# First Trailer: Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703 "2014-03-27T18:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/1 "2014-03-27T18:18:10Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjsWpM9zFU) That… that doesn’t look terrible. I’m cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/2 "2014-03-27T18:21:13Z")
“Don’t freak out-it’s just a mask” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/3 "2014-03-27T18:24:24Z")
I hope its funnier than the trailer makes it ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/4 "2014-03-27T18:37:38Z")
A part of my childhood just shriveled up and died. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/5 "2014-03-27T18:48:51Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > A part of my childhood just shriveled up and died. More like exploded. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/6 "2014-03-27T18:56:55Z")
Megan Fox. Of course. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/7 "2014-03-27T19:14:22Z")
Ye gods, every one of theses trailers looks exactly the same. So they appear out of nowhere to open a can of whupass on some real bad guys. Then, later in the movie, some reaaalllly baaaad guy(s) show(s) up to give them a run for their money, almost but not quite killing them in the process. Amiright? I’m not familiar with the original backstory of these characters, but I didn’t think it involved juicing them with green stuff. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/8 "2014-03-27T19:14:42Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > That… that doesn’t look terrible. I’m cautiously optimistic. I’d be a lot more optimistic if it weren’t for Megan “Cardboard-Cutout” Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/9 "2014-03-27T19:17:48Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’m not familiar with the original backstory of these characters, but I didn’t think it involved juicing them with green stuff. It did. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/10 "2014-03-27T19:32:04Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’m not familiar with the original backstory of these characters, but I didn’t think it involved juicing them with green stuff. Don’t you know the secret of the Ooze? I saw a compelling case made on Cracked or someplace that the ooze that fell in the sewer to create the TMNT was the same material that made Daredevil go blind. [Yep, here it is.](http://www.cracked.com/article_19323_6-movie-tv-universes-that-overlap-in-mind-blowing-ways_p2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/11 "2014-03-27T19:53:20Z")
How the fuck does Megan Fox keep getting work in these tentpole movies? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/12 "2014-03-27T21:23:36Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I saw a compelling case made on Cracked or someplace that the ooze that fell in the sewer to create the TMNT was the same material that made Daredevil go blind. > > [Yep, here it is.](http://www.cracked.com/article_19323_6-movie-tv-universes-that-overlap-in-mind-blowing-ways_p2.html) Eastman and Laird (the TMNT creators) have said it wasn’t just the same material, but the same accident. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/13 "2014-03-27T21:42:22Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > A part of my childhood just shriveled up and died. I might be a little older but I remember when it was satire and not a kid’s cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/14 "2014-03-27T21:50:37Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Eastman and Laird (the TMNT creators) have said it wasn’t just the same material, but the same accident. Yes, that was in the first TMNT comic, which was a parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil, where DD was a ninja all of a sudden. Daredevil was trained by Stick, so the turtles were trained by Splinter. DD fought The Hand, so the turtles fought the foot, etc. The original comic was for (more or less) adults, or at least not for young kids, but it eventually became the children’s show we remember through rose colored glasses. The music in the hit all the big budget trailer music cliches, didn’t it? DZH-DZH-DZH-DZH! BRAAAMMMMM! CREECREEECREE–KABOOM! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/15 "2014-03-27T22:14:21Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Yes, that was in the first TMNT comic, which was a parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil, where DD was a ninja all of a sudden. Daredevil was trained by Stick, so the turtles were trained by Splinter. DD fought The Hand, so the turtles fought the foot, etc. The original comic was for (more or less) adults, or at least not for young kids, but it eventually became the children’s show we remember through rose colored glasses. > > The music in the hit all the big budget trailer music cliches, didn’t it? DZH-DZH-DZH-DZH! BRAAAMMMMM! CREECREEECREE–KABOOM! It also hit all the popular cliches in comic books at the time. The two most popular titles were the Teen Titans and X-men. And Ninjas were everywhere not just Daredevil. Wolverine fought The Hand too. So mutants, teenagers and Ninjas. And lets throw in turtles for the absurdity factor. When we saw the series was starting me and my friends bought it because it looked to be a fun send up of comic book cliches not because it was going to be a good series on its own. I still have the first few issues around somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/16 "2014-03-27T22:16:39Z")
Oh hells yeah! I’m looking forward to this. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/17 "2014-03-27T22:35:15Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > How the fuck does Megan Fox keep getting work in these tentpole movies? She makes the tent pole move. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/18 "2014-03-28T03:58:13Z")
I love TMNT, so I’m into it. That said, MICHAEL BAY is all over this. Exploding buildings! Surprisingly, in the trailer at least, Megan Fox doesn’t seem horrible as April. I’m hoping the mask guys aren’t the Foot because they look more like V. The turtles look good except for their faces which are weird. Seems like they were also given super powered shells. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/19 "2014-03-28T07:54:01Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I love TMNT, so I’m into it. I’d heard that all you guys had gotten turned off by the whole alien thing. In fact, I’m sure that’s why the ooze was shown, to try and make up for that. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703/20 "2014-03-28T08:06:29Z")
Well, I didn’t see any racist, homophobic or sexist jokes, so at least 1.5% of the movie is not complete crap. Keep up the good work, Bay! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-trailer-michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/684703.md?page=2)