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The Nextlander Watchcast 086: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
🕑 Added 2024-04-01 17:51:30 +0000 UTCWe close out our month of '90s hero flicks with the heroes in the half shell! Join us as we dive deep into Turtlemania and ponder the strange edges of this surprisingly solid rubber suit turtle movie.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 86: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990
(00:00:14) - Intro.
(00:02:21) - What level of Turtles fandom are we operating at, and some talk about the comic origins.
(00:05:55) - Toy talk, and discussions of censorship around the cartoon and movie.
(00:11:44) - The movie's production history.
(00:21:30) - The animatronic suits.
(00:36:19) - Soundtrack talk, and sequel talk.
(00:44:54) - Break!
(00:45:14) - Cowabunga, we're back!
(00:48:26) - (Roger Daltry voice) TEENAGE CRIME WAVE!
(00:53:31) - The boys achieve their first victory.
(00:59:10) - Casey Jones you'd better watch your swing.
(01:04:45) - The Danny problem.
(01:08:35) - Half (shell) of the turtles' origin story.
(01:12:44) - Splinter gets rat-napped.
(01:15:04) - Sam Rockwell?!?
(01:16:51) - A very ridiculous Shredder.
(01:22:45) - Raiding April's apartment.
(01:26:01) - Splinter tries to get through to Danny.
(01:28:59) - A nice trip to the country.
(01:37:13) - Sewer sweet sewer, and Casey goes on a sneaking mission.
(01:39:57) - The second half (shell) of the origin story.
(01:45:04) - Racing toward our final battle.
(01:51:34) - The final showdown with Shredder.
(02:00:14) - Final thoughts.
(02:08:07) - What's coming up on the Watchcast.
(02:12:26) - Outro.
Comments
Anthony Hafner
i love twin peaks but are you all getting back to star trek anytime soon?
Limowreck
This was the first movie I ever saw in a theater at must have been about 9 years old. It was PACKED, the only seats that had 4 in a row for me and the 3 I was with was the very front row. Had to look up the entire movie, neck killed me... but I remember thinking it was the greatest movie I had ever seen. Pretty excited for all of these cartoons into movies. I can't wait to hear the surprise for Brad on Dragnet, watched this again recently since it was on Netflix. Also the first Mission Impossible movie is pretty great, also going to be fun to hear about Brad's first viewing.
Brad Arnold
I am an old nerd and had my first kiss in the movie theater while watching this movie at the point where Casey and April kiss.
Walter Cramerstetter
I LOVE BEING A TURTLE!
Billy Gilchrist
I showed these to my kids last year and they were more into in than I expected. I love the first 2 movies and the original cartoon. I haven't seen the Bay movies but that most recent one was pretty good.
Noah Labrousse
Dude, that pizza hut ad is burned into my memory. I know that song by heart and catch myself singing it randomly sometimes.
swiftdraw
This was the first VHS that I watched so many times that the tape wore out. I can still remember the chorus for the Pizza Hut ad with the little league baseball game at the beginning. The cartoon and movies ruined me on the comic, which was edgy in that 90’s way where the cartoon and movies were generally fun and goofy. A tonal whiplash that I didn’t care for back then.
Snek
The first Bay movie is bad and I remember nothing about it, but the second one is truly a mess. Even Brad Garrett as Krang doesn’t save it. Only learned now that the guy who directed it also did Coyote vs. Acme, too bad he’s not able to save his reputation with that one.
DeviTiffany
Teenage Crime Factory is my favorite early 90s rap group
Paul Fierce
Best comic book movie. Fight me
Zeemod
I know nothing about TMNT other than that new animated movie that ruled. As someone who was born in '91 has no expectations for what children's movies were supposed to be or what Turtles media was supposed to look like, I found it much more difficult to *love* this old one. Impressive puppets, credit where credit is due.
