Yesterday, the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Twitter account dropped a complete list of the incredible cast of the upcoming TMNT: Mutant Mayhem with the promise of a trailer today.

Team: Assembled. Shells: Polished. Pizza: Ordered. Meet the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: #MutantMayhem. Our TRAILER drops Monday, March 6.

Nicolas Cantu is Leonardo. #TMNTMovie pic.twitter.com/IrTkLPDIRX

— TMNT (@TMNTMovie) March 5, 2023

Well, it’s here and it looks like perfection to me.

A couple of things that stand out to me:

1. I love the choice of animation style. It reminds me of “Into the Spiderverse” which has a unique way of appearing two and three-dimensional while giving it a gritty graphic comic vibe. It steps away from Michael Bay’s take which was an odd and forgettable interpretation.
2. The cast is INSANE! You cannot tell me there’s a better version of Splinter than Jackie Chan. I will not hear arguments on this topic.
   1. Micah Abbey as Donatello
   2. Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo
   3. Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog
   4. Rose Byrne as Leatherhead
   5. Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo
   6. John Cena as Rocksteady
   7. Jackie Chan as Splinter
   8. Ice Cube as Superfly
   9. Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut
   10. Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil
   11. Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman
   12. Post Malone as Ray Fillet
   13. Brady Noon as Raphael
   14. Seth Rogen as Bebop
   15. Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko
   16. Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrom
3. This trailer made me want to high-five my 8-year-old self.

My boys are rounding in the perfect age for TMNT so I can only hope that one or both of them fall in love with the Turtles the way I did as a kid so I can not look like a weirdo going to this movie by myself because make no mistake about it, I will be seeing this. With or without them.

COWABUNGA!