The sequel to 1990's $100 million smash is amiably asinine. Let it go at that. The half-shell heroes are part of a hype juggernaut. This review merely marks the acting debut of rapper Vanilla Ice for the record.

Ice makes his appearance late in the film. While being chased by the evil Shredder and the Foot clan, the Turtles bust into an Ice concert. Trying to express surprise, Ice merely stares blankly at the camera, waiting for a song cue. His composition, "Ninja Rap," contains such deathless lyrics as "Go. Go. Ninja. Go." When the fight takes to the stage, Ice is curiously missing. Maybe his contract didn't call for him to hang around for the action, or maybe he just wimped out. Next time, if the Turtles really want to hurt 'em, they should call on Hammer.

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.