I saw this movie when it first premiered and loved it. I watched it again recently and was shocked by how well it holds up.It works because they turned a film with an absurd premise (mutant sewer-dwelling turtle-ninjas, mentored by a rat) into a timeless story about the importance of family:Master Splinter (the rat) is the Sage archetype, and a father figure for the adolescent turtles, and @Heyjude629 smartly plays April O'Neil as a tough, stabilizing maternal force.Shredder, the villain, is the

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