Four brothers built for battle get a bright, anime-inflected reboot in this 2022 animated feature spun out of the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, trading grim sewer aesthetics for loud color and comic-book energy.
What is Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie about?
The story turns on a warning: a stranger arrives from a future gone wrong and tells the turtles that a monstrous alien threat is coming for their city. Leo, usually happy to coast on charm rather than responsibility, has to step up and actually lead his brothers Raph, Donnie, and Mikey instead of just talking a good game. The four of them scramble to figure out who this visitor really is, what the warning means, and whether they can trust it at all, while the enemy closes in faster than any of them expected. Along the way the film leans hard into sibling friction — competitive jabs, hurt feelings, reluctant teamwork — as the real engine of the plot, using the alien-invasion stakes mostly as pressure to force the brothers to actually function as a team rather than four separate personalities sharing a lair.
About the cast
The English voice cast is led by Ben Schwartz, joined by Omar Benson Miller, Brandon Mychal Smith, and Josh Brener, with further support from Haley Joel Osment, Eric Bauza, Kat Graham, and Jim Pirri rounding out the turtles' world.
Context & significance
Directed by Andy Suriano and Ant Ward, the film carries over the flatter, sketchbook-style character design that defined the Rise television series rather than the more muscular look of earlier TMNT film adaptations, and it leans into that art style as a selling point rather than smoothing it out for the big screen. Genre-wise it sits across action, animation, and comedy, aimed squarely at a family audience, and it runs a brisk 86 minutes — short enough to work as an easy watch for younger viewers without losing the older siblings in the room. Critical reception on release was mixed to positive, with most of the goodwill going to the visual style and the cast's chemistry rather than the plot mechanics.
Watching Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie on Ktime
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it works equally well for kids who prefer Farsi audio and for parents following along with subtitles. The page itself is free to browse; watching the film just needs a free K-Time account login, no extra step beyond that. It's part of K-Time's push to make family animation genuinely accessible in Farsi for diaspora households, not just subtitled as an afterthought.