BRIEF STORYLINE: Carnage is taking place, buildings are crumbling, cracks opening in sidewalks.The turtles climb out the sewers and wonder just what is going on. Dregg then suddenly appears in the sky with an army of bat-men coming towards the turtles. However the turtles salvage themselves and escape unscarred.
Dregg is absolutely hysterical about the the turtles escaping yet again, but he has something else up his sleeve. Mung helps him reprogram the transporter to open a warp in space to that will swallow the Earth whole!
Donatello is looking at his updated computer readout and discovers what Dregg is up to. In two hours the warp will swallow Earth. Earth will be thrown into Dimension X, and the turtles have to stop him!
Unfortunately Leonardo, Donatello and Splinter are are swallowed up by a black hole. In the process, Splinter gets seperated from the rest and lands on a planetoid.
Do the turtles have any chance of coming back to Earth, or will they have to rely on Splinter and April's efforts?
TMNT REVIEW HQ COMMENTS: This episode had so much going for it, with a real solid, action-packed beginning but disappoints not long after those scenes.
A very likeable beginning as the turtles do battle with the Bat-men on the streets of New York, and then Dregg appears with what look like a red light saber (Thank you Star Wars!). A really good twist to the fight, as Dregg thinks he has finally succeeded as the the turtles become stuck frozen, and they break into pieces, but then the real turtles come up from the sewers and win. How do they do that?
Then the quality goes downhill considerably as Dregg and Mung hatch a plan to transmit a warp that will swallow up Earth. It does get better when an uncontrollable wind enters the turtles lair, and the turtles get sucked into the portal.
The most disappointing action scenes are the ones the turtles have with these monsters in another dimension. The action is scrappy and involves a fire-breathing dragon-type alien, large hands breaking out of the grounds grappling Leonardo and Donatello, and a giant yeti-type monster attacking Raphael and Michaelangelo. Raphael derives some humour from this as he feels like "a sprig of parsley on a plate" compared to this giant yeti-like monster.
Splinter's action with the Bat-men fares better with some nice lines. Hardly any of the unmemorable scenes involving Dregg are well edited. The last part of the episode does improve like when April is trying to open the portal, fighting against the high wind. The final battles are one of the highlights of this under-performing episode.
The finish of Dregg here, is highly dramatisized by the good use of scenes, the voice actors and the music, as Dregg's spaceship the Dreggnaught is sucked into the black hole, and Dregg narrowly misses out on following the turtles through the portal to their lair. The ending is bad though, and is comes across as a lazy dialogue and not clever scene where Donatello promises to the rest he will not switch on the portal again, after a scare in which a monster's big hand takes a swipe at them.
"THE DAY THE EARTH DISAPPEARED" GETS A: 2/5 RATING.
