Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

"Shredder, you gotta listen to reason! You’re gonna destroy us all!"

"OK, I got it. "Frere Jacques". [starts singing "Frere Jacques" by himself]"

"Ninja pizza?"

"April, it's Mikey, I'd just like to say HELLO-OO-OO-OO! Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah--"

"It wasn't slime, it was ooze. And there's more of it out there."

"Cowabunga, it's the new turtle movie."

"Back by bodacious demand."

"GO NINJA, GO NINJA GO, GO NINJA, GO NINJA GO . . . . GO GO GO GO"

"The film’s sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ll – The Secret Of The Ooze, arrived at the BBFC in April 1991 with a PG request. The BBFC Examiners acknowledged that this was a much milder film than its predecessor, and one report notes that "most of the violence-level here is ‘U’ rather than ‘PG’, though quantitatively there is enough to justify the PG requested by the company – just!" However, BBFC Examiners also realised there was potentially a problem with some of the violence, in particular the use of improvised props resembling chainsticks or nunchaku: "In the credits sequence in Reel 1, chainsticks are wielded (or seem to be) after a shot of sausages hanging from the butcher’s rail. Since there is real confusion between chainsticks and sausages this sequence needs to be carefully checked before cuts (if any) are listed. Ditto a sequence in Reel 2, where April tries out a pair of chainsticks; could they be sausages? If so, we would look pretty foolish (right Charlies, in fact) if we cut them!" Another report states the then BBFC policy to remove these weapons, but warned that pragmatically it might be unwise to remove sausages used to resemble the weapon. After contacting the distributor, the BBFC was reassured that all the sequences ‘involved sausages not sticks’. However, BBFC Director James Ferman thought there was still potential for the sequence to showcase chainsticks-type weapons, and the sausages would look like these weapons ‘to any streetwise 8 year old’. The cuts list therefore included the following request to minimise any glamorisation of easily accessible weapons: "After turtle takes down sausages and uses them as a flail. Reduce to minimum dazzling display of swinging sausages indistinguishable from chainsticks" The Examiner reports for the video release include some criticism of the decision, with one report noting that "the sausage/chainstick confusion makes his [Ferman’s] cuts list a tiny bit ludicrous to read"."

"Paige Turco - April O'Neil"

"Mark Caso - Leonardo/News Room Staff"

"David Warner - Professor Jordan Perry"

"Michelan Sisti - Michaelangelo/Soho Man"

"Leif Tilden - Donatello/Foot #3"

"Kenn Scott - Raphael"

"Kevin Clash - Splinter (voice)"

"Ernie Reyes Jr. - Keno"

"François Chau - Shredder"

"Toshirô Obata - Tatsu"