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TMNT Mutant Mayhem Trailer

AJUMP23

Member
Anyone else really hoping that Seth Rogan’s role as Donkey Kong will translate to the games? Imagine running through the jungle accompanied by a steady stream of Rogan one liners.
Strait to Ignore.

Christ Church Mpd GIF by Roman Roads Media
 

LQX

Member
Looks great. I love the Turtles and crew in any form and there has been many forms so I'm not seeing the issue with April.
 
the turtles are me meant for kids, just like Mario. Both look great for my 5 and 8 year old.


Personally, I dig the art style.
 
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Romulus

Member
There wld be meltdowns and protests if these race swapped characters were reversed. We never see it changed the other way.
 
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NahaNago

Member
I liked the style of animation. Why does one turtle sound like a girl and I see they are continuing with black April O'niel(surprised a porn star pops up first when googling how to spell the name). I honestly just don't know on this one.
 

SafeOrAlone

Banned
Tmnt 2003 was last normal tv series
The first two seasons of the 2012 show are pretty great, considering it’s a Saturday morning cartoon.

I’d watch it over 2K3, and this is coming from someone who adores the Mirage comics, which 2K3 is based upon. I just think 2012 has better animation, voice acting, storyboarding, and general writing.

But if you want a good modern TMNT story, you have to turn to the comics.
 

Viz108

Neo Member
Wasn't April typically portrayed as fit enough to keep up with the turtles? Can't wait to see the bridge troll they've created jump from rooftop to rooftop.
 
Trailer was meh but that character design... my god it's awful and yes especially April. And no it's not because she is black I don't give a shit.
Seriously, wtf is this?

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I didn't know Velma got a new Job as April now......

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I see both as equally badly designed.
 
That is the difference between the Comic and the movies. Comic done by Eastman can be dark and gritty. Nickelodeon wants the movies to appeal to a wide audience and have parents take kids. Nickelodeon is trying to do things to appeal to everyone. So they have Eastman write his comic, and then a broader scope with movies.

April in the original comic was a black woman.
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False.

“As the co-creator of the character of April O'Neil, and as someone who has always imagined her as white, and very likely of Irish/Scottish/English ancestry”.


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BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
That looks great. The overall cast outside of the turtles (as they appear to be unknowns, or at least to me) is stacked. Love the art style. Almost everything Seth Rogen creates is a banger.
 

SafeOrAlone

Banned
I didn’t realize the story was about them wanting to be treated like normal teenagers by the public. That’s so deflating imo.

Awesome visuals aside, is this even TMNT anymore if it’s about mutants who want to be accepted as superheroes to the public? Sounds like something else.

TMNT can go many places, but I generally think it’s more about their growing pains as a family, the mystery of their origin, and the Foot feud. And of course they go on crazy fantasy adventures too.

Still keeping an open-mind, and I do like what I’ve seen, but that has me worried they are going to miss the entire point. Even the 2012 series, which is geared toward’s children didn’t forget what people love about TMNT.
 

nkarafo

Member
April in the original comic was a black woman.
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This looks like a taller, slim woman. Not that fat dawrf in the trailer.

Not that they would give a shit about how a character looked originally. They changed a ton of characters anyway, they even change non fictional people to push their agenda.

Also what the fuck is wrong with Donatello?
 
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BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
Edit: nm, quick post check confirms the ignore feature should have been employed a long time ago to avoid contact
 
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Bait? Why would my post be bait?

Anyways, remember that IMDB exists. He has a huge list of projects he produced and/or wrote, but some of the biggest, funniest, or most interesting IMO are:

Da Ali G Show
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Boys
Superbad
Pineapple Express
This is the End
Pam & Tommy
Console Wars
Preacher
The Interview

Ok, right off the bat we can remove The Boys and Preacher from that list - they are comic books originally.

Da Ali G Show - created by Sacha Baron Cohen. Seth Rogan co-wrote 6 episodes and each of these episodes has roughly 10 other co-writers.

40-Year Old Virgin - written by Judd Apatow and Steve Carrell.

Superbad - co-written with Evan Goldberg - I’ll give you that.

Pineapple Express - co-written with Evan Goldberg.

This is the End - co-written with Evan Goldberg.

The Interview - co-written with Evan Goldberg

Pam and Tommy - only one of the 18 producers on the show and not the show creator.

Console Wars - this is a documentary where he is one of the 11 producers.

Btw, you might want to check the mediocre movies that he co-produced as well. A far cry from the “everything he creates is a banger”.
 
I kinda like the art style but man do these studio execs really love to take everything adults enjoyed in their childhood and totally shit on it for for the sake of capturing a younger generation.
It's a pretty niche market to cater to adults in their 30's who are nostalgic for TMNT
 

SafeOrAlone

Banned
It's a pretty niche market to cater to adults in their 30's who are nostalgic for TMNT
I actually don’t think it is. At least, they could cater to the same crowd the MCU or DC does.

They come from the same world as those properties and their comic, The Last Ronin, is one of the highest selling comics of the last few years. It’s aimed at older fans of the brand.

The TMNT films can be aimed at all-ages. Right now they are very careful to sterilize them for children and I don’t think they need to go that far.
 

Toons

Member
There wld be meltdowns and protests if these race swapped characters were reversed. We never see it changed the other way.

Seth Rogen is playing bebop, who is black, in this movie. So either hes black and Seth Rogen voices him, or he's not black in this movie when he was originally.

Naturally no ones making an uproar about that.
 

Doom85

Member
There wld be meltdowns and protests if these race swapped characters were reversed. We never see it changed the other way.

Wanted - Angelina Jolie
Batman Begins - Liam Neeson
The Dark Knight Rises - Tom Hardy

I look forward to the “goalpost moving” that will inevitably happen soon.
 

SafeOrAlone

Banned
Since we’re talking TMNT, I’ll share this video I just watched with the creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.

They mention the time Marvel nearly published TMNT projects and look at issue #5.

 

kunonabi

Member
Seth Rogen is playing bebop, who is black, in this movie. So either hes black and Seth Rogen voices him, or he's not black in this movie when he was originally.

Naturally no ones making an uproar about that.
Seth Rogen being in anything is awful but whitewashing Bebop to accommodate him would be extra terrible if it's what they're doing. I mean they could be keeping him black since it shouldn't matter with voice actors but in 2023 that's unlikely so who knows.
 
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