Request Review - Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Get ready for only ten alien monsters to repeatedly attack three locations over the course of forty episodes.
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Wait, so this wasn't a joke that TeamFourStar made
It's pretty bad when the most memorable thing about this show is a throw-away reference in a parody series.....and everyone thought it was a *JOKE*
horaciosi goddammit Napa!
horaciosi you kidding tattooed teenage alien fighters from Beverly Hills is a great show better than the awful power rangers 😌
Saban actually wasn't involved in that Sailor Moon butchering.
If this show was just called "Galactic Sentinels" and then change absolutely everything about the show, then it might have worked.
DAMIEN MILLS it’s a great superhero show they even killed galactic sentinels in a episode 😌
Alot of people thought this was just a joke TFS made up. Including me because I vaguely remember this show. Didn't even remember the name.
Anton Riley got a good memory and remember this show I think about it a lot actually👍
There is actually a reason the weapons are used as lasers: strict censorship forbid the showing of stabs or blood... Censorship ruining fun since the 1620s!
"I have chosen 4 teenagers from Beverly Hills"
Me: WHY?!
That’s like asking why the wizard gave a kid super powers.
Zordon also gave teenagers with attitude power coins.
That was the trend at the time.
No need to overthink it.
I had been trying to figure out the name of this show for years, now i wish i hadn't!
Terrible Teenage Plot Hole Makers from Deranged Businessmen.
Trust me; I think the only reason most people know this show exists is because they offhandedly mentioned it in an episode of Dragon ball Z abridged.
I really ate this show up back in the day, even tho it was generic af, I really enjoyed it...
me too xd
It was the only thing really on in that time slot if I remember correctly.
I liked the show.
I loved this series when I was 10 in 1994 on usa network
Fun fact: it was actually just called Galactic Sentinels in it's Spanish dub.
Yes. It actually got international releases.
At that time the whole world was in a powervrangers craze.
Swinton would catch a ass whooping from Billy😀😀😀😂
That gag at the end got me.
As a die-hard Power Rangers fan I love seeing this kind of things to remind myself why Bulk&Skull's character arc mattered, or how Tommy starting as a bad guy but becoming friends with the other Rangers really makes for great character moments.
Was this show's budget in pesos?
SonicStantz Yo pienso 😂
I dont think, the El Santo movies had more production values
my uncle is gordon from this
Leslie Danon, massive crush on her at the time, so charming, i had no idea she was 28 when the show first aired, what the hell, she def looked a bit younger .
I was obsessed with this show back when it first aired and i still love it , it may be zero budget in comparison to the shows that inspired it but that's part of it's charm , it would be zero budget even without the comparisons , but it's damn entertaining as a spoof of all the other similar shows at that came out around the same time , always had it's tongue firmly placed in it's cheek and on a dramatic level , is a bit deeper than it first appears .
One of my favorite episodes is Switch , they switch each others bodies and it's hilarious .
Scorpio , Taurus, Centaur, Apollo , i still get all giddy when i see that , this show will never die
And yeah, Leslie Danon, and Jill Sorgen
I remember watching this when it was on and kind of liking it. Now, I look at it for what it was meant to be... a parody of power rangers, intentional or otherwise. I thought Leslie dannon was hot, and sure a lot of this is rather confusing in plotting and very cheap in it's production values, a lot was left unexplained and unexplored, and it did seem that the characters barely got along and just tolerated each other.
Why no laser guns? That would be blatantly stealing from "Power Rangers" as oppose to merely ripping it off.
I think most people only heard of this show because of Teamfourstar when they mentioned it in their joke about the Ginyu Force.
That's what i Said!
yup
that's how I did XD
It says a lot about this show when the most memorable part of it is a throw-away joke in a parody series
Gohan loves this show!
What I remember from TTAF?
The pile of shit that was their zordon.
Choreographer: “How many cartwheels do we need?”
Director: “Yes”
I remember watching the first episode on USA Network back during the 90's when I was 12. I saw the first episode.... and NEVER saw the damn series again. Out of all the Power Ranger rip-offs out at the time, this show was hands down the WORSE. Tatooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills was HORRIBLE. At least Samuari Cyber Squad, despite all of it's problems, had cool fight scenes and a cool villain (I saw every episode) and VR Troopers was actually good. but the Tattooed idiot show was unwatchable.
I never get tired of marzgurl's review since I first saw her nostalgia chick entry and she gets better and better each time. I have a request for a review if you ever get a chance to do it. Can you do a review of van-pires it was a cgi American Sentai like show.
I remember this...barely. Oy.
I am totally convinced this show is set in the Power Ranger Dino Charge world.
I've never heard of this show before until you mentioned it on Beyond the Black Rims. The title itself sounds like its supposed to be a parody of MMPR sketch, not a fully realized show. It doesn't seem like I missed much though it did make for a very entertaining review!
its kinda odd they didn't do a team up with superhero samurai cybersquad probably would have this show even worse by comparison
TMNT Next Mutation also got a DVD release (I saw it at Power Morphicon). Make of that what you will.
I've watched several of the episodes recently on the DVD release (because I was in the mood for something rather craptacular). I actually don't mind that the characters are kind of crappy people, because (not to sound too much like a curmudgeon but) a lot of people in real life are very crappy, and in a way the Alien Fighters' crappiness makes them sort of, for lack of a better term, more realistic than the Mary Sues and Marty Stus of so many other scifi series. One could just chalk it up to bad writing here, but I kind of see it as an attempt at a sort of realism, as the characters are flawed teenagers, and are more people-ish that way.
That said, it is true that the show gets out of its depth by trying to engage plots that are more layered than "beat the bad guy up." As the show's logistics only allows for a formulaic twenty minutes of brief-drama-then-engage-the-enemy-then-tantrum-by-Gorganus every episode, it *can't* get too deep--which is why it should never have even tried episodes where Drew and Gordon are pseudo-significant-others (the "Commitments" episode) or the one where everyone reads Drew's diary (the "Trust" episode)--especially in the latter case, the maguffin of the memory fader is just a necessary, quick workaround when there just isn't time, given the show's limited parameters, for that quantum of character development. I still like the series on the whole anyway, as much of a knockoff as it might be.
There's actually one thing (the only one) which is kinda cool on this show : normally on sentai (or inspiration of it), women characters always transforms last. Here, the first one who call the transformation is a woman and the last one is a man.
Plenty of superhero groups are known for squabbling: Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers,Fantastic Four...
I feel like a lot of these complaints can be lobbed at Power Rangers as well.
Flat 2 dimension characters who are just stereotypes. Check.
Mid 20 actors playing high school teenagers. Check
Stuff about character background brought up and then never mentioned again. Check.
Melee weapons mainly used as blasters and not as actual weapons. Check.
Villain sending down 1 monster even though it's obvious they could send down more. Check.
Villain motivation makes no sense and is never really defined. Check.
Characters called by ancient force with no defined reason for why he chose these specific kids. "Bring me 5 teenagers with attitude."
Hell just about every other American made/translated Tokusetsu's actually go out of their way to explain why the specific characters were chosen.
shadowspider9 "Bring me 5 teenagers with attitude" 😂😂😂😂😂 I'm on crutches
Well, what about Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog? That is the only other one I heard of other than this one (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one that Saban did notwithstanding).
Also, from what I remember of this show, it ever did one thing right, and it was in one episode only. It riffed the whole "one monster at a time" strategy and made it so that the heroes almost lost after having to fight more than one monster, and that the person who came up with that strategy was not the primary antagonist but his sidekick and that when he learned that little muppet went behind his back he essentially let the heroes win by teleporting the monster back.
Deconstructed, not riffed, riffing is commentary from an audience perspective.
I liked Mystic Knights. The only Irish Toku thay held my attention
There are other irish toku?
I mean it's technically American. It's probably less actually Irish than recent series of Power Rangers are kiwi(New Zealand) toku...
mattwo7
Well there is France Five from France (obviously), It's not Irish but it's probably the closest we will ever get.
mattwo7 No but its one of a kind that stood out (if you ignore the Battle Wagon*)
*Fuck you, Bandai
I always thought that this was never a real show, just some joke making fun of power rangers. Guess I was wrong.
Wait, this show is real? I heard about it on DBZ abridged and thought it was a joke.
I was in middle school when this premiered and was right in the middle of my geekdom. I was absorbing anything and everything including Power Rangers and Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad. I was also being besieged by puberty so, full disclosure, I watched this for the actresses. Both the real and the stunt versions. Could care less about plot or talent, U just thought the brunette was gorgeous and that all high school girls would look like that.
Excellent 👍🇨🇱
3:15 Leslie Danon
Back when this show originally aired, I wrote a review of it for the Penn State Science Fiction Society newsletter. I'm pretty sure it was the longest thing (and certainly the longest review) I ever wrote for that publication (I had watched several episodes in order to give it a fair shot, and I needed to vent!).
I was particularly proud of describing Gorganus as looking "like Darth Vader if Roger Corman had directed Star Wars" and the bird as the show's best special effect (I had no idea he was Squiggy, though!).
I didn't stick around long enough to see the third set.
The whole using the same "sets" for worlds over and over isn't a new thing. Star Trek TOS did it alot. Only difference, that was in the 60's. I don't know what this show from the mid 90's excuse is.
Theme song is catchy, I will admit.
I wonder how they got away with having tattooed teenagers in the title, especially since this was the early 90's and tattoos were still seen as stuff for gangs, convicts, bikers, sailors and circus freaks.
Sorry for the late reply, but those look like temporary decal-style tattoos. I remember those were the rage in those days.
Great review but there were times when the audio from the show's footage kinda drowned out what you were saying which made it hard to hear. Other than that, it was amazing as usual :)
I hate to say this but I'm glad I never watch this show, I was four around the time but my memory didn't kick on until I was five, so even if I did watch it, I have no memory of it.
I know they are trying but they are failing badly.
In school, I pretended not to know my popular sister. Maybe that's how I related to the characters in the show. Also I dug the aesthetic of Knightron.
I loved this as a kid!
I had a crush on both girls.
I thought it was so cool. I was very disappointed that it disappeared and never came back.
Say what you will about power rangers, at least they had more quality such as why the rangers were chosen, the monsters, the villains [most of the time] The ranger power ups and weapons etc. It is more watered down than any PR season.
They used footage from a Japanese superhero show for the monsters and monster battles. Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters is what you get if you give the makers an even lower budget and no Sentai footage to make the episodes around.
Honestly, shows like this would be forgotten relics of that time where America thought it could do original toku had Trigger not went and gone “Hey, we can’t do an Ultraman anime because Netflix has dibs, and America saw Gridman. Let’s make a new version of Gridman! And make the lead girl’s thighs really big!” And now I remember this show exists.
I get the feeling this what American power rangers would be like without the sentai influence. god this shit was stupid:(
Did you watch Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog ?. Even though it was filmed in ireland with some irish actors because it was made by an american company it ended up being horribly stereotypical. You know you're in Ireland when uilleann pipes are constantly playing in the background.
MKOTNN was INFINITELY BETTER than TTAFFBH. That show was actually a little bit cool and it got a small following back in the day, this show is so bad that it became a classic example of everything wrong with the 90's.
This show was so lame i couldn't forget it, i almost forgot the existance of beetle birgs or that other patrol wathever tokusatsu, but Tatto was so goofy and lame that you can't forget it.
I know the question was rhetorical, but "What do you remember about TTAFfBH?" The theme song IS a bit of an earworm... Just starts playing for no reason sometimes.
the fact that I went thru 40 episodes and survived
is ... smth
Huh, I'm actually really surprised I never heard of this show. Though, it did air on USA and the only times I ever went to that channel was out of shear boredom.
Great review. One of your most amusing ones yet.
This show gets to be on DVD but mystic knights of tir na nog or masked rider doesn't?
Basically, this show was a cheap knock-off of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which, itself, was a cheap knock-off of Voltron; in other words, a cheap knock-off of a cheap knock-off. That pretty well says all that needs to be said about it.
+VHS Prospector You want to know what is even more funny is that Voltron is actually a copy of Power Rangers...Yep you heard right Power Rangers came out in Japan years before Voltron (Power Rangers came to America years later). You can actually look all this up lol.
The best thing about this show is simply that the heroes don't really like each other for most of the series. I thought that was a lot more interesting.
I don't remember that show and I'm 35 and watched USA as a kid
Saw this when I was 10 in 1994 on USA network loved it at the time 💖
This show failed cause what a rip-off of Power Rangers
Yikes. This would've failed as a Power Rangers parody, let alone a knock-off.
If it was meant to be a parody, Saban would have sued DiC's pants off. Fair use doesn't apply to stuff that's not generally viewed as at all beneficial to the viewer. Remember Power/Rangers?
the Yellow fighter look like the aldo montoya wrestler
Your having a little green screen problem
The greenscreen kinda ate the cover there : P
Bahahahahahahahahaahhaha Alien Blob
this is the most CCHESSIEST show ive EVER SEEN
It looks worth watching.
The DVD release is probably so cheap because it's actually packaged cheap. A case with just one disc hub on which the four discs are stacked. Thus risking scratches. Nice job there, Mill Creek.
PRdude 😂😂😂😂 I'm weak
Marzgurl, I was planning to take an episode of my A Closer Look video series to talk about this show. Now that I've seen yours, I'd hate to come across as a copycat. I know I can find my own spin on it. Would you be offended if I were to do so?
By the way, I just talked about the ToonMakers Sailor Moon thing on my Sailor Moon Remembered videos. Check out my channel if you are interested.
Everybody's got their own opinions and perspective on the same topic. I would have never made this video at all if I was intimidated by other people's opinions that were already available on RUclips. If it's something you're actively passionate about anyway, it'll come across. Don't worry about what anyone else has already done, including me.
+MarzGurl did you made that thing from the show
I'm sorry but you earned a new subscriber. Also the show was aired in Brazil as well. That's how I came to watch it in neighbor city Rivera here in Uruguay.
There is something I remember about the show... I still want to know what the fuck is "Globeewoh"
I will assist you in that endeavor.
Wow that second half naked scene was like someone combining Fantasic 4's (2005) Jessica Alba and Star Trek Into Darkness' Naked scenes combined in one weird version
Here's a way this show could have been better. Why not make them College students. It could have been the odd one out (even though it already is). But I have to agree with you Marzgurl, their are plenty of better shows that need to get a DVD release......like 4Kids Ultraman Tiga. LOL
I remember watching this show back in 1994 when Power Rangers came on TV in the fall of 1993 it was the only show of it's kind but one year later in the fall of 1994 you started seeing a lot more shows like VR Troopers, Cyber Squad and Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters that were copying the power rangers some were good some were bad but it was definitely a fun time in the 90's loved your review - JMM
Wow this show this looks terrible; I'm glad I never saw this when I was younger, I was watching Power Rangers instead.
But strangely this looks like a mix of Power Rangers and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but the creators of this had no idea why those two shows worked.
I watched this when nothing else was on
See, as much as you didn't like the show you spent a lot of time watching and reviewing it - that's the unique mojo of TTAFFBH lol. I was home sick when the show ran. I knew it was bad but I liked the cast for some reason (OK Leslie Danon). I have the DVD but not the lunchboxes all over Ebay. A client of mine was a president of USA Network but he came a few years after this show. I always wanted to ask him about it but bit my tongue lol. Thanks for review - you clarified some things I never got from watching
there is also a lunch box on ebay
This was awesome. Thanks, keep em coming.
12:11 fuckin bubbles
I can't Believe that Glenn Shadix Had a Voice over in this show you know the guy from Beetlejuice and Demolition Man very small rolls in both TV and Film wow!
Oh good. I'm glad I didn't just imagine this show. Because seriously, who would want to take credit for something like this?
I remember this crap. i always just watched the intro on USA then changed the channel. even as a child a laughed at how stupid this was. me and my friends never watched it but we joked it lol
That show is to Power Rangers as to what "Shadow War Of Succession" & Tattoo Assasins were to Mortal Kombat.
It wasn't only in the US!
I watched it here in Brazil.... back then I thought it was awesome! lol
Oh my god, this exists! I saw this in Cablin in Argentina and from many many years I thought it was a fever dream or something cause I never could find any info about it! Even when the show was dubbed and aired in other countries, it´s true, seems everyone forgot about it =P Now I kinda want to see it again just for nostalgia (and god that nimbor thing still creeps me out...)
Wow!!! I can not believe that I used to be into the show as a kid. Sheesh, thank God for me that I was more into Power Rangers back then.
i know this was made a year ago made.I loved the review.i remember watching the show and it was,...................ok.lol but still i love your reviews and im a fan now.I feel as you did all this research and went threw all this pain i feel you need a prize.i make custom action figures on the side was wondering if i can send you a figure of TTAFBH i made.It's just for you if not its ok.Keep up the good work :)
So she's really hating on some kids show from the early 90s?
It was a paid Patreon request, my man.
I remembered a fart joke from this show, and couldn't remember the actual show itself. It went like this:
Gorganus: "Lechner, I have gas."
Lechner: "Must Have been something you ate."
Gorganus: "NOT ME YOU FOOL, THE EARTH!"
I had to do some serious digging to try and find out what this was from and that's how I ended up here.
TFS brought me here
I remember when this aired on USA Network back in 1994. It was a Monday through Friday afternoon show and then aired I believe on Sunday mornings from 11:00 in the morning until noon. This was when USA Networks programming was a lot better than when NBC bought the network out to become a sister network for NBC. Barry Dillar who owned USA Network until 2003 I believe it was decided to change the programming or I should say clean it up in order to sell the USA Network.
They used chalk to make punches look cool? That's so horribly cheap. Even Beetleborgs used explosive squibs.
I remember Cyber Squad actually, there was that one episode where the team female character created a virus that was adorably innocent and stupid and then it turned evil suddenly and they had to kill it.
That's really the only episode I remember clearly.
Who voices Nimbar by the way. He sounds like John Delancie a bit but it's can't be him. He wasn't that starved for work in the 90s, he still had Star Trek.
Glenn Shadix, the fat guy from Beetlejuice and the mayor of Halloween Town. Also Tobais Whale in Justice League Unlimited, Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Teen Titans, Senator Nado in the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes and he was in 4 episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures.
mattwo7 Otho is in this show? Well, that makes more sense than Delancie, that's for sure.
Yea, I'm looking at his wikipedia page. Noooooot a whole lot of roles.
OH YEAH TTAFFBH. Having a cool, tortured new member with their own powers has never done anything for any Tokusatsu ever. Except Power rangers....and Sentai.....and Kamen Rider.....and Ultraman.....and Tomica Fire Hero....and Ryukendo....and Lion-Maru....and 17.....and Jumborg Ace......
I liked the idea of them not being friends at first. It worked out because this show avoided one MAJOR plot hole that Power Rangers, VR Troopers, and a lot of other Saban Shows all seemed to fall into. You see, Emperor Gorganus DIDN'T know who the Galactic Sentinels were, unlike Rita who routinely watched the Power rangers while they weren't in uniform and never really seem to take advantage of that information.
Them not being friends helped hide their identities, and made for a very different group dynamic then some of the other shows. On those shows, they often swung to the other extreme, where it seemed everyone in the group all got along too well.
And seeing that this was on cable, it probably could have gotten away with a few more darker elements and been a very different show. Like how since the monsters were never really defeated, they'd be learning new tricks about fighting the TTAFFBH- actually making them tougher then the standard Power Ranger monster.
But hell, I still watched it-and I enjoyed it for the fun goofiness of it all. There was a lot of room for improvement, but I think it had its own strengths as well.
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"Centaur" and "Apollo"? Yes, those famous constellations... XD I guess "Sagittarius" didn't have the same ring. Also, there's no "Apollo" constellation! He was the sun! Dangit, writers!
Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog wasn't so bad for an original American Toku.