FILM
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
TURTLE POWER REMAINS UNDIMINISHED
DIRECTOR Jeff Rowe
Pizza party: the Turtles hang out with human ally April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri)
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT PG / 83 MINS
CAST Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Ayo Edebiri, Paul Rudd
PLOT Desperate to be accepted by humans, four mutant turtles set out to become heroes by defeating the evil villain Superfly (Ice Cube).
THE NINJA TURTLES are back — and frankly, it’s like they’ve never left. In the last decade alone, the pizza-loving heroes-in-half-shells have enjoyed two live-action films, two animated series, toy lines, comic books, theme-park rides — even a straight-to-DVD movie in which the turtles team up with Batman for some reason. Do we really need more? It’s a testament to Mutant Mayhem, the seventh feature-length turtle outing, that it feels as fresh as it does.