Don't Believe the Hype

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Such fun this show was, after a long hard day in college learning electrical engineering principals, I would run home and tune in to the galaxy rangers. Brilliant for it's time, solid plots. Aliens that need our help come to us and offer us the tech to get us into the battle for the galaxy... but then you have a huge bunch of earth based morons out there causing havoc... so what do you do, you create THE GALAXY RANGERS to keep things in check. The super-soldier, Shane Guzman who can alter his density and makeup, the leader (who's name I forget) with his energy weapon cyber arm, his wife Niko, the psychic hottie and doc (read Token), and his three little computer AI friends come to save the day every time. The only problem I had with the show was the lame comic-relief they felt the need to create, but so did George Lucas, to similarly degrade a great scifi universe.

Everyone who left a message on this topic knows, GR was the best ever, even now. Storyline was great, graphics was best of it's time, the music rock! There's no other cartoon that has gotten the right conbination. This is a classic jem.

What I liked best about this wonderful series was the way it mixed advanced tech (robots, space travel, etc.) with rustic tech (farming, camping, etc.). This one had a touch of realism that comes from showing how people in an advanced society might integrate their technical assets with older skills in a synergistic way. It reminded me of the same feel that Robert Heinlein's "juvenile" stories (Farmer in the Sky, Starman Jones, Between Planets) created, and in the same way. These rangers aren't just about pushing buttons and saying, "make it so" to their androids. They deal with people in some pretty gritty situations, using _everything_ a lone law enforcer has to call upon, whether it blinks, beeps, or just needs a swift kick.Like everyone else, I dearly wish SciFi or Cartoon Network would run this one. It was great.

It has been 16 years since it's original run, I would have hoped by now some "marketing wizard" would have promoted a live actor version of this classic by now, or at least sought to re-release the original 65 episodes. I can't fathom why the sci-fi or cartoon network haven't snapped this up. Galaxy Rangers actually had well thought out plots, and even better scripts.The animation was above average quality for it's time, and excellent when compared to the talking slide show Japanese animation of today. It predated the heavy toon-toy tie in market, this may have sealed it's doom too. I would willingly spend cash on a DVD of GR if available.