Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | 2023 Movies RANKED - Episode 37

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Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.

Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:
1. Oppenheimer
2. Beau Is Afraid
3. Infinity Pool
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
6. John Wick: Chapter 4
7. Tetris
8. Air
9. Creed III
10. Sound of Freedom
11. The Flash
12. Fast X
13. Asteroid City
14. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
15. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
16. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
17. M3GAN
18. missing
19. The Machine
20. Barbie
21. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
22. Scream VI
23. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
24. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
25. Renfield
26. Evil Dead Rise
27. The Pope’s Exorcist
28. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
29. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
30. Knock at the Cabin
31. Insidious: The Red Door
32. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
33. Plane
34. Haunted Mansion
35. Cocaine Bear
36. Knights of the Zodiac

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is terrific. I definitely had a big smile on my face for most of this movie.

And why’s that? Nostalgia? Revisiting my childhood?

No.

I loved this movie because it felt like the people making it actually cared about the CHARACTERS, and that the characters behaved and spoke true to themselves as mutants and/or teenagers or father figures or relatably embittered and vengeful bad guys.

And then built overtop of that is a clear “destroy all humans” plot that easily carries a simple story of longing to belong in a world that typically runs from or destroys anything regarded as unfamiliar or alien, which is exactly how people would initially react to four teenage mutant ninja turtles, their giant rat father, and all of their mutant bad guy cousins seeking revenge for humanity’s mutant-phobia.

This movie brings it on every level: A fresh and apt style of animation, good humor, good fun, motivated bad guys with a sympathetic plot, excellent characterization and fulfillment of individual character arcs, a KILLER soundtrack, lots of pizza and all wrapped up in the most comprehensive and appropriately awkward origin story the turtles have ever seen on the big screen. All that’s left to say my dear McCurdy, is cowabunga.

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