First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Footage Description

The folks at Collider attended a special screening by Paramount Pictures of the impending Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. The studio showed eight minutes of footage, and the site reported the following details.

"It's 2014, it's New York City, there's a lot of crime in the city and Shredder, the leader of the Foot Clan, they are responsible for all the crime.  The movie opens, Megan Fox who plays April O'Neil, she is investigating a crime that has happened at the docks at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, and you think she's this, you know, journalist and then you see the trail who is her cameraman and he yells at her and says, 'April, we've gotta go.  We've gotta get to work!'  And then you cut and you realize that April O'Neil is a lifestyle reporter who wants to be a journalist."

"She is covering a gala that we shot - you guys are all from New York so we can say our locations, at Cipriani's - and Eric Sachs who's played by William Fichtner is giving this big speech, and Eric Sachs and April O'Neil's father worked together 15 years ago."

"This is the scene right after the speech Eric Sachs has given that really inspires April to really try and work harder at her reporting because she just doesn't want to do the lifestyle stuff.  She really wants to be a journalist."

The next bit of footage shows a subway platform scene first glimpsed in the trailers and TV spots. Collider pointed out the "humor and incredible detail on the turtles." The turtles' look has not gone over well with many fans, but the site says "every single second the turtles were on screen, they were downright fascinating to look at."

Collider was particularly struck by Michelangelo: "The way he moves, his facial expressions and the intonation of his dialogue makes his material remarkably natural and truly laugh-out-loud worthy."

The last piece of footage showed an action sequence on a snow-covered mountain. Collider said it is "a full-blown race down a mountain yet the turtles are constantly dishing out zingers, and that's a big part of the reason the material is fun to watch."

So here we have a pretty positive first impression. Does this change your opinion of the new TMNT movie? Let us know in the comments below.