Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Mystery Of The Cliffs PSA Review

To say that the nineties was the heyday for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be a huge understatement. As not only did they have a very popular animated TV series , three live action movies and a live action TV series which also crossed over with Power Ranger In Space however people really seem to forget or just straight up don't know about all of the more stranger pieces of Turtle media to come out in that decade and well I thought i'd take a look at one of the two live action PSA's that they did and so then join me as I review the PSA that merges THREE piece of turtles media together with the PSA in question being called simply just "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Mystery Of The Cliffs" enjoy.

The plot of this PSA is when Splinter sends the Turtles out into the dessert for some training they discover members of the Foot Clan stealing somethings within the cliffs and have to stop them before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very PSA well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt hat the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very SA was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time it wasn't all that good either as it did a good job of doing whatever it was that it was trying to do but at the same time tho it makes zero sense for the turtles to be out in the dessert in the first place as Splinter doesn't fully explain why he wants them out there in the first place with the dialog explaining it feeling forced as even tho it's meant for us the audience the characters would already know why there out there and so they wouldn't need to repeat it in the first place look fair enough you need to have a reason for these characters to be in this location and this PSA quite clearly didn't have a budget but at the same time tho there should have been a lot more effort into giving this PSA a plot that not only makes sense for the story that there trying to tell but also for the characters as well as the turtles especially the 1980 animated series turtles would never be caught dead in a dessert because there's no way for them to get any Pizza with this PSA's plot feeling like it was written by someone who was only given a brief outline of who the turtles are but quite clearly isn't a fan of them in the first place with the plot of this PSA not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this PSA is Cam Clarke as The Voice Of Leonardo and Townsend Coleman as The Voice Of Michelangelo. Also starring in this PSA is Barry Gordon as The Voice Of Donatello , Rob Paulsen as The Voice Of Raphael , Peter Renaday as The Voice Of Splinter and Splinter's Ancestor , David Anthony as Splinter and Splinter's Ancestor , Mark Barrett as Michelangelo , Michael Carpio as A Foot Ninja , Laura Kotecki as Leonardo , Danyol Leon as Donatello , Scott Quintard as A Foot Ninja , James Saba as A Foot Ninja and Danielle Silveira as A Raphael.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very PSA well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very PSA was in all honesty not that bad. Which in this case is something that does make sense as it's actors are quite literally just the same voice actors from the original show all of whom are reprising their roles in this PSA and there for thy would have of course know how best to perform there roles with the in suit actors doing a passable job given not only the suits that they had to work with but also the fact that this PSA had no budget to it but at the same time tho this is quite clearly not the best work from the actors that are reprising their roles as even tho there not sleepwalking through this entire PSA at all it's quite clear just feel lost and unsure of themselves like there not being given the right direction needed and this is something that this PSA's director Jacques Guerin really should have helped them with as that is something that would have made this special all the more watchable then what it already is with the acting that's in this very PSA not really being helped buy the fact that this PSA's scrips is just so bad as it gives none of this PSA's actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very PSA.

For one reason or another the makers of this PSA chose to make Mikey's entire character be about Pizza as that's all he talks about in this PSA. While yes both he and the other turtles love Pizza this is something that we all know but they don't all keep on talking about it all the time as no joke around ninety percent of Mikey's dialog in this PSA is just made up of him talking about Pizza with the other ten percent being made up of nineties catchphrases and it got to the point where I was dreading him having to talk about of the fact that I knew right away what his dialog was going to be about and this is a good example of the makers of this PSA not really being fans of the characters and just being given a very brief outline of who the turtles are as no self respecting turtles fan would just have the characters talking about Pizza and having the one turtle that alot of nineties kids loved become so annoying in this one PSA that you actively dread having to hear him talk because you know where his dialog is going to go and while yes it would have been hard to get people who are adults and who are fans of the original animated series turtles to write this PSA as they more then likely didn't exist but at the same time you could have gotten advice from the makers of that show on how to write for the characters or even perhaps watched one of the shows episodes just something would have done as then you would know that Mikey doesn't talk about Pizza in every other sentence but that would mean that the makers of this special would actually have to do the work to understand these characters which is something that they just didn't do and that is something that you can tell just by the way that they handled not only Mikey but the rest of the characters as well.

Believe it or not not only is the not the first live action turtles PSA but also this PSA actually combines THREE elements from other turtles media as we have the voice actors from the original show all of whom are reprising their roles for this PSA but we also have the music from the firs two live action films and we have the suits from the The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour as well. Which is just weird and yet at the same time oddly awsome to see as well as one of the things that people love about the first two live action films was the music and the suits from the tour is one of the best things about the tour and the fact that they got the original actors back does lend the project some legitimacy to the project but all it does is remind you of those other projects and it makes you wonder the makers of this PSA went this route as they could have put together some cheaply made turtle suits or gone the Operation Blue Line route and have the suit mascots be the suits used in this special and they could have come up with an original score instead of sourcing it from somewhere else but in saying that the disco type version of the nineties movie theme song that they play over the end credits was pretty good and the makers of this PSA did know when to use a creepy piece of music from either film but again tho hearing these tracks play over a scene with the tours suits just feels weird somehow as at the very least with the Operation Blue Line PSA they used there own score and had there own suits whilst also oddly enough using the original series actors.

Perhaps the smartest thing that the makers of this PSA did was have Donatello be the one that spouts out all of the information by why us the audience should want to preserve these old buildings in the mountains. As that is something that is perfect for his character as he is meant to be the smart one of the group and so of course he would be the one to listen the hardest when Splinter is telling it to them in the first place which makes it all the more weird when both Mikey and Raph pick on Leo for not remining them about it when all they have to do is ack Donatello who is standing quite literally a few feet away from them in the first place and while this is understandable given that it is a PSA alot of his dialog is all about trying to save the things that are to be found in these maintains which does make sense given that this is a PSA but at the same time you don't need to keep on going on about it as mentioning it once or twice would have hit the mark all the same but given that this PSA was made for little kids it does also make sense that Donatello would keep on going on about it as that's who he's trying to get through to at the end of the day and having him be the one to tell all of the turtles these facts about the maintains that there in does oddly enough make alot of sense and is actually the only thing that's in this PSA that actually does make sense as alot of it is just weird at best and at it's worst just feels like the people that are making this PSA are trying to hard to make a good turtles product instead of actually making a good piece of turtles media in the first place.

In what is both an understandable and yet at the exact same time baffling reason this PSA dedicated about four to five minuets at the end very end just to telling us why we the audience should want to see these old mountain buildings be kept as they are. This is baffling in the sense that they just dedicated the first twelve minuets of the PSA to exactly that and now after the end credits have finished there now doing a more shortened version of it which is something that really doesn't make any kind of sense whatsoever as no kid is going to willingly watch an additional five minuets of this PSA tape as it's telling them things that just don't interest them but to play devils advocate here it does also make sense to do exactly that as it does give you information about what you should do should you see someone trying to take something from them and it tells you where they either are or now where as well why alot of that really couldn't have been covered in the main PSA tho remains a mystery in it's own right as those are things that Splinter surely would have told the turtles before they left to go into the dessert and heck given that we also see members of The Foot Clan stealing things from one of these buildings it also would have been oddly relevant to the main plot as well with it being tacked on at the very end it only makes it feel like that it was something that the makers of this PSA forgot to do whilst filming it and so they just stuck it on at the end and had Barry Gordon do voice over over a couple of still images and called it a day which if that is the case is just a lazy to it as it is something that could have been worked into the main plot of the actual PSA itself.

Now then this PSA has/ had an exact grand total running time of exactly nineteen minuets and forty four seconds. Which is a fairly solid running time for this PSA to have but in saying that this PSA really doesn't have alot of plot there to really cover that amount of running time as by all rights this PSA's plot only about should have been ten minuets long and no more then that with both the end credits and the after credits speech from Donatello eating up alot of the PSA's running time with this not really being helped by the fact that it doesn't even use it's running time all that wisely either as nothing be it from the plot to the characters is particularly fleshed out which is to be expected as these were never meant to be seen by alot of people apart from kids in schools and that's really it but at the same time tho even PSA's should have fully fleshed out out plots look at another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles PSA called "Cartoon All Stars To The rescue" as a prime example of that as while yes it was still trying to get across a very important message it still took the time to fully develop it's plot and characters to the point where you want to care about them and where you want to see them succeed here tho because neither is fully fleshed out us the audience can't care for either the plot or it's characters as the SA doesn't really give us a reason to care form them outside of the fact that there characters from a hugely successful TV show and that's really it but I really will admit that this PSA really does does have some really pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in tis very PSA well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very SA was in all honesty not that good. With nothing that the turtles say being particularly funny or clever either with them instead just feeling like that the writers of this PSA  were trying to hard to be funny and clever where as the turtles from the original eighties TV series just were and while yes they were goofy and silly it was that exact goofiness and silliness that not only made them enduring but also both funny and likable where as here because of the fact that the characters aren't being goofy and silly there not that enduring and there not the funny with the only funny thing in this whole PSA not even being something that the turtles said or did as just before they are about to fight the members of The Foot Clan the PSA does a random scene transition to after the fight which is only funny as it makes you realise just how cheaply made this PSA was and heck even the The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour which was still done pretty cheap still managed to have a fight scene with the turtles , shredder and the foot clan and yet this special couldn't afford to have the four or five Foot Clan actors be involved in a fight scene with the turtles and that is the best joke and it's not even something that the turtles as all it does is put emphasis on just how cheaply made and how quickly thrown together that this PSA was of that is the best joke in this whole entire PSA as the thing as a whole just isn't that funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this PSA does get credit for having turtle suits that has mouths that actually open and partly close the better live action PSA has to be Operation Blue Line just because of the fact that we get to the turtles out of New York and in LA for literally no good reason whatsoever where as here there's nothing that's all that redeemable about this PSA as it's just that bad and is better left forgotten about in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very PSA in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very PSA really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 3 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 a swell 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 and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very PSA that I used in this very review being the really great Google Image fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very PSA with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.