First Watch: The Payoff Trailer For Michael Bay's 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Is Here

People were understandably polarised when the first official trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot hit the web back in March.

Criticisms ranged from the presence of Megan Fox as April O'Neill (at least they kept the yellow jacket) to the apparently overly goofy tone and the fact the turtles themselves appear to have lips -- but the new payoff trailer, just dropped by Paramount on YouTube, goes a long way towards assuaging fears about the movie.

Firstly, the turtles' quips -- and there are plenty on offer in the payoff -- go beyond shallow battle cries of "Hang ten!" and "Batter up!" and the like; there is a genuinely amusing moment in which the reptilian mutant ninjas get busted by a camera flash on a city rooftop (in the middle of a "never be seen!" mantra party, no less); Will Arnett's news cameraman Vernon Fenwick seems pretty on the money; and there's a nice little self-aware nod to the canned "alien" origin storyline that set the internet on a warpath when it leaked last year.

All that said, this is still a Michael Bay production, and so it mustn't be entered into without an understanding that there is a requisite amount of cheese melted all over this nostalgia pizza, with some of the throwaways, soundtrack choices and explosive sequences giving cause for pause -- not to mention things like the rocket-boards and the film's bizarre take on iconic baddie the Shredder (William Fichtner, for some reason, plus all the knives in the world).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stars the voice talents of Johnny Knoxville and Tony Shalhoub (Leonardo and Splinter, respectively) as well as their motion capture actors Pete Ploszek and Danny Woodburn, and remaining turtles Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard. Whoopi Goldberg also features.

The movie is due for release on September 11 this year.