Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells Tour

I've never watched and have never seen a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live Show. While buying something at a shopping mall my family and I stumbled upon a show of the Ninja Turtles. Even if it was short my son loved it so much and boy I was amazed how they performed and hey you can watch it on youtube, you may want to search for it just type the one similar to the title and it will surely show up. Well why did I give it a 5 out of 10? April was not the usual NEWS caster as the original show did, it appeared as if she was an unemployed street performer to earn a living. It was stated via the guidelines that it is not allowed to add URLs but I do not want you to suffer searching for it so I will try my luck and add it here. Please erase if really not allowed and sorry in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqayLFxYNZI

This is the sweetest corny movie of all time. Of course it wasn't going to be perfect. Also the VHS is the first show of the event in New York City. I saw this in Orlando and own the video. I don't remember much from Orlando except swinging my nunchuk or however you spell it around. The songs are pretty awesome you have got to admit. I still watch this VHS 14 years later.. best memories. If you never saw this movie the first time you will think it is corny, so just don't bother. But if you are a fan and remember the tour, pick it up because it will bring back a lot of good memories. Yes there are a lot of sloppy parts in the show, such as the costume being different in the cut shots, and the lip synching, the corny reporter in the boiler room, the whatever machine which is made of foil, and the fighting, but overall a good nostalgic treasure

This show pushes a pro music agenda which is appreciated in this day and age as it shows the importance of music. So surprised that cam clarke came back to record leo for this show. The music rocks except for michelangelo's "follow your heart" song.

The set design? Top notch. The costumes? They're hit or miss......the biggest miss being the turtles and some of the hits being April, Splinter, and the Shredder.

The musical numbers are quite swell and so surprised that this iconic album is streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

The story is pretty strong, but what can I say? It's a live touring show. It has a so bad it's good vibe to it that I highly recommend it.

For those who don't like this video, I whole heartedly disagree. I too was a little kid when the tour came out and I saw it live. It was the coolest thing I ever saw! Of course the costumes are different, have you checked out the choreography they have to do? They have to be able to move! And yeah the fight scenes are kinda cheesy but think about it, it's a live performance for little kids, plus I don't think their costumes could handle that much abuse. The plot I thought was great, the kids get so into it when they know the turtles will be there to save the day. And I love how the personalities are so polished in each of the turtles, they are so "cool" kids can relate and love it! I still watch it and still sing along, the voice quality of the songs and the music in general is awesome. I especially love April's Ballad. Songs like that aren't easy to belt. I actually used that song for an audition once. And at 22, I still get goosebumps when I hear "You Can Count On Us." It's OK if you hate this show in comparison to other turtle material, but appreciate the work that was put into it, how many kids it touched, and how many people still watch and love the tape after all these years.

It's hard for me to fathom how many times I watched this when I was little. The Coming Out of Their Shells Tour (which now sounds unfortunately gay just in name, not that there's anything wrong with that) was in NYC in September of 1990, and I saw it live and then watched a taped PPV version for quite a time afterwords. As a die-hard Ninja Turtles fan it was just great to see them all on stage live, singing songs and fighting the Shredder and saving the world for all music's sake. Seeing it today again for the first time in over a decade, I'm surprised at how...dated it is, I suppose. It's like a mix of Paula Abdul and MC Hammer songs, with a touch of an extra power ballad or surfing song and even one that comes close to sounding like Jack and Diane, done to different lyrics with pizza among other things. The dancing is choreographed in modes ranging from not bad (the foot soldiers are actually some of the better ones) to being actually kind of bad (the turtles dance, now that's a little gay, isn't it?)

It was good in a nostalgic sense to see this all played out again, in all its ultra-cheesy glory and farcical tone, but seeing it from a more critical eye it's a bit shocking to see how stupider and more poorly made it was when looking back as a kid. Being so into the Ninja Turtles (most of the toys, video games, movies and episodes from the TV show on tape, lunch-boxes, etc), and just being young in general, it was maybe being less discriminating and having less of a critical eye for stuff like this that led me to watch it to the point where the tape wore out. But what am I to make today of enough tilted camera angles to make Fay Grim look straightforward? How about pyrotechnics that seem to have come out of a second hand store? Maybe the best character of all- in an awesomely stupid sense- is the Shredder, who's song I Hate Music is the closest to true camp, and who even talks with the audience like it's a night at the improv! It's altogether strange, eerie, delirious, stupid, and something I will probably leave to watch again in another 15 years or so.

That being said, as a fan, if you've never seen it, continuity and all, it's worth seeing. Once. And maybe never again. Unless on a double bill with the Star Wars Holiday Special.