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~DS' Movie Tour~

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers The Movie

Look, everyone else was doing it and I wanted to be popular.

Jokes aside, I do feel that it's finally time to talk about the various Power Rangers movies like I said I would, starting with the very first.

And man, I feel like I could babble on about how much I love this movie for ages, but in the interest of your time and patience, I'll try my best to keep it brief. Because really, this is everything that I feel a Power Rangers movie should be.

Because when it comes right down to it, I think the thing that I love most about this film is its sense of fun and adventure. From the soundtrack, to the stunts, to the plot, to the effects, this is, in all ways, Power Rangers but on a much grander scale.

Heck, the film starts off with our heroes skydiving; immediately setting the tone and the mood carried all throughout the movie. So much of this story is built on rule of cool I can't help but love it. The new armored up suits, the crazy martial arts stunt work, the fact that each Ranger gets a new Batman-style gadget(although Adam's' Super Hearing was cut for time), it's so much fun!

The movie does a great job at feeling like a grand adventure too, what with the stakes being raised by not only including a really memorable villain in Ivan Ooze, but having the Rangers not only lose their powers, but also travel to a distant planet to get new ones while Zordon is slowly dying. This movie did alot of Firsts that would become staples later on, and also beat Kamen Rider to the punch at being an Alternate Universe movie.

Its script is incredibly quotable too. The two most famous quotes of course being Adam's' "I'm a frog" and Aishia's' "Boogie with the bear." But special shout outs to "Death could really use a breath mint" "Well of course I forgot; I never knew to begin with" and... basically everything that Ivan Ooze says, haha. I mean, I ask you all, would it really be Power Rangers without cheezey puns and one-liners? Haha. This rewatch also made me finally realize that Lord Zedd's' "Excellent" at the start of the movie was a pun, because I'm slow like that.

But I think the aspect of this story that goes incredibly overlooked, especially now that In Space has long since been a thing, is that this was the first time that the citizens of Angel Grove actually fought back. Well, more specifically it's the kids of Angel Grove who helps foild all of Ivan Ooze's' plots, but still, the spirit is there, and again, it helps add to escalated sense of scale that the film was so obviously gunning for. It helped that Fred was a likeable character, and I really do wonder if he did go on to be Zeo Gold in this timeline. Wouldn't that make for an awesome cameo in the future?

Overall, this is a really fun watch and I think it captures the overall spirit of Power Rangers perfectly. And that's all I could really ever ask for in something like this.