This week's episode you get to hear the b-man rage about school buses. In video game talk we have the Steam summer sale as well as Mass Effect 2, and Dragon Age Origins. Amazon has a new phone, predator getting a reboot, Ninja Turtles, and transformers age of extinction. All this and more can be heard in the audio below. Until next time later my wanna B's.
So my girlfriend is a huge fan of the first Ninja Turtles movie from way back when, and I must admit I actually still like it to this day. The first book I ever read of my own volition, and not because I had to for a school project or something was the book based on the first movie. Of course I was nine at the time, but I still feel the movie holds up pretty well almost thirty years later. Anyway she told me she never had seen the sequels before and asked if I could buy the digital version off of Amazon. I told her personally the first one is probably the best but okay. So how did "Secret of The Ooze" hold up after all this time?
Well it is watchable, but very cheesy and definitely shows signs of the time when it came out (1991). The first film had a very dark and more serious tone with humor in the right places. This film feels like everything is just a big joke, there were never any scenes where you felt like things were going to end bad for our reptilian heroes. The banter between them was funny at times but just felt like a rehash of things from the first film. It was pretty cool to see a young Ernie Reyes Jr. playing the kick ass pizza delivery guy. The actress who played April was different than the original, and there were no signs or even a mention of Casey Jones, leaving me feel like there was not much connection to the original film other than the fact that they mention the Shredders so called demise into the garbage truck.
Like I mentioned earlier the movie feels like a big joke, the final fight scene takes place in a night club with Vanilla Ice performing a Ninja Rap song as they battle it out with puppet looking mutants, and then a Super Shredder that basically destroys himself by bringing the docks down without ever touching the turtles. The movie ended up cosing me $10 and if it wasn't for nostalgia I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone over the age of eight, but I enjoyed it for what it was, and anyway if your watching a movie about Mutant Ninja Turtles and are expecting Gone With the Wind material your a fool.
