More fuel to the fire! (Disclaimer: I'm kidding, they've always been "The Ninja Turtles" in the Spanish-speaking world)
I think it's still a better title than the CGI cartoon. I always thought TMNT sounded more like a working title or an abreviation to keep articles on the movie from running too long than something you slap on the actual poster.
No it wasn't. They completely got the characterization of the 1987 turtles wrong, deliberately writing them all as morons to make the 2000s turtles look more awesome.
Yeah, I thought that was sort of the point of the turtles in the 80's cartoon. They were the stereotypical teenager, right down to using lingo like "cowabunga" and having a almost supernatural craving for pizza, but had a talent for martial arts which they would fight villains like Shredder with.
Mikey was the moron party character. Turtles Forever made them all Mikey. EDIT -- And originally they were all just hitmen. Splinter trained them for one reason only....kill Oroko Saki. That was it. Then, after years of training, they killed him in the first confrontation and were like "Umm....now what?" So they started being vigilante crimefighters.
Shredder is way too awesome to be killed by a bunch of pizza-eating scaley teenagers first time around, I hope Michael Bay acknowledges that and makes him badass.
Bad move IMO, the way he was in the cartoons where originally only Splinter was a match for him is the best way to go.
Hello? That's why there's SUPER SHREDDER. His ninja costume has even more spiky things and he's presumably undead.
Didn't he get killed by falling stuff? Super Shredder was played by Kevin Nash though, he's pretty badass
