We already saw ‘The Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’: it’s time to remember what it feels like to be a teenager

Turtles, Mutants and Ninjas It’s the simplest thing in their lives. Ironically, being a teenager is the hardest thing for Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo..

That strange stage, of adaptation and of discovering one’s place in the world will turn out to be the biggest challenge of the cute characters this They will return to the big screen on Thursday, August 10 in an animated version Directed by Jeff Rowe.

The production conducted an extensive search to locate the English voices of its heroes and choose the ideal foursome. The chosen ones were the young Nicolas Cantu (Leonardo), Shamon Brown Jr. (Michelangelo), Brady Noon (Raphael) and Micah Abbey (Donatello).

Don’t expect visual perfection when you sit down to watch itbecause the producers designed it that way on purpose emulate the still incomplete and unstable world your characters move in at that stage of their lives.

“As the turtles become heroes, we have increased our camera style to support the subtext of their coming of age,” said the cinematographer, Kent Seki. “We also filmed his world and the adult world in two different ways. His adolescent universe is hectic. In the adult universe, the camera becomes more formal”.

But expect lots of laughs and scenes that will remind you of what you probably felt as a teenager too. Remember the nerves when you first called the girl you were interested in?, or that they denied him permission to go out with his friends? How hard it was growing up!

the band 1 hour 39 minutes also transforms April O’Neil’s character into a young aspiring reporter -still in high school- and far from the star journalist van channel 6 which we have met in other film versions of the franchise. But thanks to those insecurities, he will instantly connect with the turtles and let them know that there are humans out there who can be their allies and friends.

In this case, the villain Superfly replaces the already known and feared Destroyer as an antagonist and will reveal an unexpected connection to the heroes that will also make them doubt their true mission.

adolescents or adults, What are we willing to do to be accepted?