I can confirm that statement to be very, very, very..... VERY true :| went to see the movie just this afternoon, should've gone with my gut instinct and seen Guardians of the Galaxy for a second time instead.
- the story is generic and plain beyond an understatement and there are wayyyy too many instances of plot coincidences involving April to move the story forward
- the "rewriting" of the turtles origins isn't just unnecessary, it's completely retardedly stupid :| So now not only were Splinter and the turtles test subjects for April's scientist dad, but were also her pets that she saved from a fire and dropped into the sewers? Splinter wasn't the pet of a Japanese master martial artist, but just a lab rat?? Splinter learned martial arts not from watching and mimicking his master, but just from a random book he happened to find in the sewers?!? Give me a f**king break....
- Megan Fox is a f**king terrible actress, plain and simple. She could not act her way out of a wet paper bag covered in sh*t and piss
- No Casey Jones.... that sucks. Instead we get Vernon, the stupid schmuck from the cartoon series who originally was a cowardly liar always trying to one-up April in a news story. And he's been turned into a love interest, lovely....
- a lot of shaky-cam in the action scenes. For a movie where your lead action characters are CG humanoid turtles, that is absurd
- the villains are one dimensional beyond belief, the Shredder is just an evil bad guy with no personality (seriously, Ronan from Guardians of the Galaxy had more of an identity and presence than Shredder) and the millionaire/scientist character (can't even remember his name, Sachs?) is like an older version of that human jackass from TF3 that you knew was evil the moment you see him on screen.
- the villains "evil plan" is honestly one of the dumbest evil plans I've seen in a movie in years
- I only laughed once in the entire movie: it's when the turtles are in the elevator going up to their final battle with the Shredder and they suddenly just break out into beatboxing to pump themselves up.
Am going to rewatch the original 1990 movie later tonight to get this crap out of my brain, because that movie was AWESOME and an honest-to-god real TMNT movie.