Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series

(In French, On Cable TV, August 2020) Wow, that was terrible. It was, in fact, even more terrible than I expected, even from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers title and premise onward. Keeping in mind that I didn’t watch the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show as a kid and have no sentimental attachment to it, this film is truly wretched. I am not a kid, obviously, so whatever appeal this film might have had is just nowhere to be found. (Also, not to put too fine a point on it, I would not show this film to kids.) It’s hard where to start, but the conclusion is crystal-clear: this is not good. The actors are undistinguished, the special effects are awful even by the loose early-CGI standards of the mid-1990s, the plot is simple to the point of idiocy and the direction cannot be bothered to make even elementary sense on a shot-by-shot basis. The creature design is grotesque and even the decent soundtrack (meant to be energetic) is grating when it’s in service of such drivel. I could go on and on, but let’s keep it simple: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is not recommended. As one could have expected.