Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Touches You

Fantastic!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I have to admit the first one is a lot better then this second one, but that doesn't change the fact this one was fun and exciting. The ninja turtles return in this all new adventure about a secret from their past.*SPOILERS BELOW* TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze brings back our awesome heroes in a half shell to find a out a mysterious secret from their past that made them so. Discovering their origins from a company called TGRI and from their closest friend and News Reporter April O'Neil the turtles once again come into conflict with the evil Shredder over mysterious green Ooze that transformed the turtles and their master and father Splinter. Only this time Shredder plans on using the Ooze for his own evil purposes and revenge to wipe out the heroes once and for all. This all new adventure brings in new characters as well, a new actress plays April O'Neil and she does an OK job of her role, only I wish she was more involved in the story. A new side kick comes into the picture too, Keno is cool and don't get me wrong he is more ninja then anything but he is not Casey Jones, who is one of my favorite characters, I feel like the directors put Keno in the story just to put in him in it, we don't know much about him other then the fact that he is a young ninja and delivers pizza. I wish Casey were in this story. Then there is Professor Perry who is a vital part of the creation of the Ooze and I like how he gets along well with the turtles. The two monsters, Toka and Razar, are kind of cheesy, the directors made them look tough but in my eyes they were just pushovers who chased the turtles around just to scare them away, Shredder should have destroyed them when he had the chance. I give TMNT: 2 Secret of the Ooze an 8/10 and this is why. The directors should have stuck with the original cast from the first one, especially Casey Jones and his actor. April should have been more involved with the story like the two monsters kidnapping her or something? And the two monsters were cool, but they should have been more vicious and scary then what they were. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it because I am a TMNT fan and it was creative and good, but it could have been better hence the 8/10 rating I give it. I would encourage you to watch it, it is fun and good but I feel it's not that original.

When I was a kid, I much preferred "Secret of the Ooze" to the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Something about the Turtles' personalities just worked for me. And I clearly must've been huffing paint in my early years, because there's almost none of that here as an adult.It's not nearly as good as I remember, but on the other hand, it's not the brutal disappointment you'd expect in that situation. This isn't aggravating, just . . . meg. Gone is the dark edge of the first movie and this time it's played safe. Very family friendly (the foursome is largely weaponless). Their banter is also pretty flat, despite the energetic performances. I guess I didn't expect the humor to be so childish; I mean, I know this is Ninja Turtles, but the big scary bad guys are literally infants (complete with baby jokes).It's not terrible, but it really leaves you longing for (some of) the violence from the first movie. I miss the old April O'Neill, and I *really* miss Casey Jones.5/10

This sequel is pretty good after the first one and I can't believe that Shredder actually survived after being crushed in that garbage truck in the first one. Also he does have two minions which he made with that ooze that created the turtles. Of course they weren't Rocksteady and Bebop but a big mutant tortoise and a mutant lion. One of their weaknesses were donuts. lol. Also there's the rap from this movie played by Vanilla Ice. Go ninja go ninja go. Go ninja go ninja go. That's Ninja Turtle Rap by the way. You can see Vanilla Ice performing it in this club that the ninja turtles were fighting the Shredder in. Then after the turtles fight shredder in the club Shredder drinks the last vile of ooze which he created and becomes Super Shredder. It also makes him look like he's on steroids. When the turtles fight the Super Shredder underneath the docks in New York harbor Super Shredder gets crushed by the docks due to his violent nature after drinking the ooze. After that at the end the Ninja Turtles have a new home in an old subway tunnel after their old home was destroyed in the first one. Pretty good sequel here and all I have left now to watch is the 3rd one.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE is the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in the overall TMNT film franchise.It is the sequel to TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990),and it is really good and amazing to see this film.The film is commonly abbrieviated as TMNT II and the film is distributed by New Line Cinema and internationally distributed by 20th Century Fox.The film follows the adventures of the four Turtles: Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael and their master, Splinter.Roughly resuming from the original film, the villain, Shredder, returning to New York City to get take back command of the Foot Clan and work towards getting revenge and work towards getting revenge on the Turtles.When he learns the secret behind the Turtles' mutation, he becomes more dangerous than ever.The film sheds some light on the origins of Splinter and the Turtles, as well as introduces two new villains: Tokka and Rahzar.Unlike the original and first film, this one rarely showed the use of Turtles' weapons. They instead fight bare-fisted for much of the film as part of an attempt to tone down some of the violence of the previous movie.The film was March 22, 1991, and received mixed to negative critical reception from critics who felt it departed from the much darker tone of the original 1990 film and was more light-hearted.The story is very coherent and just fantastic, unlike some people says that it is not as good as the first film's story.The action sequences are just amazing and fantastic, especially the action sequence at the end when the Turtles are inside the dance club and that is where Vanilla Ice sings "The Ninja Rap".Nothing is bad about the music and the music in this film is just fantastic and yes, it is composed by John Du Prez and it is just spectacular and just fantastic.The turtles look as good as they did with the other previous film and it is just so amazing. Speaking of Turtles, the voice actors are all good this time.Kevin Clash, Michael McConnohie and Robbie Rist returns in their roles as Splinter, Tatsu and Michelangelo. Corey Feldman played Donatello in the previous film and was replaced by Adam Carl.The other actor who got replaced for Raphael, was Josh Pais, and he was replaced by Laurie Faso. Brian Tochi plays Leonardo and he does a great job again as well.Frank Welker plays the roles of both Tokka and Rahzar and he does a great job with both of them and his performance is so great.Another actor who got replaced was Judith Hoag, who previously played April O'Neill in the first film and Paige Turco took her place and she is amazing in the part. Ernie Reyes, Jr. plays the role of Keno and he is fantastic in his part and just amazingly.Overall, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE is amazingly well-done and it is just fantastic and good and much better than the first film.This film is an absolute smash-hit, 10/10.