And co-starred with Gil Gerard on the TV show Sidekicks. The two also were in a promotional TV special for the then-new Disneyland ride, Star Tours. This special is where the clip of C-3P0 "rapping about space" came from.
Didn't the 80s kid that got on heroin and had a best friend with the same first name voice Donatello too? Can't think of his name. Oh he mentioned it in the video lol
To think that the stuntmen were able to do so martial arts moves while inside the turtle costumes is really amazing. No CGI could ever do better than that especially the nunchucks scene between Mickey and the foot clan member
@@TenMillionYearProgram42reminds me of the South Park episode where the military is interviewing directors for ideas on plot points and Michael Bay can only come up with special effects 😂
Exactly. It isn't full on goofy like some people make it out to be. Just like the 80's cartoon, it has serious moments and can be taken seriously. That's what annoyed me about the CG Nickelodeon TMNT when they had cross overs with the original 80's Turtles and exaggerated them. They made them out to be full on goofy, making the 80's cartoon itself look incompetent. Absolutely disrespectful. If it wasn't for the success of the original cartoon, they probably wouldn't have made other shows based on the comic.
As a kid the 2nd one was always my favorite. Now, as an adult the first one having a darker tone and the turtles actually get to use their weapons, this is my favorite one.
I agree, I came to the same conclusion after introducing my kids to them. I told them, “oh if you like the 1st one, the 2nd is even better.” Then we watched the 2nd one & I was thinking, how did I like this one more as a kid lol.
my younger brother and I watched this movie everyday for like 5 years, no kidding He has since passed away due to a seizure many years ago, but we still have the tmnt tape in the vcr in his old room (which has changed over the years) but the small CRT, VCR and TMNT remain.
Sounds like me and my brother. I don't have epilepsy but I have been having random seizures the past couple years. They are under control but I still will get a random one every so often and the doctors don't really know why. Kinda scary. Sorry for your loss. Those are some great memories with your Brother to cherish and hold onto. I LOVE what you did with the VHS and VCR in his old room. Take care!
Here's another fun fact that people may or may not know. The scene where Raphael rolls across the hood of the taxicab when chasing Casey Jones and the passenger says, "What the heck was that?" to the driver...well, that passenger was none other than Josh Pais himself, who played Raphael in the movie.
By far the best TMNT movie. The effects are outstanding, allowing so much emotion and life to the characters, and all practical. Add to that the darker tone, and the great stunt work, and it's like the book characters just came to life on the screen. You can do whatever you want with digital effects and it doesn't hold a candle to seeing physical turtles (and Shredder) come to life.
I was 7 when this came out and already a huge TMNT fan. I remember being shocked when Raphael said "damn". The more mature and gritty nature of the film changed how we played with the toys (when our parents weren't watching).
I’ve heard there was a deleted subplot where Rafael is dealing with an internal struggle that pushes him to the brink of mental illness. I guess the actual footage has never surfaced. Does anyone know more about this?
LOL Me too! My buddy and I were the first 100 to see TMNT at our theater, we each got a Turtle plush toy. I still have Michelangelo chillin' someplace. 🙂
This will always be my favorite Ninja Turtles mivie. It has silly moments, but it isn't full on goofy like some people make it out to be. Just like the 80's cartoon, it actually does have serious moments and can be taken seriously. Awsome vidio, Minty.
Wow, a lot of fun facts I wasn't aware of about the original TMNT movie! Great video! And I had just rewatched the original movie and The Secret of The Ooze right before your video dropped. Here's a fun fact of my own: I got my TMNT: The Movie DVD cover signed by Kevin Eastman at the Memphis Comic Expo last year.
A bit of a twist on Henson's perceptions; according to Brian Jay Jones who wrote the most recent Jim Henson biography, Henson wasn't a fan of the comics, but thought the idea was a good project for his "Creature Shop" (who had taken a hit financially due to LABYRINTH's failure). The first TMNT movie actually premiered a month before Henson passed away and apparently, he got a kick out of seeing the huge lines waiting to see it saying, "Guess they liked it." It was the last success he ever saw, as THE WITCHES was an unpleasant experience. Author Roald Dahl was constantly sending complaints to Henson about the inaccuracies of the film from his novel (and apparently, Dahl himself even picketed his protests at the premiere).
@@RyanofAndor True; WILLY WONKA is the exception where he was the original screenwriter and when he left, his script was rewritten, but his credit is still as the only credited screenwriter
@@van8ryanAnd to be fair, his anger is justified. The rewritten parts of Willy Wonka, at least to me, just don’t work. I feel like the flaws of the film wouldn’t be so detrimental if David Wolper would’ve just kept Dahl on as the SOLE screenwriter.
What is interesting about this film is that most of its source material came from how the original comic book was actually portrayed as. While at the same time it also incorporates some of the ideas from the cartoon to make at least a little bit more lighthearted than the Grim and dark variation that East and Westman had done with their story
I am so very much looking forward to the R rated Last Ronin movie. I always wanted the deleted training scenes from the farm to be added back in. Mikey going crazy in the barn was a favorite scene in the original comic book and, in my mind, showcased a small piece of what he would later become. I always thought he got the short end of the stick. Made up for it, in the end, I would say. Anywho: nice work, Minty. This movie enabled my first ever day of off-site school skipping. I was in 7th grade and went to the morning matinee showing of TMNT after calling myself in sick. 13yrs old. Not bad. I still have all of my original TMNT comics from the 80s and early 90s. I love them dearly. Of my collection, I'll likely never sell my Turtles or my Sandman.
I know what you mean. As a ten yr old kid, I actually watched the second movie a lot more, thought it was great. Rewatching both movies a few yrs ago, I couldn't believe how corny Secret Of The Ooze actually is; while the first film with its darker undertones has aged FAR better.... being older and wiser now, the first one resonates in a way the second film never could.
@@Jean-PaulMichell Exactly! same thing, i loved the second one as a kid, and it does have its moments. However its a different film, even shredder goes from being a classic villain to a fool in it.
I believe that in the UK they were known as Teenage Mutant Fighting Turtles. "Ninja" was too violent. The Leonardo and Raphael toys, in the UK, had their sai and katanas removed. I don't recall what they were replaced with replaced.🤷🏽♀️
@@marsoelflaco5722yeah it was “Hero” turtles. They even had alternate song lyrics. BBC censorship at the time. It’s also why Michelangelo replaces his nunchucks early in the series. censors had forbidden weapons that children might be able to make on their own and hurt themselves or others. It’s called the Nanny State for a reason lol
We owned a movie theater at the time and my father brought this back just for my birthday party. 20 kids in a 300 seat theater pretty much acting like ninjas.
I'll always be appreciative of New Line for backing the Ninja Turtles and Lord of the Rings (which Miramax wanted to turn into one movie). There logo also shows up at the start of 3 LOTR games I played for hundreds of hours in the 2000s, so that's fun. Those music videos mentioned are some of the most famous videos, ever.
These first Turtle movies are the reason I was VERY excited when I heard Jim Henson Creature Shop was going to be working on the Five Nights at Freddy's movie. I watched these all the time as a kid. (Except the third one, but I still liked it.)
That time April O'Neil was recast and none of us noticed. Also, if you were a kid in the 90's, it wasn't EVER "TMNT". It was "Turtles", we watched Yurtles, we played Yurtles on the playground (I was always Raf), we had Turtles themed birthday parties and Valentines and lunchboxes. It was turtles!
No, I noticed the recasting and other kids definitely noticed, too. I used to get a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles magazine, which had a letters column. One of the kids wrote that he liked the new April actress better because the old one had a "squeezed up nose". I only remember that decades later because I thought it was weird: not only that the kid wrote this, but that the magazine printed it. Also, you accidentally wrote "Yurtles" several times. And it's "Raph", not "Raf".
Yes and some of us have “Coming Out of Our Shells” as the first “concert” we dragged our parents to 😂 Nope it wasn’t Michael Jackson or even New Kids On The Block, it was that god awful turtles stage show for me. Now that my daughter is almost the age I was during Turtlemania I will remind her of this when she asks for tickets to Taylor Swift or Dua Lipa 😜
@@82pythons85 considering I was 6... Just wanted to know why she looked different. Head canoned it as original April fell into dimension x. April 2 was clone from TCRI. I was an odd child...
Some of this behind t scenes footage is from part 2 not 1 lol. Love that the turtles kept most of their playful personalities from the 87 series in pretty much every iteration of the turtles since then, love Raph's sarcasm lol.
🎶 *Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles* 🎵 This explains my 30 year confusion on how the song really goes. We had both versions in our country,.. Thanks Minty, now I understand.
That’s very interesting you definitely caught the tails end of the this time. Because DVDs where a thing by the time you where old enough to watch and remember anything.
@@cliffchampion5501 I remember things starting at about 4 years old. I also remember not getting DVDs until the PlayStation 2 came out when I was like 11 or 12. But I still collected VHS for a few years there until they stopped carrying them.
One thing I do know, it's the best TMNT movie of all.time, i loved it because it was dark, the two sequels never matched it and neither did the CGI reboot.
Cowabunga! The 1990's turtles were my first introduction to the turtles, and still are my favorite incarnation of the heroes in green. The shell heads will always have a special place in my heart.
I remember working on the rubber masks for the Dick Tracy Stage Show at Disneyland when Jim Henson died. This was in 1990, and the Turtles movie was big talk in the rubber costume / movie industry, and professional costumers were in awe of what the Henson team were able to accomplish with these incredible rubber costumes. It was a moment of reflection for us all at Don Post Studios that day. 💜
Minty. You're the MAN! Watching this video on my 75" in the man cave. I saw this film in the theatre as a 10 yr old kid. Loved it then and I still love it now! Great film. Keep up the good work buddy!!
The fact that the “darker” take on TMNT worked was not a surprise to anyone that read the graphic novels. As this film was closer to that than the cartoon. And they won because they displayed TURTLE POWER. Cowabunga!
It was around 1991 when TMNT and Total Recall both reached home media that our local video rental business started purchasing surplus VHS tapes of new rentals for people to rent and subsequently purchase if they wanted. As of May 2024, I’ve still got each of the two tapes my dad got of those films from that rental place. There’s no way I couldn’t click on this review of TMNT. Admittedly, part of it had to do with listening for Corey Feldman’s name.
The unedited version was released on DVD in 2004 in the UK. Furthermore, the German dubbing audio track contains several "cartoon-like" sounds in order to soften the violence of the fight scenes. Although the German dub of the film was released with unedited pictures on DVD, the German dub audio version with the cartoonish sounds were still kept, because they were permanently merged into the German voice-dubbing audio.
I was 9 when the movie dropped and recall an advertisement for some sort of contest in which the prize was a private theater screening with like 30 friends of your choice, etc… anyone else remember this? At the time, I thought that would be the coolest thing ever.
The funny thing is when this movie first came out in 1990, it was a big deal because I was stationed in Europe at the time. We would get movies typically 6 months to a year after they came out in the United States which by then you can watch them on video. It was the first movie to be simultaneously in the theaters in the USA and in Europe on the day of its release. The line went around my entire kaserne, I had to wait and watch the evening show. I loved it!
Awesome new video, Minty! I have the same Super Mario Bros shirt! EDIT: a lot of movies are made in North carolina. Specifically Wilmington North carolina. Maximum overdrive, for instance, was filmed there. Greetings to you from Virginia, the state right above North Carolina!
I didn't get a chance to see this as a kid in the theatre, even though I really wanted to, but thankfully my mother bought the VHS and my sisters and I watched the hell out of it. Though I can thank a recent Astor screening for finally giving me a cinema experience.
Funnily enough, this film came up in my suggested list last week, and I rewatched it. The puppetry and practical effects are so good that I forgot about them and kept watching as if they were real. Thanks for clarifying the different name, at the end I remember playing the arcade game with three friends, and I was always baffled that it said Hero instead of Ninja. I thought it was a (very well made) bootleg, back then. This 35 years old mystery is finally solved!
@@nsasupporter7557 The second movie, while not as good as the first, is still a lot of fun. I think of it as the perfect movie to play in the background at a pizza party.
I was in Jr Highschool when this came out and it was and is the best Turtles movie to this day. They've never been able to get it right since this one came out. I would like to see a Director's Cut to this movie.
Yup same here, I swear I recently watched a video just like this, same info. Searched my watch history & couldn't find it. Then I came here to the comments section. Reuploaded & old deleted?
@@drkzero4 i think he has had to a few times recently. If i had to guess i would say music got struck. Ive seen that from other channels, even with vaporwave they could prove they purchased. Kudos Minty if so.
There was the 10 things about TMNT which was released a few years ago. Alot of the same info, only it covers the Christmas special, comic books and the Venus series.
The dark tone was more in line with the original black and white comics, which were written for adults... and is a tone which I actually prefer over the zaniness of the kids cartoon (of which I was a huge fan)... even though I was 10 when the movie released... but I didn't mind Krang and the Technodrome not being there... I liked the movie being more grounded in reality, I really liked the addition of Tatsu, and I love the gritty aesthetic. Not to mention that I was born and raised in NY... so it spoke to me on several different levels. I also prefer the original comics version of the Oroku Saki/Hamato Yoshi origin story... the one they used in the movie.
The Shredder / Splinter origin was SLIGHTY condensed from the comic version. Originally, it was Oroku Saki's BROTHER, Oroku Nagi, who attacked Tang Shen and was killed by Hamato Yoshi. Oroku Saki then kills Yoshi in revenge for the killing of his brother.
I remember seeing pictures of Donatello with that farmers hat in trading cards that came around the same time as the movie. I saw the trading cards before I saw the movie. The same card set you showed on the video.
“Wise man say…Forgiveness is divine, but never pay for full price for late pizza!”
This is a 10. The tab is 13.
122 1/8th? C'mon guys you gotta give me a break
@wstine79 You're 2 minutes late dude
Pizza dudes got 30s- is a quote my wife and i say often in our house
and "Four baby turtles"
@@dannydunn802 "I've got to get a better route."
Another fun fact: Ernie Reyes, Jr. - who played Keno in the second film - was also the stunt actor in the Donatello suit in this first movie.
And co-starred with Gil Gerard on the TV show Sidekicks. The two also were in a promotional TV special for the then-new Disneyland ride, Star Tours. This special is where the clip of C-3P0 "rapping about space" came from.
No wonder Donatello has the best choreography
Reyes was also in the suburb renowned, multiple vowel receiving, Surf Ninjas
Didn't the 80s kid that got on heroin and had a best friend with the same first name voice Donatello too? Can't think of his name. Oh he mentioned it in the video lol
@@woodworkingandepoxy643 Corey Feldman (friends with Corey Haim)
To think that the stuntmen were able to do so martial arts moves while inside the turtle costumes is really amazing. No CGI could ever do better than that especially the nunchucks scene between Mickey and the foot clan member
I’m still confused why Hollywood refers to CGI as “live action…” No, Michael Bay. That’s a cartoon, and a really fake looking one at that.
@@TenMillionYearProgram42reminds me of the South Park episode where the military is interviewing directors for ideas on plot points and Michael Bay can only come up with special effects 😂
@@NotMeNaNaNa all hail South Park, greatest show ever made!
This movie found the perfect balance between serious and silly that TMNT needed.
Exactly. It isn't full on goofy like some people make it out to be. Just like the 80's cartoon, it has serious moments and can be taken seriously.
That's what annoyed me about the CG Nickelodeon TMNT when they had cross overs with the original 80's Turtles and exaggerated them. They made them out to be full on goofy, making the 80's cartoon itself look incompetent. Absolutely disrespectful. If it wasn't for the success of the original cartoon, they probably wouldn't have made other shows based on the comic.
Definitely. I watched this as a kid and enjoyed it just because it was ninja turtles and i’ve watched it as an adult and love the darker theme of it.
It’s quite literally a perfect film
Even in 2024, I would rather a live action TMNT movie akin to the 1990s version rather than the 100% CGI version
Absolutely 💯
I agree, seems CGI is the answer to everything these days. It seems lazy and it’s made movies nowhere near as interesting.
Yeah these were better than Michael Bay's fart explosions.
Amen!
CGI version wouldn't be a bad idea if the plot was good. Michael Bays version had potential but the story plot was not good
One of the best comic book movies ever.
@@timgriffith9333 absolutely. This one actually entertains the audience and respects the source material.
Talk about a blast from the past! I was 8 when this movie came out and loved it!! I still think it's the best all these years later 🙌👏
Same
Same here 8 saw this in the theater and I loved it
9
Still the only good TMNT movie.
Edit: I was 5
@@TenMillionYearProgram42 agreed the TMNT animated movie wasn't bad the one from the 2000's
As a kid the 2nd one was always my favorite. Now, as an adult the first one having a darker tone and the turtles actually get to use their weapons, this is my favorite one.
Yes I remember being blinded by how cool I thought Keno was to realize they didn’t even use their weapons in TMNT 2 😂
@@NotMeNaNaNa Blame all the pearl clutching.
I agree, I came to the same conclusion after introducing my kids to them. I told them, “oh if you like the 1st one, the 2nd is even better.” Then we watched the 2nd one & I was thinking, how did I like this one more as a kid lol.
Same fam
Yeah, in TMNT 1, the turtles could actually HIT PEOPLE with their exotic oriental martial arts weapons. The horror! 🥴
my younger brother and I watched this movie everyday for like 5 years, no kidding
He has since passed away due to a seizure many years ago, but we still have the tmnt tape in the vcr in his old room (which has changed over the years) but the small CRT, VCR and TMNT remain.
@@82pythons85 thank you for replying, his memory lives on
Sounds like me and my brother. I don't have epilepsy but I have been having random seizures the past couple years. They are under control but I still will get a random one every so often and the doctors don't really know why. Kinda scary. Sorry for your loss. Those are some great memories with your Brother to cherish and hold onto. I LOVE what you did with the VHS and VCR in his old room. Take care!
I'm sorry about your brother. Prayers for you and your family
Here's another fun fact that people may or may not know. The scene where Raphael rolls across the hood of the taxicab when chasing Casey Jones and the passenger says, "What the heck was that?" to the driver...well, that passenger was none other than Josh Pais himself, who played Raphael in the movie.
"Looked like, sort of a big toytle. In a trench coat. You're goin to LaGuardia right?"
New York humor.
The actor who played Leonardo was in the scene where April is being told she has a phone call
Passenger - what the heck was that?
Me - that was you!
By far the best TMNT movie. The effects are outstanding, allowing so much emotion and life to the characters, and all practical. Add to that the darker tone, and the great stunt work, and it's like the book characters just came to life on the screen. You can do whatever you want with digital effects and it doesn't hold a candle to seeing physical turtles (and Shredder) come to life.
Yes, it’s the best and only good one. It was all downhill for TMNT movies that. To this day there hasn’t been a good TMNT movie
I was 7 when this came out and already a huge TMNT fan. I remember being shocked when Raphael said "damn". The more mature and gritty nature of the film changed how we played with the toys (when our parents weren't watching).
3 times. Whispered, spoken, then yelled hahaha. Mikey says it once (“Ninja Kick the damn rabbit),” and there’s a “bitchin’” at the end, Raph iiirc.
@@TenMillionYearProgram42 Filth
I’ve heard there was a deleted subplot where Rafael is dealing with an internal struggle that pushes him to the brink of mental illness. I guess the actual footage has never surfaced. Does anyone know more about this?
RIP Jim Henson. One of the greats.
A true GOAT
Legend.
This explains why none of the Ninja Turtles that came afterwards ever looked as good as these guys did. You cannot top Henson.
Taken far too soon.
A true legend.
I was born in 1980. I remember seeing this film and Home Alone, in the theatre that year. What a time to be alive!
Same here man! 1980. Saw both movies in the theater also.
LOL Me too!
My buddy and I were the first 100 to see TMNT at our theater, we each got a Turtle plush toy. I still have Michelangelo chillin' someplace. 🙂
Same here. 1981 Florida female dork here.
80s dorks are awesome! 🍕
78’ born kid just outside of Chicago. I saw this opening night at a mall movie theatre in Joliet. Epic.
I still have my original VHS of this movie. I was obsessed with it as a kid. Raphael is still my favorite.
Robin Williams was a legend, he also loved Legend Of Zelda and named his daughter after the princess.
Can you imagine Robin Williams voicing one of the turtles? I see him as Michelangelo
@@robertnguyen9493 I'd say Mikey as well
@@biohazarduncovered I feel like that’s the obvious choice, with Pat Morita as the voice of Splinter.
@robertnguyen9493 That would have been legendary I'm waiting for Kobra Kia final season and hoping we get some Miyagi call backs.
@@kennyboggs3676 true, perhaps Mako? Imagine uncle Iroh mentoring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Enter The Shredder is one of the most epic bad guy reveals ever
Name a better one? Terminator is pretty nice. Nolans Joker or Bane? They're nice. But the Shredder? Come on now... Epic.
"OOPS" ~ Casey Jones, 1990
"Lead the way toots"
Yeah that line is soooo dark when you realize Casey is actively trying to murder Shredder with a garbage truck. 😈
''give it a whirl hose-brain''
That part was low key evil!
This will always be my favorite Ninja Turtles mivie. It has silly moments, but it isn't full on goofy like some people make it out to be. Just like the 80's cartoon, it actually does have serious moments and can be taken seriously. Awsome vidio, Minty.
i appreciate the use of the TMNT video game music!
I saw this movie in a cinema here in the Philippines way back in 1990. The cinema was fully packed and many times the moviegoers cheered.
Wow, a lot of fun facts I wasn't aware of about the original TMNT movie! Great video! And I had just rewatched the original movie and The Secret of The Ooze right before your video dropped.
Here's a fun fact of my own: I got my TMNT: The Movie DVD cover signed by Kevin Eastman at the Memphis Comic Expo last year.
A bit of a twist on Henson's perceptions; according to Brian Jay Jones who wrote the most recent Jim Henson biography, Henson wasn't a fan of the comics, but thought the idea was a good project for his "Creature Shop" (who had taken a hit financially due to LABYRINTH's failure).
The first TMNT movie actually premiered a month before Henson passed away and apparently, he got a kick out of seeing the huge lines waiting to see it saying, "Guess they liked it." It was the last success he ever saw, as THE WITCHES was an unpleasant experience. Author Roald Dahl was constantly sending complaints to Henson about the inaccuracies of the film from his novel (and apparently, Dahl himself even picketed his protests at the premiere).
Dahl has always been uptight about the way his work has been adapted. His hatred for Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory is well documented.
@@RyanofAndor True; WILLY WONKA is the exception where he was the original screenwriter and when he left, his script was rewritten, but his credit is still as the only credited screenwriter
@@van8ryanAnd to be fair, his anger is justified. The rewritten parts of Willy Wonka, at least to me, just don’t work. I feel like the flaws of the film wouldn’t be so detrimental if David Wolper would’ve just kept Dahl on as the SOLE screenwriter.
New fan of the channel here! Love the videos!
Didn't see this one in theaters sadly but I did when it was first released to VHS. I was blown away at age 10 and wore that tape out.
Loved this film as a kid. Great video Minty 💥👍
What is interesting about this film is that most of its source material came from how the original comic book was actually portrayed as.
While at the same time it also incorporates some of the ideas from the cartoon to make at least a little bit more lighthearted than the Grim and dark variation that East and Westman had done with their story
The whole theatre gasped at so many parts. I was only 4, but damn it was awesome
The TMNT creators are Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. A place called "East Lairdman Island" is mentioned in the movie, which was named after them.
I am so very much looking forward to the R rated Last Ronin movie. I always wanted the deleted training scenes from the farm to be added back in. Mikey going crazy in the barn was a favorite scene in the original comic book and, in my mind, showcased a small piece of what he would later become. I always thought he got the short end of the stick. Made up for it, in the end, I would say. Anywho: nice work, Minty. This movie enabled my first ever day of off-site school skipping. I was in 7th grade and went to the morning matinee showing of TMNT after calling myself in sick. 13yrs old. Not bad. I still have all of my original TMNT comics from the 80s and early 90s. I love them dearly. Of my collection, I'll likely never sell my Turtles or my Sandman.
1:34 perfect song for this, the melody/instrumental "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " video game theme!!
Splinter was voiced by the same man who also voiced Elmo. Still blows my mind.
This can't be true. Is it?
"Elmo made a funny!"
🎶Heroes in a Half-shell, Turtle Power!🎶
Been waiting for this one! Thanks, Minty!💪🏾
The first movie has never been topped. I would love a true sequel to it, secret of the ooze was a different type of movie.
I know what you mean. As a ten yr old kid, I actually watched the second movie a lot more, thought it was great.
Rewatching both movies a few yrs ago, I couldn't believe how corny Secret Of The Ooze actually is; while the first film with its darker undertones has aged FAR better.... being older and wiser now, the first one resonates in a way the second film never could.
@@Jean-PaulMichell Exactly! same thing, i loved the second one as a kid, and it does have its moments. However its a different film, even shredder goes from being a classic villain to a fool in it.
@@Jean-PaulMichell That's what happens when you switch from M.C. Hammer to Vanilla Ice... 😁
True. It had a little too Ralph.
Europe: Starts two world wars.
Also Europe: Ninja Turtles is too violent. ☠️
I believe that in the UK they were known as Teenage Mutant Fighting Turtles. "Ninja" was too violent. The Leonardo and Raphael toys, in the UK, had their sai and katanas removed. I don't recall what they were replaced with replaced.🤷🏽♀️
@@marsoelflaco5722 What hell lol
@@marsoelflaco5722They were "Hero" turtles instead of Ninja. Stopped us falling into crime for sure. 😊
@@marsoelflaco5722yeah it was “Hero” turtles. They even had alternate song lyrics. BBC censorship at the time. It’s also why Michelangelo replaces his nunchucks early in the series. censors had forbidden weapons that children might be able to make on their own and hurt themselves or others. It’s called the Nanny State for a reason lol
@@marsoelflaco5722the name was changed to Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles in the UK, but Leo's swords and Raph's sai were still present.
We owned a movie theater at the time and my father brought this back just for my birthday party. 20 kids in a 300 seat theater pretty much acting like ninjas.
Up yers
Dude, that sounds amazing. I keep hearing Splinter say "Please, if you will calm yourself..."
Nice touch on adding the video game music in the background... your attention to detail on these videos is always so great!!!
"Times up. Three bucks off."
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hey this is a $10. the tabs $13!
@@cmdraftbrn wise man say forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for Late Pizza.
@@bigkmoviesandgames i gotta get a new route
He’s a cheap thief
I'll always be appreciative of New Line for backing the Ninja Turtles and Lord of the Rings (which Miramax wanted to turn into one movie). There logo also shows up at the start of 3 LOTR games I played for hundreds of hours in the 2000s, so that's fun.
Those music videos mentioned are some of the most famous videos, ever.
I worked with a teacher whose brother wrote this film. She was one of the coolest people I worked with.
Love this channel so much Minty you have become part of the daily you tube watch while I am playing guild wars 2 lol
One of the greatest movies ever. Watched it then, still watch it now!
Minty already did this movie
Thank you minty for another one :)
These first Turtle movies are the reason I was VERY excited when I heard Jim Henson Creature Shop was going to be working on the Five Nights at Freddy's movie. I watched these all the time as a kid. (Except the third one, but I still liked it.)
I went to this movie five times in the theater. Then I wrote out all of the dialogue from memory. Ten year-old me was really obsessed with this movie.
I'm officially old, we saw TMNT The Movie at the cinema back then
Also saved the soft drink cans(one for each turtle) from 1991 or so
this was my first time going to the movies..i was 8 years old...i think that was when i got hooked on going to theatres for my must see movies!!!
That time April O'Neil was recast and none of us noticed.
Also, if you were a kid in the 90's, it wasn't EVER "TMNT". It was "Turtles", we watched Yurtles, we played Yurtles on the playground (I was always Raf), we had Turtles themed birthday parties and Valentines and lunchboxes. It was turtles!
No, I noticed the recasting and other kids definitely noticed, too. I used to get a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles magazine, which had a letters column. One of the kids wrote that he liked the new April actress better because the old one had a "squeezed up nose". I only remember that decades later because I thought it was weird: not only that the kid wrote this, but that the magazine printed it.
Also, you accidentally wrote "Yurtles" several times. And it's "Raph", not "Raf".
We ALL noticed, and no one liked it.
Yes and some of us have “Coming Out of Our Shells” as the first “concert” we dragged our parents to 😂
Nope it wasn’t Michael Jackson or even New Kids On The Block, it was that god awful turtles stage show for me. Now that my daughter is almost the age I was during Turtlemania I will remind her of this when she asks for tickets to Taylor Swift or Dua Lipa 😜
@@82pythons85 considering I was 6... Just wanted to know why she looked different. Head canoned it as original April fell into dimension x. April 2 was clone from TCRI. I was an odd child...
I absolutely remember calling it tmnt, and my mom not being able to get the letters in the right order. I was a teen though so maybe that is a factor.
Love this! Keep em coming minty
Minty already did this movie a few years ago
Some of this behind t scenes footage is from part 2 not 1 lol. Love that the turtles kept most of their playful personalities from the 87 series in pretty much every iteration of the turtles since then, love Raph's sarcasm lol.
🎶 *Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles* 🎵
This explains my 30 year confusion on how the song really goes. We had both versions in our country,..
Thanks Minty, now I understand.
I always love the TMNT. I hope the fan project "Ronin" turns out as good as the test photos suggest.
I was born in 1990. Proud to say I watched this, Batman Returns, and Waynes World soany times the tape in the VHS snapped!
That’s very interesting you definitely caught the tails end of the this time. Because DVDs where a thing by the time you where old enough to watch and remember anything.
@@cliffchampion5501 I remember things starting at about 4 years old. I also remember not getting DVDs until the PlayStation 2 came out when I was like 11 or 12. But I still collected VHS for a few years there until they stopped carrying them.
One thing I do know, it's the best TMNT movie of all.time, i loved it because it was dark, the two sequels never matched it and neither did the CGI reboot.
Cowabunga! The 1990's turtles were my first introduction to the turtles, and still are my favorite incarnation of the heroes in green. The shell heads will always have a special place in my heart.
I remember working on the rubber masks for the Dick Tracy Stage Show at Disneyland when Jim Henson died. This was in 1990, and the Turtles movie was big talk in the rubber costume / movie industry, and professional costumers were in awe of what the Henson team were able to accomplish with these incredible rubber costumes. It was a moment of reflection for us all at Don Post Studios that day. 💜
thank you for making my childhood a little more magical
That’s very kind of you to say, thank you.
Minty. You're the MAN! Watching this video on my 75" in the man cave. I saw this film in the theatre as a 10 yr old kid. Loved it then and I still love it now! Great film. Keep up the good work buddy!!
Thank you.. my favorite as a child
This movie will forever be my all time favorite childhood movie. It's just that good.
Classic.....makes me miss classic special effects, practical effects, costumes, etc.
Brilliant work as always minty. Thanks 😊
The fact that the “darker” take on TMNT worked was not a surprise to anyone that read the graphic novels. As this film was closer to that than the cartoon. And they won because they displayed TURTLE POWER. Cowabunga!
This one i had watched over and over when it came out. Ive been thinking about rewatching it.
They definitely went with a theme closer to the original comic book with the movie.
One of my favorite movies of my childhood. Thanks Minty.
It was around 1991 when TMNT and Total Recall both reached home media that our local video rental business started purchasing surplus VHS tapes of new rentals for people to rent and subsequently purchase if they wanted. As of May 2024, I’ve still got each of the two tapes my dad got of those films from that rental place. There’s no way I couldn’t click on this review of TMNT. Admittedly, part of it had to do with listening for Corey Feldman’s name.
I don't think there are any facts about this movie that I don't already know...but it is fun to hear them in an Australian accent. Thanks Minty!
Minty already did this movie… not sure if this is a reupload or what. But he already did this movie for sure
The unedited version was released on DVD in 2004 in the UK. Furthermore, the German dubbing audio track contains several "cartoon-like" sounds in order to soften the violence of the fight scenes. Although the German dub of the film was released with unedited pictures on DVD, the German dub audio version with the cartoonish sounds were still kept, because they were permanently merged into the German voice-dubbing audio.
The German discs also have commentary tracks on them that the US ones don't.
I have some of those cards of the deleted scenes lol ..great video
This film was also one of Sam Rockwell's earliest film credits, he played Head Thug
" Regular or Menthol?" 😉
I was 9 when the movie dropped and recall an advertisement for some sort of contest in which the prize was a private theater screening with like 30 friends of your choice, etc… anyone else remember this? At the time, I thought that would be the coolest thing ever.
I love this mivie!!!
Was a great filum!
Amazing mivie.
This is the mivie that put the Ninja Turtles on the big screen.
Folm of the year
It's a great Mitchin Pickture!
The funny thing is when this movie first came out in 1990, it was a big deal because I was stationed in Europe at the time. We would get movies typically 6 months to a year after they came out in the United States which by then you can watch them on video. It was the first movie to be simultaneously in the theaters in the USA and in Europe on the day of its release. The line went around my entire kaserne, I had to wait and watch the evening show. I loved it!
I was never aware that Jim Henson had worked on the Turtles movie, but it makes total sense.
Awesome new video, Minty! I have the same Super Mario Bros shirt!
EDIT: a lot of movies are made in North carolina. Specifically Wilmington North carolina. Maximum overdrive, for instance, was filmed there.
Greetings to you from Virginia, the state right above North Carolina!
I didn't get a chance to see this as a kid in the theatre, even though I really wanted to, but thankfully my mother bought the VHS and my sisters and I watched the hell out of it. Though I can thank a recent Astor screening for finally giving me a cinema experience.
I rewatched the movie last week and it's legit great. Didnt take the kids for idiots nor comic books or cartoons for a frivolous thing
The Mivie 😂
I didn't know it was a mivie either!
I've never seen the mivie, is it good?
Minty's gone scouser.
This must be a special version of the movie, only on the DivX format. ;)
Australians pronounce things different lol
I watch all your videos! Love your channel buddy!
The Jim Henson bit trips me out because of all the stuff they did that frightened me as a young child the Turtles weren't one of them.
Funnily enough, this film came up in my suggested list last week, and I rewatched it.
The puppetry and practical effects are so good that I forgot about them and kept watching as if they were real.
Thanks for clarifying the different name, at the end
I remember playing the arcade game with three friends, and I was always baffled that it said Hero instead of Ninja. I thought it was a (very well made) bootleg, back then.
This 35 years old mystery is finally solved!
All Time Favorite Movie!!!
Rewatched it recently and it still holds up perfectly.
One of my favorite mivies ❤
Loved this movie when I was a kid.
The toys were some of my favorite action figures.
On of the best 90s❤️
I give this one a 9.95/10. Great movie, soundtrack, such nostalgia! April ❤❤❤❤❤
that first movie is the best the turtles have ever looked
It was the best TMNT movie period!! In fact, it was the only good one.
It was all downhill for TMNT movies after that
The Turtles looked fantastic in the second movie too.
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The second movie, while not as good as the first, is still a lot of fun.
I think of it as the perfect movie to play in the background at a pizza party.
@@JanetStarChild that’s because it was Jim Henson’s company that made the costumes for the second movie also
This film leaves a big place in my heart as a kid born in 85 I was obsessed with the turtles and this was incredible
All fathers care for their sons.
Shout out to the music from the NES game 🥰 appreciate the trip back in time Doc Minty
🐢T. U. R. T. L. E.🐢 POWER
I was in Jr Highschool when this came out and it was and is the best Turtles movie to this day. They've never been able to get it right since this one came out. I would like to see a Director's Cut to this movie.
Where the heck is the 4k Blu-ray for TMNT (1990)?
I remember this being the event of my childhood trying to see it in the theaters
What in the Mandella effect?!?!
I thought Minty released this already??
I could swear I just watched this yesterday. Wtf??
Yup same here, I swear I recently watched a video just like this, same info. Searched my watch history & couldn't find it. Then I came here to the comments section. Reuploaded & old deleted?
@@drkzero4 i think he has had to a few times recently. If i had to guess i would say music got struck. Ive seen that from other channels, even with vaporwave they could prove they purchased. Kudos Minty if so.
There was the 10 things about TMNT which was released a few years ago. Alot of the same info, only it covers the Christmas special, comic books and the Venus series.
This movie is still the best one out of all of them even the current era ones.
I like mivies.
Thanks for all the awesome content! 🤩Can you do Dances with Wolves, please? 🙏
The dark tone was more in line with the original black and white comics, which were written for adults... and is a tone which I actually prefer over the zaniness of the kids cartoon (of which I was a huge fan)... even though I was 10 when the movie released... but I didn't mind Krang and the Technodrome not being there... I liked the movie being more grounded in reality, I really liked the addition of Tatsu, and I love the gritty aesthetic.
Not to mention that I was born and raised in NY... so it spoke to me on several different levels.
I also prefer the original comics version of the Oroku Saki/Hamato Yoshi origin story... the one they used in the movie.
The Shredder / Splinter origin was SLIGHTY condensed from the comic version. Originally, it was Oroku Saki's BROTHER, Oroku Nagi, who attacked Tang Shen and was killed by Hamato Yoshi. Oroku Saki then kills Yoshi in revenge for the killing of his brother.
I remember seeing pictures of Donatello with that farmers hat in trading cards that came around the same time as the movie. I saw the trading cards before I saw the movie. The same card set you showed on the video.