Passes the Bechdel test

TMNT

Name: TMNT
Released: 2007

2007. Directed by Kevin Munroe, written by Kevin Munroe and Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 104.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

After the defeat of their old archnemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles are needed more than ever, but Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo have become lost and directionless. Leonardo has gone to Central America, on the orders of the martial arts master and father figure Master Splinter, for training. Donatello and Michelangelo have started small businesses in Leonardo's absence. Meanwhile, strange things are happening in New York City. An army of ancient creatures threatens to take over the world and the Turtles must unite again to save it.

Released: 23 Mar 2007
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.2 / 10
Metascore: 41 / 100
Awards: 3 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Raphael 82 lines, man
Casey 69 lines, man
Michaelangelo 68 lines, man
Leonardo 57 lines, man
Winters 52 lines, man
April 50 lines, woman
Donatello 50 lines, man
Splinter 44 lines, man
Karai 20 lines, woman
General Aguila 15 lines, man

Full cast, 29 people

Chris Evans as Casey Jones (voice)
Sarah Michelle Gellar as April O'Neil (voice)
Patrick Stewart as Winters (voice)
Mako as Splinter (voice)
Zhang Ziyi as Karai (voice)
James Arnold Taylor as Leonardo (voice)
Mitchell Whitfield as Donatello / Additional Voices (voice)
Nolan North as Raphael / Nightwatcher (voice)
Mikey Kelley as Michelangelo (voice)
Laurence Fishburne as Narrator (voice)
Kevin Smith as Diner Cook (voice)
John DiMaggio as Colonel Santino (voice)
Paula Mattioli as General Serpiente (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson as General Aguila / Additional Voices (voice)
Fred Tatasciore as General Gato / Additional Voices (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker as Additional Voices (voice)
Greg Baldwin as Splinter (voice)
Jeff Bennett as Additional Voices (voice)
Jim Cummings as Additional Voices (voice)
Grey DeLisle as Additional Voices (voice)
Chris Edgerly as Additional Voices (voice)
Kim Mai Guest as Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Hale as Additional Voices (voice)
Jess Harnell as Additional Voices (voice)
Phil LaMarr as Additional Voices (voice)
Paul Michael Robinson as Additional Voices (voice)
Tara Strong as Additional Voices (voice)
Billy West as Additional Voices (voice)
Kevin Munroe as Diner Patron (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 104

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	3
4 to 6	1	9
7 to 9	1	1
10 to 12	0	12
13 to 15	3	6
16 to 18	0	7
19 to 21	0	6
22 to 24	2	12
25 to 27	4	24
28 to 30	0	20
31 to 33	0	4
34 to 36	0	1
37 to 39	3	17
40 to 42	10	20
43 to 45	3	7
46 to 48	0	31
49 to 51	5	25
52 to 54	0	24
55 to 57	5	4
58 to 60	0	24
61 to 63	0	22
64 to 66	8	31
67 to 69	3	8
70 to 72	0	3
73 to 75	0	0
76 to 78	0	12
79 to 81	1	12
82 to 84	0	18
85 to 87	2	6
88 to 90	5	9
91 to 93	6	7
94 to 96	2	23
97 to 99	11	63
100 to 102	0	7
103 to 104	1	2

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

APRIL: What does THAT mean? KARAI: It means we're going to help you. KARAI: My soldiers will find the thirteenth monster. And you will bring it back here. Hurry - we don't have much time.

APRIL: Don't try to tell me for one second that you didn't enjoy tha- KARAI: You are every bit the warriors I was informed you were. You have passed.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.

76 lines from women, 480 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 22 men in the cast. 2 women and 14 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 7 of 658. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 71 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 14% of the words (768), men 86% (4,555).

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

None of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 7% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Kevin Munroe (man)
Written by: Kevin Munroe (man)
Produced by: Galen Walker (man), Thomas K. Gray (man), Kyle Clark (gender not listed), Tom Gray Thomas Gray (gender not listed), Paul Wang (gender not listed)
Shot by: Steve Lumley (man)
Edited by: John Damien Ryan (man)
Music by: Klaus Badelt (man)
Production design by: Simon Murton (man)