One of the two movies released in 2017, with the other being Turbo-Charged. And yes lil' Johnny, this is the final movie of the franchise and the last episode.
Alongside with Turbo-Charged, I have found these two on a streaming website and decided to upload them here. And finally, after nearly 4 years (or 5? I am bad wih maths), Turbo-Warriors is available in a decent quality on the internet.
Turbo-Warriors plays safe with its content - the producers followed the Terrorax storyline and there isn't really anything new. It's more of a Turbo-Charged 2.0 but with a slightly better animation. I always found this movie to be bizarre because it's seems like the team behind it has no idea what they want it to be - in a minute, its all fun and games; characters are laughing and making awful one-liners, and on the other, it's something rather dark happening on screen. One of the weirdest scenes of the series (at least in my opinion) comes from this movie when Alex throws Night Howl at the energy field to free Rayne and C.Y.T.R.O. and the latter runs towards Max to hug him while claiming that it was his best day ever ... while Night Howl's dead body is laying next to them. It's so ironic and insane that it borders a parody territory. The movie is goofy and insane and they know it.
Not mentioning how Max is kind of off-character on this movie. It's weird how he and his team are willing to kill people (admitedly, Night Howl, Monstro and Snare are monsters and one of them are a robot, but Terrorax was once a human person and Max kills him without a bit of regret), especially Terrorax. He watches as his arch nemesis burns while screaming in pain and he makes a joke afterwards. It's like Max and his team are becoming dangerous psychopaths and they simply don't care about it. They just care about the extreme sports. And the waves. And selling toys.
A little side note, the animation has improved quite a bit and some of the shots look gorgeous. There is still some glaring issues but they stepped their game with this one. The scenes where Max is on the top of the Pantheon with the Turbo Mobile have a really interesting case of lighting - the contrast of the red coloring and the black and neon green of Max's vehicle and the red particles floating in the air are really beautiful and interesting to look at.
And sadly, afterwards the series came to an end after Turbo-Warriors. I would have loved to see where they were heading with the Nexus storyline, but it seems like the toys didn't sold as much as they wanted to and now the franchise is on a weird limbo.
27 сен 2024
