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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 1990 live-action movie based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. It had two sequels, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time. This movie kept very close to the dark feel of the original comics with only few elements making it in from the cartoon.

Synopsis

When the NYPD is unable to stop a severe crime wave caused by the Foot Clan, four new vigilantes, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, will come forth to save the city. Under the leadership of Splinter and together with their new-found allies April O'Neil and Casey Jones, they will fight back and take the battle to The Shredder.

This movie presents the origin story of Splinter and the Turtles, the initial meeting between them, April and Casey, and their first confrontation with Shredder and his Foot Clan.

Plot

As the movie begins, April O'Neil, an investigative reporter at Channel 3's Eyewitness News, is working on a story about the recent crime wave hitting New York City, which the NYPD seems unable or unwilling to stop. She is attacked by some thugs in the news station's parking lot after work one night. The attack is thwarted by the Turtles, who knock out a light and easily defeat and tie up the thugs. While they are not seen in the process, Raphael loses a sai, which O'Neil takes.

As the Turtles return to their lair to celebrate their victory, Raphael, angered by his loss, leaves to sulk. He comes across a pedestrian being mugged, and once again steps in to stop the crime. In the melee, he encounters another vigilante, Casey Jones. Raphael is eventually defeated, and when Casey leaves, Raphael chases after him, but loses him. When Raphael returns home that night, Splinter consoles him, and tells him not to forget his brothers or him while he deals with his rage.

Undaunted, O'Neil pushes forward with her investigation, pressuring the Chief of Police to look into a group of ninjas known as the Foot Clan. This draws the attention of thier leader, Shredder, who orders her silenced. She is attacked by Foot ninja in the subway and knocked unconsious, however Raphael (who has been following her to recover his lost sai) stops the attack, and returns to the Turtles' lair, carrying the unconscious O'Neil. Splinter revives her, telling her origins of the Turtles.

Later that night, the four Turtles escort April back to her apartment. When they return to the lair, they found that it has been ransacked and that Splinter has been kidnapped. Not knowing what to do, they retreat to April’s apartment. They spend the night there, and in the morning Charles, April's boss, stops by with his son Danny, a juvenile delinquent who is a member of the Foot Clan. He's made a deal with the police chief to get theft charges on Danny dropped if April backs off on her investigation. April refuses, and while discussing it with Charles, Danny accidently spots one of the Turtles hiding in the apartment.

Meanwhile, Shredder announces to his assembled followers that they have a new enemy: freakish giant turtles. Danny informs him what he saw at April's apartment. Meanwhile, April presses her investigation into the Foot as a favor to the Turtles, and Leonardo and Raphael have a fight over thier inaction. Raphael leaves in a fit of anger and heads to the rooftops, but is ambushed by Foot ninja, beaten close to death, and thrown through April's skylight. The remander of the Turtles try and repel the attack, but are overwhelmed by the Foot's sheer numbers. They are saved by Casey Jones, who saw Raphael being ambushed from the rooftops, and the Turtles retreat as the building catches fire and is ser ablaze.

The group arrives at an old farm owned by April and recover from thier defeat. Raphael recovers and the Turtles resume training. April has taken up drawing, and Casey helps Donatello fix up an old truck and does his best to get on April's good side (and usually fails). Leonardo contacts Splinter through meditation, and by bringing all four of them together, they summon Splinter to thier campfire in spirit, who tells them they have learned thier final lesson: that true mastery comes of the mind, and thier minds together are unstoppable. They decide to go back to New York City.

They return to thier lair to rest before beginning thier search and find Danny hiding there as well. Since the night April's apartment burned down, he had been hiding from the Foot and sneaking back into the Foot hideout to speak with Splinter, who has helped him sort out some of his confusion over his life and his father. He convinces April to give him one of her drawings of the Turtles. That night, he sneaks out to talk to Splinter and is followed by Casey (who is claustrophobic and slept in the truck). He learns from Splinter that the Shredder is Oroko Saki, the man who murdered Splinter's master. He renoucnes the clan and turns to leave when Shredder himself confronts him. Finding the drawing in his pocket, he learns the Turtles are back and orders an immediate attack, saying he will lead it himself and that Splinter is to be killed.

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