Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

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:

During the sequence in Africa when Tommy saves Katherine, after he takes her to shore, Tommy was actually supposed to be attacked by a crocodile. He would have been dragged into the water by his Power Box backpack when the crocodile grabs it in its jaws, but he manages to jam a nearby log into the animal's mouth and swims to shore. When the crocodile follows Tommy to shore, Katherine takes a blow torch from her Power Box and fires a torch to scare the crocodile away. The sequence was ultimately cut to keep the running time of the film short. This is explains why there is a photo of Katherine holding a flame thrower on the back of the back cover of the movie's VHS and DVD, but it isn't seen in the film.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Skull is trying to put mustard on his hot dog he proceeds to try to stomp on it and then picks it up to continue trying to put it on his hot dog. If you look closely you will see there is no hot dog and he is just trying to put it in a bun. However, after spraying it all over Lt. Stone the hot dog reappears.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Followed by "Power Rangers Mystic Force" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Big Bang

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.