Power Rangers

An amusing teen fantasy slowly morphs into a clunky reboot in Power Rangers.

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“Power Rangers” is baloney through and through, but as baloney goes, it’s better than you might expect. It packs enough zing to make you forgive the origin-story clichés. And the predictable save-the-world stuff. And the insanely ubiquitous product placement.

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The film is more about a bunch of oddball teens than it is about colorfully suited superheroes.

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Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it's rather pleasantly bonkers.

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Loud, trashy, sweet and weird, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reboot “Power Rangers” is not merely an ideal film for rambunctious and undemanding 12-year olds, it actually sees the world through their eyes.

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A '90s-nostalgia reboot gives the teen superheroes a makeover and an endless origin story, but — alas — no more personality.

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Power Rangers doesn't completely fail as an origin story, but it's too familiar with its new-age reboot mentality that repurposes instead of recreates.

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When the Rangers engage in “Transformers”-lite mayhem, an intriguing group portrait collapses into generic pyrotechnics.

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Five teens discover five glowing coins which endow them with special powers. But they soon discover an ancient evil has been awoken and they must do battle with it to save the world.

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It may be the most unlikely and least welcome superhero movie of the year – or even the decade – but this reboot actually benefits from lowered expectations.

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The film is so concerned with launching a mature teen-targeted franchise that it often forgets to have some fun.

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Sadistic, ugly and incompetent, this reboot is even worse than The Fantastic Four.

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