Category Archives: TMNT Reference

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Year: 2003-2010
Director: Roy Burdine, Chuck Patton
English dubbing: Michael Sinterniklaas, Wayne Grayson, Gregory Abbey, Sam Riegel, Darren Dunstan, Marc Thompson, Sean Schemmel, Veronica Taylor
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, S-F, Thriller
Country: USA, South Korea
Viewing method: Whole series

Why in Database: Second animated series and the third overall series from the Ninja Turtles universe. More serious than the first one, closer to the original comic series (though still less literal in showing violence etc!), Many episodes are based on different Mirage TMNT comics (but most often, it is a loose adaptation, the series adds its own solutions and ideas to the mix) .

Turtles appear, of course, in all 156 episodes of the series, apart from them, in single episodes there are other versions of them, Super-Turtles or Dark Turtles.


Author: XYuriTT

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Year: 1987-1996
Director: Bill Wolf, Tony Love, Mike Stuart, Bruno-René Huchez, Reg Lodge, Vincent Davis
English dubbing: Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, Renae Jacobs, Barry Gordon, Peter Renaday, Rob Paulsen, Pat Fraley, James Avery, Jennifer Darling
Polski lektor: Marek Gajewski
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Criminal, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: Whole series

Why in Database: The first series with Ninja Turtles, and it can be said that a very important – mainly because of this series, TMNT became widely recognized.

This series had a rather loose, comedic character, very different from what turtles were in comics when they debuted (this theme will be explored several times in another series when this incarnation of turtles meets those from later series). Of course, in all episodes (193!) the main four turtles appear, in several episodes there are also other turtles – the whole planet of turtles, Slash, Tokka, a group of ordinary turtles or various more or less returning characters briefly turned into turtles.

Taking advantage of “being the first”, the series introduced many characters (like Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, to name few) that later became a solid part of the turtleverse.


Author: XYuriTT

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Title: Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Year: 1997-1998
Director: Robert Lee, James Taylor, Ed Anders, Richard Flower
English dubbing: Jarred Blancard, Mitchell A. Lee Yuen, Dean Choe, Richard Yee, Nicole Parker, Kirby Morrow, Matt Hill, Jason Gray-Stanford, Michael Dobson, Lalainia Lindbjerg, Shishir Inocalla, Fiona Scott
Genre: Canada, USA
Country: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, S-F
Viewing method: Whole series

Why in Database: The only live-action series with Ninja Turtles and the second overall series. The whole thing consists of 26 episodes, and of course, there is a lot of turtles in each of them. The series essentially continues the vision of the world presented in the first three films, but deviates from it in a few places (for example, Shredder is alive). Among the elements typical of the turtle universe, the lack of April or Casey is noteworthy, while the presence of the fifth turtle, female, Venus, is unusual and her character is unique for this series.

Interestingly enough, the series was produced by the company Saban, which also produced Power Rangers – the characters of turtles appeared in one of the stories with these warriors.


Author: XYuriTT

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Year: 2011
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Wystąpili: Kenneth Branagh, Thomas Jane, Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen, Guillermo del Toro, Corey Feldman, Edgar Wright, Seth Green, Stan Lee, Eli Roth, Paul Scheer, Frank Miller
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Why in Database: Seth Rogen tells an anecdote at one point, about seeing three of Ninja Turtles impatiently waiting for the fourth, because they looked stupid without it.

I was looking out my hotel room window, and I saw three Ninja Turtles really impatiently checking their watches, waiting for the fourth Ninja Turtle to show up. And then the fourth guy showed up. They’re like, “Where have you been, man? We have three Ninja Turtles here. We look like a couple of jerks.”

Author: XYuriTT

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
Year: 1990
Director: Milton Gray, Marsh Lamore, Robert Shellhorn, Mike Svayko, Karen Peterson
Actors: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Jeff Bergman, Townsend Coleman, Wayne Collins, Jim Cummings, Joey Dedio, Danny Goldman, Georgi Irene, Janice Karman, Aaron Lohr
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

Why in Database: In this animation you can see a lot of different characters, stars of different cartoons, as you can see on the screenshots. One of the characters appearing here is one of Ninja Turtles, Michaelangelo in version from 1987 series. He have a lot of scenes.

Author: XYuriTT

Killer Tomatoes Eat France!

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Killer Tomatoes Eat France!
Year: 1992
Director: John De Bello
Actors: Marc Price, Angela Visser, Steve Lundquist, John Astin, Rick Rockwell, Kevin West, Tom Katsis, Bill LaFleur, Eileen Bowman, Arnie Miller
Genre: Comedy, Horror, S-F
Country: USA

Why in Database: Turtles are only mentioned in dialogue. The heroine talks with a tomato, and complains about the luvre and the destruction of the works of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. He corrects the vegetable with whom she talks that it is not about ninja turtles, but about difrent Michaelangelo and Leonardo.

– The greatest work of Michelangelo and Leonardo gone! Forever!
– Leonardo? Cowabunga?
– No. Not the Ninja Turtles! The other Michelangelo and Leonardo.

Author: XYuriTT

View from the Top

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: View from the Top
Year: 2003
Director: Bruno Barreto
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Joshua Malina, Kelly Preston, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Why in Database: There is nothing about turtles in the actual movie itself, only during end credits, when various bits and pieces that were not included in the film are shown, one of the characters says he loves being a turtle and explains that this is a reference to Ninja Turtles.

– I love being a turtle! You know, like the Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Author: XYuriTT

Ted 2

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: Ted 2
Year: 2015
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi, Morgan Freeman, Sam J. Jones, Patrick Warburton, Michael Dorn
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Why in Database: Part of the action takes place at a convention, where the main negative character is disguised as Raphael. Later on, there is another four ninja turtles, so at one point we can see five turtles.

Author: XYuriTT

House Party 2

By | | ,
Leave a comment

Title: House Party 2
Year: 1991
Director: George Jackson, Doug McHenry
Actors: Christopher Reid, Christopher Martin, Martin Lawrence, Bowlegged Lou, Paul Anthony, B-Fine, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kamron
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA

Why in Database: urtles are only mentioned in dialogue, one of the characters talks about the importance of Malcolm X, pointing out that the possibility of buying T-shirts with his image (hanging next to T-shirts with Ninja Turtles) is not the same as understanding his activities.

– Cause you can go into any shopping mall in the country and buy a T-shirt with his picture on it, right next to the Ninja Turtles T-shirts.

Author: XYuriTT