Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Release: March 30, 1990

Mutant-mania of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has mega-multiplied with its first theatrical film. Starring the human talents of Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and Raymond Serra. Steve Barron directs from the screenplay by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck; Story by Herbeck; Based on original characters, appearing in Mirage Comics, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird [Exclusively licensed by Surge Licensing, Inc.]. Produced by Kim Dawson, Simon Fields and David Chan; Executive Produced by Raymond Chow. Puppets and Animatronics by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. A Limelight production, with Gary Propper, for Golden Harvest.

Trailers

"Friday ['10s]" Hub Family Movie promo

UK Trailer

"Now $29.95 [10/4(/90)]" Christmas VHS spot [en-ca]

"On Videocassette [10/4(/90)]; Available at Target" spot ft. Pizza Hut coup...

"$24.99 sr [10/4(/90)]" VHS spot ft. Pizza Hut coupons

.15 "$24.99 srp [10/4(/90)]" winter holidays spot ft. Pizza Hut coupons

Posters

Quotes

Donatello: "The Shedder?"

Michelangelo: "Maybe all that hardware's for making coleslaw"

The Shredder: "You are here because the outside world rejects you. THIS is your family. *I* am your father. I want you all to become full members of the Foot. There is a new enemy: freaks of nature who interfere with our business. You are my eyes and ears; find them. Together we will punish these creatures. These... turtles."

Casey Jones: "[about April's farmhouse] Hey, didn't they use this place in The Grapes of Wrath?"

April: "Very funny. I told you, I haven't been up here in years."

Tatsu: "I do not understand. Why do the Turtles trouble you, Master? They had not been seen for many days."

Shredder: "Something about the way you describe their fighting. Something familiar, something...from the past."

Donatello: "Good thing these guys aren't lumberjacks."

Michaelangelo: "No joke. The only thing safe in the woods... would be the trees!"

Michaelangelo: "God, I love being a turtle!"

Pizza Delivery Guy: "I gotta get a new route, and I thought I'd deliver everywhere."

Raphael: "What's a guy gotta do to get some food around here?"

Casey Jones: "So long freak, I got work to do!"

Raphael: "Freak? FREAK?"

Leonardo: "Hey Raph, where you going?"

Raphael: "Out to a movie. That okay with you?"

Leonardo: "Yeah."

Raphael: "Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket."

Raphael: "A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn't pay money for this."

Donatello: "Donatello: Look, nyuk nyuk, I think he's blushing."

Raphael: "I am not!"

Donatello: "I think he's actually turning red!"

Raphael: "HAIYA! (throws sai between Donatello's legs)"

Donatello: "Uh..maybe not."

Raphael: "What Russian novel embraces more than 500 characters and is set in the Napoleonic Wars?"

Donatello: "'War and Peace'"

Casey Jones: "(kisses the golf club) I'll never call golf a dull game again."

Raph: "Now I know how it feels to travel without a greencard"

Foot Soldier: "We've been looking for you, Ms. O'Neil."

April: "What, I'm I behind on my sony payments again?"

Foot Thug: "We have a loyalty to the Shredder!"

Splinter: "The Shredder uses you! He poisons your minds to obtain that which he desires; he cares nothing for you or the people you hurt!"

Foot Thug: "We're a family."

Casey Jones: "Family? Is that what you said, "family"? Wait, you call this here and that down there "family"?"

Leonardo: "Gotcha!"

Leonardo: "[Raphael has brought an unconscious April O'Neil into the sewer] Are you crazy?"

Raphael: "Yeah, Leo - I'm crazy, OK? A loony, OK?"

Donatello: "Why?"

Raphael: "Why? Why - Oh I don't know, 'cause I wanted to redecorate. You know, a couple of throw pillows, a TV news reporter, what do ya think?"

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