Her horny, befuddled colleague, Vernon, is played by Will Arnett, who seems like he’s making fun of the material rather than performing it (and who seems creepy hitting on Megan Fox).
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman ( “Battle: Los Angeles,” “Wrath of the Titans”) with one or two bursts of energetic fun, this soulless franchise reboot stars game-but-inept Megan Fox as April O’Neil, the New York City TV reporter who becomes the Turtles’ confidante when they start enigmatically thwarting crime, Batman-style, in the dead of night. The new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is faithful to its predecessors in that it is loud, dumb, and aimed at 11-year-olds (and not the smart ones, either). Then, many years later, the people who were children back then had grown up to be in charge of making movies now, and they said, “We should make a new ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'” And everyone who belonged to their generation said “Yes!” while everyone who was 10 years older or 10 years younger said “Ugh.” There were a few live-action movies based on these characters, all of them (the movies) rancid. Long ago, in the closing decades of the 20th century, there was a children’s cartoon, based on a comic book, called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” in which a quartet of grotesque reptilian vigilantes lived in a sewer and fought criminals under the direction of a wise rat.