Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | | Cast : | Paige Turco, David Warner | | Director : | Michael Pressman | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | March 22, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 08, 2005 | | Summary | They Are Back With Strength | Content
 | The beginning was very well done in this movie. Probably the funniest start to a movie i've seen in a while. The movie is very energetic with such scenes like the beginning, great fight scenes. This movie obviously had a bigger budget, 25 million dollars to make. Bigger sets, and a cheesy, and i mean it, cheesy publicity stunt by Vanilla Ice. While the movie fails on a dramatic point, it rules on fight scenes and comedy. This is the only movie i have ever scene get away, and have absolutely no explosives or bombs in the movie, and yet people like the fight scenes. Actors changed on Donatello and Shredder, the new actor for Shredder was impressive, really did have a resemblance to the first shredder. Donatello however, even though the new actor is equally talented in fights scenes, in some ways better then the original actor, he doesn't have that voice fans liked about the original actor, i can't remember any of the actors names playing the turtles. But they are talented, great fight scenes in those heavy costumes. Even doing flips in the costumes which is amazing, i always thought the flips from the original movie were done on strings because those costumes have to weigh a ton, but they were doing backflips in this movie. Truly amazing, Turtles ruled the 1991 year for their genre, 78 million in box office, a great number for this. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 12, 2005 | | Summary | Ahh, my first exposure to the live action turtles | Content
| Great stuff. Very funny and violent in a harmless kind of way. Ernie Reyes Jr. was on his way to becoming an action star for the younger set with this film, unfortunately, he ran smack into the movie "Surf Ninjas" and ruined his film career, but I still saw him years afterward as a judge on beauty contests. What a good kid film can get you into nowadays. Anyway, this film takes the Turtles back into the vague illusion of the genre which was the genesis of this story in the first place, science fiction. We find more of the glowing ooze and what it does if consumed by Shredder. Also of great note is the cameo by Vanilla Ice as the club performer. Although he was never really cool to me I think his cameo in this film is the thing of genius because he's just so odd of a man. He did have charisma back then and he doesn't now because he lied to us about his being raised in a harsh environment. In reality, he was so popular back then that he probably wouldn't be playing at a small club, he'd be playing arenas, but that's not as alluring, or immediate as a small basement club that the Turtles happen to crash into while being pursued by the foot squad. What he ends up rapping isn't great in retrospect, nothing he's ever done, or will do, will ever be that good, but all my friends that went to see it wanted to talk about was that rap, it was simple, dancable, and set to the club atmosphere which I had never experienced before. Ultimately, the movie is just as odd in an attempt to be more bloodlessly violent, funny, and over the top than the previous film. What it ends up skipping out on is the human story which makes the first film better, in my opinion. The Turtles are so entertaining because they are more than human, but it's no surprise that they resemble a human scientific genius, hothead,standup comedian, and jock-like captain. It's when the Turtles are in contrast to people that they shine the most and they seem to do less of in this film while still remaining entertaining. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 11, 2005 | | Summary | TEN FLIPS.......NOW! | Content
| WHOA!...no one could've survived that.
But he did and they're all back!
But can the turtles save democracy for
America's youth while defeating a Japanese
origin martial arts crime organization named
after an anatomical extremity?
Go ninja, go ninja, GO! |
| Rating | | | Date | November 26, 2004 | | Summary | One of the Best Dumb Movies Ever! | Content
| I hadn't watched this movie in years, I was a huge Turtle fan back in the day, but then I bought the 3-disc movie set and the first one I popped in was Secret of the Ooze to watch with my friends. It was 10 times funnier than I remember because there were so many jokes that I never picked up on/got when I was kid that I can now (eg. the Ralph Nader/net joke).
The movie is much lighter and campier than the first but it works better that way. I mean, come on, we're dealing with a group of teenage mutant turtles who were trained in the art of the ninja by a giant rat named Splinter in New York City. You can't take it too seriously and the movie works well to just have fun with Leo, Donnie, Ralph and Mikey. The one flaw of this movie was no more crazy Casey Jones and the addition of that annoying Asian kid Keno (Surf Ninjas, another classicly bad great movie). Aside from that, I liked that the turtles had to deal with the fact that there origins were essentially a scientific "uh oh" and this movies has some of the best lines. Donnie: You take the ugly one!
Ralph: No, you take the ugly one!
Leo: I'll take the ugly one!
Mikey: Which one's the ugly one?!
Oh, it doesn't get any better than that. Oh wait, Vanilla Ice is in the movie too so I guess it does. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 12, 2004 | | Summary | A pretty good movie | Content
| I'd really like to give this movie 5 stars because I love and have loved the ninja turtles since they came out in the late 80's. The movie is well done, the costumes look better in the second movie then they do in both the first and the third movie, and the overall tone of the movie is upbeat.
However there are several glaring flaws that caused me to wonder if the editors were sleeping when this movie was on the cutting room floor.
Things like their bandanas kept getting caught up under the spot where the turtle heads went over the neck on the costume. Costume malfunction? Constantly. Also there are SEVERAL scenes where they would have weapons strapped to their backs, then they wouldn't have them, then they'd have them again. I mean come on, what kind of ninjas would go into battle without their weapons? And at the end...when Shredder dumps the ooze on himself and mutates into SuperShredder....why in the world did his armor and clothes mutate also? (besides the fact that someone thought it would look 'cool'?)
Overall, the scripts were done well, even Ernie Rayes did a good job as Keno, AND did his own fighting sequences. Casey isn't in this one, we can only assume he's goongalla gone for a while...maybe he went back up to that house in the first one?
Two of the turtles voices are the same, Leo and Donny. Raph has a different actor in each movie, and Donny....only because Corey Feldman was working out his cocaine issues. His voice actor was good still, and I rather liked it better then Corey's voice, though Corey's voice was much more distinctive. And Leonardo's voice actor is the same guy who voiced Bunji from the Bionic Six cartoon (anyone remember that one?)
And don't forget to watch out for cameos by three of the four turtle actors. In order...Mikey is the guy with the snooty wife that talks to April outside her apartment "You're that newslady..." Leonardo is the foot who says something like "the junkyard was our fallback spot", and Donatello is the guy in April's newroom who's saying there is a phone call from the guy who "says his name's Donny..."
But I ramble. As I said before...I'd love to give this movie a 5, it being my favorite of the three movies, even though I will always be a fan of the NT comics moreso and would like to see a fourth movie done in true martial arts style, dark and angsty....like the comics. But... this movie was cute and very cartoony and great to watch with your kids. A good buy. |
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