This installation fails to capitalize on the charm of these characters, the plot is unintelligible and there are no jokes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 11, 2023

The movie takes an excessively long time to cover short narrative ground, and the plot is muddled enough to confuse the target audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Ninja turtles travel to ancient Japan; some mild peril.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2019

A little surprisingly, director-writer Stuart Gillard rises to the occasion with an often elegant film.

| Jun 4, 2018

Rinky-dink production values, and sheer mindlessness and creative bankruptcy.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 14, 2014

Less amateurish than the 1990 original, less embarrassing than the 1991 sequel (with its mind-boggling Vanilla Ice ninja-rap number), this may be the easiest installment in the series for parents to sit through.

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

Really stupid.

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

Writer/director Stuart Gillard tries to inject some life into the project by including some tongue-in-cheek scenes in 17th-century Japan, but it quickly degenerates into half-hearted cartoonish action.

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

These fighting-intensive movies, a glorification of hurtful action, are strictly for children. While the corpse count is low, the mimicking turtles stand for nothing more important than the employment of physical force.

| Aug 6, 2014

The comic book and animated incarnations of the Turtles remain far funnier and more inventive.

| Aug 6, 2014

The oversized terrapins are characteristically flip as they backflip through an unnecessarily muddled plot.

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

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series comes to a close with an installment that ultimately falls right in line with its subpar predecessors...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 3, 2011

This third film is easily the weakest of the bunch, but I can't say it's terrible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2010

A decided case of diminishing returns.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2009

If the time-travel gimmick has to be employed twice in a row then it's probably best to banish these characters to a retirement sewer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2008

The wisecracks have been cut back, and where once the Ninjas' dude-speak was original (influencing, for example, Wayne's World) it's now merely imitative.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 21, 2003

Terrible conclusion of the trilogy. The first two were great comic/cartoon adaptations. But back in time? What the hell is that about?

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 17, 2003