Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadow...

The turtles are supposed to be teenagers. What do these mutants represent within the time of life of a teenager? How does their environment (the sewers), their diet (pizza) and their inability to integrate with the outside world reflect issues some teens may face?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadow...

The turtles face great peril from Stomach Tumor, Shredder and the gang, including (but not limited to): a lady ninja, two mutant animal-man hybrids named Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (Stephen Farrelly) and evil super-nerd Baxter Stockman (a bowtie-wearing Tyler Perry). But they also face dissent within their group when they rehash the main dilemma of virtually every Ninja Turtles movie, and threaten to disband after un-emotional leader Leonardo (Peter Polszek) pulls rank on hothead Raphael (Alan Ritchson), and Raphael pitches a group-rending fit.

This weekend, moviegoers will shell out for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the latest incarnation of the comic book, toy, cartoon and film franchise that introduced the world to a quartet of teenage crime-stopping turtles. As any fan of the characters will know, they became mutants after a truck carrying a canister of radioactive goo spilled the chemicals onto baby turtles that had been accidentally dropped into a New York City sewer. There, they were found by the rat Splinter, who trained them in ninja-fighting skills, so they could protect innocents from a gang of evil ninjas led by an enemy dubbed Shredder. 041b061a72