Why must they continue to destroy everything from my childhood?
To be fair, the situation with the Ninja Turtles is complicated.
I grew up with the original animated series having absolutely no idea there was a comic book before that, as naturally those did not make it past the iron curtain, but the animated series was one of the first western cartoons they aired after it fell; I still remember how we were begging for the TV to be turned on in kindergarten and were glued to the screen watching it.
I don't know which version you grew up with, but because of what I saw first, I have never been able to enjoy neither the comics, nor the movie, nor any of the subsequent incarnations of the concept. And it was only many many years later that I realized that what I grew up with is bastardization of the original concept...