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The Ninja Turtles box set arrives on 4K Blu-ray for the first time ever, following the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they help save the day and protect the city from crime.

The first film is about the Turtles stopping a gang that is mostly run by kids and young people who steal a lot and cause trouble throughout the city. The story is fairly simple, but it does its job and sets up the characters well. The film was okay overall, it wasn’t the best or the worst, but it did have some fun moments and action scenes that made it enjoyable at times. There are some funny moments throughout and lots of funny scenes regarding the turtles’ liking the look of a girl called April who is a local news reporter girl. The turtles love pizza and eat pizza, so it helped with the immersion that I was eating pizza while watching the films.

Unfortunately, despite this film being released in 4K, I didn’t think it looked very good compared to the standard Blu-ray version. The image looked noticeably darker, and there was much more grain throughout the film, especially during the darker scenes, which was very unfortunate and took away from the experience. I also thought it had been cropped a bit as I know for the normal 4:3 version you could see more on top and bottom, and a few scenes felt a bit too cropped unfortunately. Some people enjoy grain but for me I’m not keen on film grain and noise.

On the positive side, I did like that the box set includes both the UK censored version and the uncut version of the film, along with a few special features. This was a nice bonus and helps make the set a bit more worthwhile for fans and collectors.

Ninja Turtles 2 Secret of the Ooze review 

Unfortunately, the second film, Secret of the Ooze, froze repeatedly, so I wasn’t able to watch much of it. However, from what I did see, the film grain seemed slightly improved compared to the first film.

Ninja Turtles 3 Review 

The third film in the franchise looked amazing. The picture quality was very good with little to no film grain, which made everything look clean on screen. You could make out what was happening even during the darker scenes, which sometimes can be hard in older films. The colours also stood out throughout, helping the film look more appealing.

This time around, the Turtles travel back in time to Japan, while a group of people from that time end up travelling forward to the Turtles’ present day. This leads to some funny and entertaining moments as the characters try to deal with being in completely different time periods and surroundings. However, I didn’t think the story was the best compared to the other films. It took a bit of time to really get going and at the start it felt a little slow. Once it got into the main part of the story though, I did start to enjoy it more.

Overall the film still had fun moments. The colours shined nicely and helped bring the scenes to life, and the audio quality was also very good. The dialogue was clear and the sound overall added well to the 4K Blu-ray experience.

The Ninja Turtles 4K Blu-ray box set is definitely worth getting, not only for the good picture and audio quality but also because it includes some nice special features.

In my opinion, the films looked better as the series went on, with the picture quality improving from the first film to the third. This is probably also due to improvements in cameras used for the later films. I also liked that some of them had the uncensored version of the films so that is a bonus. Another funny thing I liked about the franchise is that throughout all the films the turtles are all in love with April the news reporter with whom they all became best friends, but it’s funny that they kept these jokes in throughout each film.