Michael Bay's TMNT movies get one thing right: Bebop and Rocksteady

The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and its 2016 sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, remain the worst-ever takes on the franchise for many fans. Reimagined with hulking, hard-to-look-at designs, the movies unfolded as thinly plotted action fests reminiscent of Transformers and gave little of the brotherly relationship that has defined the Turtles.

Still, Out of the Shadows delivered one undeniable success: a near-perfect capture of cartoon goons Bebop and Rocksteady, fulfilling a long-standing fan wish. In the original 1987 animated series, the pair began as human street punks working for the Shredder before being mutated into a warthog and a rhinoceros; they were dim-witted, accident-prone henchmen who preferred video games, comic books and junk food to grand ambitions.

The film keeps that dynamic intact.

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