Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)

Directors:

Shuki Levy
David Winning

Writers:

Shuki Levy (writer) &
Shell Danielson (writer)

Release Date:

28 March 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Family | Thriller

Tagline:

Shift Into Turbo!

Plot:

The legendary Power Rangers must stop the evil space pirate Divatox from releasing the powerful Maligore...

Plot Keywords:

Television | Martial Arts | Sequel | Superhero | Kids And Family

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jon Simanton	...	Lerigot
Kai Doi	...	Warrior #1
Greg Collins	...	Warrior #2
Steve Cardenas	...	Rocky DeSantos
Jason David Frank	...	Tommy Oliver / The Red Ranger
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Adam Park / The Green Ranger
Scott Fisher	...	Coach Daniels
Catherine Sutherland	...	Katherine Hillard / The Pink Ranger
Nakia Burrise	...	Tanya Sloan (Yellow Ranger)
Blake Foster	...	Justin Stewart (Blue Ranger)
Hilary Shepard	...	Divatox (as Hilary Shepard Turner)
Danny Wayne	...	Elgar (as Danny Wayne Stallcup)
Edwin Neal	...	Rygog / Lord Zedd
Donene Kistler	...	Alpha 5
Winston Richard	...	Zordon

Also Known As:

Power Rangers II (USA) (working title)
Power Rangers Turbo: Race to the Volcano (USA) (working title)
Power Rangers the Movie 2 (USA) (working title)
Turbo: A Power Rangers Adventure (USA) (pre-release title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for non-stop fantasy action violence.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Iceland:LH | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Mexico:A | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | Spain:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Australia:PG | Brazil:Livre

Filming Locations:

Florida, USA

Company:

Saban Entertainment

Trivia:

In the scene in Africa, Kat mentions to Tommy that it reminds her of parts of Australia, where her character is from. This is obviously an acknowledgment to the first movie which was shot in parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Bulk and Skull escape the submarine, Kimberly goes next and her shirt gets caught on one of the bolts to her left. Jason, also to her left, reaches around her to free her. In the next shot, he's reaching beside her to pull her shirt loose from the bolt.

Quotes:

Divatox: If anyone knows a reason why we two shouldn't get together in matrimony: SHUT UP!

Movie Connections:

Followed by Power Rangers Time Force - Quantum Ranger: Clash for Control (2001) (V)

Soundtrack:

Enemies Beware

Bad story for most of the thing, followed by fighting for 1/2 minute.

This movie starts out with a "martial arts" match between one of the power rangers[out of costume], and some other guy, in which the ranger is thrown from the ring, and hurts his leg or something. So they end up replacing him with his kid brother or something as equally stupid. When he morphs, he puts on the costume, then grows to the size o an adult. Anyway, they get new "zords", which are actually cars. Way to go, robots at least made the show seem cool, now they have cars. They have to rescue some little alien thing, which is the love child of an Ewok and Gizmo from gremlins. Along the way, the new pink ranger twists her ankle or something after falling into the water, and the alien heals her with his glowing finger. No ET rip off there. They take him...somewhere, and then they have this boat. The boat takes them to the island, where the rangers have to fight the old red and pink rangers who are being mind controlled. Did I mention that they have a sub plot going where bulk, skull, Jason and Kim are prisoners of the enemies? Well, yeah, they get mind controlled. During the fight, the big evil thing on the island is released, and the rangers can stop fighting Jason and Kim because the alien used his powers to fix their brains. The rangers go out to fight the big guy, who's being called all powerful, and being completely overhyped. They call out their cars, and start up this 8 minute sequence where the cars drive around, the rangers wave their hands around, and the cars go together to form a giant robot. They then proceed to hit the guy once. Once with the sword. That's all it takes, and he blows up. I sat through that whole movie, and that's the end? They kill him in one hit? The fight was shorter than the robot forming sequence. There is no excuse for that.