A good review of POwer Rangers the movie Oo?

[NinjaJack]

I was surfing on google today, and I stumbled upon a GOOD review for the first PR movie, heres some bits of it but you can read the full review here

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/577.html


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I've always been intrigued with the Power Rangers. I enjoy them on this almost astral level in the same way I enjoy removing splinters from my big toe. I'm not supposed to enjoy it, there's really nothing redeemable about it to make it enjoyable, but when all's said and done, I've gotta admit - it was a fun ride. That goes for the movie and the splinter removal process. Oh, one last thing: Power Rangers certainly redefined the idea of defying logic, but I'd feel guilty if I didn't mention the show's most outstanding irony: a guy who quite clearly would only drink carrot juice to wash down his own concoction of peanut paste and canola oil...running a health juice bar. Forget the fact that Rita Repulsa was able to breathe on the moon and could see small Earth cities from aforementioned moon - Ernie the Bartender was the show's true anomaly. Okay, let's review the shockingly watchable flick:
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Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, the mainstay enemies of the Rangers, arrive at the site of the purple egg. Zedd, who offers nothing in battle but looks quite interesting, says that a great evil has been trapped in that egg for thousands of years. My bet? A pterodactyl. I shouldn't neglect to mention that I've been sexually attracted to Rita Repulsa ever since she taught me how to slice the moon in half. PS, I'm pretty sure it was explained on the show that Zedd and Rita are an item. Could you imagine how great a sitcom featuring those two lovebirds would be? Rita getting pissed because Zedd always gets home from work so late...Zedd destroying the state of Missouri in frustration...Rita trying to remove Zedd's pants for makeup sex before realizing that he's not wearing clothes, and is made up entirely of some weird interwoven string of glowing red alien nerves....late night coffee house chats...it'd be a dream. F*** the Friends premiere...the good stuff's just waiting to be done.

Merried with Monsters? A failed Fox thursday night sitcom?


First up: Annihilation of Zordon. Ivan oozes his way into the command center, looks around, and starts blowing up everything in sight. Zordon can't offer much defense, because let's face it, he's just a semitransparent floating image of a head. Alpha does his best to thwart our slimy pal, but he proves what we've already known for years correct: Alpha is a useless, blathering pile of metal better suited for the scrap heap than children's television.


LOL, this guy must have watched it off an on for a long tmie :p
This was a pretty positive review, the guy is actually pretty funny too.

[ToonamiFanatic]

I remember when the orginal power rangers movie came out. the power rangers fad was still strong. I thought the movie was great but I havent seen it in years. I still havent seen the second movie heard that wasnt that good. think power rangers started going down hill after Zeo.
but that was a good preview. never did think about how could rita breathe on the moon and stuff. I didnt catch the irony about ernie and the juice bar can someone explain that?

[Tobias]

This guy gives fairly positive reviews to a lot of bad movies, unless they really, really, really, suck.

[ClockStomper]

Too bad he forgot about the part where the Megazord knees Ivan in the balls. :eek:

Why do I remember that?

[SonGoku V3]

I remember when the orginal power rangers movie came out. the power rangers fad was still strong. I thought the movie was great but I havent seen it in years. I still havent seen the second movie heard that wasnt that good. think power rangers started going down hill after Zeo.

I wouldn't say it went downhill after Zeo, just the novelty wore off. I mean, when it first came on, it was a pretty new concept, multicolored superheroes fighting with skyscraper sized robots.....and explosions every episode. After awhile(and seeing the same characters every time doing the same thing, and also seeing old favorites leave), it just got boring to watch. I personally dislike Zeo and most of Turbo, but I'm glad I stuck around to see Space and the other current seasons. They were all fun to watch....I just wish others were able to see that instead of over analyzing the show and saying "oh, this looks sooo fake"(DUH!) when all it really wants to do is entertain you. Sorry, went on a little rant! :)

[Shawn Hopkins]

I've seen a positive review for this movie. The guy that panned it for Sci Fi Universe let his four year old son do a counterpoint review. IIRC it was the best movie ever, and one of the best parts was the noise the frog zord made. I miss that magazine.

[Simpler Simon]

As a tie-in to a children's TV show, the first PR movie did everything right - better looking costumes, an inventive villain, better effects budget for cooler zords, better fight scenes (first time they fought at night?), bigger stakes, and that hot amazon chick who guarded the ninja powers. I won't say its a good movie by any means, but it's pretty watchable for a nostalogic trip, and it shows a lot more effort than most companies would give these days.

[Dr Kain]

Hey, I liked the 1st movie, and I still do. It is the only PR thing I can really care for. I mean Zedd and Goldar had kick ass costumes, the rangers' costumes were very cool, the Ninja Zords were done in an excellent CGI, and the movie was fun. It is too bad they didn't keep those costumes for S3 seeing as how the ranger scenes were shot American shot scenes anyway.

[Samurai Karasu]

I liked the movie as well.

I would have thanked you for showing me this site if it were 9 months earlyer but I found it luckily ^_^

[keds1017]

man, i just was watching this movie with my 9 yr old niece today{it came on my local Fox 5 network} and she love it!! even more than ninja storm!! now she wants to see more of mmpr.. so i showed her two ep encoded on my pc from season 3 {stop the hate master 1 and 2}.. Now she's hooked.. i created a monster!!! :) btw she love Aisha and so do i.. :cool:

[Hades]

i hated Ivan, i thought he was lame as hell. and it would have been better if it was in contunity with the show. other than that, i thought it was pretty good.

[PowerZord]

well this movie was better than turbo. and the command center is better

[Chris Wood]

Ugh, the only good thing about that cinematic trainwreck was the all-star band they put together for the cheesy theme song, which kind of rocks.

Here's another wacky review:

By JIM SLOTEK
Toronto Sun
Prizes. You can't face a horde of Morphin maniacs without prizes. At last week's preview screening of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, AM 640 guy Jesse Dylan and I handed out scoff to the kids.
T-shirts, books, power sticks, POGs .. "and a tranquilizer the size of a golfball for your parents," Dylan quipped. A cynical, decidedly baritone cheer went up.
Welcome to the Ninth Circle of Hell for parents ... dads mostly. Or if you're my five-year-old son Michael and his pal Jesse, welcome to the land of "Awesome!"
Actually, the Power Rangers movie isn't a total waste for us big folk. It can be quite enjoyable if you exercise the option of heckling quietly. When our pastel vinyl-clad teen ninja heroes travel to an alien world to meet Dulcea (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick), the tall, tawny warrior who grants them new powers and "Zords," Jesse's dad Steve whispered to me, "Hi, I'm Miss July!" Or when the Rangers arrive at Dulcea's home world - an ordinary sunlit beach that might be Malibu - I offered up with mock amazement, "Look at how utterly strange and alien this planet is!" Thus did we yuk our way through the campiest parts.
The best parts - surprisingly enough - are the FX. Surprisingly, because the Power Rangers are a fluke TV hit that features cheap Japanese papier-mache buildings being knocked down Godzilla-style by guys in monster suits. Handing these over to high-priced Hollywood digital FX magicians seemed certain to rob the Power Rangers of their charm.
Not so. The clunky, charmingly overwrought superhero dialogue is still there for camp followers.
("Thank you, Power Rangers, for once again saving Angel Grove!" intones a TV newsman on-air at the end.
"Thank you, Power Rangers," I whispered to Steve, "for once again attracting monsters to Angel Grove!")
And the FX actually improved the show for the kids. The "Zords" - the Power Rangers' animal-based war machines - now melt into each other digitally, putting blazing big-screen "morph" into the Morphin. Michael and Jesse agreed, the new Zords were "cool."
The plot is cookie-cutter as ever. But the usual villains - Lord Zed and his queen, Rita Repulsa - are quickly pushed aside for the antics of Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman, a sarcastic evil wizard with an ingrown chin. Ivan shows up at the fortress of the PR's boss, good-guy wizard Zordon, and trashes the place. Zordon is mortally wounded, the Power Rangers bereft of Zords.
Thus Ivan is free to, for no particular reason, turn the parents of Angel Grove into zombies via his poisonous ooze. That is, until the Rangers get their new Zords.
Frankly I think the new Zords are lame. The dinosaurs are gone. Now there's an Ape Zord and a Wolf Zord, and a Frog Zord (an unimpressed Black Ranger gets him). Even Michael admitted the hoppy Frog Zord was silly.
There's also short shrift given to my two favorite characters - the punk comic-relief bullies Bulk and Skull.
But most of all, Power Rangers: The Movie remains defiantly politically-incorrect, as good for you as the M&Ms they handed out at the exit.