Very mixed bag for me...a lot to like and a lot to dislike. I loved the look of the thing, but was so keenly aware of the debt it owed to the Spider-verse films for its aesthetic that I couldn't help but be taken out of the film quite a lot on that basis alone. I love the look of these movies, but I'm dreading the day when animation trends so hard that way that we see nothing else and we have to wait another twenty years until somebody else lands on an innovation popular enough to send the whole industry in a new direction again.
- I liked the personalities of the turtles and am totally on board with the turn to making them actual teenagers.
- A lot of the humor worked for me, but (as with Barbie) a lot really didn't.
- I was trepidatious about the new take on Splinter, but they won me over with that almost immediately, which makes sense given my utter devotion to Jackie Chan.
- I did not like their take on April at all. She was a statement...not a character.
- The plotting was very weak. The decision to have all the mutants turn on Superfly was not earned at all. They also failed to really establish any set of criteria whatsoever for why we ought to think the Turtles were right and Superfly was wrong...going so far as to acknowledge that Splinter basically thought the exact same way. It's lazy writing that procures this kind of result.
- Overall, an enjoyable experience, but fraught with issues.