Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze. A sequel to one of the most commercially successful independent films of all time, TMNT II had big shoes to fill. Unfortunately, following parents’ outrage over the violence in the first film, the turtles were hobbled and not allowed to use their weapons or really fight. Continued meddling resulted in scrapping a plot where the secret of the ooze was actually revealed to be alien robots from another dimension. As it stands, the secret is never exposed in the film and all the ooze does is make things bigger.
Of course, the film was still popular with 1991 kids who couldn’t get enough of the pizza-loving turtles. Add the appearance of one of the day’s hottest rising rap stars, Vanilla Ice, and the film was another hit.