Movie review: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, and maybe better than ever

Last Updated Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:46PM EDT

“Mutant Mayhem,” which opens in theaters Wednesday, can't entirely get over the feeling of trodding over well-covered turtle ground. But if we must go once more into the ooze, the film by director Jeff Rowe and co-written by co-producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is probably the best of a not-so-stellar franchise. It's certainly the one most invested with that “teenage” part of the turtles' name. Plus, it's got Ice Cube as a fly who quotes from the O'Jays.

What Donatello , Michelangelo , Leonardo and Raphael really want is to fit in and go to high school like other teens. They have been relegated to the sewer ever since Splinter, a rat voiced by Jackie Chan, happened upon them after they were exposed as hatchlings to the same ooze that spawned Super Fly — who himself was the product of experiments by scientist Baxter Stockman .

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