The latest installment in the Fine Bros. hugely popular Kids React series focuses on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is notable because, as we saw before when someone unearthed the Turtles live appearance on a 1990 episode of Oprah, kids generally have some really good opinions about these characters. (Sample quotes from the Oprah episode: “I like when they fight”; “Where are your weapons?”; and “If you don’t have your weapons today, how can you fight somebody?” Magical.) This doesn’t quite live up to that — how could anything, really? — but there are a couple notable moments. Shoutout to Lucas, Age 6, who loves Leonardo and dancing more than most of you love your own family.
Oh, and also shoutout Dylan, who at just 12 years old has already acquired black-rimmed glasses and a film student’s ambivalence about Michael Bay, which he happily discusses while watching the trailer for the new TMNT movie. He’s like some sort of Internet prodigy. I have no doubt he’ll be my boss in five years.
