Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is as family-friendly as a Seth Rogen and Jeff Goldberg-written / produced film can ever be without it turning into something completely out-of-character for the highly bankable moviemakers.
The four angsty adolescent turtle-boys of the title -- Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello -- are aching to explore the world of the humans (a familiar plotline in youth-market entertainment products) in hopes of showing that mutants are not that different from them. Everybody loves Beyonce!
The actors voicing the quartet -- Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon -- are joined by The Bear's MVP Ayo Adebiri as high school journalist April on a crime-fighting expedition. They venture out of the sewers over the objections of the turtles' adoptive father, the sensei rat Splinter (voiced by Jackie Chan), who warned them the humans can't be trusted.
While above ground, the turtles get to display their martial skills while battling a group of fellow mutants led by the mouthy Superfly (Ice Cube) as an ol' skool gangster intent on destroying the humans and freeing the mutants, and an evil mastermind (Maya Rudolph) who is eager to get her hands on the "ooze" that makes the turtles so special.
Rowe and Spears' Ninja Turtles, the latest in a host of related products in the venerable franchise, displays Rogen and Goldberg's long-standing fascination with youth and popular culture, and their humor and humanity to great gritty effect.
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