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B-10 Thursday, March 29, 1990THE COURIER-NEWS TIKTLIS: Movie a dull family comedy Continued from Page B-6 sewers of New York City, from which they periodically surface to foil crime, especially when it occurs in dark alleys. In their first movie, the mutant heroes do battle with an underground organization of young thieves known as The Foot, which takes its revenge by kidnapping their rodent mentor, Splinter. Along the way, the turtles are befriended by April O'Neil, a television investigative reporter, and Casey Jones, an arrogant, long-haired vigilante-loner and martial arts master. The fact that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' core audience is children shouldn't excuse the perfunctory plotting, which includes various wranglings between the Turtles and the Foot, and a hackneyed love-hate relationship between April and Casey. The humor is of the lowest-com-mon-demoninator variety, peppered with lazy references to TV shows and other recent pop culture lore.

The only comic notions that really work appear to be taken from the original: the Turtles' obsession with pizza and their Valley Boy-style interplay. But on the whole, kids and their parents deserve something wittier. The film is artfully designed by Roy Forge Smith, with North Carolina soundstages doubling for New York's dingy back streets, but John Fenner's dark-toned cinematogra-. phy is too oppressive for a supposedly light family film. The martial-arts fight scenes are capably handled, if not exactly bracing, with the four actors who play the turtles maneuvering surprisingly well in their bulky-looking costumes.

Human stars Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas Moon in Blue make a dimmer impression as April and Casey, respectively. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has a built-in audience, but one doubts they'll be back for seconds of this murky turtle soup. Rated: PG (Some fight scenes may be too violent for the very young). Time and money. Both are hard to come by and hard to save.

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