The fight scene is not too interesting: Tommy kicks some ass and the rangers, deciding to, for some reason, not power up, fight them as humans but until they do power up, they fight Ivan’s minions with your standard, if not pretty well choreographed, martial arts. Okay, speculation aside, Ivan then summons some acrobatic slime men to battle the rangers. And then there is the inclusion of the ‘dirty work’ jab-what kind of work does ZORDON and Alpha-5 actually do? I can’t remember from the show but what is the goal of each faction? Why does Rita want to conquer Earth? What kind of empire did Ivan run? I want to stress that it is still super… off, that ZORDON does use teenagers to fight for him, and I guess that I wasn’t the only one since Ivan feels that it is something worth noticing, even after being locked up for such a long time. Once that is done, don’t you think it is interesting that Ivan chooses to remark on this revelation? I mean, yeah, it is not wholly surprising since last time he was put away by such young warriors, but the fact that he does comment on it means that, somewhere, some part of him thought that ZORDON might change tactics. Let’s ignore the fact that the “evil” doers in this film explicitly refer to themselves as being evil and adversary to all that is good. “ ’Power Rangers, huh? So, ZORDON is still using a bunch of kids to do his dirty work?’. It dismisses the rangers over the top confidence and introduces a sense of unease most of the time this is done through a display of power, so it is actually pretty cool that this time it was done not through violence, but just by talking, and comedy no less! I love Ivan’s response here, his tone is just so right and it actually manages to emit a bit of the megalomaniacal danger that he’s supposed to be. “ ’You don’t know who you’re dealing with, Mr. Really? Pre-history teens had the same verbal predisposition that contemporary postmodern teens have? How so? Do the screenwriters mean to tell me that human society six thousand years ago was built in the same way as today, with all the authority invested in the parents and that ‘talking back’ was a no-no? I think it bears repeating: were the screen writers Creationists? “‘ Gee, a teenager with a big mouth I see that not much has changed in six-thousand years’”. Ivan and the rangers then have a bit of back and forth. But talking about aging and special effects, I am happy to see that during this viewing, I noticed that make-up actually gave Ivan shark-like teeth-all of his teeth are super-pointy and sharp I say good because all too often teeth in epics are perfectly white human teeth and that makes you wonder. I’m not sure, but if someone asked me that I would think that they were high.īut the guard then transforms into Ivan Ooze and the special effect for that, while not super impressive, is still pretty impressive for the time. This is par for the course, however, since the rangers in encountering this security guard actually asks him if he has seen “a morphological being” lurking around. This is one of the lamer parts of the film since the screenwriters went as far as to try and fool the audience by having the security guard rub the back of his head constantly, as though he was actually the one knocked unconscious. They search the egg a bit before encountering the security guard but wait, lo and behold, the security guard is actually Ivan Ooze! Then the rangers warp into the construction yard. So, last time, the rangers warped into the construction yard to try and locate Ivan– will they find him, are they too late? Read on and find out the obvious. But, thankfully, the piece was not lost to the eons of time. Sorry for the late update on this second part, everyone I got a bit distracted and then lost focus.
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