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Originally Posted by Sentai

Then we have all the pandering. One extreme sport after another, for no real reason, other than padding the script for time and trying to relate to the youth.

It was the 90s. That was what the cool kids did ALL THE TIME. Trust me, I know, I was not one of them.

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But now I come to the real bitching. The CGI. Oh My God the CGI. Why do I have the feeling they blew the budget on skydiving, costumes, and the getting licenses for the sound track, and had nothing left for the CGI. I know it was the ninties but come fucking on people. The Exomorphicons looks excellent.

At the time, the simple fact that the Zords were CGI at all was seen as huge. Again, this was the 90s. It was a weird decade to be a teenager.

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The End Fight. They some how fly Ivan Exomorphicon into space, knowing the only way to stop him is by flinging him into the passing comet they hinted at the frontend of the movie. But a crotchkick? Really? You end this bitch with a crotchkick?! Thats like getting to the end of Hostel, where he's escaping the dungeon, and having him use a banana peel and a Home Alone paint can on a string.

The knee to the groin actually sort of soured me on the movie when I saw it in the theater. I mean, an action movie needs to end strong so that the final memory you have when you leave that theater is the big finale, and your overall mental status of the movie is positive. That knee really hurt my enjoyment of the film.

The Game Gear version of the movie game had the Ninja Megafalconzord using the Hurricane Kick style attack it would use on the show to knock Ooze into the comet. Much better.

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But I promised to end this on a good note. So let me see. The movie's good for what it was meant to do. Bring the show to the movies with an original story, not one pasted from Japanese footage. The soundtrack was good for all the sense it made. And there were genuinelly good moments. Paul Freeman's Ivan Ooze alone is worth sitting through this movie.

So what do I give this American Toku movie?

3/5 Headder Brothers.

It's good, worth seeing once, but not a classic by any means.

This movie will have a lot of nostalgia factor from fans my age and slightly younger who saw it in the theater. It's not a fantastic movie by any stretch but if you or your kids/neices & nephews/whatnot like the Power Rangers you can't go wrong with it for some light and fluffy popcorn munching.