Movie Madness

Infobox Television episode
Title = Movie Madness
Series = Power Rangers Time Force
Season = 9
Episode = 24-25
Airdate = July 21 and July 28, 2001
Production =
Writer = Judd Lynn Jackie Marchand
Director = Isaac Florentine Kaizo Hayashi
Photographer =
Guests = Terrence Stone as Cinecon (voice)
Episode list = List of Power Rangers episodes
Prev = Full Exposure
Next = Time Force Traitor

"Movie Madness" was a two-part episode in the series "Power Rangers Time Force", where a monster named Cinecon planned to destroy the Time Force Rangers by making a movie where the Rangers are sent to their favorite genres with the script that will destroy them at the end.

Part 1

At the Clock Tower, Jen is working on Time Force related jobs while Wes and Trip are watching an old Wild West film. After being very disruptive, Jen shuts off the TV and takes their video. Katie and Lucas shows up, telling them a movie is being shot nearby. However, Jen isn't interested until Lucas says Frankie Chang (Kazuhiro Yokoyama), who is Jen's favorite actor, is being filmed.

They arrive to see Chang in a fight scene with a group of gang members. After filming, the Rangers describe their favorite movie genres, Wes and Trip like the Old West, Jen likes kung-fu, Lucas is into samurai films, and Katie is a fan of Broadway musicals. Trip is trying to get an autograph from Chang when one of the crew tells the director that a stuntman was injured during the filming. Since the stuntman was an important part of the film, Wes decides to take his place. However, when he fights with Chang, the sword he is using is real and the fighting is no act. He is then caught in an explosion. The director then reveals himself as Cinecon and everyone else are cyclobots. He plans a film called "The End of the Rangers." Lucas is in a forest dressed as a samurai and has to fight other samurai's. Katie is in a Broadway state in a yellow dress, where she ends up singing and dancing with a man. Jen ends up outside an Ancient Chinese temple, where a monk greets her, saying she has to defeat four warriors to earn a scroll.

In the real world, Circuit flies to the Silver Guardian headquarters, asking Eric for his help, but he does not comply until Cinecon shows up. After having him show off his skills by fighting off some Cyclobots, he sends Eric into a jungle dressed as Tarzan. He finds a monkey trying to reach a sack of bananas. After helping him out, a group of rebels attack, forcing him to retreat. Nadira tells Ransik she wants to be in a film too and Ransik forces Cinecon to add her in the script. Wes and Trip end up in an old west town. They enter a bar and have a drink. Just then, Nadira shows up, accusing Wes and Trip of stealing from her and trashing her home. She offers anyone $500 for arresting them and Wes and Trip get into a huge fight with the others in the bar. Trip gets beat up and is thrown out of the bar. He makes contact with Circuit.

Back in the samurai film, Lucas meets a princess being held captive and he must save her. Katie is having a good time with the man in her music film, Jen continues her fight with the warriors, and Eric is captured by the rebels, where it is revealed they plan to cook him. In the Wild West, Wes is thrown out of the bar and must face Nadira and her crew.

Part 2

In the old West, Trip arrives riding a horse and takes Wes with him. An angry Nadira leaves the set. The two Rangers hide and Trip tells Wes that destroying Cinecon's clapboard will destroy the movie dimension, sending back into the real world.

In the jungle, Eric is held captive until he finds the monkey he helped earlier and convinces him to let him go. Lucas defeats the samurai and earns the princess's love. Katie continues dancing while Jen defeats all the warriors and earns her scroll. Wes and Trip successfully destroy the clapboard and all six Rangers return to the real world.

However, Cinecon also returned with them and now Ransik enters the film, chasing the Rangers around the sets. The Rangers are forced to split and fight the cyclobots individually, although they are helping each other out since they are still in the film.

When they are reunited, they disguise themselves as Rock stars before fleeing and end up in a desert. The vector cycles are set up for them in this chase scene against Ransik. He successfully knocks out four of the Rangers, but in a head-to-head battle, Wes wins. Cinecon say it's time to for the finale and makes him grow. He then sends them into the Blue Shadow Force Megazord as well as summoning the Q-Rex and Trans Warp Megazord. He has plans to destroy them all, but the scene does not go according to the script because the last page is missing. In the last episode, Trip used it to get Frankie Chang's autograph. Without the ending, the Rangers successfully defeat Cinecon.

Back in the clock tower, the Rangers are watching the fight scene that was filmed the previous episode. Katie, Lucas, and Jen say they loved being in their respective film. Wes and Trip said they would have had a good time had a not been for Trip's clumsiness that resulted in them falling off a horse and injuring their backs.

Trivia

*Frankie Chang is parody of action star Jackie Chan and the fight scene is similar to that of the one Chan's character, Keung, had in Rumble in the Bronx at the gang's hangout.
*This is the only time the Trans Warp Megazord participated in battle.