Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
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Based on the hit children's television series The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this film has the teenage superheroes doing battle with the other-worldly villainess Divatox (Hilary Shepard Turner). She is the wife of an evil lord named Maligore who is imprisoned in an energy vacuum inside one of Earth's volcanos. Freeing him would mean doom for the universe. Divatox needs to bring a good wizard named Lerigot (Jon Simanton) to the volcano, because he has the key to unlocking the energy prison.
Mar 28, 1997 Wide
Sep 2, 2003
Fox
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Cast
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Jason David Frank
Tommy (Red Ranger) -
Steve Cardenas
Rocky (Blue Ranger) -
Johnny Yong Bosch
Adam (Green Ranger) -
Catherine Sutherland
Katherine (Pink Ranger) -
Nakia Burrise
Tanya (Yellow Ranger) -
Blake Foster
Justin -
Paul Schrier
Bulk -
Amy Jo Johnson
Kimberly -
Jason Narvy
Skull -
Jon Simanton
Lerigot -
Austin St. John
Jason -
Hilary Shepard Turner
Divatox
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (14) | DVD (1)
A high-spirited fantasy adventure.
Top CriticLike the TV series, the pic features makeup and special-effects gimmickry that are far less persuasive than what might be found at second-rate theme-park attractions.
With minimalist and universal fantasies as their points of departure, the superheroic deeds evolve only incrementally beyond the realistic -- a deeply satisfying process.
Five-year-olds who have read their Shakespeare will recognize that Turbo is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
A purgatory of low-budget interplanetary adventure.
Turbo is a solid follow-up to the entertaining 1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Works a little better than the first Power Rangers movie but will not extend its appeal beyond the show's fan base.
The dialogue is atrocious, as are the wretched signature Morphin moves: Someone get these Rangers to a martial-arts school!
Nearly unbearable.
The formula is so unshakeable in its blandness that, within the context of the Rangers universe, the twists Turbo serves up can only be described as ingenious.
As the picture finally ended, I found myself musing about poor Amy Jo Johnson. I wondered if, when she was on the set, she was hoping that some producer would see this show, find her hidden talent and save her from having to do this anymore.
For me, that low-tech, Fifties, camp charm wore a mite thin by the second half-hour, but then, I'm not the target audience, am I?
As amateurish as any special-effects driven effort in recent memory.
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