The hackneyed quips were really out of place and made the film seem unbalanced. Joss Whedon just dropped his pants and took a dump on an unfinished product that was already being dissected under the Warner Bros producers' knife.
It's going to be a long time before this is up and running, if they were smart they'd collaborate with the Nostalrius crew to speed things along, but I doubt we'll see this until 2020 at the very least.
To be fair, they made Baxter Stockman white in the 1980s cartoon so this isn't the first time a character's race has been altered in TMNT. Also Raphael seems too hotheaded to be a leader, unless this is about story progression for Leonardo's rise to become leader and Raph learning humility.
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