Taglines: This ain’t no cartoon.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie storyline. Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad, bad guy Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American action film directed by Steve Barron, based on the comic book characters of the same name. Released on March 30, 1990, the film presents the origin story of Splinter and the Turtles, the initial meeting between them, April O’Neil and Casey Jones, and their first confrontation with The Shredder and his Foot Clan. The film stars Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and the voices of Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Josh Pais and Corey Feldman as the four title characters.
When the New York City Police Department is unable to stop a severe crime wave caused by the Foot Clan, four mutated vigilante turtles — Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael — come forth to save the city. Under the leadership of mutated rat, Splinter, and together with their new-found allies April O’Neil and Casey Jones, they fight back and take the battle to The Shredder.
The film kept very close to the dark feel of the original comics, and is a direct adaptation of the comic book storyline involving the defeat of Shredder, with several elements also taken from the 1987 TV series that was airing at the time, such as April being a news reporter, and the turtles having different-colored masks, as opposed to the uniform red masks of the comic.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Directed by: Steve Barron
Starring: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, David Forman, Brian Tochi, Leif Tilden, Corey Feldman, Michelan Sisti, Robbie Rist, Kevin Clash, James Saito
Screenplay by: Todd W. Langen, Bobby Herbeck
Production Design by: Roy Forge Smith
Cinematography by: John Fenner
Film Editing by: William D. Gordean, Sally Menke, James R. Symons
Costume Design by: John Hay
Set Decoration by: Barbara Kahn, Brendan Smith
Art Direction by: Gary Wissner
Music by: John Du Prez
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: March 30, 1990
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