Through contact with a mysterious substance called Ooze 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad bad guy Shredder who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him.
Review
Now that the TMNT craze has been over for a few years due to the dumbing down of the original show the stupid live action show and lackluster followups to the original movie I feel I can safely comment on this movie and not be accused of jumping on the bandwagon. The movie is a bit surprising it is quite dark there is swearing (a big no no in translating a popular kids TV show to the big screen) and some bloody fights well bloody for the expected age audience. The tone really fits the original Eastman and Laird comic series which was excellent. And thats great the last thing we need is a cheap cashin on a popular comic. After TMNT and Batman what was the last good comic movie Maybe the Mask the Crow or Blade. So a good comic movie is very rare thing and I think TMNT deserves a second look just because its tone was so different from what it could have been and eventually did become in TMNT 2 and 3. Ill be generous because I look with nostalgic eyes I was 7 when I first saw the movie in 1990 and give it an 810.