Now I can wrap my mind around the idea that four turtles and a rat fell into some "green ooze" and somehow mutated into larger more intelligent creatures. As any child who grew up in the 90s and watched cartoons on TV can tell you any green ooze that has traces of radioactivity can really f you up. You can either receive awesome super powers and become a hero (Daredevil) or be totally screwed and turn into some nasty creature that will die in a couple of episodes (Clayface in Batman). So the idea that 4 pet turtles and some sewer rat mutated really did not concern me.
Even the fact that for some reason the turtles not only were bigger and stronger but also aged in human years showing adolescence like characteristics of your average high school students did not upset me. This can be seen with Raphael being the emo teen, Michelangelo the more toolish partier, Leonardo is the teachers pet, and Donatello as the nerd and all four having a love of pizza.
I can also accept the fact that a sewer rat was kept as a pet and somehow learned karate from his master while kept in a bird cage.
I mean I can even bring myself to believe that after fighting Shredder and defeating his enlarged army in movie TMNT II that the Turtles spontaneously started singing with perfect coordination and dance moves. I know my friends and I often practice many dances and songs so that any time something great happens we can randomly sing and dance to express our joy. It is a beautiful thing.
But in the third movie the slim grasp I had of any realism in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was deeply shaken. According to the tale April goes thrifting and buys from some flea market an ancient scepter. Now this scepter, it is later revealed, has been around since 1603 and though it had probably had 100s of owners and ended up at a New York pawn shop it didn't work for anyone and let them travel back in time. But when "magical" Apirl touches it the thing begins to work? Come on. Apirl is not that special, as seen in the fact that she ALWAYS NEEDS TO BE RESCUED. Word to the Turtles: stop hanging out with Apirl, all she does is cause problems. Its like hanging out with Nancy Drew or the lady from Murder She Wrote, you know something is going to get stolen or someone is going to be killed if they are around.
So of course the Turtles go back in time to save Apirl's dumbass by using the scepter.
I Mean come on. Not only do the turtles somehow travel back in time to save some ancient kingdom just in the knick of time but they somehow also travel back to the present.
In conclusion I feel that my sense of reality may have been completely shattered because of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. I believe that in my young developmental years this film threw out so many non-logical plot lines that my brain finally could not take it.
So now I can't view any film without reaching a certain point where the plot becomes too outrageous and I check out. So thank you TMNT III for causing me to not accept blindly story lines and be entertained but to over analysis ever detail bringing me near the edge of madness.
