There are some great fictional dads in pop culture - like Bandit from Bluey or T’Challa from Black Panther - but Splinter is criminally underrated. Kids becoming teenagers is a big deal, and TMNT demonstrates the right and wrong way to be present as kids take those steps from childhood to maturity. It’s literally in the title! The movie is filled with examples of good fathers, bad fathers, and fathers who just don’t know what to do with their teens. The core of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn’t martial arts action. But how does a movie about radioactive turtles accomplish such nuances? Let’s take a look and see if we can find the secret in that ooze! That’s right, the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is a moving and surprisingly realistic depiction of parenting. Thirty-three years ago, on March 30, 1990, one movie captured the beauty of fatherhood like no other.
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