MOVIE NEWS – Only a few scenes from the animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaos were shown as a taster at the animation festival held in Annecy, but that was enough for the audience to greet the production with a huge storm of applause.

The turnout was so intense that director Jeff Rowe had to be dragged back to the screen after he made a modest exit as the curtain came down. According to Marcel Jean, the director of the festival, the great enthusiasm was due to the fact that the new teen ninja movie was able to breathe new life into the franchise. “The scenes presented are full of energy and humor, and it is already clear from this preview that the new film puts teen themes at the fore. In other words, it is about the struggle of developing adolescents, whose goal is to overcome evil and find themselves.”

The director touched on the point, as Seth Rogen, the producer and one of the screenwriters of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Chaos – otherwise one of Hollywood’s most talented comedians – called his film deeply personal. “They are not called teenage ninja turtles for a reason,” People magazine quotes. “This film is about our adolescence, about those struggling years when we felt so lame, we were insecure, and we wanted to belong somewhere where we were accepted at all costs.”

(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – domestic release: August 10, 2023.)

Source: UIP Dunafilm