TMNT

Hurried to catch TMNT yesterday. Didn't want to risk missing it altogether after coming back from Cambodia. Not that I was expecting much from it that is. It is after all spawned from a cartoon about 4 pizza-loving American ninjias who happened to be giant mutated turtles as well.

But I was blown away. The graphics were fantastic. Possibly the best CGI-rendered animation I ever saw (not that I'm an authority on CGI-rendered animation, I must qualify). But I think it was really good. They every-day stuff like streets and cars looks very real and they did a great job making (CGI-rendered) rain fall on CGI-rendered mutated giant turtles looks realistic.

And the action sequences were superb. The turtles ran across the city roof like real ninjas, swift, agile, powerful. It's almost like watching green spiderman. You can never achieve that with real actors in turtle suits. And animation is "darker" in this movie, and the storyline more serious, and the villains more sinister looking, a big advancement compared to the goofy cartoon it originated from. It's almost like a coming-of-age of TMNT.

If you're a fan, go watch it. If you are a skeptic, go watch it too.