Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Reboot Must Avoid Bay's Big Shredder Mistake

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To avoid repeating a huge mistake with Shredder, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot needs to do one important thing differently. Michael Bay's failed attempt at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles focused heavily on the main villain, as seen in the two endeavors from Paramount Pictures. When it comes to rebooting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, audiences are going to be watching for an improved Shredder narrative because of this earlier flaw.

The arch-nemesis of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles infamously made memorable appearances in the original 1990s films before popping up in the reimagined Michael Bay-produced series. 2014's live-action reboot missed the mark with Shredder, as his character felt shallow and underdeveloped. The big-budget follow-up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), further dismissed Shredder as an uninteresting throwaway villain as the movie went on to focus on a different foe instead.

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One of Michael Bay's biggest mistakes with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was not giving Shredder enough backstory as it contributed to the audience not being invested in him as a villain. In order to escape failure this time around, the writers will have to make audiences actually care about Shredder. Seth Rogen's reboot can avoid this error by making Shredder more sympathetic. As the feature-length animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film from Rogen is reportedly villain-focused, it represents a chance to deliver a tale that properly explores Shredder's moral shades of gray. It is important that more balance is given in Shredder's backstory as his origins are often only seen from one side in a move that ultimately leads