Madea on the half shell.
By Brandon Wolfe
Last year’s impossibly awful reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made a ton of money, so we are thus condemned to be plunged into the toxic ooze once more in a sequel. That sequel will now add Tyler Perry, of all people, as Baxter Stockman, a scientist well-known to fans of TMNT lore. Stockman was the inventor of the Mousers, robotic exterminators used to deal with rat infestations, and thus a viable weapon for Shredder to wield against Splinter, the Turtles’ rat sensei. In the cartoon series, Stockman also became a human/fly hybrid creature, because Cronenberg’s The Fly was all the rage at the time, but there’s no word yet if that incarnation of Stockman will be on the table in the film.
Perry will join Arrow’s Stephen Amell, recently cast as hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones, as well as returning stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett. It has also been said that Bebop and Rocksteady, mutant fan-favorites from the cartoon, will be introduced into the sequel. However, since the exact same creative team (including dreaded producer Michael Bay) is encoring for the second infusion of turtle power, best to keep your expectations down in the sewer where they belong.
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