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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANY SWORDS BUT NO EDGE | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SO WHAT'S ON IN TOKYO? | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS Not so mighty, as action-figure sales drop 50% from last season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jan. 8, 1996 | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

When an experienced director of Shakespeare like Ron Daniels collaborates with the man who played Ivan Ooze in the movie version of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," something special is in the air. Daniels's innovative decisions and Paul Freeman's excellent, traditional performance as Prospero add up to a production of "The Tempest" that is unique and elegant...

Author: By Hsuan L. Hsu, | Title: Tradition, Fantasy Blend in 'Tempest' | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

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