Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutagen Mayhem (CGI version/Nickelodeon
DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Main Program: B+
The
Turtles are back again! ...but just barely after just saving the
world from an alien invasion, the Turtles accidentally drop 63
canisters of mutagen on the city of New York... including April's
father. Now, they must recover the canisters and stop a bunch of
crazy new mutants in Mutagen Mayhem, the newest Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles CGI DVD release.
In
this chapter, the Shredder and Kraangs take more of a backseat as the
Turtles face a bunch of new mutants and Karai's new robotic foot
soldiers, but along with new enemies are new friends, Casey Jones
makes his debut. As April blames the turtles for turning her father
into a mutant, she takes a leave from the turtles and turns to Casey
Jones (to Donatello disappointment). Karai is now in charge and
wants to test out her new ninja robots.
This
is a new generation of TMNT, while Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and
Michelangelo are still the pizza loving ninjas, April O'Neal is also
a teenage ninja girl in training (whom Donatello has a crush on), the
Shredder also has a daughter Karai (who's really Splinter's daughter)
and the Kraangs are a race of aliens that are trying to invade the
earth.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image and lossy Dolby Digital sound
are fine and on par with the previous CGI DVD releases in the series.
Extras include 6 shorts: "The Mutation of a Scene", and
Channel 6 New Special Report: Creatures of the Night.
-
Ricky Chiang
