It's not the suits mind you, people cream their pants on similar looking suits like Iron man and Master Chief all the time yet Kabutos awesome suit is gay and stupid.
I think with Iron Man it is more forgiving because it has beter cgi and with Master Chief it is in a video game were the audience is much more forgiving then the movie audience.
It had no redeeming qualities other then the fact that it sold toys. Ninja Turtles had the comic books, Transformers had the movie, Power Rangers had nothing that had even a dot of wit or integrity to it. it was just a gigantic toy commercial with lame acting, cheesy dialogue and stupid stupid storylines.
I hope your talking abouth the animated movie because most fans hate Transformers 2.( and some also the first one which i thought was okay/meh.)
Also isn,t when you come down to it every sentai a giant toy commercial?
I mean it is nice that they throw in stories that we can enjoy but there main goal is not to bring a good story to the table, it is mostly to sell more toys and when it gets good praise fore the story that is just a little extra fore them.
If Toei cared abouth the story i don,t think we would have problems like Hibiki's second half or some of the plotholes in Decade (or other seasons.)
Honestly, Power Rangers was such a stupid dumb show that it drew no adults into it and layering the digging the ditch even deeper. If it wasn't for that show, toku super hero shows would be in the exact same vein as Godzilla was, but now it's always connected to power rangers.
I don,t think Saban or Toei are really focusing into bringing adults into the show except maybe fanservices so that some 30+ year old moms/dads watch the show with her/his child.
I don,t think that TOku superhero shows would be viewed in a more serious light even if power rangers where never made and sentai would have been brought over to US dubbed or subbed.
People would not even know what it is because it would never found its way on Fox Kids without being horribly edit ( it would most likely have aired on some b movie channel) and if they did find out abouth it they would just make the same jokes only saying Super Sentai instead of Power Rangers.
I think ryuuseipro said it best as to why most people don,t like Toku super hero shows:
People just don't like colorful superheroes looking/acting like they should. Especially all Japanese superheroes. They were always considered a "camp" concept, by those who prefer "fine" work.
I find that kids are much more acceptable of KR and Sentai than adults, so I made my little sister a KR fan and she now pushes it to her friends.
I guess my idea is if enough peopel watch it, they'll stop comparing it.
I managed to get a few of my friends hooked on KAbuto and Kiva.
You have to aim at an anime crowd to get peopel to undertsnad Toku I think.
Someone who likes Super Robots is more liekly to see Sentai as something interesting than some jackass who can't wait for the Thor movie.
I don,t see why a Thor fan wouldn,t give it a chance.
I was a comic book movie fan before i saw Kamen Rider and i liked it.
The only comic book movie fans i can,t see giving it a chance are the same people who say every superhero should be like Nolan's Batman or that spider-man isn,t allowed to wear his classic costume because a 'kid" can,t make it.:nono: