The Silver Lining… Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Aliens
I’ve come to Michael Bay’s defense once before. I’m not going to do it again.
But I might have to find The Silver Lining in his decision to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as aliens.
These are not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
What good might I find in the seemingly asinine idea to change the beloved oozy origin of our pizza-loving, sewer-dwelling crime fighters? Midi-chlorians, anyone?
These are not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Sometimes such changes work. In the Sam Raimi Spider-Man series, didn’t a genetically altered spider make a lot more sense than a radioactive one? (Maybe not enough. Part 3 did suck, and the new film is abandoning that concept.)
This might be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
I think the best part is that we might finally get to see this guy: Krang.
Okay, he's technically from Dimension X, but isn't that alien enough?
Four movies in, and the best baddies we’ve seen are these two?
Tokka and Rahzar. Why not Bebop and Rocksteady?
That’s at least my hope. I can’t take any more Shredder nonsense…
