Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze/The Comfort of Strangers/Defending Your Life/Mister Johnson/La Femme Nikita (1991)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : I only smiled at a couple of the pratfalls at the beginning of this movie, but after that, "Ninja Turtles 2" was really depressing to sit through.

  Roger Ebert - Host : I was depressed, too. You know, Gene, the superheroes that we grew up with, like Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, were really individuals that stood for something, and really had ideas. And here, you have kind of a collective group of these radioactive turtles who seem to applaud the lowest-common denominator. They talk to each other in the way that teenage boys sometimes do when they're trying not to stand out from the crowd...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Exactly.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...By having any ideas. Y'know: "Cowabunga, dude." It's, uh, as long as we talk in this way, and act in unison, we don't have any ideas of our own, we're not individuals, we don't have to make decisions.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Right.

  Roger Ebert - Host : It'll all be just fine. It's really... it's really depressing. I think there's something going on with these Turtles...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yes.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...That's telling us something alarming about our society.