Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) by Green_Hawk — 14 Aug 2023

First and foremost, this is a reboot. With that said, they still changed too much and mostly for the worse. I just can't even, I am sure it all has been said already.

The Good:

As for audio/visual/presentation, I liked it. The animated comic sketch style works, and some of the ambient sound tracks were pretty good. The fight scenes were pretty good. I had a few short laughs at the humor. I enjoyed the color palettes and camera work. Jackie Chan and Ice Cube were the voice highlights for me. The choice of vehicles for the villains was a nice touch.

The Horrible:

However, the overall character designs are bad. Nearly every character just doesn't feel right in some way for me. The biggest culprits are April and Splinter. The mutant villains are mostly useless. Ray Fillet is just useless. There are nitpick issues that annoyed me; how do Donatello's glasses stay on, couldn't they use goggles and have glasses for the casual scenes? Why does Mikey have braces? There are large to small design choices that bring everything down for me.

More Griping:

The Turtles have neutralized and overall silly personalities, are less menacing, and more cute. Choice of voice acting (no New York accents at all, not even Raph) missed the mark for me.

Splinter learns martial arts through video tapes (really?) and has a thing with Scumbug. April is more masculine and shaped like a potato along with Leo's crush on April. Maybe just have all the turtles generally like April? The whole milking concept and how the Turtles don't respect/honor Splinter. They totally removed the "Sensei" in Splinter.