Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lI: The Secret Ooze is funnier, smarter and more entertaining than the original.

| Mar 26, 2019

I found myself sort of liking the turtles and you have to admit that "Cowabunga dude," is the perfect response to every question.

| Mar 26, 2019

Nostalgia lens aside, it's a pretty crummy follow up to the 1990 movie.

| Jun 19, 2016

Kitschy nostalgia trip with some martial-arts violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2015

Hellbent on being innocuous, high-spirited fun, but it just comes off as shrill and shallow and dimwitted.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 14, 2014

I don't think my negative reaction is a case of a parent forgetting the sort of mindless entertainment that he himself enjoyed as a child; rather the turtle fights are more depressing than joyful.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 6, 2014

The artful grunge is gone -- and so's the edge. The whole movie is bright yet colorless

Full Review | Aug 6, 2014

While Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and Donatello are the spunky, upstaging stars of the film, they also have a better cast and story to work with.

| Aug 6, 2014

The plot, as primitive as it is, still isn't very clear; it never acquires the spontaneity or the force of a true "story" but seems to exist mainly as a pretext for the familiar Ninja banter so beloved of the cult, as in "Cowabunga, dudes," and such forth

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2014

More dialogue-heavy and somewhat less frenetic, this sequel is somewhat more to my own taste.

| Aug 6, 2014

One finds in them the same unabashed enjoyment of color and movement, of spectacular athletics and outrageous stunts, that animates the Hong Kong action cinema as a whole and makes it so superbly entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2014

This sequel is less abrasive than its predecessor and was considerably less successful at the box office.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2014

If the new film is considerably less imaginative than your average Punch-and-Judy show, it is, nevertheless, a step up from last year's turtle-fest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2014

This swindle of a sequel is so dim that it looks as if it were lit by candles.

| Aug 6, 2014

The plot of Turtles II hinges on toxic waste and that turns out to be a pretty accurate description of the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 6, 2014

The Turtles return in this underwhelming sequel that generally fares about as well as its predecessor...

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 3, 2011

This is one of those rare sequels that actually lives up quite nicely to the original.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2010

Neither as fun nor as faithful to the spirit of the original comics. It's a bigger, slicker movie, but not a better one.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 6, 2010

Clever if rather mechanical.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 18, 2008

This lacks the darkness and subtlty that makes th first film so good, and so adult, but its simplified plot and gags will appeal to the under tens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2008