Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Bryan Spicer

Writers (WGA):

John Kamps (story) and
Arne Olsen (story) ...

Release Date:

30 June 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Six teenagers have discovered the power to fight the forces of evil. Now the fate of the universe is in their hands.

Plot:

Six teenagers Tommy, Kimberly, Adam, Billy, Rocky and Aisha have discovered the power to fight the forces of evil...

Plot Keywords:

Egg | Robot | Rollerblading | Construction Site | Monorail

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Karan Ashley	...	Aisha Campbell / The Yellow Ranger
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Adam Park / The Black Ranger
Steve Cardenas	...	Rocky DeSantos / The Red Ranger
Jason David Frank	...	Tommy Oliver / The White Ranger
Amy Jo Johnson	...	Kimberly Hart / The Pink Ranger
David Yost	...	Billy Cranston / The Blue Ranger
Paul Schrier	...	Bulk
Jason Narvy	...	Skull
Paul Freeman	...	Ivan Ooze
Gabrielle Fitzpatrick	...	Dulcea
Nicholas Bell	...	Zordon
Peta-Maree Rixon	...	Alpha 5
Jean Paul Bell	...	Mordant
Kerry Casey	...	Goldar
Mark Ginther	...	Lord Zedd

Also Known As:

Power Rangers: The Movie (International: English title) (TV title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for action violence.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L | Finland:K-12 | South Korea:All | Australia:PG | Germany:6 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | UK:PG | USA:PG | Brazil:Livre

Filming Locations:

CentrePoint Tower, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Saban Entertainment

Trivia:

The original shooting script included Bulk (Paul Schrier) and Skull (Jason Narvy) respond to a Help Wanted flier and they end up working for assistants of Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman). Ivan comments that he wanted some brilliant, good-looking assistants, to which Skull responded that he was brilliant and Bulk comments that he was good-looking. When Bulk and Skull realize that Ivan is actually a monster, they try to back out, but Goldar intervenes and prevents the two teens from leaving. Ivan reluctantly agrees to hire Bulk and Skull and he has them set up a booth at Angel Grove Park to hand out free jars of ooze to children. They are later mind-controlled by Ivan and Bulk even gets ooze splattered on his face after a children throws ooze at him when he's at the booth, but Bulk and Skull are freed from his control when Fred sprays them with a fire hose at Ernie's Waterside Cafe. The scenes with Bulk and Skull meeting and working for Ivan, as well as being freed from Ivan's mind control by Fred, were cut out of the film. However, a photo of Bulk with ooze on his face was shown in book stores for kids in an official behind-the-scenes scrapbook for the movie.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: As Rita an Lord Zedd find the egg in the construction site, Zed opens it in the middle. But when both parts are opening, the mechanism used to do so is clearly visible.

Quotes:

Kimberly Hart: You guys make me sick
[Kicks one of Ivan Oozes Henchman]
Kimberly Hart: , sick
[Kicks Henchman again]
Kimberly Hart: , SICK!
[Kicks again]
Kimberly Hart: UGH!
[Kicks Henchman, sending him flying upto the ceiling and down onto the ground hard]

Movie Connections:

Spin off Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition (1995) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Ayeyaiyai (Alpha Song)

Brings back so many memories

1994 was the year of the Might Morphin Power Rangers, I was only 9 years old and was such a huge fan. I remember the summer of 1995 my friends and our parents took us to see The Might Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and we thought it was the greatest movie ever made. I know that's sad, but we loved the show and the movie lived up to a great episode with an even better budget. I hadn't seen the movie since '95, but my boyfriend and I went to Target and found this movie on the $5.50 shelf and I grabbed it for old times sake since he was also a Power Rangers fan when he was a kid. We watched it and I have to say that despite how bad it is and how mega cheesy the lines and acting are, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is what it is. It was aimed at kids and was terrific for them, the story was so bad that it was actually good.

The rangers are living their lives in the fast lane, they're sky diving and roller blading, I mean is there anything they can't do? But anyways, all that is put on pause when Zordon warns the rangers of Rita and Zed's evil plan to raise Ivan Ooze. Ivan is planning to take over the world when he shrinks Rita and Zed and is putting all the kids parents under a powerful spell to make them do his bidding. Ivan then visits the command center and destroys it leaving Zordon in bad shape and now the rangers have to save the world on top of saving Zordon and become the powerful ninjas to regain their powers and defeat Ooze.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is extremely silly and cheesy, but I don't know what people were expecting when they watched it that it got such a bad rating. It's one of those movies that is so bad that it's actually good. Although Zordon's face will haunt my dreams for a long time, it was classic the way the "actors" who played the rangers presented their lines, I loved how they would fight and do back flips, yet could say their lines perfectly without sounding out of breath. Also how they replaced certain rangers with people who looked like they were picked out of a kick ball team line. But Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a classic film I think in a sense and will be a true time capsule of 1995.

10/10