Honestly I feel like I would have rather recorded an entire commentary track or something because I wanted to say something about literally almost every moment even if most of it boils down to lol look at this
I had the biggest fucking smile on my face as the Higher Ground cover started for the skydiving. Everything is so corny and I said I would mark down how every time I cringed but all the cringeworthy moments I thought there would be just made me laugh instead since I was fully on board with the ridiculousness as the nostalgia just flowed all over the place from everyones color-coordinated outfits to the rollerblading montage right after the skydiving to show how XTREME they are (pointing out that there is a conspicuous lack of Tommy shots here because Jason David Frank actually could not rollerblade).
I think a distinction I have to point out about my history with this movie which is probably different than most peoples is that I never watched an episode of the show until sometime in my 20s. Im unsure as to whether that was because I literally did not know that the show was a thing when I was a kid or what but I just watched specifically this movie over and over so the cast of the original Red, Black and Yellow Ranger means nothing to me. The Green Ranger did not exist to me and this movie was basically the entirety of the Power Rangers to me and I was still fucking obsessed. So of course when I finally saw an episode of the show years later on Netflix or wherever after this obsession had faded I was immediately struck by how BAD the show was lmao. And by that I mean it reaaally was catering to its target demographic in a way that was so blatant that it was exhausting (yes I know that the same could be said about the movie). There are childrens shows that are more watchable for adults but when it came to this show, I was checking out after the tenth WACKY sound effect during the supposed comedic scenes (ended up speeding through most of the important episodes eventually because I had never seen them but I cant say it was an enjoyable experience). So obviously I have nostalgia goggles on when it comes to the movie and thats the main reason of the difference in my perception of the two but the movie has so many moments of unintentional (but is it really tho) comedy that I have a genuine affection for which makes it so much funnier.
There are just so many great moments that I could spend most of my time just going over every scene and line and maybe this will be on my list of potential projects that remain unfinished for eternity. Like the whole rollerblading scene. Where are they going? Why is going through the construction site a shortcut? Imagine the scene without the music! But BY FAR my favorite thing about this movie is the CONSTANT BACKFLIPPING. Notice how in the first big fight with the ooze monsters (you ooze you lose) after Kimberly knocks one of them down and triggers a fart that she says seeya while backflipping away but then Billy comes right after saying Right behind you ALSO BACKFLIPPING AWAY ITS SO GOOD and then to add to that after they morph they start posing and flipping and the monsters just take that time to FUCKING RUN AWAY AAAAAaaaa
Some more general comments to end this with: Ivan Ooze is actually just a really fun and charistmatic character with some of the best lines along with Kimberly. Also hilarious that the great power they go searching for is literally referred to as the great power. I reactively let out an audible hoooly shit when the CGI ooze robots showed up because it was so jarring. I think probably what my attitude changed towards the most since the last time I watched this was the whole subplot with Fred and the kids in that I found them significantly more annoying and wanted to go back to either the Rangers or Ivan as soon as possible.