Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The leader. The brains. The attitude. And Mikey.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (also known as TMNT 2014) is a 2014 American superhero film based on the fictional superhero team of the same name. It is the fifth film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series and the first in the reboot series. It features the main characters portrayed by a new cast, and stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Danny Woodburn, Abby Elliott, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson and Tohoru Masamune, as well as the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Tony Shalhoub. The film was directed by Jonathan Liebesman and written by Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Evan Daugherty. The film was announced shortly before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October 2009.
The film was released on August 8, 2014, and received generally negative reviews from critics for the plot, CGI effects, and lack of character development. However, it was a box office success, earning $493 million on a $125–150 million budget and becoming the highest-grossing film of the series and the highest-grossing Nickelodeon Movie. A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, was released on June 3, 2016.