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That said, the reboot had quite a few funny moments and one of its most amusing wasn’t originally meant to be in the movie at all. It also had the dubious honor of earning five Golden Raspberry Award nominations in categories including Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Unfortunately, the film didn’t enjoy the same kind of success with critics who lambasted it as a dull and unnecessary entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a solid box office hit that grossed over $490 million worldwide. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, the movie follows the half-shell heroes – Leonardo (Pete Ploszek/Johnny Knoxville), Donatello (Jeremy Howard), Raphael (Alan Ritchson) and Michelangelo (Noel Fisher) – and their rat mentor Splinter (Danny Woodburn/Tony Shalhoub) as they team up with reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) to bring down a criminal gang known as the Foot Clan that’s terrorizing New York City. In 2014 Paramount Pictures released the first film in its Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot series. Of course I wanted to bust out some dudes and cowabungas, but that was more Noel’s wheelhouse.”Īfter the premiere, guests including Fox, Bella Thorne, DeAndre Jordan, William Fichtner, producer Michael Bay, Brian Austin Green, Jordana Brewster, Par’s Brad Grey, Sumner Redstone and Rob Moore attended the afterparty.Many felt that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ elevator scene was one of the funniest in the whole movie, and it was completely improvised. “Jonathan Liebesman was pushing me to be nerdier. No one else is going to think about it,” he said. Jeremy Howard said that Donatello is the smart one of the group. “We were joking the other day, if someone had to pay the bills it’s gotta be Donatello. “I like to think with the two of us, we built the best Leo we could,” said Ploszek. Pete Ploszek played Leonardo, but Johnny Knoxville was the voice.
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“I didn’t go full surfer dude with it, but I did want to add little bit of dude because, come on, he’s Mikey.” Noel Fisher, who plays Michelangelo, said talking with the surfer-dude dialect was fun. The turtle actors wore a unitard and shell on their backs, as well as face cameras and ping-pong balls for eyes. I wanted the cowabungas, the pizza, the characters to be exactly who they were,” he told Variety.

I felt like what was important to fans was important to me. “Just the idea of eating pizza to me was a very American thing and we started eating a lot of pizza at school.” He hopes his fondness for the Turtles is reflected in the filmmaking. SEE ALSO: Megan Fox Tells Fans Who ‘Don’t Love’ ‘TMNT’ to ‘F–k Off’Ī native of South Africa, Liebesman said his first memory of “TMNT” revolved around pizza. “That’s how she needed to be and I think she brought a hell of a lot of herself to that role and we benefited from it.” The director said that they used Fox’s outspoken nature in the character of April O’Neil. “I’ve never seen a movie inspire so much talk back,” said Liebesman. No, this character looks so much like me physically…” he joked.ĭirector Jonathan Liebesman said Arnett was a master comedian and described Fox as very brave and outspoken. “I left Will Arnett on the cutting room floor. The always funny comedian couldn’t leave the jokes alone when asked if he brought himself into the character. Arnett plays opposite Megan Fox as cameraman Vern Fenwick.
