Memories of TMNT Movie 2

[Michaelangelo]

It was March 1991, we just started a family buisness doing parties, I was "Mikey the Party Turtle".   Using the same costume that got so much attention at the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour.   One of our earliest gigs came from a very well known group called DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) they had us do a permire of TMNT 2 one week before the movie came out, so this was noon on Saturday March 19th, 1991.   Our group didn't just have Mikey but we had Bebop too.  

Being fans of the Turtles, we thought that the characters on the posters were "Bebop and Rocksteady".  So Bebop was going around telling all the kids that he's in this movie and would point at Rahzar on the poster saying "Dats me".   We were doing the gig before and after the movie.   A radio Station even interviewed Bebop before the movie, so we were heard a lot durning this saying what we thought, but didn't really know.   Once the movie started we were able to get out of costume and watch the movie for free.  

My mouth dropped open when Tokka and Rahzar was brougth into the movie.  Oh my god, it's not Bebop and Rocksteady!  I thought to myself.  So we had to come up with a story fast to tell the kids when we got back into our costumes.  Let's just say it made us feel a little sick.  So we got up and got our costumes on and the idea hit us as we came out and the kids faced us off.  

"We wanted to really surprise you, so I told Bebop to tell you that was him in the movie."  I would say.  The idea worked, and it went off without a hitch.  So the following Thursday another premire we worked, these fresh group of kids thinking that they're the first to see the movie... and this time Bebop and I had our story straight... "Na, that's not Bebop... don't tell anyone I told you... but his name starts with an R..."  playing with the kids minds when they came out of the movie they really believed that I was a real Turtle cause I knew what was going to happen in the movie.  It was GREAT!

[Raphael]

Hey, what about folks that saw the movie between 2-10 times?  I think you need a choice for 2-10 times.

[mrpliggins]

I saw the first two movies at the theater once, and recieved the tapes as gifts. I have the dvd of the first movie, but not the second. The third, well..saw once at the theater, never got the tape.

[Michaelangelo]

sorry bro, it only allowed 10 choices, any of the ones on the list you think I should take off?  Please not any of the ones already voted on though.

[Raphael]

Heh, I can't tell which have been voted for 'cause I haven't voted, 'cause my choice isn't there. <G>

Have either of the "On tv/on tv-bought the video" choices been selected?

[Aignatius]

Too late, I voted saw it on TV and bought the video. Actually I saw it at a hotel on HBO during my high school reunion in Washington DC, (No, I didn't go to high school in DC, I was overseas) with an old friend from abovementioned high school. She likes the turtles, but she didn't like the movie much. She did like Raph in it, though. Especially the scene where Raph is helping Kino through foot ninja testing, and he looks up at the sky in a moment of frustration and says, "I'm being punished, aren't I?"
I later bought the video for my kiddies to watch, but it's long gone, now.

[Jephael]

I wish I had gotten to see it in the theatre when it came out, but I was going through a very akward phase in my childhood where all my friends up and deserted me. It's kinda sad when I think about it sometimes, though I guess if it's any consolation I did get the movie on video for Christmas that year!

[WolfofMibu]

I remember the first time I saw this film there was some stupid teenage girls sitting near me and ALL they did the ENTIRE movie was talk about Vanilla Ice... I remember I thought they were SO stupid... I mean who would like so stupid rapper more then the Turtles.....


*laughs*

[Kazari]

I think I also saw this movie like once or twice *laughs* GREAT movie!! Go ninja go ninja go! That song never gets old. Especially Katsucon eh, Blue? LOL

[Brinatello]

It was March 23rd, 1991.  A Saturday evening.  My sister and I were down in Bonita at my great aunt and uncle's home where my dad currently lived (a few months after he moved out permanently).  We were looking through the newspaper, deciding on what movie we should go see.  I don't know how, but I convinced my dad and sister to go see TMNT 2!  My dad can't stand crowds, let alone the Ninja Turtles, but he agreed to take us.

We saw it at the AMC Theaters in Downtown Chula Vista.  The theater was very crowded and I remember a costumed Leonardo wandering around.  He looked more like from the cartoon series and these mean kids kept beating up on him.  "You're not the real Leonardo!"  I felt bad for the poor guy!  As we got into the door, Leo stood by and shook everyone's hand.  We were each given movie posters of the blue logo with the TMNT staring at the ooze canister and Tokka and Rahzar looming in the background.  I know I still have one of the posters somewhere, but not all three, unfortunately.

My sister and I sat second row from the front with all of these Japanese people in front of us.  After that, I was mesmerized from beginning to end.  I really loved it.  In fact, it was this movie that made Donatello my favorite turtle!  When we met up with Dad, we asked what he thought of it.  He cringed a little and said, "Well...April looked good!"  Ooookay...  

So, that was my first experience.  I went quite a few times afterward, but probably not over ten.  That was with "Beetlejuice" when we saw it every single weekend!

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Well, I know I saw it in the theaters once when I was probably in kindergarten, with my mom and my sister. I remember them saying that the new April was the prettier one, but being six years old that held no interest to me at all (now I'd say that I really wouldn't be able to pick one, I think the actress from the first was pretty attractive too). I remember this impressionable six year old thinking Vanilla Ice was cool, based on his association with the Turtles alone. I remember getting the VHS around the same time that I was going to this nature summer school thing at the nearby lake. I also remember getting a shot around the same time too. That wasn't so cool.

[Mily]

I'm pretty sure I watched it the first time when I was young but too young to enjoy it, then I watched it some years later, where I'd rent the video from an old video store before DVDs, now I own the DVD and I still love the ninja rap part, I don't care how cliche it was, I loved it, I still do,

[Laguna]

I think I was to young to remember, but I remember being at the rental video store and I saw the movie there. And I was like: mama! I wanna rent it!

and mama rented it of course...
Now I have it on dvd and I think Donny's voice is so cute on that one...

[Michaelangelo]

Hey, it's 18 years to the day that this movie came out, figured it deserved to be placed up as a Topic for the day!

Feel free to take part in the poll and share your stories about TMNT 2, esp if you haven't got to join in on this yet.

[arcade joe]

When I found out that they were making a sequel, naturally I was becoming pretty excited abaut it. The manager at the theater told me abaut it and said he had the trailer for it. He let me take a peek inside the movie that had the trailer for it and I noticed that they looked a little different which I kind of had a problem with. I was already getting a feeling that this was sort of a apologetic TMNT movie since the first film was kind of 'edgy'. And low and behold, I felt right abaut it, but I still watched it many times as well. but not as much as the first movie. When I heard that Vanilla Ice was going to be in it, I was discouraged, because I cannot stand him, heck, I don't even think 'he' could stand him. I actually thought Tokka and Rahzar were actually good. I think a lot of people felt that Rocksteady and Bebop were going to be in it, but judging by the shadows in the background of the movie poster, it wasn't going to be that way.

I was also dissapointed that they got a completely different director for the sequel, he just wasn't the guy for the movie.

I also have to say that I sort of liked Donatello slightly more in Secret of the Ooze, even though Corey Feldman did not do his voice due to his personal problems with 'chemicals'..