Who is this movie made for?
Is it for someone like me in his late 20s-early 30's, a long-time Power Rangers fan, and someone who grew up on the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? No. The only thing that nods it's head at us is a brief 1-second cameo of the original rangers at the end. There is no classic over-the-top action, no martial arts motiff, no swift and rhythmic hand gesturing, no announcement morphing (or hardly any morphing for that matter), and no cool, stellar combat scenes. Not even a flip or an extreme sports sequence. Lastly, they never played the power rangers theme song. Instead, the theme consisted of long, synthesized space riffs. It didn't fit for Power Rangers at all.
Then is it for kids, a younger, new generation? No way. It's terrible. It has no plot. The characters are brash stereotypes, the dialogue is awful and it's not even kid-appropriate.
Is it for action fans? Again, not a chance. This movie had maybe two minutes of fighting, I want to say. And it's not even like Wonder Woman or BvS, which were both short on fighting sequences but what they had were pretty good. The rest was....I don't know, teens trying to "find themselves", and they do that by finding each other, I guess? And becoming Power Rangers?
To sum up, this movie had no right to be produced. At the pre-production phase someone should have asked: who is our audience? In fact, it's a very simple question that should have been asked by the person doing the screenplay, the director, and the producer. It could have saved a lot of agony and a classic brand and franchise from becoming a heap of garbage. The original Power Rangers didn't take itself too seriously. It was about being cool and being bad-ass, flipping around and fighting bad guys, and at the end of the day, jumping in a gigantic robot and taking part in a Godzilla-esque duel in downtown Angel Grove. This one is too touchy feely and not enough kung-pow!
A proper Power Rangers reboot should have over-the-top action, classic branding, and be a tribute to the classic Power Rangers. This film has simply slapped the Power Ranger name on a terrible movie at an attempt to make money.
Sad.
Is it for someone like me in his late 20s-early 30's, a long-time Power Rangers fan, and someone who grew up on the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? No. The only thing that nods it's head at us is a brief 1-second cameo of the original rangers at the end. There is no classic over-the-top action, no martial arts motiff, no swift and rhythmic hand gesturing, no announcement morphing (or hardly any morphing for that matter), and no cool, stellar combat scenes. Not even a flip or an extreme sports sequence. Lastly, they never played the power rangers theme song. Instead, the theme consisted of long, synthesized space riffs. It didn't fit for Power Rangers at all.
Then is it for kids, a younger, new generation? No way. It's terrible. It has no plot. The characters are brash stereotypes, the dialogue is awful and it's not even kid-appropriate.
Is it for action fans? Again, not a chance. This movie had maybe two minutes of fighting, I want to say. And it's not even like Wonder Woman or BvS, which were both short on fighting sequences but what they had were pretty good. The rest was....I don't know, teens trying to "find themselves", and they do that by finding each other, I guess? And becoming Power Rangers?
To sum up, this movie had no right to be produced. At the pre-production phase someone should have asked: who is our audience? In fact, it's a very simple question that should have been asked by the person doing the screenplay, the director, and the producer. It could have saved a lot of agony and a classic brand and franchise from becoming a heap of garbage. The original Power Rangers didn't take itself too seriously. It was about being cool and being bad-ass, flipping around and fighting bad guys, and at the end of the day, jumping in a gigantic robot and taking part in a Godzilla-esque duel in downtown Angel Grove. This one is too touchy feely and not enough kung-pow!
A proper Power Rangers reboot should have over-the-top action, classic branding, and be a tribute to the classic Power Rangers. This film has simply slapped the Power Ranger name on a terrible movie at an attempt to make money.
Sad.
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