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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - 18 corrections

Directed by Steve Barron, starring Elias Koteas, Sam Rockwell (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Sci-fi

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Because Michelangelo has a pair of nunchaku, BBFC policy at the time of the original release in 1990, was to edit out scenes involving the use of chain sticks because it was feared they could be imitated, so the film was cut for this reason. These cuts were rescinded by the BBFC for its recent re-release in cinemas. [You can imitate a bo staff much easier than you can imitate a nunchuku but they didn't cut that out. The scenes were edited because, in British culture, nunchuku are perceived to be excessively violent weapons (in the British version of the cartoon, Michelangelo used a grappling hook).]
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Moments after Casey & April have finished arguing and slamming doors you can hear Michelangelo humming "Old MacDonald" but you can see a shoulder strap and a purple headband indicating this is Donatello. [He's humming. You can't possibly make a positive voice ID from humming.]
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In the UK, the film (and the cartoon show, as well) is called "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles." The name was changed because it was believed that British children become overexcited when they hear, or see anything to do with ninjas. [Nothing to do with overexcitement, it's just that in British culture Ninja are typically villains. So Ninja Turtles would not be perceived as the good guys.]
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A lot of times in the movie, when the turtles mouths are wide open, you can see the cast. [You need to be a bit more specific. When do you see them? A time code would help. Also, if you mean the actors in the turtle suits, that would not be true because the suits do not have openings in the mouths that will have the cast visible.]
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Throughout the movie Michelangelo is using rope type chucks. During the scene when he is playing the nunchuck game with the foot soldier. He does a finger spin move; at this time the nunchuck is chain style. After, it is rope again. [Michelangelo's nunchaku are braided cord throughout the film. When he is spinning one on his finger, it is the individual braids that resemble links in a chain.]
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In the scene where the turtles are taking April home for the first time, April is followed by Donatello out of the sewer. Then when April offers them frozen pizza, Mikey jumps out, then Donatello comes out after Mikey. [*If* it were possible to jump out at the speed Mike did, then it would also be possible for him to have jumped past Don.]
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When Splinter flips Shredder over the edge of the building, Shredder pulls a knife and throws it. Splinter catches the knife in the shot before he is shown letting go of the spear. The shots are in the wrong order. [The shot after Splinter catches the knife only shows the nunchaku unwinding from around the spear; his hand is not visible. The shots are in order.]
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When the Foot soldiers hold Donatello's head in the fishtank, after Donatello pulls his head out and spits the water at the foot soldier, the Foot soldier clutches his face and groans as if he had just been sprayed with acid. But the foot soldier is wearing a mask, in which case the water couldn't have gotten anywere near his eyes. [The mask has wire-mesh eye covers. So water could easily have gotten in his eyes. His groan was just a verbalization of his annoyance and awareness of his vulnerability while temporarily blinded.]
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When the two turtles are waiting for the pizza guy to come to their sewer grate, one of them is sucking on a popsicle stick. The actor in the turtle suit can't see what he is doing, though, and subsequently pokes himself in the face with the stick a couple of times before finding the mouth of the costume. [I always saw this as him absent-mindedly (purposely) poking himself, in the same way someone at a desk might poke/tap himself in the face/mouth/chin area with a pen while thinking.]
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When April's phone is hanging through the ceiling during the fire, the actual phone is off the hook when it starts ringing. [Like another correction stated before, that is an answering machine, not a phone.]
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When fighting on the rooftop, a ninja throws Raphael's weapons over the side. After Raph wakes up on the farm, he has them back. There was no time to look for them between the fight and escaping in the van. [Casey was watching the whole fight from an adjacent rooftop, which is why he showed up in the first place, to help Raphael. Perhaps he collected them from the street and placed them in his bag, to give to Raphael when he found him.]
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Robbie Rist, who does the voice of Mikey in all three TMNT movies, is also the kid who played Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch. [Not really trivia. Just as the actor doing Splinter's voice also does the voice of Elmo on Sesame Street is not really trivia.]
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When the fire in April's apartment starts, her phone is hanging through the ceiling when it starts ringing - the phone is one cord short. It could be the phone line (which would explain the voice message stopping when the line snapped), but that would mean the phone had no power. If it was the power cord, where is the phone receiving the call from? [That is an answering machine, not a phone. It was the cord from the phone to the machine we saw and the machine was most likely running on a battery back-up, common for the early 90's.]
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In the scene where April thanks Raphael on TV, the other turtles begin to tease him by saying he is blushing. When Raphael replies he is not, it sounds an awful lot like the voice of Leonardo. [Though it kind of sounds like Leo, it really is just that the actor that does Ralph's voice changed the tone of his voice to show the irritation Ralph was feeling... like when a kid is teased that they like someone, they get mad and their voice becomes whinny and high pitched.]
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In the scene when Rachael wakes up, Donatello says, "It's a Kodak moment." When he rears his head back to laugh, you can see eyes in the back of his mouth. [The actors didn't have any holes to see, they had small TV monitors installed inside the heads and that was their only form of vision (same technique used for the Giants on Fraggle Rock actually). If what you said were true, it would mean their mouths would have to be open at all times so the actors can see and obviously their mouths weren't always open.]
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When the turtles are fighting the Foot in April's flat, it is daylight. However when they have to evacuate because of the fire, it is pitch black. [It is not incorrect for it to be night. By the time Ralph was on the roof top it was later in the day, by the time April came home from work it was a little later, then April shows the Turtles around her dad's old shop this takes up some time (and not a little time) as well, then there is the fight between the Turtles and the Foot. So by the time everything is over it would make sense for it to be night.]
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It seems pretty odd that four mutant turtles and a mutant rat could come by a staff, a pair of sashes, a pair and nunchucks, and a pair of katanas. Breaking into a place is unlikely because of Splinter's beliefs and they surely couldn't waltz into a store and purchase without some confrontation. [Splinter (pre-mutation) was the pet of a ninja master. It's likely he would have those weapons (as for how he got them into the country from Japan, I have no idea; perhaps HE waltzed into the store and bought them).]
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When the Turtles are fighting the ninjas in Aprils apartment and the floor caves in. When the shot shows the basement as the floor falls through, you can see a person at the bottom right of the screen throw up their hands in front of their face. Im guessing that this may be the demolition guy that makes the floor fall. [You can tell it is a member of the foot clan because of his suit and the one glove.]
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