Quick Reviews: Saban's Power Rangers

2017 had a lot of highs and lows.  It also had a lot of Superhero Films.  Does this stack up to Marvel or DC?

In somewhere in California, a trio of 'teens' (the youngest Actor is 20) have nothing in common, but 'fate' brings them together at a Quarry.

They find a bunch of stones...I mean, Coins.  The objects spare their lives after a train hits their van and we basically get a retread of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.

They return to the quarry and find a Spaceship hidden under the water.  Does it relate to that Intro Scene set 65 Million Years ago?

BB-82 here tells them that they are now Power Rangers and must become a team in a little over a week.  To fight what?

Why it is Rita Repulsa, of course, now looking like a blend of Poison Ivy and Viper from the Nick Fury TV Movie with David Hasselhoff.

She wants to, say it with me, destroy the Earth and conquer the Galaxy.

Can they learn to work together and stop Goldar?  Is this just Pacific Rim?

To find out, watch the Film.

A bunch of good, interesting ideas surrounded by cliché ones.  The Film as a whole only kind of works.  Much like the Bay-produced Ninja Turtles Film, you have to really dig through a lot of nonsense to get to the good stuff.  The relationship between the Characters- as cliché and filler as it is- does feel natural.  The Acting is overall quite good, even if some people don't deliver.  The Story has some obvious problems, the biggest of which is just how much they drag it out.  They make you wait too long for them in the Suits.  I get that you want it to feel special, but it is too much.  To be fair, The Avengers don't fight together for a while in their Film.  On the other hand, you see Cap, Iron Man and company doing stuff separately and/or against each other.  Imagine if the first 90 minutes of that Film was just them hanging out with no Costumes on.  Even with great-to-good Actors (like they had), it would be disappointing, right?  Hell, Batman is in costume in the opening Scene of Justice League (as flawed as that Film is).  The funniest thing to me is that an offhand line about the one Ranger possibly being a Lesbian (or at least unsure about dating Boys) got it banned in Russia...and I completely missed it.  It was that important.  The bottom line: the Film is slow and only delivers a little.  It wasn't a big hit (making back its Budget though), but at least it led to something more important...

There's a bunch of good ideas buried in this color-corrected, over-serious Film.  If they get a Sequel, maybe they can learn from what worked and what didn't.