Michel & Michel descend into the sewers in search of the fake connections of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphaël and Donatello!
Leonardo has his katanas, Michelangelo his nunchakus, Raphaël his saïs, Donatello his staff… and Michel & Michel their essential yellow circle. The two technical specialists from AlloCiné descend into the sewers of New York to share a slice of pizza with the shelled brothers and watch with them the best fake connections from their cinema adventures.
Born in 1984 under the pen and pencils of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in the form of a comic book, the Ninja Turtles (or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for purists) then had the honors of a first animated series in 1987 (followed by other iterations in 1997, 2003, 2012 and 2018), before heading to the big screen.
It is first of all a trilogy in live action, with rather successful costumes for the time, which confronts Master Splinter’s students with the Foot clan and Shredder. The first Ninja Turtles film (1990) was a real success with 200 million dollars in revenue worldwide and more than a million spectators in France.
We had to wait until 2007 to see the scale knights again, in the animated film TMNT. Seven years later, Michael Bay relaunched the franchise in live action, through CGI turtles (where Raphael is played by Alan Ritchson, the future Reacher of the Prime Video series). Shunned by critics, the two feature films bring the heroes back into the shadows, until 2023 and Ninja Turtles: Teenage Years (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in original version), a new animated attempt acclaimed for its graphic approach and its resolutely pop tone.
It is all these adaptations that Michel & Michel invite you to (re)discover this week through the prism of blunders, errors, failures and filming mistakes. You can discover it in the video above and as always it’s heavy, very very heavy. Cowabunga!