Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Based onGekisou Sentai Carranger
by Toei Company
Power Rangers
by Haim Saban
Shuki Levy
Produced byJonathan Tzachor
Starring
CinematographyIlan Rosenberg
Edited by
  • Henry Richardson
  • B.J. Sears
Music byShuki Levy
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • March 28, 1997 (1997-03-28)
Running time
99 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$9.6 million[4]

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie is a 1997 American superhero film directed by David Winning and Shuki Levy and written by Levy and Shell Danielson. It is the second installment in Power Rangers film series and a standalone sequel to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. It was produced by Saban Entertainment and Toei Company, Ltd., and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.[5] The film stars Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Catherine Sutherland, Jason Narvy, Paul Schrier, Hilary Shepard Turner, Amy Jo Johnson, and Blake Foster.

Taking place after the events of Power Rangers Zeo, the new cast and characters from the film become cast members of Zeo' s successor series, Power Rangers Turbo, with the film's events leading into the successor series. As with its television season, the film used concepts and costumes from the Japanese Super Sentai series Gekisou Sentai Carranger. Sets and costumes created for original characters in the film were later used in the television series, with the film's climactic antagonist Maligore being reused for the evil Dark Specter in the subsequent Power Rangers in Space season.

The film was released on March 28, 1997, to generally unfavorable reviews. It was criticized for its visual effects and campiness, but critics praised the performance of its cast.

  1. ^ Petrikin, Chris (February 18, 1998). "Fox renamed that toon". Variety. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  2. ^ "TURBO - A POWER RANGERS MOVIE (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. June 6, 1997. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  3. ^ "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
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