A Christmas special from the TMNT in the mid-90′s probably wasn’t going to win alot of “best-of” awards. But even as a die-hard turtle fan, I can’t fathom any way at all to defend this thing. This movie came direct to VHS in 1994, after the abomination that was Teeange Mutant Ninja Turtles III and the terribly bizarre TMNT: Coming out of Their Shells Tour (sorry mom and dad), which puts THIS release, as standing alone on top of Turtle crap mountain.

There are almost zero positive things I can say about this movie. The voice acting is terrible, from Leonardo taking in a Jamaican accent to Michelangelo assuring that yet another generation won’t respect opera, there is no relief. The costume construction is terrible, there appears to be about a 6 inch gap between neck and bottom of the head, the shells look like cardboard cutouts, those ghastly smiling teeth look like something out of a child’s nightmare and god help me if it doesn’t look like the turtle’s crotch is about to come “out of it’s shell” if you gather what I’m saying.

Worse still is Splinter, who literally looks like an Ewok that took a nice long ride on perma-press in the TMNT dryer. The lip syncing is atrocious (see if you can spot all of the times that the lips keep moving after the turtle has stopped talking) .

Despite all of that, or more then likely because of it, I can’t watch this thing without laughing for hours. This is the kind of bad that is best shared with friends, so to you, I give my early Christmas present, the gift of laughter at “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas”