Vanilla Ice

Despite all efforts to stop it, there's a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie produced by Michael Bay set to be released this week, and to its credit, it is attempting to recreate the single most successful and memorable moment from the Turtles' film history. We speak, of course, of Vanilla Ice's classic "Ninja Rap," an unquestioned high point from TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze. This time around, the tune they're going with is "Shell Shocked" by Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla Sign, a song that has found a critic in Vanilla Ice himself. When asked by GQ what he thought of the new song, Ice was dismissive of the song, claiming that it lacked "the Magic" to musically represent what it means to be a "True Ninja."

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As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come back into the public eye with the second season of their CG animated Nickelodeon series and this summer's Michael Bay-produced live action movie, so too must Vanilla Ice. It is simply the way of things. Ice is indeed back with an invention that isn't entirely brand new, but it may grab a hold of you tightly. It's a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese commercial in wh

Chris Sims: Welcome back to ComicsAlliance's series of in-depth reviews of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films! Today, we're tackling the second half of TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze. When we last left off, I'm pretty sure the secrets had already been revealed (there is ooze, it was made by a company), and Shredder had made his own mutants to battle our heroes...

Chris Sims: Hello everyone, and welcome back to ComicsAlliance's needlessly thorough review series on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film franchise. Join us today as we embark on a journey... a journey to discover... The Secret of the Ooze...

Manga: The lastest issue of Young Ace dropped on October 4 in Japan and features the first installment of the BBC Sherlock manga spinoff by artist "Jay." Upcoming: Fantagraphics apparently has plenty more Carl Barks and Al Feldstein reprint projects in the pipeline...

Michael Bay, Earth's foremost expert on filming explosions and actresses running in slow motion, confounded fans a few days back when he revealed that his plans for the live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie reboot included depicting the Green Machines as aliens rather than Earthly turtles mutated by a strange ooze...

As it turns out, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are components of an evangelistic gospel of "outright Hinduism, occultism and humanism" that teaches children "ideals that are contrary to Christian beliefs" with subversive merchandise like "pepperoni sticks...