TR reader Steven Davis sent me his fan-made MMPR movie trailer after it got mentioned in the TR comments yesterday, and it's awesome enough that I thought it was worth sharing. Amazing how a bit of slow-motion and the right rock song can make anything look totally badass, although I'll admit that MMPR has more than its share of cool footage if only because the Japanese are still making the Go Ranger series that MMPR is/was based on, with today's special effects. Only thing that today's special effects can't improve on? Amy Jo Johnson's butt circa 1995. She was the only reason I survived taking my little brother to the actual MMPR movie.
Tags: Fan Videos, Power Rangers
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iKEN said:
Now thats Morphinominal!
Chris Sanders said:
DUDE. Almost all the past 7 seasons since the show jumped to ABC have been absolutely awesome. there was even one season where they finally played tribute to the Japanese show by basically just airing a Japanese episode, dubbing it badly and having the current rangers do commentary on how weird it was.
I think the show is finally over in the states but I here the contract got figured out and after they show a season of remastered Mighty Morphin episodes the series will continue.
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to Chris Sanders:
Yeah, RPM just ended. This Saturday, it's Mighty Morphin again. I too hope that they'll go back to new episodes before long.
Lawless said:
What's the music used here?
CTrees said:
Huh, several generations of rangers together there, seemingly led by an old school black ranger (under a different actor)? Interesting...
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to CTrees:
He was the second Black Ranger, Adam, who is played by Johnny Yong Bosch, who some might recognize as voicing a few popular anime characters.
The footage came from the 15th anniversary episode "Once a Ranger." Meanwhile, the Tommy footage came from Dino Thunder's "Fighting Spirit," where Tommy had to face his past three Ranger incarnations.
Carmine replied to CTrees:
The episodes those clips are from look like a love-letter to the entire past series, if the wikipedia summary is accurate. Kinda makes me wish I knew who any of those people other than said black ranger are.
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to Carmine:
They're from the "Disney" era, after they bought up Saban. Tori is the Blue Wind Ranger from Ninja Storm, Kira is the Yellow Dino Thunder Ranger, Bridge is the Red S.P.D. Ranger (with a bit of a story behind that), Xander is the Green Mystic Force Ranger, and of course Adam is the Black Mighty Morphin Power Ranger.
There's an article for the ep on Wikipedia, too: Once a Ranger. Might also be interested in "Forever Red," the tenth anniversary special featuring ten Red Rangers uniting to stop the Machine Empire from reviving Lord Zedd's zord, Serpentera.
Pastor Chadow said:
Have to say that was pretty freaking awesome.
Rocco said:
Until I saw the Jetix water mark, I was believing this was real.
Dirty Diego said:
Gotta admit, I thought it was convincing.
Brion said:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh why can't this be real?! All what this trailer did was make me want to watch all the episodes over again.
tasakeru828 said:
Myself, I'm currently addicted to Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, the current Japanese PR series. It's never coming here due to the above-mentioned contract cancellation and the gratuitous (though awesome) use of kanji in the show being impossible to translate for American kids.
It's too bad, really, because the show kicks ass. ShinkenRed has a humongous sword that puts Cloud's to shame... and that's only part of what makes it so cool.
One of the other significant parts is the Golden Lobster Zord. No, I'm not making that up. It is awesome.
FuryOfFirestorm said:
Very cool...the only thing missing is the shell armor from the first movie (which kept breaking apart during filming).
Ken said:
Yes, Amy Jo Johnson was awesome. Butt and all. I'm still pissed the way they flittered away all the Tommy/Kim romance drama...it was probably the best ranger romance they did.
demoncat said:
seeing that thing almost makes me want to have another power ranger movie. and those in the one clip besides the black ranger adam. are xander from the mystic force karia from dino thunder. summer from niinja storm and zane or ian from that one power ranger plus that one dude from power rangers work or what ever do not remember. but nice trailer
Matt said:
As cool as this is, we all know they could never make a movie that lived up to its potential.
Black Snow said:
"the Japanese are still making the Go Ranger series that MMPR is/was based on"
Can you at least sort of understand what you're talking about before you do so? It's called Super Sentai which is one such series under the tokusatsu umbrella. "Goranger" was the very first of these series which happened over 30 years ago. "Power Rangers" never used footage from that series. It used it starting with "Zyuranger" and every susequent season since then through "Go-onger."
Chris Sanders replied to Black Snow:
NERD !
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to Black Snow:
If someone else didn't say it, I probably would have eventually. Thanks for the assist. :)
RobP said:
"Only thing that today's special effects can't improve on? Amy Jo Johnson's butt circa 1995."
Truer words, Rob. Truer words.
Bill said:
I miss seeing Amy Jo Johnson running around as the Pink Ranger.
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to Bill:
Lucky there have been a lot of hot Rangers to don the tights since.
Jeff replied to Bill:
me and my friends were 16 at the time the power rangers was on tv and we only ever watched it when Amy jo was on screen
Chris Sanders said:
Rob,
Are you really going to ignore that this weekend the PR Show ended... seemingly for good ?
LBD "Nytetrayn" replied to Chris Sanders:
I doubt he even remembered, or knew. I'm actually sort of surprised he posted this; I thought Rob was anti-Ranger.
HeroPower said:
Ugh. If I knew there was a chance something Ranger-related would get posted, I would have linked to this days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64XSJoEHfIg
Karma said:
Slowdown makes anything better.
Case in point: 300. If Slowdown can make that piece of shit appear to be good enough to trick people into thinking that it was a good movie, it can do wonders for ANYTHING.
Darren Bryk said:
This is video is awsum!! Steven Davis is the man!!
theBRUCE said:
ok first off seeing as I know where all this footage comes from it's horrible. Once A Ranger was garbage. but umm seeing as you like Amy Jo Johnson's ass here's a clip from Turbo: A Power Ranger Movie that makes the movie even remotely viewable
rickicker said:
certainly restored my faith in rob after that whole star wars laugh track depravity! my childhood has been RESTORED!!
-rickicker's childhood was ressurected-
-rickicker's childhood returns to the fight-
WetOREO said:
I made a lot of messes as a teenager over Amy Jo Johnson. A LOT of messes.
