Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Movie

By Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

April finishes her spot before walking home, and gets weirded out by a rat on the street. When she next runs into a few guys doing naughty things, she's saved by a hidden, masked figure. The cops quickly come, and recognize her, she silently picking up the dropped sai, and follows the cops to the station to help sign paperwork. When the turtles are walking back, and celebrating their mission accomplished, Raph shares of losing his sai to Splinter, who suggests he let it go, as Mikey orders pizza.

Raph goes out incognito as they boys wait and bring back their 3 bucks off pizza. Meanwhile, Raph helps a lady, who almost loses her bag, a fella in a hockey mask taking over intimidating the 2 thieves. When Raph attempts to stop him, Cash Jones intros himself and offers Raph the beating, as well. When Casey runs off after sticking Raph in a trash can, Raph follows for now thinking Casey's a danger to others, he confronting Raph in an alley.

The 2 fight again, til Casey walks off, and Splinter shares with Raph on his return to be careful managing his anger alone. April's dealing with her boss worrying she should have security escort from now on when leaving, before doing a scathing interview on a public figure, denying the Foot clan exists. After her interview, as she waits for the subway, the Foot clan starts to assault her, when she's again saved. After dealing with them, Raph carries the conked out April back to the lair, the boys excited.

When April wakes and is shocked by the turtles, she at first thinks she's dreaming, then recognizes Splinter, who offers to explain how they've lived down there 15 yrs. Splinter rehashes their ooze-given knowledge, then the boys and April chill and eat pizza at her place before they leave, and return to a trashed lair and Splinter missing. So, they return to April's to appraise her, as Shredder beats the shit out of 4 wannabe Foot members who got caught and were bailed out, now focusing all his men on finding the turtles. Raph ditches the rest of the boys as they watch April report on the news.

When April gets back, she's attempting to calm the guys from thinking the worst, then Raph falls through the ceiling as Foot soldiers surround them. They escape with Casey's help, he fighting off leftover Foot outside before April drives them away in her van. Her boss leaves a message saying she's fired, since she didn't want to give up her story. When they reach a farm to collect their thoughts, April journals on each state of the turtle's current mood, Mikey being a training loner.

When Raph wakes up, the 4 go to the woods and have an existential breath through, Splinter congratulating them for their progress of mind strength, after which the bros start training hard. When they decide it's time to return to the city they find Danny waiting for them in the sewers, Casey seeing the boy leave in the night, and follow him to the clan compound, where Danny chats with Splinter again, who shares of his life in Japan. This time he shares of his Master's story, Yoshi, who'd fallen for a woman, and Oroku Nagi also wanted her, so he beats her til Yoshi arrives in time to stop him, they fleeing with Splinter, and Nagi's younger bro, Oroku Saki training for revenge, Yoshi comes home to his beloved Tang Shen dead. When Splinter finishes, Danny's caught by Shredder and then Casey, he confessing Shredder's plan to have Splinter killed.

When Casey helps fight Shredder, he claims to have killed Splinter already, which spurns the turtles on to each try to fight him one on one. Then, Splinter calls out Shredder's true ID before he falls over the side of a roof. April kisses Casey for boredom, and a couple wks later attempts to sell the idea of ninja turtles to a skeptical publisher as the turtles peep from the outside of the skyscraper window.

Cute reproduction of the film, and makes me revved up for the original comic series!