Returning to the comic book style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ibrahim 2022-04-23 07:01:35

I always feel that the live-action movie lacks something, a little memory, a little childishness, and a little expectation full of expectations. I finally waited for it to arrive, but after reading it, I couldn't help feeling disappointed and lonely. It felt like the new version of "Spider-Man", there was a kind of unwillingness like the classic was ruined. The movie seems to have returned to the model of children's cartoons. It is simple and naive and easy to understand. It is mixed with a bit of nonsense jokes, and combined with the current Internet jokes, it has created a simple, rough, and trivial commercial movie. The movie uses CG motion capture technology to depict the live-action version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Although it helps to improve the movie's restoration of real anime characters, the art aesthetics that are too ugly and rough are really unacceptable. With such a strange body and strange facial features, this monster-like shape not only does not have the lively and lovely feeling of childhood, but adults feel a little scared when they see it, let alone children? Therefore, the whole film feels as if the core of a cartoon is wrapped in the form of a horror film, revealing the atmosphere of fashion culture and creating a four-dimensional film.

The movie is an uncompromising visual effect blockbuster. All kinds of comic shapes are vividly restored by visual effects. The playmates and the dusty memories there were suddenly replaced by clear and specific characters. Although that unique shape will be unacceptable for a while, but there will still be a little excitement after the fright. Although the movie completely returns to the plot of the original comics, and the movie style is also biased towards the comic mode, the excessively repetitive character mode makes the movie have no advantage in the development of the plot. We have been corrupted by the plot of the female reporter too many times, already remembered. It is not clear how many movies start with this mode of storytelling. The design of the movie has entered a new century of plot mashup, and various plots have been matured and scrambled to the point of turning into a flower. The movie also blindly clings to the old-fashioned plot, and constantly uses old-fashioned performances to interpret outdated performances, which not only makes the actors' performances seem a bit boring, but even Megan Fox's performance is not good. There is nothing good about being set off by the ancestors. We do not deny the director's deliberate arrangement and the actors' persistent performance, but we cannot imagine how such a design and structure can satisfy the increasingly critical eyes of the audience? In order to highlight the compactness of the film, the director constantly used fast editing and shaking shots to deepen the rhythm of the film, but the fast and messy shots not only did not give people a cool and refreshing feeling, but they were tormented by the dazzling shots. Dizzy and unable to keep up with the connection of the plot, the action scenes in the movie are very exciting, but they are concealed and shy. The film incorporates a lot of fashionable and humorous jokes in the plot structure, which highlights the cooperation between the atmosphere of the times and the film, and caters to the fun and taste of today's young people, which is still very innovative. It's just that the audience of the movie is still mainly concentrated in the 1980s. It mainly relies on nostalgia and special effects to attract people to watch. The movie emphasizes too much commercial value without building a reasonable artistic atmosphere, which is an important factor for the low reputation of the movie. reason. However, the movie's low and high box office still proves that nostalgic and entertaining commercial movies still have great market potential, but such a low-reputation commercial movie does not know whether the second movie will still be sought after by people?

As the protagonists of the movie, the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do not seem to have a real grasp of the entire movie screen. The movie does not highlight the antagonistic positions of the pros and cons at all. The division of the plot contradictions is also very abrupt. As for the confrontation between the pros and the villains, people feel Kind of like an imposed plot. The main line of the movie is very vague, and it can even be said that there is no main line. It is obviously not a wise approach to promote the development of the plot with Megan Fox as the heroine. To be clear, the movie is too much inclined to the style of cartoons, and the naive and simple plot is too lazy to even arrange it. It shows us conspiracy and evil without even covering it up. It really fits Michael Bay's "Transformation". King Kong" only cares about the essence of making money.

As a live-action version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the movie still has not broken away from the deep-rooted comic thinking, and has not really adapted the comics reasonably into the seriousness and depth of a live-action movie. Looks like a cartoon. The worst part of the movie is the performance of the live actors, which is not integrated into the scene of the movie at all. Instead, it is not as relaxed and comfortable as the actors who acted in motion capture. It makes people completely unable to feel the emotional changes in the movie, and it is easy for people to leave the movie and completely unable to integrate into the movie plot!

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Extended Reading

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Leonardo: We were created as weapons, and we knew the world would never accept us... but one day, it would need us.

  • [Shredder attacks the Turtles as they defend the tower]

    Leonardo: Donnie, what are the odds of surviving this?

    Donatello: 0.00000003%!

    Leonardo: I'll take it!