The film also takes the liberty in ripping-off previous blockbusters – a retrofitted garbage-slash-war truck (Mad Max), a via inter-dimensional sky portal alien invasion (The Avengers) and a police car chase/prisoner escape scene (The Dark Knight and Fast and Furious).
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If the first TMNT movie offers a fun-filled chase down a snowy mountain, the most adrenaline-pumping action sequence here starts with skydiving and ends with a waterfall jump.
Speaking of action sequences, the movie never strays away from the basic Michael Bay blockbuster formula (he's the producer, of course): over-the-top CGI-heavy destruction, one action set piece after another. I'm keeping it vague so as not to spoil anything, but yes, they actually have a subplot this time! Sadly, things aren't sustained as the film rushes through, ending it in favor of a big climactic action sequence. The fun interactions between the brothers are still present but what gives them more depth here is when they start to experience teenage anxiety – issues of belonging and identity. For adults, you may get a healthy dose of nostalgia if you were once that kid who were really into the cartoons, otherwise you'll find the script stale. The level of humor in this film is clearly catered to a young audience. Also, it may be nitpicking but there's no attempt to explain how these turtles become experts in crafting CIA-level tech. However, the film suffers a lot of what we can call "convenient circumstances" - unaddressed plot holes are deliberately ignored by forgetting events and characters being conveniently placed at locations to advance the plot without explanation whatsoever. It embraces its crazy plot (the story operates in a world where mutant turtles have been taught martial arts by a mutant rat, 'nuff said).
2 is silly and flamboyant enough to work as a live-action cartoon movie. But Michelangelo tells Raphael who feels that Leonardo doesn't respect them. The Turtles get the mutagen and Donatello analyzes it, learns it could make them human, which he tells Leonardo who tells him to forget it and not to tell the others. Knowing Shredder will try and get it back, April tries to get it first and she asks Vern to help. In the melee, the mutagen ends up with the police. The Turtles show up and they try to work together. She is saved by a man named Casey Jones who was the one transporting Shredder. She takes the mutagen and is chased by Shredder's minions, the Foot Clan. April saw the transformation while investigating Stockman. He gives Shredder some mutagen which he uses to transform two criminals who were also in the transport with him, Rock Steady and Bebop, into mutants. Stockman tries to teleport Shredder but he some how ends up in another dimension and meets a warlord named Krang who instructs Shredder to assemble a teleportation device he sent to Earth a long time ago. April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can't. He plans to break him out while he's bringing transported. April O'Neill does some snooping and learns a scientist named Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder. Vernon is the one everyone thinks is the one who took Shredder down. The Turtles continue to live in the shadows and no one knows they were the ones who took down Shredder.