Title: Saban’s Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: It’s the Power Rangers, duh, and they’re in a lost galaxy. There aren’t really any known actors in this, but that doesn’t make it any less fun now does it?
Introduction: This was purchased as a VHS tape from Good Will for less than a dollar. You’ll need to get used to me typing that.
Location: In a lost galaxy, duh. Haha, but no, really, this movie starts on what I presume is Earth (or some other planet about to be destroyed) and then moves onto other planets, lots of spaceships and cracks in the ground.
Plot: This is the origins story for this particular group of Power Rangers who are in the “Lost Galaxy”. This movie starts with a sort of lottery where people must receive passports to board ships that are going to take them away from a doomed planet. One kid is mad he doesn’t have a passport, so he kicks a building. Then he manages to fight off three hoodlums and save an old woman’s passport from being stolen. In a genuinely funny moment in this movie, you expect her to say what a good person he is and how he deserves to go to this new planet more than her, but no, she might throw him some compliments but she never hands over her passport. I guess that’d be too easy. This kid then becomes a stowaway, which I guess is slightly less immoral than stealing from the elderly. Then we have this whole Logan’s Run-esque chase scene where they’re trying to track down this stowaway… who somehow manages to end up in their version of the space army. For the next few scenes, this movie pays homage to Starship Troopers and the stowaway is revealed to be the future Red Ranger’s brother. Dun dun dun. So the Pink Ranger is a scientist on the ship or something- some plain looking blonde girl with glasses- and the Blue Ranger is an Asian guy who seems to be the hardass of the group but really isn’t defined otherwise. The Green Ranger actually is a janitor or something. Then the Yellow Ranger is some cave-like girl who comes from some other planet and the other four (Well, five with the brother) must help to save them. So there are these swords no one can pull out of this giant stone and the people I just told you about manage to get them out so they can become the Power Rangers. It’s totally Sword in the Stone, as if I needed to tell you. But then during a fight, the Red Ranger goes down a hole and as he’s holding on, rather than try to be rescued and pulled up to his safety, he makes his younger brother, Leo, take his sword. So, wait, they can save the sword but not the human? Makes sense to me. So now Leo becomes the Red Ranger and must fill his brother’s footsteps. Blah blah blah, fast forward to some bad guys, a kaiju fight and then they win and save the day setting the standard for the new group of Power Rangers.
Acting: As usual, it’s over the top bad, but we’re not here for the acting. We’re here for the fight scenes and choreographed backflips.
Production: This looks like it was made for television and it probably was.
Sex/Nudity: No, but the outfits have the Charlie Brown stripe which is HILARIOUS.
Special Effects: They are what you’d expect: Lasers and guys in costumes standing in front of small scenery pretending to be giants. It’s Ultraman for the U.S.
Overall Verdict: As a kid I loved the Power Rangers. As an adult, I find them to be unintentionally hilarious with action scenes that are what make me love kaiju. It’s just too awesomely cheesy for words.
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