Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
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Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie is a 1997 superhero film and is a follow up to the television series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as well as the 1995 film. The film stars Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Catherine Sutherland, Jason Narvy, Paul Schrier, Hilary Shepard, Amy Jo Johnson and Blake Foster.
Plot
After getting special superpowers called Turbo powers, the Power Rangers fight a space pirate named Divatox.
Why It Sucks
- Like the first film, the acting is really campy.
- Thin dialogue.
- Extremely off-balance humor.
- The villains in this film are arguably even weaker than the ones in both the first film and TV series.
- There are tons of scenes that drag on, arguably even more than the ones from the previous film.
- The Rangers spend most of the movie unmorphed.
- Many of the plot points from Power Rangers Zeo were dropped.
- Jason and Kimberly's appearances were wasted.
- Justin becoming the Blue Ranger was somewhat pointless.
- Very awkwardly, when he morphs into his Ranger form he's just as tall as the other Rangers. This occurrence continues into the series (to match up with the Sentai footage).
- The way Rocky injures himself was very unrealistic.
- There is no explanation for what happened to the Zeo powers. There is a 3 hour cut that contains the Zeo powers being damaged in a fight, leading to Billy Craston creating the new Turbo morphers and zords. However, due to David Yost (Billy's actor) leaving the show, the scenes were not used. The cut is yet to be released.
- It had one scene which was a little too... disturbing, in the scene where Jason and Kimberly are being dragged by Divatox they tied a rope somewhere on Jason's private area
Redeeming Qualities
- Unlike the first movie, this one is in canon to the TV series.
- The Megazord formation sequence is completely original from its Sentai counterpart.
- The fight sequences were well done.
- The special effects are decent.
- The scene where Divatox tries to get advice from Rita on how to deal with the Power Rangers is pretty funny.
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Reception
The film received primarily negative reviews from critics, audiences and fans. Turbo currently holds a 15% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The critic consensus reads "No no, Power Rangers." Film critic Peter Stack of The San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "It's cheesy-looking and convoluted and has as much character as a bus tire." While film critic Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times stated in his review "Turbo is a solid follow-up to the entertaining 1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers."
Box Office
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie grossed $9,615,840 against its $8 million budget. In the U.S., the film made $8,363,899.
Trivia
- Toei made their own movies that introduces the new Super Sentai team in the form of their movies prior to the first episode airing just like Turbo 23 years later in the movie called Mashin Sentai Kiramager: Episode ZERO and the another movie was Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
