Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Cowabunga Christmas!

I love the shows on it, but in between the time of what would be commercials, didn't necessarily need the loud sayings. They were often louder than the show itself. I like the cover on this DVD box. I love Leo's big smile. And I also like how when you first play the disc that this time around you don't get stuck watching a boring preview about a dumb video game that you can't skip over like with the other one.

My kids loved getting this for Christmas. It is a great throwback to my childhood too so I don't mind watching it along with them. The product arrived in great condition with no defects or damage and has been played repeatedly since Christmas. I definitely recommend to get for your kids, ages 5 and up.

Great episodes of a classic comic book

My 2 year old son loves this move and I loved the price. I wish it was the newer turtles, but he liked it and it had 2 short movies on it.

I'm a huge TMNT fan and a sucker for Christmas specials so my view is a bit biased but I love it. The 2003 series has had some garbage releases but this one is pretty solid for the price. You get the full special and a couple bonus episodes.

Bought for the Grand-Kids for Christmas, they have watched it three times already and love it. Recommend it for any 4-8 year old's !

My son loves this movie! He is quoting it and he has only had it a few weeks. He is a happy camper.

Let's talk about the technical aspects of this DVD. First off, it's clearly inferior in quality when compared to the earlier Funimation / 4Kids release titled Michaelangelo's Christmas Rescue. That earlier disc treated the video correctly by using a 4:3 aspect ratio and the full horizontal resolution that DVD is capable of. In other words, the DVD player added the black bars to the sides of the picture. This release puts a 4:3 picture inside of a 16:9 space so that the video is actually pillarboxed by having the black side bars encoded into the video. This results in lower resolution with a less defined, blurrier picture. Additionally, this disc just has more noise in the picture. The random compression noise that is all too common on DVD.If none of this makes sense to you, then let me sum it up: This version is worse than the previous release, which is a sad situation. If Nickelodeon ever releases the rest of the 2003 series, then I would hope they do not follow this format.

英語音声のみ、英語字幕なし、もちろん日本語字幕なし、リージョン1なので国内プレーヤーでは再生できない場合もあるのでご注意を。こちらのDVDには「The Christmas Aliens (日本未放送)」「The Way of Invisibility (日本版「見えない敵」)」「Fallen Angel (日本版「ケイシー・ジョーンズを救え」)」の3話が収録されています。個人的にここで疑問が湧いたのですが、なぜシーズン3のクリスマス話の後に、何の関係も無さそうなシーズン1の話を入れたのかが理解できません…日本未放送のシーズン3を見たくて買ってみましたが、2/3が日本放送済みのエピソードが入ってるとは思いませんでした。それでもまあ、日本でDVD化されていないので損という訳では無いのですが…パッケージがクリスマス一色なので、過去のシーズンを入れるならせめて「Tales of Leo (日本版「生き返れ！レオナルド)」、「The Monster Hunter (日本版「タートルズはモンスター！？」)」のような雪が背景の話にしてもらいたかったものです。タートルズの権利は2009年にニコロデオンに買収され、2015年に発売されたこのDVDのパッケージにもニコロデオンのロゴが刻まれています。今回の、まるでエピソードを見ずに適当に決めたようなメチャクチャな話構成を見て、現在Amazonビデオでも視聴可能なニコロデオン発のいわゆるニック亀を贔屓にする為に、日本版DVDも出ておらずAmazonビデオにも無い、新亀と呼ばれている2003年からのタートルズシリーズを蔑ろにしてるのでは…？と勘繰ってしまいました。このDVDをリリースするにあたって、携わったスタッフが作品に対して愛情や熱意を少しでも持っていたのか疑問です。2003年タートルズが好きが故に卑屈になってしまったかもしれませんが、どうしても扱いの差が目に付いてしまいました…

100 % happy.