The Secret of the Ooze’ Returns to Theaters

Go ninja, go ninja, go! If these Vanilla Ice lyrics transport you to the magical realm of 1991, when the streets ran wild with poisonous waste, martial arts battles, and pizza events, mark your calendar for March 13-19. Based mostly on the success of last year’s re-release of 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its 1991 sequel, TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, is getting a full week of big-screen dates.

Even higher, count on to see the ooze, turtle shells, rat fur, and every thing else look extra crystal-clear than ever earlier than, because the movie will likely be screening in newly restored 4K.

Final yr’s re-release of the unique featured deleted scenes and making-of footage; this time round, the bonus comes within the type of “a never-before-seen featurette, The Ninja Turtles: Revolutions,” based on a press launch.

Exhibiting forward of the film, it’s going to permit followers to “step into the thoughts of TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, becoming a member of him on a imaginative and prescient by means of the previous. Sit down alongside the icon at his private drawing desk whereas he illustrates by means of the revolving historical past and mythos of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles legend.”

Turtlemania does appear to be on the rise recently; the 1990 authentic movie simply introduced a fun VHS release, and the Turtles’ extra trendy iterations have drawn a number of curiosity, between the much-loved Mutant Mayhem animated big-screen projects, the just-wrapped Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV collection, and the late-last-year information of a contemporary live-action film within the works. Paramount even has an online hub for followers to maintain tabs on all of the TMNT at present within the air (together with comics, podcasts, reside occasions, merch, and extra).

However the large energy of nostalgia can be nothing to sneeze at, as these thirty fifth anniversary screenings can attest. Yow will discover theaters close to you and preorder tickets for TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze now by means of Fathom Entertainment.

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