Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2014

⏱️ 104 minutes

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There was nothing we were more excited about in the spring of '91 than the release of the next live-action Turtles movie. As kids, the consensus seemed to be that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was the best entry in the series - something that Carlos and Donna can definitely attest to. Chris always preferred the first one, but still had a great time with the sequel.

After rewatching it, the gang realized that the movie is pretty much exactly how they remembered it. No surprises there. What did change - and predictably so - was how they responded to it. Carlos still found it to be superior to the original, Donna thought it was a mixed bag, and Chris was a little disappointed to discover that this one just doesn't hold up for him at all.

Topics include: the goofier tone and how the reactionary approach to violence actually sends a more disturbing message in some ways, the confusion over how much time has passed since the end of the first movie, how little Keno ultimately adds to the story and other ways they could have utilized him, a debate about how interchangeable the Turtles are this time, why Bebop & Rocksteady were sidelined in favor of Tokka & Rahzar, what exactly the secret of the ooze is, the wasted potential of anti-mutagen, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, The Secret of the Oos?
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with,
0:30.8	then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.5	I'm Chris.
0:32.2	I'm Donna.
0:32.9	And I'm Carlos.
0:38.6	And today we're revisiting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to The Secret of the Ouse.
0:57.2	The Turtles have saved New York from Shredder and his Foot Clan, but unbeknownst to them,
1:02.1	their adversary has survived the battle and is secretly plotting a rematch, only this time he's got some mutants of his own to help even the odds.
1:05.0	Released less than a year after the original film, Turtles 2 didn't fare as well, critically,
1:09.3	or commercially, but it was still a hit with its target demographic. And for most people our age, it probably represents the last bastion of this property's glory days. Which is not to say that there hasn't been a renewed interest in the turtles at various points in the last two decades. But those who weren't there can't even begin to imagine just how widespread or fervent turtle
1:27.8	mania was in 1991.
1:30.4	There was certainly nothing more important happening in my life the spring this was released,
1:34.2	but Donna, what do you remember about Ninja Turtles 2?
1:38.2	Well, I remember loving Teenage Ninja Turtles number two, the secret of the use.
1:43.8	Number two.
1:45.8	Yeah.
1:47.5	I have to say, first and foremost,
1:49.5	the thing that always comes to my mind with this movie
1:51.6	is that hot vanilla ice jam.
1:54.9	Oh my God.
1:55.9	I loved that song.
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