Sacks notes this will make him rich, though he already seems really rich, as the movie loves helicopter shots over his swank-looking estate. Shredder's in the new movie too, played by Tohoru Masamune, but he's feels like a secondary villain, helping out evil scientist Eric Sacks (William Fichtner) in a completely nonsensical plan to murder huge swaths of the city with poison gas in order to then sell them the antidote. Their leader Shredder's (James Saito) end game seems to be only to build an army of trained soldiers to make illicit money off of. The Foot Clan was represented as a kind of Japanese-themed street gang that recruited would-be juvenile delinquents to hang out in their graffiti/skateboard/cigarette den, learn martial arts, and steal things. The 1990 movie took place in a grimier, pre-Giuliani era New York City where there was more crime on the street for the Turtles to be trained to combat. Giving the Turtles a gritty makeover seems to miss the appeal of the characters in a fundamental way. This franchise is literally about giant turtles who do martial arts. They still make background quips and eat pizza, but they're total nightmare fuel when they're not in motion, with their noseless, nostril-first faces and 'roided-out bodies.
Raphael in particular, as the bulkiest of the four, looks scary, and the camera pans up his hulking body in their first full shot in order to emphasize this. And massive, muscle-bound turtle-men? They're pretty off-putting. The redesigned CGI Turtles in the 2014 version do look like real-life 6-foot-tall mutants. They were cartoons brought to life, highly advanced Muppets. They representing the cutting edge of effects technology at the time, but they still also looked nothing like actual human-sized mutated turtles. In 1990, the Turtles were played by actors wearing foam and latex suits crafted by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, their faces operated by computers controlled by off-screen puppeteers.
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