Fake Connection: All the Ninja Turtles mistakes in movies and cartoons

Leonardo has his katana, Michelangelo his nuchacus, Raphael his sais, Donatello his staff… and Michele and Michele their quintessential yellow circle. Two techies from AlloCiné descend into the sewers of New York to share a slice of pizza with the stuck-up bros and watch the best fake connections from their movie adventures with them.

Born in 1984 as a comic under the pen and pencils of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the purists) then received its first animated series in 1987 (other iterations followed). 1997, 2003, 2012 and 2018), before moving to the big screen.

It is primarily a trilogy of live-action, fairly successful costumes for the time, pitting Master Splinter’s students against the Foot Clan and Shredder. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (1990) was a real success, grossing $200 million worldwide and over a million viewers in France.

We had to wait until 2007 to see the scale knights again, in the animated film TMNT. Seven years later, Michael Bay rebooted the franchise with a live-action, CGI Turtle (where Raphael is played by Alan Ritchson, the future Reacher of the Prime Video series). Two critically acclaimed feature films bring the heroes back into the shadows, Until 2023 and Ninja Turtles: Teenage Years (the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem), a new animated effort acclaimed for its graphic approach and solid pop. Tony.

It is all these adaptations that Michel & Michel invite you to (re)discover this week through the prism of errors, mistakes, failures and filming errors. You can discover it in the video above and as always it’s heavy, very heavy. Kovabunga!