this show was great when i first watched it but now i can’t finish watching ONE episode because of the unbelelievable cheesiness of it (a giant plant? ok…)i put 3 stars because i sort of like it and sort of dont. like raph joking through the whole show?! why did he have to joke through it? and then they pretty much used all the characters for toys like usagi,casey etc.etc. i just don’t like that at all. and pretty much all the episodes of the current cartoon are scarier then anything the old show could have thrown at us!!but it was supposed to last one season anyway.

I am perhaps one of the most biggest fans of TMNT. Which is why I find it very hard to say what I am about to say. First of all, my review of this series is bittersweet because on one hand, i love to watch cartoons from my childhood because, and I don’t think I’m alone in this, it takes me back to a time when I didn’t have to worry about too much of anything except homework and bullies. There are may times that I say that kids today are being robbed of good cartoons like the ones people my age used to watch as kids. But on the other hand, when I watched the TMNT series from beginning to end recently I was reminded of how progressively worse this show became when the eventual commercialization of an otherwise great underground phenomenon caused it to become just a shell of it’s original concept. And believe me when I say that this is not the 24 year old man talking right now, this is the child that he once was, remembering how it felt to have to turn my back on one of my favorite cartoons because the characters I came to know and love ended up making fun of themselves by the series’ end. I mean, I look at the covers of the dvds and I see a bunch of bright colored, wacky looking, smiling swollen turtles and I ask myself, “How did it come to this?” The original TMNT were a group of rowdy, misunderstood teenegers who had to deal with their adolesence living under the streets of the city. The only reason they didn’t get out of hand was because of the discipline and training from their master, Splinter. They fought the Foot Clan, ate pizza, rode skateboards and drooled over April O’Neal all in one episode. Cool right? But somewhere down the line this all changed. Somewhere along the line they started smiling more. Somewhere along the line the Foot Clan went from formidable human being opponents to robots that fall apart at the slightest hit. Somewhere along the lines they carried their weapons but they would end up fighting with yo-yo’s, fruit, dodgeballs, pies, etc. And can someone please tell me when did they start eating pizza with toppings such as ice cream, jelly beans, and brussel sprouts? I guess for nostalgic reasons I bought this because like I said before, it took me back to a simpler time in my life. But if you ask me, the new TMNT show has taken the turtles and their story back to it’s roots and anyone who is a true fan of the TMNT will appreciate a decent cartoon finally getting to air on saturday mornings. Well, I gotta go before the Vanilla Ice Ninja Rap song gets stuck in my head.

I know there’s a season two dvd but is this season one? and did it really have just a few episodes?