. . . unique TMNT content, OUT OF THE SHADOWS is not exactly chock-full of new revelations. Even casual fans have long tired of the TMNT Origin Story, in which a hot coed named April off to her freshman year at college is given a dorm-warming gift of four ordinary baby terrapins, catches a seemingly fatal case of salmonella poisoning from them, and is only saved when the Reptilarium under her hospital Death Bed is attacked by an escaped but starving radioactive medical research lab rat which bites each of the tiny tortoises in a thwarted attempt to scarf down turtle maximum rare. Instead, the rodent and quartet of amphibian brothers are super-sized, endowed with a whole raft of mutant powers, and blessed with the ability to speak fluent American. Their first order of business after this miraculous transformation is to discover an antidote to salmonella, so that April can be saved to become their liaison with Humanity, fulfilling the same role that Renfield does for DRA(ULA. However, SHADOWS is a pretty tame TMNT outing, with none of the characters needing to use the franchises safe word--"Cowabunga"--until almost an hour (59:30) has elapsed. We do learn here for the first time that "Notsomuch" is the brothers' Transylvanian-sounding surname.
