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everybody this week the new Michael Bay produced ninja turtles movies hitting theaters we actually saw an early screening of it so the question we mean asked a lot is did Michael Bay ruin the Ninja Turtles people seem to forget just how weird this franchise has been over the years really messed up franchise actually think about it so let's actually kind of go back and look the history of the trolls franchise 1984 almost 30 years ago did the first issue and like it was meant to be a parody of other comics at the time Marvel's daredevil I think Frank Miller's Ronin was a big thing and from there just it just kind of took off right so the origin story always seemed to say the same anyway for Turtles get affected by a mutagen grow up to be warriors taught ninjutsu by their rat father and then we have an animated series in 1987 that turns into a wildly popular success bonds a live-action movie that turns into a trilogy at the time it was everything you want but looking back it definitely doesn't hold up do you remember that vanilla can ice plays a key plot point at the end of the second film and then the third their samurais that time travel and it gets but the weird stuff happens afterwards and they realize it's a franchise and we can put turtles everywhere Pizza has been a sponsor since the beginning and we have the Power Rangers crossover we've got was the Oprah thing right yeah recently made the rounds on the internet but this thing in the 1994-1995 the turtles were turned into this song producing quartet that toured the country and performed and ended up doing an episode of Oprah where they performed to a whole roomful of kids and it's just super week there's a CGI film in 2007 that was swell enough received but instantly forgotten and then another animated series in the late 2000s and even a TV movie that was probably the best thing that they've produced since the original series where all the different Turtles from all the different animated series ended up working together across dimensionally and we're actually kind of cut into modern-day here 2012 the Nickelodeon cartoon is when the franchise and the toy line admittedly got much bigger Shh Nickelodeon bought the rights and actually turned out a really good product that's still going on now something that if you don't feel like looking back on the movies and kind of hating your past you could actually enjoy TV has always been a little different here let's get back to the movies and this is the first somewhat live-action film produced by Michael Bay's everyone's kind of afraid we saw it it's fun but it's it's exactly what everything else is a very dumb kind of film with so much product placement so many explosions right you could pick this thing apart in a lot of different ways if you wanted to but this is a new live-action movie for kids this is what they're gonna grow up thinking back on and maybe hating in 20 years but it is good enough for them right now and it's actually good enough if you've been a fan of the series your whole life it's worth seeing because it is in a lot of ways better than some of those original movies yeah and here's the thing to keep in context this movie there is no weird cameo by like a Vanilla Ice equivalent at all but they're planning a trilogy there will be two more films at least if not more so there's plenty of chances to have like some weird pop culture crossover or some turtles dance-off God knows what if history is proven anything they will find a way to make it even weirder let me ask you this do you sometimes wish that April was a turtle you