We Wish You a Turtle Christmas

We Wish You a Turtle Christmas
Cowabunga, dudes! It's the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles version of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Genre: Musical Directed by: Larry Osborne Produced by: Christopher Films Based on: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird Starring: Eric Anzalon Alfredo Miller Matt Baker Zach Grenier Ethan Lipkin Distributed by: Family Home Entertainment Release date: 1994 Runtime: 25 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $5,000 Franchise: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

We Wish You a Turtle Christmas is, as its name suggests, a 1994 Christmas direct-to-video film based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Plot

The Turtles forget to buy Splinter a gift and they have to go find one for him.

Why It Can't Do the Wrap Rap

1. The story is terrible and stupid.
2. The costumes look very fake and nightmarish. The Turtles constantly grin throughout the whole film, the removable heads are easily noticeable and the lip-syncing is completely off. Also, Splinter's design looks more like a gerbil than a rat.
3. April O'Neil and Casey Jones are absent and do not appear in this special.
4. Since it is 25 minutes, it feels more like a TV special.
5. The voice-acting is really bad. The Turtles sound like they have Jamaican accents instead of American accents.
6. Countless padding, the most egregious one being how the undisguised Turtles are able to walk out onto the streets of New York without getting shot at.
7. Plenty of pointless scenes that drag on and on, such as Michelangelo singing opera in the middle of Times Square.
8. The Turtles versions of "Deck The Halls" and "12 Days of Christmas" are outright repetitve and dumb.
   • The infamous "Wrap Rap" is a painful attempt at trying to be hip with the times.
9. Random kids start appearing in the middle of musical numbers without any introduction.
10. The title itself is laughably stupid.

Redeeming Qualities

1. It's not long, only 25 minutes.
2. It can be entertaining for how bad it is.
3. The singing isn't bad.
4. The song "Oh, Little City Of New York" is sung pretty good and might be the best song in the film.
5. The poor production values of the special can at least be excused since it was all done with an insanely tiny budget of $5,000.

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