After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City.
It takes more than an awkward title attempting to sound cool to overcome its mundane plot and silly dialogue.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
23 Mar 2007
rotten:
I guess if you read the comic strip and you played the video games and you watched the TV show and dug the earlier movies, you'll dig this new version. For me, I didn't do any of that stuff.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
26 Mar 2007
rotten:
What remains is intensely numbing action scenes, poor plot machinations and joyless character sketches all rendered in exquisitely cold CGI.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out New York,
31 Mar 2007
rotten:
A passable brand rebooting exercise that will impress younger kids even if it doesn't satisfy older fans.
– Tom Charity,
CNN.com,
31 Mar 2007
rotten:
...while the visuals are terrific, the plot is a distracting clunker that feels like it was written one line at a time by a bunch of overexcited fan-board commentators playing a round-robin storytelling game.