Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Dave Green
	Actors: Megan Fox (TMNT, Transformers 1-2, Jennifer's Body), Will Arnett (The LEGO and BATMAN Movie, Tyler Perry (Gone Girl)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 25.11.2018, VOD, 32" TV screen
Synopsis: After having saved the city, the four mutant brothers stay in the shadows and react in different ways to that situation. The arrival of a new enemy will force them to re-think about their place and role.
Review: This sequel is very much in line of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with among other differences a Megan Fox post-surgery that doesn't bring much to the story. She seems to be around only to humanize this movie that looks like 100% of the shots contain special effects, thanks to some pseudo romance and of course a deadly hip swaying. The fights are still pretty confused, but the worst is the use of the technology and its implications which doesn't make an once of sense, even for a movie adapted from a comics, which is telling a lot. Just scan something, show something on a display, hack something, whatever to give a hand to make the struggling story go forward. Another disappointment is the under-use of Shredder which seems to be present only as connection to the first movie, as he doesn't even fight once with his super-armor. But maybe that would have been repetitive. Instead, he is a tool to introduce new characters that came back to my mind from my childhood (when I was watching the animated series): the villain Alien warlord Krang and his technodrome, and the two fools Beebop and Rocksteady (what are those names?!?). The thugs turned mutants (a rhino and a warthog) are in fact relatively funny and as the turtles, animated in the finest details. But that's not enough to make it a decent movie.
Rating: 3 /10