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4/10 Calling it “Saban’s Power Rangers” doesn’t really do this film justice. For everything wrong with it, the title is what’s going to prevent most people from taking it seriously. It’s so overambitious and dramatic, I really think they should have gone with something like The Rangers in the Rye or Power-dise Lost.
Power Rangers follows five teenagers with attitude stuck in a life of Saturday school in dreary Angel Grove, the kind of drive-through town that escaped wealth even with its healthy fishing industry and large gold mine. While fooling around in the mine for a variety of reasons, Jason Scott, Kimberly Hart, Billy Cranston, Zack Taylor and Trini Kwan (Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludy Lin and Becky G) discover colorful power coins that grant them fantastic abilities. The teens soon discover they have joined a long heritage of warriors sworn to protect all life in the universe, and they must learn how to morph in preparation for the return of the fallen green ranger, Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks).
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