This film has without a doubt definitely split the fanbase, you either like it or you hate it. I'm going to try and give my best reasons as to why this film was just not very good, if you don't agree with them i understand, but just try to take some of my points into consideration instead of ridiculing me, calling me a non-fan, calling me a hater, or any other childish response.

1. To start off, the plot is incredibly generic and basically rips off part of the plot of The Amazing Spider-man. The plot also holds very little motive for both the heroes and villains actions(more on that further down, see #3 and #4).
The foot clan just inhabits New York city's underground, it's never really explained why they and Shredder are even there, but every now and then they steal stuff for generic evil mega rich business man Eric Sacks, who is secretly a member of their clan. The second they find out that there are these mutated turtles still alive from a genetic experiment thought lost in a lab fire a decade or so ago with mutagen in their blood, they ditch whatever they were doing to catch these creatures.
Throw out decades of established story elements and character traits; add in an hour of generic action movie special effects and lots of destruction; leave an opening for a potentially even more generic sequel; roll credits---That's the plot of Jonathan Liebesman TMNT in a nutshell.

2. During the pre-production there were reports that they were having major script issues, and it shows. The films story is such a huge mess that you could just tell it had been through quite a few rewrites.Read more ›

This movie is abysmal. As a fan of the original series, I was offended. As a female fan of the original series, I was deeply offended. This movie should be entitled April O'Neil, and not the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This movie focuses almost solely on Megan Fox and her portrayal of April O'Neil. You don't even see a Turtle until about half an hour into the movie. The Turtles are a side plot to the main story of April's life and career.
Note to any producers and directors looking to remake this beloved film for a third time: Girls like the Ninja Turtles too. Please focus your movie making efforts on the title characters and not their female human sidekick.

Holy cow! Oh, holy cow! This movie is just ridiculously bad. If you were a fan of the Turtles, be it comic book, the cartoon, or the older movies, do not and I mean it, do not watch this movie. Not unless you are doing it to just see how bad it is. This was a blatant disregard for any of the source material and added in way too much Megan Fox. Her acting is horrid in this movie, and was on purpose placed in this movie for sex appeal. Believe me when I say there isn't a scene that goes by that someone doesn't mention some sexual innuendo regarding her. Don't get me wrong, she is an attractive girl, but you don't need to be reminded every 2 minutes. You even get a butt shot and comment from a guy in a very tense situation. I rented this one on Amazon for 99 cents, though I think I got my 99 cents worth out of it, that was about it. If it costs more then that, don't waste the money. To give you a little insight, the Turtles are 8-9 feet tall, are completely bulletproof, and can swing railway shipping containers like they are baseball bats. Later on in the film they seem to be thwarted by 2 inch thick plexiglass that Raf cannot seem to punch through to save his brothers. Well not unless they are filled with copious amounts of adrenaline. Which of course makes Mickey even more annoying then he already was. Like I said, do not watch this unless you really really need to see how bad it is. However do not buy it, and do not rent it until it is 99 cents.

Absolute garbage. I collected the toys as a kid, read some of the old comics, and have been reading the recent runs. When you have current, strong, engaging source material (or older, original material) why would you hire such hack writers to do an original script? The CG was uninspired, character scripting overdone, and for a Michael Bay film, far too few explosions by half-way through. Which is when I stopped watching it. The first fight scene between Shredder and Splinter was the final straw, but I should have known to turn it off 10 minutes in. Do not fall for the 4 star rating the movie has.

Unless you're a 9 year old boy. Then you might have fun.

I hated this movie. It doesn't follow the story line or really do the franchise any justice. It was beyond stupid and I forced myself to finish it because I paid to download it. I don't normally give movies so low a rating but this was really really disappointing. I felt like they forced Raph to be angry it didn't come natural in the script at all at least in my opinion. Splinter was there worldy sensei and yes father figure but not what I felt mean and abusyve like in this movie. There was no real emotion. I mean one of them gets hurt possibly dies and it is a huge joke. Disappointed so wanted to like this movie.