Meanwhile April O’Neil (Megan Fox), an eager young reporter, decides to do some investigative journalism in order to uncover the masterminds behind the same group of gangsters. Assuming the Ninja training they have received from their sensei Splinter the Rat (Danny Woodburn/ Tony Shalhoub) is sufficient, the foursome ventures into the wicked world above with the hope of fighting a mob called the Foot Clan. With voices provided by Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Pete Ploszek/Johnny Knoxville and Jeremy Howard, the brothers Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Donatello have reached an age where they no longer want to languish beneath the city. In this 2014 movie the famous four have been reincarnated, by the power of computer graphics and motion capture animation, so they look more “realistic” in their live-action setting. Originally comic book characters, the sewer-dwellers have morphed into several animated TV series, games, toys and even films (most starring men in costumes). I mean really-who could otherwise take seriously the idea of talking, six-foot tall, biped reptiles that are martial artists with a taste for pizza-no matter how much mutation was supposed to have gone on? Despite the preposterousness of the plot, these “heroes in a half shell” have enjoyed a great deal of celebrity and a cult following. Some suspension of disbelief is required before an audience can accept the parameters of most works of fiction and this is most certainly true of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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