Turtles Forever | |
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Based on |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird |
Written by | Matthew Dredk Roy Burdine Lloyd Goldfine Rob David |
Directed by | Roy Burdine Lloyd Goldfine |
Voices of |
Michael Sinterniklaas Wayne Grayson Sam Riegel Greg Abbey Darren Dunstan Scottie Ray Dan Green Johnny Castro Tony Salerno Sebastian Arcelus Load Williams Bradford Cameron |
Composer(s) |
Ralph Schuckett Rusty Andrews John Angier Mark Breeding Louis Cortelezzi Joel Douek John Petersen Pete Scaturro John Siegler John Van Tongeren Russel Velazquez |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Gary Richardson Frederick U.Fierst Alfred R. Khan Norman F. Grossfield |
Producer(s) | Sarah C. Nesbitt |
Editor(s) | Richard B. Nesbitt |
Running time | 81 minutes (Uncut/PAL DVD) 73 minutes (TV edit/NTSC DVD) |
Distributor | Mirage Studios, inc. 4Kids Entertainment Nickelodeon Productions Paramount Pictures |
Release | |
Original network | The CW4Kids |
Original release |
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Turtles Forever (also known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever or TMNT: Turtles Forever) is a 2009 American television film produced by 4Kids Entertainment. The movie is a crossover film featuring three different incarnations of the Turtles. This movie was produced in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
An edited version of the movie was released on July 11, 2009 worldwide on TV. The film was then released on July 29, 2009 in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. In other countries, the film aired on The CW as part of their Saturday morning The CW4Kids lineup on November 21, as part of a 25th anniversary celebration which featured a top-10 episode countdown preceding the film's television premiere. In the Unted States, an uncut version aired from October 31 to November 14 in a form where three weekly 26 minute episodes were shown in a half-hour slot per week.
The uncut version of the film later appeared on the CW4Kids's website on November 16, which includes 8 minutes of footage cut from the original version that aired on TV. The edited version was released on non-anamorphic widescreen DVD on November 21, 2009 from Nickelodeon/Paramount Pictures home entertainment. The uncut anamorphic widescreen version was later released in 2011 on DVD in the PAL DVD regions (2 and 4). There are currently no plans for an American release of the uncut anamorphic version on home media. On August 24, 2010, Nickelodeon aired the movie on its channel for the first time, then aired it again on August 29, 2010.
The Ninja Turtles are alerted by their master Splinter that they have been careless and discovered fighting the Purple Dragons on TV. Denying this, they set out to break into the Purple Dragons' HQ to get to the bottom of these doppelgängers. Upon doing so, the Turtles discover that their "imposters" are from the 1987 series. They escape together, but the 2003 Turtles find the 1987 team childish as they refuse talk until lunch. They enter a pizza place, only to terrify the citizens, who call the cops; the turtles flee, only for the 2003 Turtles and Splinter to capture them. 1987 Leonardo explains his team was fighting Shredder over Mutagen in the Technodrome; the dimensional teleporter malfunctioned, sending them all to this world. Checking recent tremor reports, the Turtles find the Technodrome; however, 1987 Shredder manages to elude them, forcing his foes to build a portal device to reach their universe for "anti-Technodrome gear". In the meantime, Shredder locates an 2003 Shredder on an icy asteroid. After Ch'rell is thawed out, he is contained for vivisection, as he's too insane to work with; however, his adopted daughter, Karai, breaks into and frees him; she had been monitoring his exile.