Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Release date

1991-03-22

Country

Hong Kong, United States

Production

New Line Cinema, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Mirage Studios

Genre

Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Family

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$78 656 813

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Director

Michael Pressman

Actors

Brian Tochi, Laurie Faso, Robbie Rist, Adam Carl, Paige Turco, David Warner, Kevin Clash, François Chau, David McCharen, Frank Welker
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Scenario

Todd W. Langen

Producer

Thomas K. Gray, David Chan, Kim Dawson, Raymond Chow Man-Wai

Operator

Shelly Johnson

Composer

John Du Prez

Artist

Audition

Lynn Stalmaster

Editing

Steve Mirkovich, John Wright
All team (28)

• For the majority of the film, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do not use their weapons, as parents of young viewers of the first film were dissatisfied with the excessive amount of violence on screen.
• Producers were pleased with the acting of Ernie Reyes Jr., who played Donatello in the fight scenes in the first film, so they wrote a separate role for him as Keno, an ally of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• The creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, were against the inclusion of Bebop and Rocksteady, villains from the 1987 animated series, as they considered them silly and irritating. For this reason, the creators came up with new mutant characters – Tokka and Razhar. According to producer Thomas K. Gray, the introduction of new characters was beneficial from a business point of view – it allowed the film's creators to claim royalties for their subsequent use.
• Filming took place at a film studio in North Carolina, where parts of the sewers and rooftops were recreated based on photographs of New York City.