-via IMDb.com
When I decided yesterday to watch The Monster Squad instead of my planned viewing of Power Rangers, I delegated that task to my brother, @andrewgenaille, who gamely decided to take on the challenge. When I checked in with him later, he was finishing an episode of Key and Peele and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was starting. He gave me a quote for the movie review but it contained a spoiler so I didn't include it here. Essentially he couldn't finish the movie. He turned it off.
I, of course, took that as a challenge. I had sat through Battlefield Earth and Independence Day: Resurgence and revelled in their awfulness. So I would take on the Power Rangers and I would endure with good-natured enjoyment and interest to the world being created here.
I've never seen any of the previous incarnations of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers beyond clips on Youtube's Cinema Sins and some scenes at friends' houses when I was just passing through. It looked cheesy and sounded cheesy. I didn't have a desire for cheese. This reboot was a long time in the making I am told and, truthfully, I had no desire to see it but I make these sacrifices for you, dear fellow Steemians.
Elizabeth Banks is in this. So is Bryan Cranston. There were also a bunch of young people playing teenagers who would become the Power Rangers in question. They are all outcasts and they gain super powers and must save the world from Elizabeth Banks, who's great in the Pitch Perfect movies. They are helped by the disembodied head of Bryan Cranston, whom I'm told was great in the Breaking Bad series. The guy that plays the dad of the main character is someone I've seen before too but I couldn't place him. He played jerks in whatever else I saw him in, much like he does here but I really didn't care enough to look him up.
The movie is an origin story for the Power Rangers as they are tasked with defeating Rita Repulsa and stopping her from destroying the earth. The effects are pretty good and Banks as Rita seems like she is having a lot of fun but the movie just doesn't really work. It is a straight forward story and plot but it feels tired, believe it or not. Plus, when the main characters morphed, it just seemed really cheesy.
I got through it though, that's got to count for something.
