Power Rangers on a $100M budget

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2004)

If the producers of Power Rangers had $100 million to spend on a movie, they would create a trilogy not much different from Lord of the Rings. For a 3.5 hour movie, you would think they could tie up loose-ends, but there was much to be desired in the character development. Why is Gimli nothing more than a comic-relief dwarf reciting one-liners that are so cliche? Why is Arwen just a wet blanket who weeps her way through the trilogy? Why are all the orcs exactly like the power rangers villains? Tolkien must be rolling over in his grave!
And what's up with the horrendous computer graphics? Legolas' circus acrobatics was rendered so poorly, it appears 10 year older than the first Matrix movie. The head of the CG department should be fired!
And what's up with the spider biting through Frodo's Mithril chain mail of invincibility? He was supposed to be bitten in the arm, not in the chest through the chain mail?!
There is so much more to gripe about. But to summarize, computer generated orcs (even 10,000 of them) are not enough to bring this movie back from the grave.