A live-action version of the popular animated TV series for kids. Due to radiation exposure, the four artist-named teenagers Michelanglo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo, have mutated into turtles; now, they live in the New York City sewers, where they eat pizza, talk jive, and learn the tricks of a ninja from their guru, Splinter the Rat. When a group of juvenile delinquents called the Foot Gang, lead by The Shredder, start wreaking havoc in the city, our Heroes in a Half-Shell join forces with an intrepid girl reporter to put an end to the gang's evil ways.
Splinter, the rat Ninja Master is kidnapped by the evil Shredder and his gang of hoodlums. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with the help of a female reporter embark on a hazardous journey to save him.