A fun clip show gets completely overshadowed by the Power Rangers movie.
ThisPower Rangers Dino Super Chargereview contains spoilers.
A great time to dress everyone up and have fun with the restrictions of the clip show format.
They had no idea thePower Rangersmovie trailer would drop hours before.
Its not fair, is it?
Not a single soul I follow who usually live tweetsPower Rangerswas watching this.
They were too wrapped up in feelings about the movie.
The movie totally overshadowed the show.
Which is a sign of things to come.Dino Chargegot through it fine.
I mean jeez, the show will be debuting only a few weeks before the movie comes out.
Its going to get totally eclipsed.
If the movie is as good as the trailer makes it seem?
The show itself will seem a little antiquated.
Sure itll be fine for the kids, but the longtime fans?
Who knows if the show will be able to keep their attention anymore.
I know this sounds like a tangent, but it actually leads into a huge point about this episode.
Chip Lynn and company have done an amazing job at making clip shows not suck.
I mean come on, nearly every TV clip show ever is going to suck no matter what.
They know this and just have fun it.
What the episode does with the concept is fine.
It has some funny jokes, especially Scumlaws lawyer commercial.
But much likePower Rangersof… well the last ten years, I find myself wanting more.
They see them as bullies who impose their own beliefs and values onto these sometimes-desperate prisoner monsters.
Thats the thing of it.
Just because these monsters were held in prison doesnt make them necessarily evil.
We saw with Halfbake that all he really wanted was to cook and be liked by the other monsters.
Maybe some of the other monsters were arrested under false pretenses.
Maybe after sixty five million years theyre driven mad and want to escape by any means necessary.
Maybe they need to try and reason with the monsters.
It was one of the rare times the Rangers sought to find humanity in these monsters of the week.
When one of the monsters in todays episode accuses the Rangers of taking the law into their own hands?
Its a legit question and could have formed the backbone of this episode.
But instead, its all jokes.
Thats fine, some of them land.
Scumlaws lackeys were hilarious and had a really great design to.
Lets have a donut.But you dont have a mouth.
Or Scumlaw when hes revealed to have stacked the jury.
I can explain everything…
I lied, I cant explain anything.
This whole review isnt me talking aboutPower Rangersbeing bad.
For what it is?
But it could be so much more.
I hope that if thePower Rangersmovie is good and if it does well?
It certainly happened to theTransformersfranchise withTransformers AnimatedandTransformers Prime.
Those shows tookTransformersin new and interesting directions, Prime especially.
Id love to seePower Rangersstep up its game.
Only time will tell.
(Probably not.)
Stray Thoughts
How is an ad running for sixty five million years?
Wheres your strike for malpractice?!
Ivan was great friends with Shakespeare.
Did they make out?
I can see Shakespeare making out with Ivan.
Fury making a pumpkin of himself.
Rating:
2.5 out of 5
