They're going in the wrong direction with this movie. TMNT3's fatal flaw was that they didn't go far enough. What we need to do is get the Turtles out of the gritty streets of NY and into OUTER SPACE. Star Wars/Ninja Turtles crossover? Turtles with light sabers?!! Who would want to see that!? Come on!!
 

Speaking of movies I can't wait to see, I hear Dakota Fanning did a movie about child rape?! I'm freaking buying that DVD.

Rejoice, Tony. Rejoice.
 

Did I say "who would want to see that!?"? Obviously, I meant "wouldn't"...

Obviously...
 

It's annoying that they can make Davy Jones' head look like real octopus, but the Turtles look like they were animated for a Cap'n Crunch ad.
 

I dunno, I like how they played Splinter in the original movie: old and not necessarily agile, but with surprising strength. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett's description of old people fighting ninjas, Splinter doesn't need to be fast. He's so good at fighting he doesn't have to dodge punches, because he knows exactly where the punch(thrown-knife, spear, etc.) is going to be and is out of the way before it gets there.
 

another opportunity for a star wars/TMNT crossover:

Splinter+Yoda: Sploda!

Invincible 2000 year old alien rat. Sweeeeeet.

Also, don't be hatin' on the Cap'n.
 

finally, a poll!
 

WHAT?!?! That rat Splinter is tying with Yoda?? Come one, Yoda kicked some little amphibian ass in the last two Star Wars movies . . . then again, the rat makes occasional corny "funnies". Hmmm. . .
 

I agree, it should be no contest. Yoda has been one of the greatest Jedi masters in the universe for several hundred years. Splinter is a shmuck human from Japan whose DNA got crossed with sewer rats.
 

No way, Splinter was the pet rat of his ninjitsu master, Hamato Yoshi, who was slain by Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder. While Splinter's size, strength and intelligence may initially be a result of the goo, he doesn't need blood-borne symbiotes (midichlorians) to enhance his innate ninjitsu skills. He defeated the shredder without moving, but Yoda couldn't even beat Dooku properly with all that insane frog shit.
 

First of all:
Star Wars II Dooku > TMNT I Shredder

Secondly:
Star Wars II Dooku bossfight >>> TMNT I Shredder bossfight

Thirdly: Splinter was only the pet rat if you believe the idiotic plot change in the turtles movie. As hilarious as it was to see a rat learning kung-fu in TMNT I, I do not accept that as the origins of Splinter. The comics and cartoons say that Splinter IS Hamato Yoshi and was turned into a rat when he came in contact with "the ooze" because he was in the sewers near a bunch of rats at the time. This theory of Splinter's origin makes a lot more sense and is widely accepted in the TMNT scholarly community.

If we're voting on MOVIE Splinter vs MOVIE Yoda, that's a different story entirely...but Yoda still wins. C'mon, Splinter looks like a cripple, gets his ass captured, and doesn't even fight anyone.
 

I think you're mistaken: it was only in the tv show that splinter was originally a human. The comics followed the same origin story as the movies, where he was originally a pet.

Second, in the battle of stupid names, "Dooku" is 10 times as stupid as "Shredder" At least Shredder is descriptive. But this isn't even about Shredder.

Lastly, what can movie Yoda do that movie Splinter can't? Reason with his enemies? Project his image astrally? I think it's unfair to compare young frog-yoda to old splinter, so let's take them on equal old fart terms: Splinter wins, hands down. Sure, old yoda can lift x-wings with his mind, but Splinter would just shuffle over quietly and convince him he's wrong with his wise, wise ways.
 

Hmmm, you're right, Myagi did beat up high school children. Splinter on the other hand, got his ass captured by high school children ninja-wannabes. Yoda never fought high school children, which is a shame. We can at least reason that Myagi > Splinter...
 

ok ok, how bout this

cartoon splinter > yoda > movie splinter

AND

myagi > movie splinter

We agreed so far?

PS: movie splinter stepping out of the way of a retarded shredder does not make him better than anyone. I feel like this should be obvious, but apparently it needs to be explicitly stated...
 

Never take anything for granted. It remains to be seen what happens to Splinter in the next TMNT movie. Maybe, since they've apparently turned the turles into Teenage Mutant Ninja Frogs, they'll turn Splinter into a sage old Platypus.
 

Are you saying platypus>old rat ?

Surely not. And may I remind you that if x>y and y>z, then x>z.

This conversation is reaching my nerd-compacity...
 

I've already expressed my dissatisfaction with the new turtle style, so it stands to reason that Teenage Mutant Ninja Frogs < Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and thus Platypus < Rat. And may I remind you, what if x=purple, and y=foot? All your math is now useless!
 

they've apparently turned the turles into Teenage Mutant Ninja Frogs
yeah no kidding. since when can turtles move like that?!