TMNT

technology has given us many things, mostly for convenience or pushing boundaries.
now computers have been put to use in creating visual effects for movies, we have reached a renaissance of sorts, specifically in the genre of the superhero: Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Hellboy, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man 2, X-2, Batman Begins, X3: The Last Stand, Superman Returns and to a certain extent Harry Potter and the Incredibles.

i am looking very forward to 2007: specifically Spider-Man 3, Transformers: The Movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. one that may have slipped under the radar for you, though, is the new fully-CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. i would like to thank all the geeks and nerds from the late 70s and early 80s who have now proliferated the movie and gaming industry and have revived my favourite franchise.

so click the title link and watch the teaser trailer.

the designs hark back to the Golden Turtle age, before the full-body-costume live-action movies, before the crappy Fox cartoon. the Turtles are back to being leaner, ganglier teenaged turtles. and because of the flexibility granted by CGI techniques, they have now put the NINJA back in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. the trailer reminds me very much of those 'Urban Ninja' videos that had cropped up a few years ago.