jedimack
So, I thought it was just ok. As somebody who, before seeing this, was used to the whole 40 episodes for a season/super season and then new cast, so by seasons 2 or 3, I was getting a little tired of the cheesy-ness of MMPR. I think Power Rangers peaked at RPM and no season has been able to match. This is a brief review, but I think it's just meh. I would much rather watch RPM, SPD, or Dino Charge than this. But the fight scenes were good I guess, but I didn't really like the 3 show story of essentially the same rangers. So if you have to watch just ONE season, go with RPM.
SodaPopBob
This show is just great, I'll tell you what. There are some of these teenagers and they are rangers. There is a crazy alien lady named Rita who wants to destroy the earth. Rita is very smart and comes up with the same plan every episode. She sends a bad guy to earth and once the power rangers beat them up good, Rita will supersize the bad guy so the rangers have to use their zord machines to beat them up again. Rita sends a different bad guy each time though so I'm sure her plan will work eventually.
CoolguyMoviefan
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was popular in the 1990s.Its true beginning started in 1975 as a children's show called Super Sentai.Years later producer Haim Sabam decided to bring Super Sentai to America in a show called Power Rangers which combined Japanese action footage with completely American footage that looked like a rip off of Saved By The Bell.Power Rangers has got to be one of the worst rip offs in history and Haim Saban should be embarrassed.Watch the original super sentai shows Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Kakuranger instead and see how much better than the awful power rangers rip off.
n-mo
Every child has his hobby horse. Some have more than one. Some take theirs much further than do others. I was one of those types. And my hobby horse was "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers."You can tick off the number of things that are bad about this live action show: cheap production, acid rock music, B-level directing, cheesy writing and a silly imported premise. And yet there is (at least in the first five or six seasons) a sort of soap-opera character dynamic unparalleled in any children's media outlet with the possible exception of "Peanuts."But that character dynamic was sadly never exploited to its full potential, a victim of poor writing and weak willpower to invest. It is of course a kids' show and therefore principally a toy commercial, not a work of art. (But that's what fanfiction is for. I will not, however, allow myself to write any "Power Rangers" fanfiction at this stage in my life and I find reading it increasingly intolerable.) At any rate, Saban is to be congratulated for such amazing returns on investment.I re-watched an episode this morning and what stood out to me was how incredibly violent the show was: cars raining down on planet Earth, colored spandex-clad bodies thrown every which way... I nearly had a seizure. This facet was often discussed and the subject of heated controversy in the show's heyday, but I really think most of the debates missed the point. Power Rangers was a derivative of Japanese tokusatsu (I guess that mean's it's like anime, but live action) and gave Occidentals a nice window into a culture many of us still don't really understand very well. Judging from the Japanese footage in this show, Japanese culture seems to be a rather morose and cynical thing, resigned to a VERY violent and cruel life, but at least the Japanese don't shy away from showing death in front of children. Despite monstrous downtown explosions and building destruction, the first season of Power Rangers made a frequent point to emphasize that "no citizens were harmed!" on Angel Grove news broadcasts. Would that there HAD been fatalities; then the violence would have been marginally acceptable. As it is, the message seems to be, "Don't take your opponents too seriously, and use whatever means necessary to achieve your goals."This contrasts oddly with Haim Saban's periodic attempts to inject sentiments of soft-core Amnesty International advocacy: world peace (uh-huh... Power Rangers make really credible anti-war poster children), environmentalism, war on poverty... but without ever going too far, of course. The show remained remarkably politically correct: no specific fingers are ever pointed and the Rangers' activities are limited to constructive physical action (more, surprisingly as some will find this, than just fighting): rather than campaigning from a NGO office they actually mediate neighbors' troubles, clean up parks and organize cost-efficient charity events.So in this sense the Power Rangers are indeed excellent role models: they don't talk, they DO, and let's face it, they do a lot of good. This is not quite as unrealistic as some might object: an elite team of superhuman fighters NEEDS intrinsically strong, convicted and proactive characters. Another of the show's positive influences on culture was its promotion of martial arts in the West as good physical exercise, mental discipline and social experience. However, to take the show's word for it you would think all karate instructors are good personal mentors as well, and that no kid who's into martial arts will ever get into drugs or mindless sex. That is unfortunately far from true. Still, the death of that poor Norwegian girl and the subsequent banning of the show notwithstanding, playing "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" is probably physically healthier than trading Pokémon cards.Still, the fact remains that since the early 1990s, worldwide violence and tension have brewed ever more dangerously and threatened to explode outright, the environment has become even more trashed, poverty has exploded in the United States, juvenile delinquency (especially cocaine use) has surged in Western Europe and childhood obesity has soared worldwide. Looking back now in 2011, the Mighty Morphins' do-gooding calls to mind a George H.W. Bush calling for "a kindler, gentler America" to the world. If he were serious (a little bit of a stretch), he must be really disappointed with his son--and if the Rangers were real no doubt they would be disappointed with the generation of children they helped raise.In general: campy, fun, underdeveloped, insipid, moderately inspiring, far too bellicose and a rather addictive waste of time.Conclusion: I do not particularly regret the fact that I no longer own a TV set.
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