Word: morphin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illustrate: the movie opens with Dietl (Stephen Baldwin) and his partner Duke (Chris Penn of Rumblefish and Reservoir Dogs) stopping the robbery of a homeless man in a pathetically choreographed fight reminiscent of the TV show "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." Next! Dietl holds a little girl as he witnesses her father kill himself. Next! Dietl goes to a dinner party with the mob. Next! Two very angry FBI agents (not unlike Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of "The X-Files" in appearance and manner) are out to get Dietl. Next! Duke comes out as a debtor, an alcoholic, a compulsive...
...answer is that director Paul Verhoeven has decided to "develop" the "plot" of the movie by creating what amounts to a long, tortured, protracted, hyped-up episode of "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers." The film has all the profundity and credibility of this celebrated kiddy sci-fi vehicle. We must sit, restlessly, as actors whose most memorable feature is their ridiculously large and white teeth wax sentimental about leaving the bonds of friendship, as they compete for girls, as they experience the trials and tribulations of the rigorous military training, yet learn to laugh it all off and put their arms...
...zinginess of Hercules and Xena, shows meant to be nothing more than absurd fun. Like those series, Roar has plenty of high kicks and sword fights, but its scenes feel like bad attempts at re-creating Braveheart rather than very entertaining ancient-world episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is unlikely too that Hercules, played by the Fabio-coiffed Kevin Sorbo as a guy who appears to have lost his way back from spring break, would ever utter the words "war without purpose is madness," as a sage in Roar manages to do early on. Hercules and Xena...
...third guy looks up from his PC and says, "Computers!" So half of the pictures either have someone laboriously logging on or, as in Speed 2, hand the villain a Mighty Morphin PowerBook as his tool of terror...
...deemed unacceptable for young audiences. The chip also filters out all TV shows--including soft-core porn--that individual stations decide are potentially inappropriate. The FSF, a TV industry watchdog group, frequently guides networks in scheduling. In December 1994 it convinced the RTL network to run the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on a weekly rather than daily basis, following public outcries that the show preached combativeness...