Four brothers who have never left the sewers get their shot at the surface in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, a 2023 animated reboot from director Jeff Rowe that trades the franchise's usual grit for a scrappy, hand-drawn-feeling comedy.
What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem about?
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael have spent their whole lives hidden underground, raised on old movies and pizza deliveries by their rat father. What they want most is ordinary: to go to high school, make friends, walk around New York in daylight without anyone screaming. Their path to that normal life runs straight through a city-threatening mutant army, forcing the brothers to weigh acceptance against the fight in front of them. The film keeps its focus on teenage awkwardness as much as ninja action, treating the turtles less like warriors and more like kids who happen to know martial arts and happen to look like giant reptiles. Ayo Edebiri voices a journalist who becomes tangled in their story, while Seth Rogen and John Cena appear among the human and mutant cast surrounding the brothers. The animation style leans into a scratchy, sketchbook look that sets this film apart visually from earlier entries in the franchise.
About the cast
Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon voice the four turtle brothers, bringing a younger, more naturalistic teenage energy to roles that have historically gone to adult voice actors. Ayo Edebiri plays the journalist drawn into their world, with Maya Rudolph, John Cena, and Seth Rogen filling out supporting parts across the human and mutant cast.
Context & significance
Mutant Mayhem arrived in 2023 as a full visual and tonal reset for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, moving away from the glossier CGI of prior films toward an animation style closer to a moving comic panel. Director Jeff Rowe, coming off The Mitchells vs. the Machines, brought that same voice-driven, family-adjacent comic sensibility to a property built on decades of action-figure and cartoon history.
Watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem on Ktime
Mutant Mayhem is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making it an easy pick for family movie nights across Persian-speaking households. A free K-Time account login is required to press play, though the film's page can be browsed without one. K-Time's Farsi-first design covers everything from subtitle timing to menu navigation for the Iranian diaspora.