
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Hey dude, this is NO cartoon.
Directed by Steve Barron
Produced by Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Mirage Studios
A high-spirited action-comedy about four brothers learning teamwork and heroism, balancing martial arts thrills with skateboarding humor and pizza-fueled camaraderie.
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in Ninjutsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
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Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sad? Barely. Less sad than 89% of films.
Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 88% of films.
Does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 85% of films.
Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.
Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.
These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.
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Familiar shape, done well.
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