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It's a TMNT film written by Seth Rogen and Jeff Rowe so laughs are to be expected.
- The trailer begins by advertising the film as being "From Permanent Teenager Seth Rogen".
- When the Turtles attempt to fight the gang of thieves that took April's scooter, Donnie gets a sai stuck in his leg while he and his brothers freak out. Well, except for Raph, who you can faintly hear in the background saying it was an accident.
- The boys filming themselves goofing around with watermelons and their weapons. When a throwing star goes straight through a watermelon shaped exactly like Mikey's head, it appears to cause an accident on the street that has Leo worried. Raph then tries to dodge the subject by asking if anyone wants to get pizza.
- Donnie goes on to mock Mikey's head shape more by saying it's a mix between Stewie and Hey Arnold!.
- Tries it again, after seeing a Kaiju size Superfly heading towards New York.
- The final scene of the trailer with April.April: So you were baby turtles who made contact with mystery goo.
Raphael: Well, we prefer the term "ooze", but yeah.
Leonardo: It's like more of, yeah.
Raphael: It rolls off the tongue better, yeah. (the Turtles all start saying "ooze".)
Leonardo: It's nice, right? It's "ooze".- In the film itself, the moment actually occurs with Superfly instead of April during the scene where the Turtles first meet him and the other mutants.
- After the boys fail to quietly sneak home after their night out, Leo confesses to Splinter that he and his brothers went out for a movie. Mikey admonishes Leo for "ratting [them] out", to which Splinter scolds Mikey for using the word "Rat" negatively. The other three turtles follow suit in chastising Mikey.Leonardo: I mean, it's 2023, Mikey.
- The turtles' first fight gets off on the wrong foot. Literally, as Raph trips trying to ambush the enemies, which starts a chain reaction that ends with one of Raph's sai stuck in Donnie's thigh.
- Mikey thinks he should try to diffuse the situation with laughter, Leo tells him bluntly he's not that funny.
- One of the thugs say the turtles look like little Shreks to him. After they were done making fools of themselves, the same thug orders the others to kill them, in his words:
"Murder the Shreks!" - After learning the four went out to be with society, Splinter asks the boys if he remembers teaching them how awful humans are and how they want to milk them. The turtles groan at their father's paranoia with Raph having an interesting counterpoint.Raphael: We don't even have nipples!!
- April explains to the turtles that no one has seen the Big Bad.April: Nobody's ever seen his face.
Mike: Why?
April: (Dramatically) Because he kills everyone who does.
The Turtles: (Impressed) Whoa!
Raph: Cool!
April: No! Not cool!
Raph: Eh, a bit cool. - When April desires to learn everything about the Turtles, here's one thing she learns:Donnie: Our dad is definitely not a giant rat.
April: (beat) That makes me feel like he's a rat. - The turtles enter April's high school and Mikey attempts to sign up for Improv Team Tryouts. Unfortunately, they realize they don't have last names, so Mikey splits up his name into "Michael Angelo". Cue Raph and Donnie realizing that makes Leo "Leo Nardo".
- After unsuccessfully trying to deflect with the idea of calling himself the slightly more respectable "Leon Ardo", Leo tries to distract from his brother's teasing by pointing out a nearby locker that's title "Puke Girl", claiming that as least "Nardo" is better than that, only for April to eventually let slip that it's her locker. As she explains, despite her journalistic desires, when doing the school announcement in front of the cameras, she was hit with an anxiety attack that was so bad, she wound up vomiting right in front of them. Sad.... except the film pulls a Bait-and-Switch by making it seem like it's going to be a Vomit Discretion Shot, cutting back to the turtles and April in the present right before she blows, before switching back after she sadly admits to them that she couldn't hold it in and showing the deed in all its glory.
- And it is a glorious spewing too, with April gaining Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises and spitting out a high-pressure stream of vomit profuse enough to cover the entire reporting desk and still keep going even as she topples over backwards out of sight, capped off by "Unwritten" playing throughout the whole mess. Every student witnessing it is reduced to Stunned Silence by the sheer gratuitousness of her puking. April dejectedly notes that she went viral, was memed and even wound up on Tiktok because of it, and it's not hard to see why.
- When Leo is concernedly asking April that she didn't actually blow chunks in public like that, Raph instead has an open-mouthed look of delight on his face over realising just where the story's heading.April: ...It didn't go so well.
- Leo's brothers teasing him for his crush on April. In particular when they call her to agree to help her find Superfly, and Leo’s voice cracks when he talks to her.Donnie: It’s like all his hormones kicked in all at once.
- One scene has Leo do a Batman-esqe voice. Some fans have joked that Nicolas Cantu was bringing out his inner Laserheart.
- Said scene, which introduces the Turtles, has Leo talking about the very important mission Master Splinter has entrusted them with... to get groceries.
- Pre-mutation, Splinter just had one friend. A cockroach named Kevin. Who he ate.
- The montage of the turtles beating up all the gangs working for Superfly is equal parts awesome and hilarious.
- This exchange at the end when they're interrogating Toupee Tom:
- While watching an outdoor screening of Ferris Bueller's Day Off one of the boys comments that being a high schooler means being able to hijack a parade whenever you want.
- There is a Running Gag in which Splinter tells the turtles that humans will milk them of their blood if they are caught. Whenever this is discussed, somebody points out how the turtles don't even have nipples. That being said, this becomes just SLIGHTLY less funny and SLIGHTLY more Nightmare Fuel when Cynthia Utrom has the turtles strapped to a milking machine to do just that.
- Of course, the Nightmare Fuel is slightly dented with the reveal that the machine is named the MEGA MILKER 2000.
- While getting milked, Donnie expresses regret he never got to see BTS live. The others start singing "Butter" in an attempt to make him feel better, but it falls apart because they don't know the words and Mikey is crying from pain.
- According to her notebook, a question April considered asking the turtles is if Raph ever killed anyone. Other questions include "Are you responsible for Covid?" and if they can come to her apartment through the pipes to check a clog.
- The fact that April has known the Turtles for all of a day yet already can tell Raph is likeliest to have killed someone is funny in and of itself.
- After getting a lead on Superfly's activities, the Turtles celebrate by spouting stereotypical New York phrases ("Yerr!", "We outside!" "Yo Ock, lemme get a bacon egg and cheese!"), followed by Mikey twerking. April notes that the Turles acting like that won't help people like them... to which the Turtles promptly ignore her and continue what they're doing.
- During the moment of the turtles in a chase sequence with the other mutants, the song is "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes... Except it's the version
sung by He-Man which only makes the moment especially hilarious. Even better, just before the chase scene, Mondo is singing the song himself.- The moment that the song does a Diegetic Switch from the original on the radio to the Slackcircus cover is when Mikey uses Donnie's staff to slam on the brakes and throw Mondo, Wingnut, and Bebop through the windshield, just as Mondo sings in slow motion, "WHAT'S GOING ON?"
- Earlier, Superfly brags about "mollywhopping" a New Yorker that had chased him and his fellow mutants. When he catches up to the Turtles during the chase and begins hitting Donnie, he yells "Now he's mollywhopping me!"
- The Turtles land a direct hit on SuperDuperFly with the anti-ooze. Unfortunately, all that does is free one of the horses making up his legs.Superfly: I don't need that horse!
- After Super Duper Fly has thrown every car on the street at the Turtles, Leo points out that at least he's ran out of cars. Only for Super Duper Fly to see a parking garage.Leo: Oh, come on!
- Splinter and Scumbug kissing. That is all.
- At the end of the film, Leo works up the courage to ask April to prom. She agrees, but when they are actually there, only THEN does she ask if it’s just a "friends" thing.
- During the cast roll, Paul Rudd is given an "And introducing" credit.
