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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3416602" data-attributes="member: 36597">Saw the matinee today with my son.Surprisingly it was...good!  I read the review yesterday in the paper (D) so I wasn't expecting anything worthwhile.  All I can say is the reviewer must have had different expectations going in.Story starts a year after the team breaks-up.  Well, really Leo is sent out by Splinter to learn to be a leader, and the other three are left up to their own devices.  An ancient evil comes to the city and the heroes must solve what's going on while they try to stay a team.  Not a great amount of humor in the movie as it was much more action-oriented.  The villain has you guessing to his intentions, and all the old favories (except for Shredder) figure in the plot.  Also a great sub-plot about family between Leo and Raph.  Plenty of monsters and evil looking stony-villians.Animation I think made this movie much better than if they tried another live action.  Many shots in the movie had the feel of the original comic, which for you old comic fans were based on Frank Miller's DD & Ronin series.  So there's your tie-in to 300!I also liked it because as I sat there I was trying to stat out the characters in my mind.  The core plot would make for a good higher-level quest. I give it a "B" and will probably buy the DVD when it comes along.  My 6 year old son liked the whole thing and didn't get antsy until the last 20 minutes (a good sign for him).What did you think about the movie?</blockquote>

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