Power Rangers, one of my childhood professions.
The film is based around the original Mighty Morphin ones, as opposed to the new 30 different types (they could beat the crap out of any of them) and involves, typically, the protection of the planet from an evil source, this time in the form of Ivan Ooze who for some reason speaks English despite being, like, 6000 years old and some sort of weird purple alien. Anyway he creates this ooze and gives it to all the kids in Angel Grove, and they take it home, and all their parents play with it and it brainwashes the parents but not the children oh no, they're fine. Ooze ransacks the Command Center and so the Power Rangers lose their power to morph and physically run to the Command Center to see what's up. Oh I should also mention that at the start they do SPORTS LOTS OF SPORTS and sky dive cos they're the best at everything, and everyone in the city is waiting for them when they land and then they roller blade and do tricks and stuff because life is good when you're a Power Ranger and you don't have any money problems or acne or parental trouble. (Where are their parents anyway?)
So they have to go to another planet and go on a quest to get their ninja powers because they don't mighty morph anymore they ninja morph, and then they come back and beat Ivan Ooze and then everything's fine again and they eat lobster and watch some fireworks.
The characters used to be very stereotypical, the yellow ranger was East Asian and the black ranger was African American but now that's all changed, the black ranger is just American and the yellow ranger is African American and things couldn't be better. The blue ranger is still a nerd though. The characters are pretty basic, you don't really get to know them apart from in terms of the relationships they have with each other, for example you never find out that Billy's father left his mother when he was a young boy and because of his mother's string of marriages he can never have a proper relationship with a girl (something which may or may not be true). But my point is you don't really know these people, but you're not supposed to, it's a kids movie and looking at it from the perspective of a filmmaker, or even an adult, is stupid so I'll just focus on other stuff.
The uniforms are awesome, I really want one of those helmets.
And the falcon zord has missiles in it! The ape zord is best though.
Also I hadn't realised until I re-watched it a few days ago, but I make all the kung-fu noises Tommy does, only I don't know kung-fu.
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