all over it, from a big budget to plenty of spectacular, sometimes unnecessary but still ultimately cool explosions and, of course, Megan Fox, who stars as April O’Neill and wears the hell out of the trademark yellow jacket we all came to know and love years and years ago.
Not that it matters a whole lot in the general scheme of things but in terms of plot, it would seem that Shredder and his evil Foot Clan are terrorising New York City and it is up to the Turtles and April to save the day, while simultaneously eating pizza and generally being the cheeky, wise-cracking mutant turtles we all recognise from decades ago.
It’s not going to win any Oscars this time next year or anything but is it the movie we’re most looking forward to this summer? Shamelessly, we can say yes, yes it is.
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