After a 14-year lunch break, the “”Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”” film franchise has emerged from the sewers, revamped in CGI form. “”TMNT”” (apparently, we no longer have the attention span to deal with a movie title longer than three words, and can only handle acronyms) picks up after the defeat of arch nemesis Shredder, with each of the four New York City vigilantes splitting from the group and doing his own thing. But rat-turned-sensei-master Splinter, voiced by the late Mako Iwamatsu, eagerly tries to get the family back together, because – you guessed it – a new evil is on the rise.

Visually, the computer-generated turtles look a little less creepy than the Jim Henson puppets of the first three late-’80s/early-’90s installations. Sarah Michelle Gellar, veteran computer-generated hero support (see: “”Scooby Doo””), lends her voice as April O’Neill, a spunky Manhattanite who befriends the turtles and kicks it in their sewer. April and her onscreen love interest Casey Jones, the former cell phone-wielding, flame-engulfed voice of Chris Evans, assist the turtles in their fight against tech industrialist Maximillian J. Winters, a new villain voiced by the ubiquitous Patrick Stewart.

It’s about time the four reigning reptilian warriors – named after Renaissance artists and notorious for coining catch phrases like “”Cowabunga, dudes!”” – resurfaced on the silver screen.