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Yeah I get it. I'm just saying I think your write-up seems to apply to most of the other movies from the series much more than the first one, which is generally well regarded as a good movie for all ages that holds up reasonably well and for good reason IMO.

Think you're overly harsh on the costumes too-- it's way ahead of Howard the Duck in terms of how stupid it looks. Heck I'll take their look from the 1990 film over the newer Michael Bay look every time.

I just feel like most of your grief with the series as a whole would be mitigated a lot with the 1990 film if it were given a fair chance. I mean maybe you did but the write-up reads like someone who started with Secret of the Ooze and begrudingly watched all the rest of em from that point.

To put it in perspective of a series you actually like, the TMNT quality distribution is like
Batman Returns = TMNT 1990
Batman Forever = TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze
Batman And Robin = TMNT 3: Turtles in Time

So when you give Batman Returns a write-up that treats it like Batman Forever or Batman and Robin you can see why I'm disappointed, I guess.

Course now the spoiler is you're going to do just that with Batman Returns but you know. I'm just saying it really doesn't deserve to be treated like Howard the Duck here, by any attempt at an even half objective assessment. If the angle is "I just hate the Turtles and this isn't objective" that's fine-- I'm mostly just saying I feel like you shouldn't dislike this movie in particular all that much assuming I understand your grievances with the series in general at all, barring some deeply rooted hatred for the Turtles in general.
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