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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023

2023

Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears

Animation, Voice: Brady Noon, Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr. ...

6.7

4,116

Animation. Action. Adventure. Comedy. Fantasy After spending years apart from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal fifteen-year-olds by performing heroic acts. Their friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon find themselves outnumbered as an army of mutants swoops down on them.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The movie's mostly just meant to be fun, and that it is, skewing young while giving lifelong fans plenty to geek out about"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"With its refreshingly glitchy animation style and superb hip-hop soundtrack, the reptilian superheroes’s latest outing is a fizzing treat (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kristen Page-Kirby The Washington Post	"Funny and visually innovative animated film (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Matt Maytum Total Film	"Turtle Power is back, thanks to a potent combo of winning humour and gnarly animation. Cowabunga! (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jake Coyle Chicago Sun-Times	"While a half shell of those films, has its own low-key charms. It’s goofier, grosser and mostly fun (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"It’s that adolescent experience that keeps this latest entry feeling more alive and engaging than it has any right to (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"An endlessly delightful proposition. Quippy, zippy, and punchy, this teen-focused take on everyone’s favorite pizza-loving vigilantes is a refreshing reappraisal of a property that could very well have felt stale in 2023."	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Shelve any scepticism because 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem' is a blast – a worthy companion piece to the groundbreaking Spider-Verse films. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kristy Puchko Mashable	"An action-packed, utterly goofy nostalgia trip"	POS
United States	Justin Clark Slant	"[It] soars by not just functioning as a celebratory homage, but also as a questioning of what beloved properties mean to the kids of the present (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Terry Staunton Radio Times	"Smart, accomplished movie-making that relishes colouring outside the lines to breathe fresh life into a genre that frequently teeters on the brink of cliché (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A rowdy good time"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Maybe it's a product of my age or lack of energy drink intake, but 'Mutant Mayhem' too often just feels hyper (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"[It] is peppy, anarchic, doesn't talk down to teens, looks scrumdiddlyumptious, boasts an impeccably laconic soundtrack and gives us April O'Neil as we've never seen her before (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It's summer-holiday eye candy with a sherbetty experimental fizz (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is unexpectedly funny, with a rather stylish crepuscular design (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[Its] heart is pure, and the look of it is sprightly and unique, making it a worthy new addition to a franchise that clearly still has new stories to tell"	POS
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"With an excellent voice cast, stylish animation that stands out, and a fun, decent story, 'Mutant Mayhem' aims to please and succeeds (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Irreverent and action-packed without sacrificing charm or emotional resonance, 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Mutant Mayhem' (...) an apt tribute to characters who have always just wanted to be accepted."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Funny and vibrant"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Besides a couple of live-action inserts, the film is fully animated but with the kind of careless scribbles and inky lines that suggest imagery pulled from the margins of a school notebook during a dull chemistry class (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Rafael Motamayor SlashFilm	"[It] is not only a great introduction to the iconic franchise, but a fantastic film in its own right, and one of the best-looking movies of the year"	POS
United States	Nick Allen The Playlist	"Delightfully dorky"	POS
Canada	Tyler Nichols JoBlo	"I know as a thirty-something nerd who grew up on Turtles, I found myself laughing and having a grand ole time"	POS
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Fans will not be disappointed with any of the decisions here, notably the animation that feels visually surprising and satisfying"	POS
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"[It] is the pizza-loving foursome's latest desperate bid for relevance. Some clever animation, however, doesn't make up for a juvenile script that is confusingly unfun"	NEG
United States	Tom Jorgensen IGN	"A vibrant, hilarious adventure from which the Heroes in a Half Shell can (and will) build a Turtleverse all their own."	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"'Mutant Mayhem' is a small win in the tiresome world of IP, one that doesn’t need to mutate into anything further in order to be accepted."	POS

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