Stupidity: When the Turtles are leaving the junkyard they rescued Raphael from, the incredibly agile ninjas of the enemy clan can't simply jump over a van, or just slide over the hood. (00:54:00)
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Suggested correction: Remember at the beginning of the film, one of the clan members is angry that so many of their members were arrested. They have been looking hard for new recruits. The new recruits won't be as good right away.
Corrected entry: In the end after the Ninjas destroy the bad guy, they fall in some kind of pool. When they come up we can see that they are practically dry.
Corrected entry: When the turtle Tokka (Rhazar?) jumps in the hole to chase after the turtle brothers, he gets stuck. If you look at his shell, one of the spikes has bent as if the shell is rubber. Seeing as he was a turtle before, the shell should be rock hard.
Correction: The outer layer of a turtle's shell (where a snapping turtle's spikes would be) are made of keratin, just like your fingernails which will bend with enough force. Snapping Turtles don't have very protective shells to begin with and Tokka certainly weighs a fair bit. It's not unreasonable that the spike could have warped under that kind of pressure.
If your fingernails are shaped like cones and a few inches thick, good luck bending them! If they budge it's more likely that they are coming off the bed. I understand that we're talking about the bodyweight of this big creature here, but the spikes around the lower edge bend, and in particular when Tokka is already stuck in the manhole and squirms annoyed as Michelangelo tickles its foot, one of the largest spikes in the back comes up in view. The whole shell of the turtle would have to be completely soft, sorta spongy, to allow that, but it's not a creature designed to be a hedgehog or something like that: the shell is a solid one.
Corrected entry: There is only one full canister of Ooze in the entire movie. Shredder uses some of the Ooze on the animals to create Tokaa and Razor but then in any other shot with the canister, (as in the one with Vanilla Ice or when Shredder puts some in a glass vial) it is completely full once again.
Correction: As the movie progresses, the canister is tossed about. It's likely the level of the ooze changes, but since we only get to see a small section of the ooze through the canister, it's likely we can't tell it's changed. The ooze probably sticks to the sides of the canister.
I disagree with the correction. We see practically all the length of the canister, far from being a small section, and for prolonged periods of time with the canister being tossed and turned. When Perry was emptying the canisters in the lab there was no evidence of the ooze being particularly viscous to the point of sticking to glass not allowing anything inside to be seen, in fact none of it was sticking it to the surface.
Corrected entry: At the end, after Shredder has taken the ooze and his suit has changed, look at the 'muscles' he's grown. They're just painted onto the cloth.
Correction: This is so obvious it was almost certainly intended to be just a design on the cloth. If they wanted muscle definition, they'd have just used a muscle suit like they made for the turtles (but leave off the shell...).
"If they wanted", yes. They did not because it was a cost-cutting measure and in a movie like this for a final fight that lasts about a minute they could get away with the Power Rangers look. I am not sure you can say it was a design choice but more like a budget constraint. In the context of the movie the fact that he suddenly has a painted-on shirt does not make any sense.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Shredder takes the last of the ooze for himself. When the Turtles see him larger, and stronger, his suit is changed. The ooze would only change his body, not his suit.
Correction: Only if he really drank it like the turtles claim. Shredder may have poured the ooze on himself therefore it would mutate the suit as well.
Wait so the...suit has DNA that mutates? I understand that this mistake is questionable because of the cartoonish nature of it all, but this reason to refute it is not quite...reasonable. It forces us also to assume that the Turtles (acting as exposition for the movie plot) are deliberately wrong for no reason, when the explanation is simply that they wanted him with a cool new armor and not in stretchy Hulk underpants for this final fight and trusted that given the kind of movie we'd simply accept this unexplainable costume change.
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