Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

1993 • 95 minutes

About this movie

The turtles have defeated their nemesis Shredder and are still forced to hide in the depths of the subway system. April brings them gifts to cheer them up and one of them is a time traveling device which takes the turtles and April back to feudal Japan. The turtles must fight to free the village and find a way home. Starring Elias Koteas ("Gattaca," "Shooter"), Paige Turco ("The Game Plan," "Invincible"), and Vivian Wu ("The Pillow Book," "The Last Emperor").

Ratings and reviews

This is the film that made me think Michael Bay isn't the worst thing to happen to the turtles franchise. The acting, camera work, costuming, plot, and special effects were horrendously done. The fact anyone greenlit this movie is one strike, the direction is 2, and the damage done (it took years to recover) is 3. Such an atrocity. 2 was bad, but the first was actually really good. This is just garbage.

Sort of a disgrace to the other movies, especially the first one, it's not horrible, but it's definitely not good, the suits look a lot worse than in the other movies and the movie feels so goofy and stupid. The original had more care put into it and the second was pretty dang good too. But this is just sad. If you have the money, you can check it out as a joke, but I wouldn't recommend it for much else other than that.

Should've and could've been been excellent like the other two. Then again maybe this was the best they could come up with. Maybe they maxed out with Secret of the ooze. Nevertheless worth watching at least once. If nothing else it'll occupy most kids or put them to sleep which comes in handy haha!