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Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills: Review: Trust

The whole story kicks off because one of the teenagers named Drew is keeping a very private diary, and the other kids on the team go ahead and read it behind her back. This creates a massive amount of tension and breakdown in their friendship because nobody likes to have their personal business exposed to the world. It shows that even when you are supposed to be working together to save the planet, young people will still let petty gossip and a lack of respect get in the way of their duties.

What makes this particular story interesting is how the main villain Emperor Gorganus takes advantage of the bickering. He sends down an electrically charged monster named Valdec to drain all the power from the world. Because the teenagers are too busy arguing and nursing their hurt feelings over the diary, they cannot fight as a proper team. It is a good example of how easily a group can fall apart from the inside when there is no real faith between the members. It takes their blob leader Nimbar using a special memory fader device to finally wipe away the mistrust and get the kids to put aside their foolishness.

By the time the final battle arrives, the teenagers have to patch things up quickly so they can stop the electric creature from causing total destruction. The special effects look incredibly cheap with people jumping around in tight spandex costumes on small cardboard sets, but the core message about keeping your word and respecting privacy still comes through clearly. It does not take a university degree to see that the writing is pure nonsense for children, but there is a real charm in how it handles the drama. It is a goofy piece of entertainment that reminds me of how simple and predictable children television used to be back in the nineties.

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