Watch Some Ninja Turtles Get Absolutely Wrecked within the Opening of the Rise of the TMNT Movie

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all the time caught a little bit of a rap from old-school TMNT followers for its give attention to hijinks reasonably than notably severe adventures for essentially the most half. Let this opening sequence from the present’s new film show, nonetheless, that’s not all the time the case.

Ahead of the movie’s launch on Netflix this Friday, the streamer has launched the opening 4 minutes of the movie, which opens not with the Rise gang of goofy teen turtles as we all know from the present, however in a put up apocalyptic future the place, uh… half of them are already lifeless, and the remainder of them aren’t wanting too scorching.

And neither’s New York City, for that matter.

Following the angle of remaining turtles Leo and Mikey’s pupil, Casey Jones (performed by Haley Joel Osment), we get to see simply how terribly incorrect every little thing’s gone for our heroes in a future timeline the place the alien Krang have utterly ravaged the world. And it’s surprisingly grim for a present largely recognized, tonally no less than, for foolish enjoyable and solely occasional seriousness. It’s not bloody, nevertheless it’s brutal—the Krang are simply straight up disintegrating folks, there’s our bodies on spikes, and that’s even earlier than you get to the half the place you watch the longer term Mikey tragically sacrifice himself to ship Casey into the previous. And Leo, left alone to make a hero’s last stand? It’s extra like a hero’s last step, as a result of he simply will get acquired by a Krang laser whereas a temporally-tumbling Casey seems on in horror.

It’s a gap that goes laborious to say the least! Sure, it’s not the primary time we’ve seen Turtles mortally wounded within the line of ninja-duty, nevertheless it’s a fairly fast approach to get folks on board with Rise of the TMNT: The Movie being a way more grave journey for this incarnation of the turtles than some might need anticipated. RIP Future Turtles, you had some cool designs.

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie hits Netflix August 5.

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