Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the OOZE (1991)
Looking for
great lines and dialogue? There are none here.
Looking for cool, realistic costumes? Not here.
Looking for pure turtle fun? You’ve come to the right place.
The
first movie was dark, and a lot better than this sequel, but this was
just comedy galore.
Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze—oh boy, when I was young, this
was the movie to see. There’s nothing better than revisiting
something you loved as a kid and knowing all the lines before they’re said.
Back in my
youth, anytime, anywhere, I’d sit down to watch these guys take on Shredder
again and bring down Tokka and Rahzar. The Foot Clan couldn’t even measure up
to the task of taking on the turtles, as they’d already failed in the first
movie.
The events in
this movie follow the first film, after Shredder was believed to be dead. But
the Shred-Master wasn’t dead. He reunited with the remnants of his Foot Clan
and now wanted revenge on the turtles—a mission he decided would be “freak
against freak.”
So, he kidnapped
a professor who knew about the ooze that created the turtles and forced him to
create two monsters: Tokka and Rahzar. Now, Shredder has the upper hand and
threatens to release the creatures into the city if the turtles don’t come to
face them.
The movie
received mixed reviews, mainly because it was toned down from the dark theme of
the first film. Also, many of the fight scenes featured hand-to-hand combat
instead of weapons. All of this was done to make the film more appealing to
younger audiences—which worked in my case, as I was young and found the comic
references interesting and fun.
The only thing
that might not have appealed to older viewers was the fight scenes. Removing
the weapons wasn’t cool for me, and they also replaced April, which some felt
wasn’t necessary. In the first movie, April O’Neil was played by Judith Hoag,
who did a fine job, in my opinion. But she was replaced in this movie by Paige
Turco, who wasn’t half bad.
Also, the person
I missed the most in this movie was Casey Jones, who was a prominent character
in the first film.
To put it
simply, if you were my age when you first saw this, you’d have learned the
Vanilla Ice rap song and been singing it on the streets:
“Villains, you better run and hide… Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!”
So, reviewing it
as if I were watching it back in 1991, when Vanilla Ice was still popular, I’d
say this is a good movie.
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