Gene Siskel - Host: I only smiled at a couple of the pratfalls at the beginning of this movie, but after that, "Ninja Turtles 2" was really depressing to sit through.
Roger Ebert - Host: I was depressed, too. You know, Gene, the superheroes that we grew up with, like Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, were really individuals that stood for something, and really had ideas. And here, you have kind of a collective group of these radioactive turtles who seem to applaud the lowest-common denominator. They talk to each other in the way that teenage boys sometimes do when they're trying not to stand out from the crowd...
Gene Siskel - Host: Exactly.
Roger Ebert - Host: ...By having any ideas. Y'know: "Cowabunga, dude." It's, uh, as long as we talk in this way, and act in unison, we don't have any ideas of our own, we're not individuals, we don't have to make decisions.
Gene Siskel - Host: Right.
Roger Ebert - Host: It'll all be just fine. It's really... it's really depressing. I think there's something going on with these Turtles...
Gene Siskel - Host: Yes.
Roger Ebert - Host: ...That's telling us something alarming about our society.
