The Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles raked in almost $500 million at the worldwide box office, but it was widely regarded as a flop by both critics and hardcore TMNT fans alike. Jonathan Liebesman may have served as director, but the rebootedTurtles was all Bay spectacle, complete with puffed-up action sequences, low-hanging jokes, and gratuitous shots of Megan Fox. The sequel, subtitled Out of the Shadows, trades Liebesman for Earth to Echo director Dave Green, and while the final result is anything but a cinematic masterpiece, it’s at least an improvement over the original, as our four heroes in half-shells leave their sewer home behind to once again defend the streets of New York from cartoonish villains.