Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" will be the seventh film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and the second animated film based on the story created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Mike Bay's previous picture, released in 2016, never became a hit. In this regard, Paramount producers decided to return to the animated version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", thus emphasizing the teenage audience. "Mutant Mayhem" is unlikely to become a qualitatively new reading of comics Eastman and Laird, nevertheless the names of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in the list of executive producers of the project inspire hope for the best. Jeff Rowe, the director of "Gravity Falls" and "Mitchells vs. Cars," is no less excited to be in the director's chair.

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A mysterious scientist is experimenting on animals in a secret laboratory. The four mutated turtles and a rat named Splinter manage to escape, along with a host of creepy creatures, including Superfly, a mutant obsessed with destroying humanity. The Turtles grow up under Splinter's leadership, learn martial arts and meet their brothers in misfortune: they team up with journalist April O'Neil to challenge the dangerous syndicate.

On screen, the Ninja Turtles have about as many lives as cats. After all, there's no limit to the reincarnations of the green mutants! At least in the last two decades, both animation and cinematography have greatly enriched the turtle universe. Whether it was worth it, a big question: the cartoon in 2007 from Kevin Monroe today hardly anyone remembers, last year's "Evolution of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" from Netflix interested only the most desperate fans, and the movie reboot under the careful guidance of Michael Bay made almost in unison talk about commercialism and soullessness of the craft. But Jeff Rowe - the newly minted author of "Turtles" - decided to follow the path of the last "Spider-Man", returning the heroes to carefree youth, or rather, to put it more accurately, making the main emphasis on growing up (characteristically, this happened both in the movie "Spiders" John Watts, and in the breakthrough animated dilogy from Sony Pictures). Today's superheroes don't grow up, but experience with all the poignancy of the agonies and joys of their younger years. Like recent spider superhero projects, the new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" looks back not to its comic book background, but rather to the tradition of teen comedies from the '80s. There's a reason why in one scene the mutant foursome watches John Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - viewers coming to the new Turtles' story are in for roughly the same experience: carefree adventures in the big city, separation from a parent, and finding their own identity in a world where you just want to be accepted. "I'm different" is not a privilege for a superhero, but rather an imposed curse.

A still from the animated movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem."
"Mutant Mayhem" is an intricate and colorful animated symbiote film. Lively and dynamic animation reminds of the mite made by "Spider-Man" in the development and trends: everything sparkles and illuminates, driving the viewer through the greenish tunnels of sewers and the night streets of New York. The authors do not shy away from the grotesque: the fighting mutant turtles, both in their infancy and in their older years, are shown with the artists' unconcealed tendency to exaggeration, external distortion of proportions and gambling with forms. When the heroes meet Superfly and a syndicate of mutants on their way - and even more so. The cartoon smoothly develops into a phantasmagorical terrarium, where the style of Japanese kaiju is borrowed - in other words, in such a universe it would be a crime to ignore the ugly.

Regarding other nastiness - there is, for example, an unexpected run in with April O'Neil. Not only is she not portrayed as a slender Megan Fox-type hottie (it's amazing what kind of vulgar simplification Bay's team went for in 2014), she's constantly vomiting in the frame - an unenviable endeavor for a young journalist. The Turtles strategically and cleverly steal food from stores, and the villain in the cartoon is not a brutal martial arts master (still a long way from Shredder), but an insect-like monster with a mutated claw that grows to the size of Godzilla. The whole story, it's easy to guess, is presented in a feverish non-stop rhythm, accompanying the aesthetics of disgusting jaunty humorous inserts (a separate plus - lyrical flashback about Splinter's acquaintance with the turtles, without five minutes in the handwriting of James Gunn).

"Mutant Mayhem" is indeed a hooliganism, more reminiscent not of rank superheroics, but rather a self-indulgent funhouse from Troma Studios that blends laughter with bizarre grotesque ornamentation. There's no need to go far: the cartoon is made by real movie fans, who won't fail to accompany the turtle's workout with the song Push In To The Limit, make jokes about Chris Pine or sarcastically play with the laws of kaiju-films (although the source of inspiration for the creators was much more extensive, including the night romance of "Chungking Express").

Naturally, the creators know the measure and dilute the circus of reptiles with quite human emotions: children pass the way from rejection and detachment to socialization. From sewer turtles, chased by people from the streets, the four mutants turn into heroes of New York. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's screenplay involvement is visible to the naked eye as the story and gags are infused with the juices of pop culture, and puberty issues are no longer just a problem for teens from the noughties (SuperPeppers comes to mind), but for anthropomorphic turtles as well. Anyway, "Mutant Mayhem" is a wonderful revision that doesn't parasitize nostalgic feelings, but rushes forward, using the power of modern animation and following the synthesizer rolls of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.