an eagle-eyed viewer might have noticed how mike drops really subtle hints and clues every now and then that suggest he watches star trek.

Mike praising a science-fiction film: "It was like this episode of Star Trek!" Mike criticizing a science-fiction film: "What they would've done on Star Trek is..."

Mike sounds like a senior citizen who goes to the movies just to kill time and because he gets a discount

You know, its funny, because Mr Plinkett did end up on Ellen...

"Super Sentai, or something like that." Great cover.

Find it funny that they got Bryan Cranston for Power Rangers and he said in an interview that he was never on set or met any of the kids. They just stuck some sensors on his face and he read his lines in some room lmao.

"So Mike, would you recommend life?" "................... yes." "I meant the movie."

Jay is completely numb to the Star Trek references says at this point. It's like maybe if he doesn't move Mike won't be able to see him.

Spoiler Alert: It takes 7 minutes and 28 seconds, untill Mike mentions Star Trek

"Watch Power Rangers! It's like erectile dysfunction." - Half in the Bag

Maybe they'll remake Gilligan's Island as a gritty survival movie.

"In Star Trek they would always..." Oh, Mike. Adorable.

When Jay asked Mike if he recommends “Life” it felt like Mike was thinking about real life and had to honestly consider whether or not he thought life was worth living

"Life and Power Rangers" should be the title of Bryan Cranston's autobiography.

They could have simplified the plot by having a Krispy Kreme in the rock quarry.

I absolutely agree with your comments regarding LIFE. I worked on the movie designing and sculpting the creature from the ameba state untill its finale stage and the last look was supposed to be completely differet. The concept of the creature originally was completely different, a creature without head or end. It was fun to work on but true, they could have done better, the director changed his mind soooooo many times. you aguys are the best by the way!!

My little sister has never seen let alone ever heard of RLM and when we were driving home she was making fun of people who were geeking out at the references and she even said "I went woo when the theme song played because I know it and everyone needs to know." RLM cynicism has leaked from my phone to my sister's brain, a true horror story.

I appreciate this channels content.

The Power Ranger convicted of murder was the Red Ranger from the 10th season, Power Rangers Wild Force. The actor's name is Ricardo Medina Jr. and his character was named Cole Evans. That season was notable because it featured a tenth anniversary special episode called Forever Red where Cole teamed up with all the previous Red Rangers to fight a group of one-off villains. He (the actor, not the character) later reappeared as a villain in Power Rangers Samurai, the 18th season. This was before he murdered his roommate with a sword. But don’t let that distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

I honestly can't believe "Murder, She Tweeted" hasn't happened yet. I guess we aren't in peak reboot yet-- and that scares me.

Can you imagine Rich Evans as a power ranger?

I don't look forward to watching movies anymore. I just look forward to watching the reviews.

This foreshadowed rich actually being on ellen. Im convinced they can see the future

"gay wedding with a syphilitic elderly man who hasn't showered in 7 years and has disgusting genital warts on his decades old fecal encrusted taint." well I guess mike wrote the description

How can the new Chips movie be a flop? All I've heard people talking about all year was how they couldn't wait to see the new Chips movie! It was the most anticipated movie since the Bye Bye Man!

WHEN THEY PLAYED THE POWER RANGERS THEME I CLAPPED!

Huh. Today I learned the term "Chekhov's Gun" does not come from Star Trek. I learned this because Mike doesn't know it.

1:30 wouldn’t be the first time an Ellen assistant cried.

TV series in need of a dark, gritty reboot: Cheers, The Monkees, Happy Days, Keeping Up Appearances, The Cosby Show

I wonder if Mike likes Star Trek

"Hey I remember that shit!" The movie. Unfortunately coming soon. Over and over.

19:27 A threatened Mike displays a defense mechanism by spraying poisonous gas, nature is truly amazing.

Mike's crippling star trek addiction is perhaps worse than his alcohol addiction.

Jay has a strange colouration around his left eye. Is Mike abusing you? Blink five times rapidly during the intro to the next BotW, and we'll contact the Milwaukee Police.

Mike has a good point about Star Trek: there was that one episode with the Crystalline entity. Even though the entity seemed like a monster that just consumed carbon lifeforms, the Enterprise tried communicating with it through some kind of signal and it seemed to be working until the crazy woman who had lost a son to the entity sabotaged the controls and destroyed it.

Every time I feel a little bit bad, I come here and watch Jay’s reaction at 14:53 and I feel a bit better

If I had bar of gold for every time Mike compares a Half in the Bag film to Star Trek I'd be the richest person on earth.

WILL YA CLOSE THE FUCKIN' DOOR?!

I wish I had someone to look at me the way Jay looks at Mike :^(

Life is about humans fighting blood thirsty aliens who have no concept of morality, while Star Trek defends their civil liberties

The Mighty Muffin Pounder Rangers

life would have been such a cool secret venom prequel.

"Life and Power Rangers" sounds like an embarrassing documentary about power rangers fandom.

Jay’s “reaction” to Chips is still the most emotive I’ve ever seen him.

I love how they talked about Power Rangers for most of the video

Why get so upset about the promotional tie-ins? I thought the scene where they figure out that they can finally morph if they eat at Krispy Kreme was a brave new vision.

It's weird that this high-quality entertainment is free to watch on the internet, meanwhile to see the boring movies they talk about you need to go to a place, pay for a ticket, sit in an uncomfortable seat, and tolerate other humans for two hours. It's a miracle to me that Hollywood has still not gone completely bankrupt. I don't know what's keeping them afloat. Is it China?

I saw Power Rangers in theaters and I've NEVER laughed so hard in my life. My good friend is a huge Power Rangers fan, and he was laughing just as hard as me. VERY cool.

How can they fuck up the origin story for Power Rangers, it's right there in the intro! "Aaaaaaaaaahhh! After ten thousand years, finally I'm free!!!" "Alpha, Rita has escaped! Find me a group of teenagers with attitude!" There, done in less than 20 seconds. And yes, they are magically teleported in front of Zordon who then turns them into the Rangers. Also, since they have attitude, none of them mope or whine about being Rangers.

Mike's face when he's asked if he would recommenced life is the best.

1:55 starts one of the greatest RLM moments ever. Mike's sarcasm is SO heartfelt and on spot, and Jay's just so happy to play along, enjoying his rant like me and probably you too

This is one of my Favorite half in the bag episodes just for that one moment when Jay mentions that the first episode was only 10 minutes long and it cuts to Mike opening a beer and having a moment of pure laughter. Always brings me joy. 4:19

You have to review Chips now. I remember it.

Erik Estrada! There he is!

Come on Jay I know your ass was on Twitch watching that Power Ranger marathon with the rest of us.

"We sat to some nerd in his late 20's in a Power Rangers cowel" I think they sat next to Linkara

when Mike is already drinking in the thumbnail you know it's shit

Time to Star Trek: 7:26

I don't know if anyone reads these comments, so whatever. Here's the Power Rangers explanation: A guy called Saban made a company called Saban with the idea of taking Japanese Super Sentai footage, dubbing over it, and selling this shlock on TV. (Super Sentai is just Power Rangers, but Japanese. Exactly as you'd imagine it.) But of course because you can't sell Japanese live-action non-action footage to kids, you gotta get some actors and some 90s stuff that looks like Saved by the Bell. Every episode you'd get the formula of the villains send some monster down to Earth, they beat the shit outta the monster, the monster grows into a giant, they combine their robo-animal-toys to make a giant-robo-toy and beat the shit outta the giatn monster. Rinse n' repeat. The first show, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had three seasons, but every season after it was it's own show, with a different, "storyline," and different ripped Japanese footage. Each episode follows the formula, mix it up once in a while, toss in some attractive young adult actors, toss in some over-acting incompetant bumbling fumbling villains, toss in a bit of drama, there you go. I only really know this shit because Twitch is having a marathon stream of every episode. After a long while, Disney bought the rights to the franchise, moved it to New Zealand for a cheaper budget. Then after a few seasons of that the Saban dudes bought it back. And here we are today. It's actually exported to Japan, dubbed in Japanese, and sold there. Think about that. While watching it, you can try and spot what footage is from Japan. Some of the giveaways that you're watching Japanese stuff is sudden scene changes, different backgrounds, lower quality film, and uh, the giant Mount Fuji in the background.

That look of fear on Mike's face when he's outed as a closeted Power Rangers fan

"What did I ever do to you?"-Susan Plinkett

A gritty Mama's Family reboot. That sounds amazing.

On the muted colors of the Power Rangers' suits: on art sites around the internet, a common critique I've seen is that bright colors are "over-saturated." "Try coloring things the color they really are, instead of the over-saturated color you think they are," is a comment I once received...from an artist who specialized in drawing gryphons. So I'm assuming that some of the people who made those comments were hired by Hollywood, and are now making colors muted in tons of movies because they believe bright colors are "unrealistic" and therefore "bad."

They're too optimistic, it's going to be Murder She Emote.

The one time I got pulled over by the CHP, I missed my chance to say, "You're not Eric Estrada."

All of Red Letter Media's film reviews are just treasures. That's what they are. Just. Treasures. These must live forever on the internet.

It's Chekov's Gun. An object incidentally introduced that becomes vital later on. Also, considering how hard it seems to be to make a good movie with giant robots, Pacific Rim seems to be one of the most amazing feats of movie making ever done.

WE NEED GEORGE LUCAS SALAD UNBOXING VIDEO #2!!

I watch re-runs of RLM episodes everyday because it helps with my depression and makes me feel less alone.

The Power Rangers movie’s plot sounds like it came from a table-top roleplaying game, like Dungeons and Dragons. Five completely different young people of completely different ethnicities and completely different personalities who, for reasons mostly within character, meet at the same place, get some cool quest, and have completely unique powers. After trials and tribulations where their individual abilities have at least one moment to shine, they finally defeat the big bad guy and become good friends.

Jay is having a huge giggle fit. :D It cured my bad moods for the next three months.

I like how the trailer they showed for "Life" said Memorial Day at some point, boy was the studio ambitious or what? It got kicked back 2 months.

Man this video had some fantastic jokes, great job you guys

Finally, friends for 37 minutes!!

2:29 that spit take was flawless lol 😂

There's probably a Mama's Family reboot film in the works. There has to be.

Laughed really hard when Mike was happy there was no action so he wasn't disturbed. I wonder how this whole movie trend of insane explosions that hurt your eyes and ears will end. Or if it will at all

I Dream of Genie: The Nolanizsd Version. Coming summer 2018.

"I can't tell if they were self-aware of how terrible it was." In that case it's already failed as an adaptation, because the source material was quite self-aware ... for instance, here's an exchange from the first few minutes of the first episode: Zordon: It's Rita. She's escaped, and she's attacking the planet! Alpha: What do we do? Zordon: Teleport to us five overbearing and over-emotional humans. Alpha: No! Not that! Not teenagers! Zordon: That's correct, Alpha. Alpha: I was afraid of that.

"She was getting gold to make her gold monster, that just looked like... gelatinous piss... at the end?" Jay just has such a wonderful way to express himself.

4:18 had me on the floor for some reason

RLM predicted Rich on the Ellen show

Adi Shankar, the guy who made the Castlevania show on Netflix, made a short film that imagines the power rangers as child soldiers who become freelance mercenaries when the war is over. It has such vision and personality to it, but I guess stretching out the first episode of a 30 year old tv show for 90 minutes is also an idea.

"GO GO PRODUCT PLACEMENT!"

I think mike is on autopilot cause all these "dark" nostalgia-cash-ins are exactly the same. He's desensitized.

I love how Jay just can't stop laughing through this whole review

my favorite thing bout the power rangers is in the original rita wakes up and attacks then zordon literally just says 'hey alpha get me 5 overbearing and overemotional humans' and that is literally their origin story.

"went in with such low expectations that I found the movie adequate" - yeah, I think that pretty much sums up my thoughts on P.R. too. They should put that endorsement on the cover of the dvd.

I still catch myself expecting The Care Boars Save Christmas to start up when I hear the outro music. Then I whistle _Jingle Bells_ to myself and contemplate mortality.

I know Jay laughs a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen him laugh this much before. I guess Mike was really on his joke game today.

"And elderly black women" My 70 year old Jamaican mother-in-law went to see it (when she's bored she goes into the cinema and watches whatever's on). She said she fell asleep.

Oh my gahhhhh...there's so much 90s in just that little clip from the Power Rangers Fan Club that Mike was totally a president of or like a treasurer or something

1) Mike, Zordon (Bryan Cranston) told the Rangers once they Morph, their suits will connect with the big robots aka Zords. 2) I like how Jay is pretending not to know about Power Rangers when he CLEARLY does. 3) "A little bird told me." 😂

Life is a much better alien movie than "Alien: Covenant".

the last bit of this bit is so funny I may of cracked a rib.

That face Jay made at the end while trying not to laugh was amazing, that desperate swallow to hold back from busting out laughing.

19:27 in which Mike's face emulates the humble bullfrog.

Is Jay the first gay Power Ranger?

Those power ranger "Styled" donuts are so lazy. Power Rangers made the climax surrounding a Krispy Kreme building but the donuts are just a cream filled chocolate icing with small lightning bolts. At least filled them with like colour themed fillings. Like Raspberry Jelly for red, custard for yellow and blue berry for blue.

where is Rich Evans? We need the opinion of a non hack fraud 😎