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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward - Future Shellshock! v.1

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

TMNT: Fast Forward takes the Turtles from the revamped 2003 series and tosses them 100 years into the future. There they team up with Cody Jones, great grandson of April and Casey, and must learn to live in a world now teeming with alien life.

This show reeks of corporate interference all over. The original 2003 series, despite its obvious problems, took itself seriously and featured an ongoing storyline that gave the characters something to do. It was also reasonably well animated, especially in the later seasons when the show amped up its fight choreography and featured varying colour palettes.

All this seems to be gone with Fast Forward. The action has been toned down to generic brawls, the animation is flat and the colours are garish and bright. The writers seem to be building some kind of ongoing story, one featuring Cody's corrupt uncle and another featuring an alien threat; it's vaguely interesting, just nowhere near as fun as the old Shredder, Bishop, Hun, Karai stories. In-between there are lots of pointless filler adventures and Cody Jones is shoved down the viewers' throats every episode. As the obligatory kid character he could be worse, but he's not a character you'll miss. And "It's Ninja Time!" is just stupid and grating.

Really, the show isn't quite Ninja Turtles anymore, you could replace our heroes with anyone and the dynamics wouldn't change. It's still amusing every so often, and over the course of these 13 episodes the show does seem to find its comfort zone. It's probably for the best that 4Kids is giving us a cheap 2-disc set, as the series would be hard to recommend otherwise.

I bought this the other day having seen it on 4Kids one saturday. I'm a fan of the turtles so whether its that great or not I'll buy it just to have it probably lol but yea this is decent enough.

Don't expect it to be overly mature or as dark as the previous incarnation. It can be be described as probably a mixture of the first and the 2003 series. They don't look overly childish but at the same time they aren't that as dark as you'd maybe expect.

I'm almost through the two discs and maybe its because I've only recently starting watching again, I dunno, but I've pretty much enjoyed it. It was a bit of a dissapointment but if you give it a chance its not that bad.

I'm actually looking forward to season two. (I'm 18 by the way and its just as entertaining and engaging as it can be in my opionion)

ok so far the jokes are in-your-face style like the 1987 show,the fight scenes are getting better but at first they were missing the bad guys are just as stupid as the old show really...what's up with that? i know some people like the old show but i just don't anymore it was great when i was 5 but no longer and the theme song? well i like it but couldn't they have done

1-2-3 TURTLES!!! in a futuristic style? i'm not trashing 4kids tv for anything like ost people do anymore but i would like it if they had finished ninja tribunal like they originally planned but the censors went berserk over it like "insane in the membrane" for inapropriate content in a kid's show but oh well i guess this is better than...NOTHING!!!!

This is season 6... not many fans welcomed this season. preferable the older fans or long time fans like me. But to little kids this must be gold. heres some backstory about this season and why they made it:

Season 4 was dark and gloomy,featuring monsters and mutants and depressing stories of their treatment. Episodes like dragons brew and i monster made 4kids wonder if maybe the mood needed a little lightening. then a big mix-up happened. Appearantley a new employee for the broadcasting network caused a mishap and a TMNT episode was created that didnt follow the network standards. the notorious banned episode "Insane in the membrane", Its not secret because it was included in the season 4 DVD and streamed at 4kids website. Insane in the membrane is something from a touching horror film full of gore and despressing moments. Think dragons brew but with 10x more sadness and 10x more gore. Although the episode was never aired, word still got out that 4kids let this happen. So they quickly finished season 4 with the episode entitled "ninja tribunal", which was a cliff hanger. That episode shouldnt have been the season finale. Good genes part 2 makes more sense because it explains how the mystics broke free. You would expect the new season to be about this strange organization and the tengu shredder. nope. Heres what happened: the turtles get captured by a strange organization and are going on a ship to japan. Next week: The turtles are recovering from dons mutation then they get sent to the future. I think "ninja tribunal" should have been aired after fast forward. the season was but not the cliffhanger that explains the season. After the season 4 dark and gloom, playmates suggested that 4kids change the direction to something light and corny to boost toy sales. Thus fast forward was made... to bad as soon as playmates got their wish TMNT cgi came out and fast forward only got 1 toy line. Epic fail!

Story: the turtles are sent to the future by accident. they meet so many boring secondary characters and villians you wont remember them. the only real villians who gets more than 10 episodes screen time is shokanabo and viral.

Vaule: good price for 1 half of the season.

overall: decent but volume 2 "day of awakening" has an actual arc in it.

This is the first half of Season 6 of the 2003 turtles, while taking them to another time. The turtles get transported to a futuristic New York City and wondering how they got there. They meet up with Cody Jones, great-grandson of Casey Jones and April O'Neil, in a New York City that lives together with Aliens. While the time traveling has been done in the third live action movie but with this it's different scenario. While the first 4 seasons dealt with the turtles being mostly in NYC itself while taking them to other places, while season 5 dealt with learning to deal with greater enemy. How can they prepare for a city that's 100 years into the future? Some of the things that made the first 5 seasons good, are kind of still here while at the same time the writing seems to be different for this season of this show, dealing with new enemies.

One in particular is Sh'Okanabo, who is an alien who is apparently trying to get control of NYC and the other being Cody's uncle, who doesn't seem to want Cody to have any word in the family business. The first half of this season starts of all right, though in a different direction than that of what's already on the table. Overall I give this set 3.5 stars out of 5.

I was a little hesitant to purchase this DVD, never having watched this season on TV. I had heard some bad things about this season, such as the change in animation style and the fact that this season was made to sell more toys. I was very glad to ignore those things and pick it up anyway. You get used the animation change right away, its really not that big a deal. Once you watch a couple of episodes, you realize this is still the same Turtles that started this wonderful series in 2003. There is definitely continuity from the previous seasons. I enjoyed this half of the season but the next half is even better. If you love the TMNT, you've got to pick this up.

heres the deal folks. this show is currently redlining in saeson 7 back to the sewers. why? because its the same thing over and over. as much as i love the show and continue to watch it. its always hun the shredder in some form baxter and so on. its the same old thing. they need to work on ending the show then start over again in my opinion. OR start introducing new bad guys. like bring in slash from the old series. bring the evil turtles back from the future they are seen in fast forward. or have the utrom crang go nuts some how and start up the whole dimension x story from the original series. anyway now i want to talk about fast forward. the reason this season works so well is because it takes you away from the norm for a whole season. even brings back heros and badguys from the past. the plot ideas are very welcomed. and could not be done in the p[ast that is why fast forward works. its all fresh ideas, stories and badguys. the show needs more changing up like they did with fast forward otherwise they need to work on a official ending for the show before it gets canceled. for those of you that hate fast forward. i understand but fear not the turtles are back in old new york in season 7 back to the sewers. the first episode is the finale of fast forward and the beginning of back to the sewers.

i've read everybody else's reviews about this dvd, and agree/disagree with what has been said. True, this isn't like the "dark" seasons of the show previous to this one BUT i've actually enjoyed most of the episodes. Now that i've seen recently released episodes from this show, it actually gets better. There is an episode titled "Graduation Day 2105" that actually deals with the turtle brothers, rather than battle an evil villain. Michaelangelo is the main character in this episode - which is a nice change. Other episodes involve Torbin Zixx, an original character that i've actually enjoyed watching. I know that this is supposed to be a review of the current dvd, but i'm just saying that though people say that this show is lame, it does have some fresh characters that make you wonder how the rest of the season will be (and end!). The two disappointments are that Splinter isn't drawn the same as he was in the previous seasons (which i really enjoyed!), and the turtles aren't as muscular as the previous seasons which i would think that being warriors they would have that. And yeah...the "it's ninja time" line has gotten a bit old - very sad. Overall, i actually enjoy this season. Just wish there was more extra features and info on the dvd discs other than the episodes. Hope this review helped you!

I've been watching most of Fast Forward and the tone is definately lighter in the tone of the show. Most people doomed the new take before it started and most didn't watch more than a few episodes. The show however remains making references to continuity and slowly explaining the stuff that has changed over the future, it also slowly builds a story arc that is very interesting with each continous episode. The show is still set to go darker on the next 13 episodes as well.

In conclusion, while a little different than the regular 2k3 show, it still has most of the qualities that made the 2k3 show so good, it is definately worth the 11$ price tag it has.

The TMNT's and Shedder have wound up in the far future where they have to battle the evil Shadows.
Very different from its pedecessors,yet still full of action fun!!!