Synopsis
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
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Cast
- Paige TurcoApril O'Neil
- Elias KoteasCasey Jones / Whit
- Robbie RistMichaelangelo (voice)
- Brian TochiLeonardo (voice)
- Corey FeldmanDonatello (voice)
- Tim KelleherRaphael (voice)
- James MurraySplinter
- Sab ShimonoLord Norinaga
- Stuart WilsonWalker
- Vivian WuMitsu
Recommendations
- 60
The New York Times
This Ninja Turtles tale is less violent and more scenic than its predecessors, since it gets the title characters out of the sewer and transports them back to feudal Japan. - 50
Austin Chronicle
These fun-loving mutants meet life on their own terms, they are heroes despite themselves. Their appeal is apparently strong enough to overcome any potential disturbance regarding plot disjointedness, pseudo-scientific reasoning and historical inaccuracy. - 50
Baltimore Sun
Smashingly stupid. - 50
The Seattle Times
This may be the easiest installment in the series for parents to sit through. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The whole point of a Turtles movie is superhero power through ninja fighting. And no matter how it is dressed up, or what century it's set in, that's all there is inside the shell. [22 Mar 1993, p.24] - 50
Miami Herald
The movie takes an excessively long time to cover short narrative ground, and the plot is muddled enough to confuse the target audience. [24 Mar 1993, p.E5] - 40
TV Guide Magazine
This third--and, at $30 million, most expensive--go-around gamely attempts to jump-start the viewer's interest with the canny switch of locations (and centuries), but the new recipe can't change the fact that this Turtle soup has grown cold. - 37
Washington Post
If the first sequel was a photocopy of the original, this second sequel is a tracing of a photocopy. It's the same business twice removed, and twice diminished.
