Ehhhh, well, matter of opinion, I guess. Personally, I thought the purple-and-grey look from the cartoon suited his character quite nicely, but if they weren't going to do that (and I can understand why they wouldn't, if they were trying to stick more closely to the comics), I wish they'd gone with either a darker color, or at very least, lost the friggin' sparklies. Where is it written that the head of a Ninja clan must sparkle and twinkle? I wouldn't have minded the red so much if I didn't constantly have the feeling that Shredder was about to either do an equestrian trick or start singing 'I feel pretty... oh, so pretty...'