Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Cowabunga! The heroes in a half shell are back

By Jason Best
( What's on TV )
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(Image credit: Lula Carvalho)
(Image credit: Lula Carvalho)

A sequel to 2014’s live-action reboot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows sees the band of sewer-dwelling pizza-loving giant turtles again teaming up with their journalist friend April O’Neil (a pouting, strutting Megan Fox) and again tangling with their evil ninja foe Shredder (Brian Tee).

This time they also have to contend with the supervillain’s mutant henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady, two dumb thugs transformed into a talking walking warthog and rhino, and with megalomaniac intergalactic warlord Commander Krang, who doesn’t just threaten their beloved New York but the future of the planet as well.

It’s empty-headed nonsense, of course, but the action has a rowdy vigour and the turtles’ boisterous high spirits will strike a chord with younger viewers.

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Certificate 12. Runtime 112 mins. Director Dave Green

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is available on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, 4K Ultra HD, DVD and On Demand on 24th Octoberfrom Paramount Home Media Distribution and Universal Pictures (UK).

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Jason Best
Jason Best

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.