The Ninja Turtles franchise is one that will just keep on going and going and has been going and going for many decades. With the animated series that made it popular to being with being the 1987 animated series as that series introduced alot of things that we all know and love about the franchise and well since it'as been a long time since I last reviewed an episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that is really pretty violent with the episode in question being called simply just "It Came From Beneath The Sewers" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when the Turtles and April go hunting for pieces of an Alien key that hold untold power The Shredder unleashes a deadly plant to take care of the Turtles and April for once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was the kind of plot that you'd expect to find in this show but at the same time it was perhaps a bit to campy for it's own good with the episodes plot at times feeling alot more like a parody of what a plot from this show was and like but at the same time I really will admit that the plot of this episode was at times really rather entertaining and really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Cam Clarke as Leonardo , Rob Paulsen as Raphael and Townsend Coleman as Michelangelo. Also starring in this episode is Barry Gordon as Donatello , Peter Renaday as Splinter , Renae Jacobs as April O'Neil and Dark-Haired Boy , Jennifer Darling as Irma , Red-Haired Boy and Mother at Carnival , James Avery as Shredder and Pat Fraley as Krang , Baxter Stockman and The Circus Manager.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the cast members that you expect good performances from well and truly delivering in this episode but at the same time the acting that we got in this episode just felt lackluster when compared to over episodes not that it was bad but rather the acting was just missing that extra special something that alot of the acting in other episodes of this show have with this not really being helped by the episodes script which just felt like that it was going through the motions and not really giving the cast a whole to work with interms of what there respective characters personalities even are or meant to be be for that matter.
Doing the animation for this episode is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at A-1 Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as while we did get some animation errors as is sadly very typical for this show the overall quality of the animation was really high and was of really high quality with the episodes animation really being alot better then what it really had any right to be as the episodes animation really fun to look at and had a some really good colors to it with the characters also really having some really nice and fluid movements to them as well.
What really does let this episode down is it's resolution as the episode has Splinter say generic stuff which the Turtles then somehow interpret in him giving them helpful advice on how to defeat the evil plant.Which just doesn't work as Splinter would give his sons actual helpful advice and wouldn't just say the most generic and at times rather confusing things as that's not in his character to do that as he would always help people out if they truly needed his help much like his sons did here in this episode and that is something that the makers of this episode just didn't understand as they barely use the character when the character would logically be used when we do see him in this episode he's on screen for a really very short amount of time and he more often then not really adds nothing to the overall plot of the episode when he's a main character of the show.
The idea of having a giant killer plant is an idea that's perfect for this show as it is something that is wonderfully campy and wonderfully bizarre. The idea really isn't fully developed in this episode as the plant really isn't set up all that well as we never get to find out what it s that makes the plant grow in the first place and while we do get to see where the plant came from we aren't given a reason as to why it's evil with it instead just attacking the Turtles and April for no reason other then because The Shredder told it to which does make sense as The Shredder is the show ultimate bad guy it doesn't really work well with The Shredders plans at all as his plan to steal apart of this key relies on the Turtles not knowing that he's going after it and yet he has a giant plant that's really only attacking people because he told it to and this is something that could have been fixed by having Baxter Stockman be the one that's controlling the plant and not The Shredder.
April in this episode really wasn't the smartest person as for no reason whatsoever even tho she knows that the Turtles would always want to meet her in there lair she follows a letter to a disused warehouse just because someone signed it from the turtles. While it is understandable why she followed that letter she's been around the turtles for quite a while now and would there for know that they wouldn't just leave a letter that they've signed out in the open where anybody could see it especially as she has her turtlecom with her at all tines and as such the turtles would most likely use that to get in touch with her with this not really being helped that like with Splinter she really doesn't really have a whole lot to do in this episode as really her only purpose in the plot of the episode is just to get captured and that's really it which granted is pretty much her role in the show as a whole it's really something that really is an issue here as she could have used her sources at the news station to help the turtles out and heck she even could have asked Irma who was right there in her apartment with her to see if she's heared anything about what's going on but she doesn't do that at all.
Now then this episode has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and sixteen seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to have and to this episodes credit it does make the most of that running time but at the same time this episode really didn't need to be that long as the episode really doesn't have alot of plot there to really cover that large amount of running time and as a result of this is the fact that we get some scenes that add nothing to the overall plot of the episode with the worst offender being the fact that we a good few minuets of a scene with the turtles being a clown act for the local circus and it's something that's never brought up ever again in the episode which made that whole sequence pointless and it could have been cut out of the whole entire but I will admit that this episode really does have really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actin that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty just as fun as you'd want it to be. With the action in this episode also being just as over the top as you'd want it to be as well with the the turtles having to go rather over the top in both of their fights against the giant mutant plant which just made both of those fights really fun to watch with the same thing also being true for there fight with The Shredder which was really just so fun to watch and also really creative to watch as well and that really did help up the overall quality of the action in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this was a perfectly fun episode it's also one that took the overall campyness of the show a bit to extreme despite being a perfectly good example of just how fun and over the top that this show can be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then iv'e talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are on the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom wiki page are really all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.