
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem did not have a massive opening weekend at the box office, but it is getting very strong responses from critics as one of the best (if not the best) Ninja Turtles movies to date. It’s got impressive animation and action, but the film’s humor is one of the things being singled out as impressive. Although apparently even the filmmakers weren’t aware just how funny it is.
It turns out there was one particular joke that producer Seth Rogen thought was so stupid he wanted to remove it from the film. Director Jeff Rowe recently told Slashfilm, about the line, which he actually speaks as a bit of a vocal cameo. It comes as the Turtles are at a low point, realizing how far away their dream of being able to exist among humans truly is, when one of those humans puts a specific voice to their pain. Rowe explained…