Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Michael Pressman

Writers (WGA):

Kevin Eastman (characters) and
Peter Laird (characters) ...

Release Date:

22 March 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Cowabunga, it's the new turtle movie.

Plot:

The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.

Plot Keywords:

Turtle | Shredder | Mutant | Ninja | Rapper

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Paige Turco	...	April O'Neil
David Warner	...	Professor Jordan Perry
Mark Caso	...	Leonardo / News Room Staff
Michelan Sisti	...	Michaelangelo / Soho Man
Leif Tilden	...	Donatello / Foot #3
Kenn Scott	...	Raphael (as Kenn Troum)
Kevin Clash	...	Splinter (voice)
Ernie Reyes Jr.	...	Keno
François Chau	...	Shredder
Toshirô Obata	...	Tatsu (as Toshihiro Obata)
Raymond Serra	...	Chief Sterns
Mark Ginther	...	Rahzar
Kurt Bryant	...	Tokka
Kevin Nash	...	Super Shredder
Joseph Amodei	...	Parlor Owner

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA | Hong Kong

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12/9 | Germany:12 | Iceland:LH (video rating) | Iceland:L (original rating) | Italy:T | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:PG | Norway:10

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

Leif Tilden, the performer inside the Donatello costume, also plays a Foot soldier.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Wires can be seen coming out of Leonardo's shell at the beginning when they are all eating pizza with April.

Quotes:

Shredder: Go ahead. Attack me if you will. When it is over, you will call me Master!
Rahzar: Ma... Mama.
Tokka: Mama?
Rahzar: [to Shredder] Mama!
[they hug Shredder]
Shredder: Get off me! BABIES! THEY ARE BABIES! AAARRRRRGH!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Angry Video Game Nerd: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Part 2 (#2.2)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Moov

This sequel is entertaining enough to overcome certain silliness and flaws.

The fearsome foursome turtles go after the glowing cannister that mutated them as babies. While the turtles are trying to find the meaning of their lives and the ooze is slipped into the hands of the evil Shredder (Francois Chau). Shredder asks the help of an unwillingly scientist (David Warner) to make his mutant allies, Rahzar and Tokka. The Turles seeks help with the young pizza deliver boy-Keno (Ernie Reyes, Jr.). The Heroes dive into action and of course, Pizza!

Directed by Michael Pressman (Doctor Detroit, Some Kind of Hero, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday) made an entertaining sequel. This is a bigger budgeted film than the first movie. As usual, the highlight is the animatronic characters by Jim Henson's creature shop. The plot of the sequel is extremely silly but never boring. Paige Turco replaced Judith Hoag from the original and Turco is appealing in the film. Too Bad, Elias Koteas didn't return for the sequel and Corey Feldman didn't return to voice Donatello also. The film was a hit like the original. The only flaw in the sequel is the ending, which it is a mess. Rapper:Vanilla Ice appears in a embarrassing cameo. This sequel is amusing for the kids and fun for the fans of the comic book series. (*** ½/*****).