Around 1992-1993, the popularity of TMNT was still in full force, and remained that way until closer to the late 1990s when the original series ended in 1996. Two movies had already been released, both of which are cult classics, however the third adventure of the world’s favorite warlike turtles put them in a lot of trouble with critics – even more than the second movie.

I only learned about this one from James Rolfe. Unfortunately I watched some of this, and now I can’t un-watch it.

Really? Time travel, horseback riding, and ninja turtles? Did manatees write this pile of shit with idea balls? Guess they’re the same ones who write modern Family Guy episodes.

From watching Cinemassacre’s review of this movie, apparently Donatello’s guilty of throwing out most of the bad lines. He’s saying shit like “I swallowed a frog and I hope it wasn’t an ancestor” or “Hey you were expecting maybe the Addams Family?” throughout the movie.

1. Barely any fight scenes and even when there is a fight scene it’s horrible. Sometimes less is better, but if there’s going to be less, then make it better.
2. There are no villains from the 1987 series in this movie. Not even Shredder appears.
3. The animatronics look god awful. The turtles look like they were inbred children of Franklin the Turtle, whereas Splinter looks like he’s due for euthanasia!
4. A bombardment of shitty lines are all over this movie. James Rolfe puts “Help I’m a turtle and I can’t get up” as one of the worst lines ever said in a movie.
5. Cliched death scene. Walker dies the same way the evil queen from Snow White did – falling off a cliff.
   • Adding to this, Walker’s body disappears like he was being sucked away by a black hole in Futurama. The effects are that bad. James Rolfe even mentioned that they should’ve cut the scene short before the splash.
6. Takes forever for the turtles and April O’Neil to go back to their own time at the end. The turtles all go “oh no no no I don’t wanna go back” but they do so anyway. Just fucking go back already you dipshits!!
7. Quite a number of pointless filler scenes like reconstructing the scepter only for it to get destroyed in an accident.