TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2014)

A wave of crime, led by the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan, has all but put New York City in the hands of the bad guys.  Meanwhile, fledgling TV reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox), seeking her big break, is determined to get the story on the Foot Clan's next move when she accidentally stumbles upon a set of vigilantes in the form of man-sized, teenage mutant turtles who have been living and learning martial arts in the sewers below the city by their master, Splinter (a morphed rat with a heart of gold) ... and may be the city's only hope.  By far the best thing about the film are the turtles themselves; Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo have never looked better, or been more fully-realized.  But a weak, predictable script overly reliant on outrageous action sequences via producer Michael "overkill" Bay, and bad casting via Fox and (even worse) Will Arnett, all work to drag down what could have been a great film to a serviceable feature ... still worth watching just for the turtles themselves.  (rated PG-13) C+

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