OK, for everybody trying to figure out HOW THE SHREDDER CAME BACK TO LIFE in movie 2, here's the freakin' explanation you all missed in the film!
Shredder wasn't given a proper burial, but instead was put in a landfill. The very same landfill where Ooze had previously been dumped (resulting in those mega-huge sunflowers, the scientist's interview with April in the beginning). Because his remains were disposed of in an area where Ooze had been recklessly dumped into the environment, it brought him back to life. Most likely it took awhile to regenerate him, soak fully into his system, but that's also why he wasn't afraid to touch or drink the ooze. Just his second dose turned his regenerated body into the Super Shredder.
I figured that all out when I saw it as a kid in the movie theatre! Geesh. They did all that exposition for a reason! Duh! Not to sound evil, but it's not that hard to figure out! When the scientist realized the ooze had leaked into the landfill being cleaned up, found the huge sun flowers, that's when he decided to dispose of all the ooze in an environmentally safe way to stop more mutations. Shredder had risen though, Splinter told the Turtles about the Ooze, and they converged to fight each other at the lab where the last batch of ooze remained. Simple, isn't it?
Watch it again, actually pay attention, and everything just might make sense! Except for Vanilla Ice, because that will never, never, never ever make any sense!
Sincerely,
Exchronos
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ooglafina
15 years ago
I don't think you can say that it was easy to catch on to because I never did in the 15 plus years since I've watched it and neither did any of these people, who seem to be pretty intelligent. There's a big gap with that idea because there is no hint anywhere that the ooze brings things back to life. It is known to mutate things that are already alive but nowhere do they say that it can revive something that has been dead for most likely a month. Also Dr. Perry says that they lost one can down a sewer. Even if Shredder was lying in the same area where they dumped the first ooze (which I'm not seeing in my head. Nobody dumps toxic waste in a dump.) there is no indication that it would revive him. If that was their intention, then they didn't try hard enough to explain it.
Also, why does it take Shredder so fast to mutate at the end of the movie when it took days for Tokka and Rahzar? Maybe it was because he was presumed to have drank the ooze instead of rolled in it. Also, his clothes mutated along with him, which doesn't seem right.
I know most people think it's silly to debate the reality of a movie with four giant talking turtles, but writers should at least take the time not to insult their audience by assuming that they either don't notice or care about basic credibility.
*Jumps off the soap box.*
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