⚡️Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie – The Film That Shifted Power Rangers from “Cheesy Fun” to “Straight-to-Bargain-Bin” 🚗💥

Here’s the trailer – and yes, it’s way better than the film itself, which is basically cinematic roadkill with spandex.

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Non-Spoiler Rundown

If Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was the “so bad it’s good” guilty pleasure, Turbo is the “so bad it’s irredeemable” cousin that shows up at family gatherings and ruins the potato salad.

Instead of colorful camp, we get:

A kid Ranger gimmick where Justin turns into a full-grown Ranger suit but still has a squeaky kid voice.

A villain, Divatox, who’s somehow more obnoxious than Rita Repulsa and dressed like someone’s “sexy pirate” Halloween costume.

A plot stitched together from leftover B-plot scraps.


Where MMPR: The Movie had its problems (ugly new suits, ancient CGI, and a plot powered by purple snot), it still had a memorable villain in Ivan Ooze, at least some personality in its cast, and a sense of goofy self-awareness.

Turbo strips away even those small wins and replaces them with uninspired action, lifeless humor, and enough plot holes to make Swiss cheese jealous.


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Character Breakdown

Tommy Oliver (Jason David Frank) – Red Ranger leader, clearly trying to carry this mess on pure willpower.

Kat Hillard (Catherine Sutherland) – Pink Ranger, endlessly likable but underwritten.

Adam Park (Johnny Yong Bosch) – Black Ranger, once again wasted.

Tanya Sloan (Nakia Burrise) – Yellow Ranger, background dressing at best.

Justin Stewart (Blake Foster) – The “kid Ranger” gimmick that should have been stopped at the idea phase. Morphs into an adult body but keeps his kid voice — a detail that’s unintentionally unsettling.

Devatox (Hillary Shepard Turner) – Pirate queen villain who screams her way through scenes and whose oversexualized costume makes you question what the design meeting looked like.

Elgar – Supposed comic relief henchman who misses the “relief” part entirely.

Lerigot – Alien Mogwai knockoff wizard, just as irritating as Alpha 6.

Alpha 6 & Discount Zordon – Alpha 6 swaps “Ay-yi-yi” for “Yeh yeh yeh” in a fake Brooklyn accent (no thanks), and Zordon’s stand-in answers everything like a vague fortune cookie.


(Saving Jason & Kimberly for spoilers.)


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Final Thoughts & Rating

Comparing Turbo to MMPR: The Movie is like comparing a stale sandwich to one that’s been left in the sun for three days — both bad, but one is actively dangerous.

At least MMPR had Ivan Ooze stealing the show, ridiculous one-liners, and the kind of so-bad-it’s-good energy that made it watchable. Turbo doesn’t even have that. It’s lifeless, joyless, and feels like a TV special stretched to feature-length.

Rating: 2/10 — MMPR was a stumble; Turbo is a faceplant.


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Spoilers – Full Breakdown

The movie opens with Lerigot crash-landing on Earth to escape Divatox, who wants him to lead her to an island where the lava monster Maligore is imprisoned. Rocky injures himself in a martial arts competition in the most cartoonish way possible, leaving room for Justin, a kid, to blackmail his way into becoming the new Blue Ranger.

Yes, MMPR had its own nonsense, like the Rangers rollerblading into danger and Ivan Ooze building his evil empire out of literal nose slime — but Turbo’s problems go deeper.

Devatox kidnaps two “human sacrifices” — revealed to be Jason and Kimberly — to free Maligore. Except later she just throws her mutant brother into the volcano and somehow that still works, despite the prophecy requiring two humans. Jason and Kim are turned evil until Lerigot’s magic undoes it.

Justin keeps turning into an adult Ranger body with his kid voice intact, which never stops being weird. Maligore grows giant, the Rangers call their Turbo Zords, and the battle ends faster than you can say “direct-to-video sequel.” They blow him up, save Jason and Kimberly, and Jason jumps into Rocky’s place in the competition to win it.

It’s all wrapped up in the most anticlimactic way possible, with none of the silly charm that MMPR had — no over-the-top villain like Ivan Ooze, no so-bad-they’re-good quips, no self-aware camp. Just noise, wasted potential, and a legacy-staining entry in the franchise.