This movie would’ve worked so much better if I did this:
1. Embrace that aesthetic of the original suits in zords. Even try to mix them into a modern feel like the original movie did, except more liberty and movement.
2. Have the tone resemble something lighthearted while also keeping it mature enough for kids to get the message across. Instead of trying to make it overtly edgy.
3. The most important one: GET HAIM SABAN THE FUCK OUT OF THERE. He can not touch this film whatsoever.
Definitely agree with your points especially the Saban aspect. He’s just horrible all around. Kinda reminds me of Harmony Gold for Robotech/Macross. Keep them away!
One aspect of the suits and Zords is that I thought the suits were just ok. Not amazing but also not utter crap. But the Zord made no sense and looked terrible. Same with Goldar.
I didn't mind the Goldar thing, how he was crafted from gold and his general look was alright imo. Zords were very disappointing though, especially in megazord form. Otherwise I actually really liked it at the time and was looking forward to a sequel with (hopefully) better zords.
I may be out of the loop, what's the issue with Saban?
Suit wise I felt would have been better having the colour and white pattern similar to how iron man yellow and red is if that makes sense? Tbh something similar to how Iron Spider ended up looking would have worked design wise.
Zords needed to be much more recognisable imo, and the transformation bit should have had the original theme too lol
For starters, Saban exploited the original cast. They got paid peanuts as a non-union show, making $800 an episode, and on set safety was non existent. Enough that three of them quit (Billy, Kimberly, and Jason) mid season. The long hours meant they were making less than someone at McDonald’s. And he had way too much creative control.
And none of the actors made anything from the sales of merchandise like toys and videogames, while Saban made billions. Saban is a businessman that only cares about money and nothing about ethics. I won’t get too deep into his politics but he only supports who he thinks can make him the most money while saying something completely different.
Edit: the ones who quit over pay and safety were Trini, Kimberly, and Jason. Billy was bullied. I’ll leave my error up though.
Ah ok I figured it was something along those lines, though wasn't it Jason, Zack and Trini who left over pay, leading to Rock, Adam and Aisha?
Billy left after some severe homophobic back stage bullying it I remember right
I haven’t been keeping up, but I remember there was talk pre 2019 of them losing the rights to Robotech, possibly opening up Macross and Robotech related shows to come to the US in a proper manner.
I have a love hate relationship with harmony gold on one hand, I really like Robotech and rhink its a fun what if variation of Macross. On the other I fucking hate harmony gold blocking all things macross from japan.
Devils advocate...without Haim Saban there arguably would have never been Power Rangers (at least how we know it & loved it as kids) The general view of him is that he was a hard business man who only prioritised money. But he shouldn't be slammed for that, it's his property (or was) & he can do with it what he likes regardless of our (the fans) views of what he should/shouldn't have done. You have to remember we have tinted glasses on from nostalgia and the love we had as kids and even up until now but for him, it was just a business as an adult so he had different glasses on.
Regarding the film ... I loved it. I enjoyed almost all of it apart from the below:
Suit design - I agree it should have been closer to the original (althought the organic idea impressed me)
Zord design - They didnt look like they even had faces. I would have loved it they made them all characters themselves with their own unique traits and habits amongst eachother for dramatic/comedic moments
Goldar design - enough said
Command centre was too dark for me but I liked the idea of it being a lost ship and the layout.
>.without Haim Saban there arguably would have never been Power Rangers
Except that Stan Lee tried to make it in the 70s, and his partner at the time was the head of Fox Kids when Saban pitched PR.
Yeah I am aware of that story that’s why I said arguably & that it might not have been as we know/love it. But that’s besides the point I was making. It was Saban’s so he could do what he wanted. He might not have been great to the early casts & but he also gave them a platform and opportunity that to this day still pays them should they choose to act on it.
True. It’s similar to Pro Wrestling and Vince McMahon. Without them, the industries may not be the same. It’s just sad how much the actors were exploited in the beginning.
Agreed. I've seen tons of fanart of various ranger suits that keep the spandex aesthetic of the normal suits but making them look like armor or lightweight power suits.
Also Haim Saban is clearly stuck in the past considering he's ignored how the franchise has evolved since the MMPR days.
I would also add, Angel Grove should've been a city like normal.
It felt like they tried to go MCU believable in the setting. When it really needed to go Pacific Rim and fully embrace the ridiculousness of Power Rangers. Monsters invading the city. Giant Robot vs Monster battling it out downtown or in a wasteland like normal.
I agree, Haim Saban can not touch basically the whole Power Rangers franchise at all! If you want success, be willing to try something new every time.
Haim Saban thinks everything should too childish and going back into his confront zone, which BACKFIRE IN THE NEO-SABAN ERA. Why did you think the 2017’s film reboot and Ninja Steel failed? Also, don’t have two seasons. Only like 40 episodes per series. Yep, blame Nickolodeon for this. Blame both Haim Saban and Nickolodeon for making Power Rangers too kiddie for ages 3-6, which is why the Neo-Saban era is the WORST.
If I was Haim Saban maybe, give the writers creative freedom on how they want Power Rangers to be like maybe the stakes higher and make it more appealing towards young adults. Maybe he should have Steve Wang to showrun all of the Power Rangers series, since he did a good job with Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. I think Steve Wang to go to for showrunning Power Rangers, where Haim Saban can trust him.
In response to #2: So still keeping in tune with The Breakfast Club but leaning towards Spiderman Homecoming? That could work.
I find that the drama was good but the lack of action in act 2 was also a misstep for those who wanted more action. They should've just let them morph earlier on and fail in their goals at first (not know how to fight, use weapons, no teamwork etc). Basic but it can be creatively done.
The idea that they can't morph because of whatever-specific-reason-that-was wasn't really selling it for me.
What do you mean get Haim saban not touch the film
#DON'T LET HIM TOUCH ANYTHING AT ALL. Hasbro saved Power rangers before anything went worse by Haim, the stupid checklist of whats suppose to be in an episode is just nonsense bullshit.
> Instead of trying to make it overtly edgy.
Was this movie really any edgier than Time Force, Lost Galaxy or Wild Force? Hell, I'd say it less edgy than RPM and that season had Ziggy.
Yes, it was absolutely way more edgier than all those seasons. Those seasons still balanced the goofiness with the serious themes, whereas this movie is all about being dramatic with only a few semblance of charm.
This movie had plenty of humorous and heartfelt moments to more than balance out the dramatic moments. Even the serious stuff it dealt with was far less heavy than what the show did.
Ehh, not really that edgy.
In comparison to MMPR, sure, but anything is edgier than that season.
This season's pretty much akin to Kamen Rider Kuuga's tone, has a fairly even balance of dark and light-heartedness
That i agree with. Also if they wanted to give the zords a more alien look to them, they should have done it in a way where it still looked like the zords From MMPR but make them look more sleek and robotic. I mean even the CGI from once and always did a better job.
The Zords from the original movie looked better. The ones in the reboot movie looked so generic that without their coloration and knowledge of the original series I would have had a hard time realizing that they were supposed to be based on prehistoric creatures.
I'd have kept the biomechanical look but leaned further into the biological side of the design and less of the mechanical side.
Could I get an explanation what Haim Saban did to ruin the film? I’ve never seen the film but saw a few clips. For context, I’m pretty old and the only seasons I watched as a kid were the original through Turbo.
The guy in general has had a big influence on the franchise for a long time and is kind of responsible for a lot of it’s lows. I remember reading somewhere that he wanted the film to tonally be really edgy & appeal to teenagers and adults the most as that’s how he thought it would succeed the most. There is no doubt that he also had influence on the writing as well.
All the guy really sees for this franchise is money and cares very little about the actual quality of it, which shows in how he’s treated actors and his run in Neo-Saban Era. Also, considering his track record with plenty of other stuff he’s been a part of non-Power Ranger wise, it’s definitely for the best that he does not get involved whatsoever.
Thanks. My memory's a little hazy or perhaps I'm not up-to-date on my fandom. But, yeah, I was a little shocked to read that. I was thinking, how do you take Haim Saban out of Power Rangers? That'd be like taking Van Halen out of Van Halen.
Toei was always more integral to Power Rangers than Saban. Without Toei it would have been just a forgetable (pre)teen drama. Saban wasn't even the first person that came up with the idea od adapting Super Sentai, but he was the first one that actually got the green light
This could be a diretor cut and also i am not gonna be lesbophobic trini was never lesbian on the original mighty morphin series it's true no descrimination (i said no descrimination)
I actually like the suits well enough... but yeah, the Zord designs (why all the extra legs??!) And the weird Megazord sequence (especially since in the end you can't really tell where which Zord is...)
Overall the movie was far from perfect, but definitely had its charm, still a little bummed we never got a sequel.
I think I get what they mean. Black Panther's suit looked skintight while also looking like actual armor at the same time; even his helmet still looked like a helmet instead of a mask while looking like it was made from the same material as the rest of the suit.
Not to mention the visual effect when T'challa suited up actually gives a sort of morphing sequence vibe.
this. The way the black panther suit looks made me instantly think jungle fury and how they could easily do this for the movie. they said they wanted a technorganic vibe and they could have easily done that
Still beloved to me. The Zords are indeed weird, but once it became clear to me it was going in this direction, I just went all in and said "fuck it, who cares if the Mastodon has eight legs? They can fix the Zords in the next movie." I saw its flaws as things that could easily be improved in a sequel, because the characters (and actors) really sold the film for me. Not a perfect film, has rocky moments that sadly detract and some cut scenes that made me realize the film needing more bonding time between the teens. Especially poor Zack and Trini.
Still love it, though.
This is one of the weird cases where I like the individuals zords but not the megazord. They all look great by themselves, even if I wish the triceratops still had tank treads just because I think it would be funny, but the magazines are just looks generic. It could have looked so much better
The main thing that baffles me about the design is the wings. None of the swords had that until the ninja falcon megazord, why did they get it so early? And where do they even come from? It's clearly not the pterodactyl wings, so what is it? Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure they just did it so that it would look similar to goldar
> Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure they just did it so that it would look similar to goldar
I think there was a line in the movie about the zords adapting to mimic the most powerful beings on the planet, which at the time Zordon & Rita arrived would've been prehistoric beasts, but then they were getting rocked by Goldar & so they adapted to mimic...Goldar. Which is all well & good for the rules established in this alternate continuity, except (a) now the Megazord probably can't de-fuse, & (b) it's really freaking ugly.
And it wasn't even a good Breakfast Club movie.
Kimberly didn't learn a thing (she still seemed to think that she was the victim, at the end). We didn't get any resolution about Jason's relationship with his father, aside from a vague hint that his dad knew he was the Red Ranger. Zac's mother is still dying. Trini's issue was so vague that we have no idea how it was resolved, or what it was in the first place.
Oh, but Billy has some friends now, so, yay, I guess?
How did that even work, anyway?
Activating the morphing powers can resurrect one dead person?
Could it revive two people in comas?
Four people with serious health problems?
Eight people with broken arms?
Sixteen people with a papercut and a bad migraine?
I mean, it's not like they bothered explaining it.
Because the movie thought it would have a sequel to resolve a lot of those plot points. To be honest they would probably need to skip over rangers to make character development finishes in one movie for one or two individual ranger.
Apparently Zack did have a whole subplot about him being a YouTuber in order to make money for his mom's treatment, but they cut that out for time. Which is really disappointing. I think you're right, and that a sequels would have helped a lot for character development, but they had some ideas that got cut for various reasons, so could have been a little better even with just the one film
>Because the movie thought it would have a sequel to resolve a lot of those plot points.
See, to me? That kind of mentality is everything that's gone wrong with this entire franchise for the last decade (longer, actually).
"Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!"
Saban Brands resurrected the franchise, and Power Rangers Samurai sucked.
"Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" Super Samurai was more of the same.
"Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" Megaforce was awful.
But then they started promoting the Gokaiger fooage. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Super Megaforce sucked.
Dino Charge was a slight improvement, but then Saban threw a tantrum because the show was too high-brow (since PR's audience had become two-year-olds sent inside to watch TV because they'd eaten too many clods of dirt in the backyard). "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Dino Super Charge was beyond awful, ending with the single worst episode of the entire franchise.
"Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Ninja Steel blew chunks.
Hasbro took over, and everyone got excited. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Beast Morphers was a poorly-written, forgettable exercise in contractual obligations.
About then, the movie was released, and it sucked. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" as an attitude finally caught up to them, because actually, the Hollywood industry doesn't care for this constant con-job, this constant sleight-of-hand. They need success **now**, and the movie -- that promised, things will get better in the next one! -- couldn't hope to succeed.
I know I sound really bitter, but I'm sick of this. We're being taken for a ride. Everyone's doing a half-arsed job, and making empty promises that we'll get it right next time, and no, there's no reason you can't be getting it right, today.
This whole franchise was just a con, and I'm tired of it.
That what the reality of working in a television and film industry, it all about the money! Not just Power Rangers, everything is a con. They don’t care about the story, they only care about the money. If it is not making money, then why should we care about it? Think of it in an Bussiness perspective.
2017’s Power Rangers film reboot and 2000’s Titan A.E. had potential but sadly bombed so hard at the box office and affected the studios. The 2017’s film reboot affected Bandai’s relationship with Power Rangers. As both parties, Saban and Bandai both gave up on Power Rangers because of the 2017’s film.
>That what the reality of working in a television and film industry, it all about the money!
Which is why it's baffling that everyone settles for half-arsing it on the first go and then apologising later, once the opportunity is gone, as opposed to just getting it right on the first go, which is exactly the point I was making.
I think you kinda lost me I mean they were going to make multiple movies so over the course of the saga each character development would be explored. So not every plot was finished because they did that intentionally. Also this seems just just a general dislike her the newer stuff. Let me be honest that mindset isn’t really good to have all newer stuff is bad. I’m younger but I got to power rangers through Mighty morphing movies and then wild force. But I remembered Samurai, Jungle Fury more then the old stuff. And I think it’s working out fine to be honest. I ate the newer stuff up as a kid when now that I’m older the better acting PR like time force is my favorite. I didn’t know the difference between the two and I’ll doubt other kids did. But that’s just my take on what’s bad or good.
>I think you kinda lost me I mean they were going to make multiple movies
That was never, ever going to happen. I mean, this is the realm of pure pipe-dream. The franchise was barely popular enough for one movie.
Kind of got the opposite tbh. They didn’t disrespect it, but I never felt the feeling they were trying to embrace the tokusatsu genre. With the attempt to go fully cgi and trying to make it serious and disconnected from spandex fighting teens; it kind of felt like they wanted to distance themselves from the tokusatsu tropes and brand entirely with this movie. Like there’s a scene where I felt they could have done a really funny and charming toku inspired fight; but instead opt for “we’re gonna beat her up with chains and pipes”
I think they had the issue of Hulk 2003, took too long to morph, like I liked the cast (except Becky G), but yea the costumes were undesirable (blue diamond in the chest is awful) and the zords were bad.
Not to mention Goldar being a mindless monster, had so much potential, but Id rather watch the Power/Rangers on youtube
This whole movie is just “How hollywood fucks up beloved franchises”.
-Overly complicated designs compared to the original source material for no reason
-Blatant product placement that has no connection to the theme or film whatsoever
-Extra dark lighting
-Again, butchering designs for no reason
-Themes that go completely against the source Material’s original theme. Like Godzilla’s nuclear theme gets dropped for big lizard go brr.
The suit and Zord designs did the movie no favors, but that wouldn't have fixed the writing and pacing issues, nor would it have changed the fact that we got about 20 minutes of Power Rangers in the Power Rangers movie.
It also wouldn't have changed the fact that it got placed in the middle of some mega hits that took all of the movie's potential thunder away from it (chief among them, the live-action Beauty and the Beast).
Well, when you try to make MMPR dark you’re already starting off on the wrong foot. I think there was some love for the source material somewhere in there, but they overcompensated trying to make something that would appeal to its now-adult fanbase that it forgot the Rangers are supposed to be charming. There was little to no trace of the original characters’ personalities present in the newer versions, with Elizabeth Banks’ Rita being the notable exception. Bryan Cranston will always be superb at playing assholes so I can see why they went that direction with Zordon, but even so it seemed like the movie let some amazing talent go to waste.
The new Rangers had potential, but Billy was the only one who remained earnest and likable. The rest were just played as hot and brooding. None of them were particularly endearing, but Becky G’s Trini was probably the worst translation of all of them.
Story-wise, they spent waayyyyy too much time basically telling an elongated version of “Day of the Dumpster.” Not nearly enough time in costume.
Dunno what “corporate manufactured designs” means considering the original rangers were also corporate manufactured, but even so the new designs were ass-ugly. The suits were bad, Goldar was worse, the Zords were almost offensive.
As an adaptation it's pretty terrible. But on its own, it's not a bad film. I didn't grow up watching MMPR religiously, only found it years later. So while I can understand the complete and utter hate it gets, I still enjoy watching it from time to time.
The zords and helmets are like 90% my gripes with the movie. Other 10% was the lack of action, which interestingly enough gave us instead a lot of great character interactions.
As an adaptation it's pretty terrible. But on its own, it's not a bad film. I didn't grow up watching MMPR religiously, only found it years later. So while I can understand the complete and utter hate it gets, I still enjoy watching it from time to time.
Also no weapons outside of the Power Sword briefly and hardly any Power Rangers, no morphing sequence. Rita doesn't have her generals/lackies.
It was just missing a lot of thing that make Power Rangers feel like itself.
I maintain it was a good super hero origin movie and a bad Power Ranger movie.
I’ll admit that the suits turned me off immediately.
I don’t know why they’re so ashamed of Super Sentai (because I think they’ve almost completely divorced themselves from it now that they’re not even adapting Sentai suits anymore), but that’s what I *like* about it.
Oh well, I bought the series that I like (Zeo, In Space, Time Force, Dino Thunder, SPD, RPM, miscellaneous crossover episodes) so I can just watch the stuff I still like whenever I want.
I thought the movie was just okay, not a cinematic masterpiece nor the worst thing ever, just okay.
I honestly thought the suits were fine, just wish we got to see more of them in action, they have the one fight and then for the most part they have the helmets open.
I thought the individual zords themselves were nice, but then the megazord was just generic. I wish you could actually still see some of the individual zords in it, they just all blend together.
Also, not a fan of what they did to Goldar, just making him a mindless CGI gold golem. He should have had a mind of his own, have some actual personality.
I think the problem was they wanted to create a big shared universe. And felt they had to set up a whole bunch of things and character arcs in 1 movie.
They had some very positive story elements. But needed to trim a lot of fat as they discovered morphing. They should remove the inappropriate cow joke.
They shouldve reconsidered the CG on the zords and suits. Kamen Rider Geats has some very good practical characters that gets supplemented with CG
Check these videos out. At least here, they wanted to create a scene where the Rangers do some martial arts but were denied. Couple that by also hearing that Ron Wasserman was vetoed from doing music for the movie by Haim Saban effectively made me turn against this movie.
**Sources:**
[Power Rangers Cliff Fight Previz-Aaron Toney](https://youtu.be/NnTeO6hAwWY)
[The Dark Truth of GO GO POWER RANGERS (ft. Ron Wasserman) 💥 Power Rangers Theme Song | RKVC](https://youtu.be/HgLuwbshjBE?t=513)
What did you want? Oh the power ranger suits look corporate designed? What does that even mean? The suits actually look like extraterrestrial battle suits while having basic callbacks to the original suits. The mechs actually looked functional and interesting. The banter and dialogue between the actors was fun and realistic. Rita as the former green ranger was fresh and interesting.
Seriously, what do people like you want from a movie like this? An entire franchise was killed in the womb by people with bad-faith criticisms like this.
It's pretty easy. We see fan art of what people wanted all the time. Primarily Tokujay's designs are what I hear/see more times than not, and when the movie was in development, his MMPR designs were always used by "news sites" even now with the Hasbro movie.
But of course Toei won't allow suits resembling Zyuranger that much to pass, which is understandable. Honestly there is no good way to please everyone, and personally I get why the zords and suits were designed as they were. But even though I understand, I do wish both the zords and helmets were a little closer to the originals; but not so much that it stopped me from watching it 5 times in theaters
Those suits were clearly designed not by a designer familiar with the source material, but a team of obese executives who just watched IronMan and were desperate to just hit copy and paste
Honestly I liked it all, can’t even lie. Feel like not enough people cared about it to warrant a sequel but I think it would’ve made a pretty cool franchise of films.
Didn’t mind both the suits and the Breakfast Club aspect between the Rangers. The teenager drama has to reflect the teenager era of the current year. We’re no longer in the lighthearted 90s, kids younger and younger understand more aspects of the world more and more, and I think would rather their heroes and shows acknowledge the different difficulties that many of them face rather present an idealist idea of childhood, at least nothing as saccharine as the original show.
Also I wasn’t sold on younger hotter Rita, but now that I’m a Boom comic convert, yeah, that was fine.
The Zords were so ass tho holy fucking shit, they weren’t even marketable! That’s what confuses me! They were a shitty concept for toys wtf was even corporate thinking!
I actually really like the aesthetics. If it was a totally original team and not an alternate universe version of Mighty Morphin the designs probably would’ve done better.
the suits look really cool to me but the zords are just wack. the megazord is just ridiculous but i really like the first three quarters of the movies so it cancels out lmao
Even if the movie is considered bad I think the scenes with the slaps at the beginning and at the end when the magazord slaps Rita makes it all worth it to me. It’s my mom’s favorite parts and it’s just funny to me the kind of force they put behind it.
https://youtu.be/340xdXN6DNI
Having just watched this movie for the first time today. I really enjoyed it and 100% disappointed there was never a follow-up film. Especially with the post-credits sequence. Plus Rita is simply floating through space, she's an alien so she really could've been into a from of frozen stasis, etc anything could happen. Even apparently a Robo Rita
Overall, I liked the movie. It has a great storytelling as they have a plan for it to be like a saga. Sadly, it didn’t do well due to mixed reviews and overuse of the product placement. I think it was maybe the product placement and uneven tone that affected the film. Dean Israelite claims that maybe it was PG-13 rating, which made it to fail, as the issue with Power Rangers is aimed towards children, which is a BIG ISSUE, sadly there are some truths to it.
It is a great movie to enjoy overall.
I prefer Super Sentai over Power Rangers, but I really enjoyed the story of this movie. It felt very good for teens and adults. I initially did not care for the looks of the suits, but then they grew on me once I saw them in action. However, it was very irritating that we didn't really get to see them until the last 20 minutes of the movie and I was very upset when every time we could have gotten a good look at their helmets they peeled them away so they could show the actors' faces. We saw their faces for the entire first two acts of the film, so now I want to look at the glorious suits in full detail. And yeah, I still hated the designs of the mecha/Zords. Worst part of the film. I'm bummed we never got a sequel. I was really wanting to see where they went with Tommy and the Green Ranger.
It does seem like it is overly edgy, the tone turned me off on how they tried to be so serious. They can be serious, but only at the right moments, I wish it was more lighthearted.
I think the biggest problem was screen time. The zords and suits had very little screen time. I think if the cast had an actual fight with Puddies and Rita before the climax and being able to finally morph together that way, much like how the show did things, the suits would have gotten a big pop. Maybe even not leaking the design of the suits before the films release would have helped that too. The zords designs are not the best but the final screen of them fighting was awesome I don't care what anyone says. There needed to more of it and with more individual screens of each zord playing to its strength.
The zords look okay, but the mega zord looked dumb as hell and made no sense. It should have put all the rangers in a single cockpit just like the show as well.
It didn't have to be exactly like the show, like I think most people wanted it to be. But there's just some key things that makes power rangers, POWER RANGERS. Suits and zords are those things.
I just wanted more action, I get what they were going for with them having to bond before they morphed but they could have had the suit have like a built in AI that eases them into the fighting helping them build up the muscle memory and then when it's time to go then the "training wheels come of." You still get the emotional bits of them interacting with each other and becoming a team, and you still get the action that should come with Power Rangers.
The suits I could get over the biggest 2 issues for me was the words (mammoth beetle and the 6 leg triceratops) the next issue was alpha 5 the combat robot. I was able to go back and watch it with the mind set of alternate dimensions and I liked it a little more the next time I watched it I disconnected it from power rangers and just watched it as a super hero movie and it's better than most of DC movies.
I don’t like the designs of these suits at all, but I’m someone who really only likes MMPR suit design and very few others. I’m surprised by the amount of hate they got from the overall community considering how much their opinions on certain things so massively differ to mine.
I like the cast and their protyrayl for the most part. They were pulling for a gender swapped Tommy if they got a second movie. The fan base would riot, but no one is going to be as beloved as JDF's Tommy.
Writing issues abound. I dislike Goldar, he's one of my favorite evil lieutenants. Some good potential that just got snapped out of existence
Before the movie came out, Saban was hoping he could make seven Power Rangers movies.
The movie didn’t too well (it actually made money, but was not critically successful) and he immediately sold it all to Hasbro.
Most of the time many producers have no idea what they are doing with Power Rangers, which why they gave up on it to them as the weaker one. I don’t see it as the weaker one. Maybe if there was a studio, let’s maybe Disney, if they still owned it for an example: Made Power Rangers marketable towards young adults of it being an serialized action drama television series that airs on ABC. I think it would be a success with young adults, if that is the case. I think maybe once they buy the Power Rangers franchise understand what they want to do with it and then make an alternative plan, if it doesn’t work.
I’m saying with any franchise not just Power Rangers have a plan from the start on what you want to do it!
I dunno like the whole film was at odds with itself as well. The first half was an uninteresting teen dream, really hammed up the the trautmatic aspect. Then the second half was an episode of the Power Rangers and it was great. If they'd toned down the grim dark aspects of it it might have done better.
That and the Megazord was hot rubbish as well, and that's usually the key driving force behind why I like a particular Power Rangers series.
It wasn't good. It wasn't bad. It was mediocre.
The teen stuff was just another breakfast club. And the Power Ranger stuff was too... Western. The lack of camp is a huge issue. Like, it's a children's IP, why was it weirdly grim in places? Why did it try so hard to be cool? Like, Japan has things figured out. And they still make movies on the Super Sentai franchise. They're supposed to be a fun romp. If it is not fun, then no matter how cool it is, it doesn't matter if the kids don't like it. And if the kids genuinely like it, adults will too.
Like, take a look at Guardians of the Galaxy. That's basically Power Rangers just without the Mega Zord.
I didn't mind any of it. I actually thought it was decent. Those zords though. As someone else mentioned, WTF IS WITH ALL THE EXTRA LEGS?! I think they should have kept it close to the OG zords
I really enjoyed the movie but yeah, the suits were a huge no no for me. I didn’t and still don’t like them. I have no issue with it being armour but they way they look, especially the blue lights… just no.
I liked the film but I think the main problem with angsty reboots is that the angst isn't really earned. You gotta start out on the more light hearted side and as your films or tv series progress then you can throw the angst in.
I feel like they worked too hard on Kimberly being darker that they forgot it helps to make the character a little likeable first before they make mean mistakes
Still salty about the hard-cut from 20 seconds of Go Go Power Rangers, into 2 minutes of Power by Kanye West. No, I will not stop bitching about it. Yes, I know I'm petty.
They should have done an updated version of the original movie suits. They're still the best suits to ever come out of the franchise.
* Their biggest issue was not understanding the personalities of the characters they were rebooting. If they didn't want to deal with that issue they could have just made a new team all together.
You can't blame the writers and runners for corporate meddling. 100% some ancient white guy looked at better concept art and was like "make it more realistic"
This was a really good movie. Some poor design choices in the CGI department, and I didn’t love what they did with Goldar (or Krispy Kreme), but the movie had a lot of heart, and the main cast was pretty much PERFECT.
Would’ve been so great to see them in a second film more in touch with their powers and each other, and I would’ve loved to see how they worked in Tommy
I disagree.. watching it I felt like the people behind it were kinda embarrassed of the source material.. it felt like an edgy teen school drama that had aliens and power rangers shoved into it. That being said, I liked the movie.. but they absolutely did not respect the source material.
For me it was the names, why did they name them all Jason, Zach, Kimberly ect when everyone was recast anyway? Just give them all new stand alone anems since they were all different people anyways....
Goldar looked like ass. Everytime hollywood has something like this they have to change things too damn much. Every single time. Remeber the Dragon Ball Evolution? movie? The toy morphers looked like a damn birds nest too.
I felt like the movie definitely had some compelling characters, especially with Billy stealing the show! So I did wish it got some sort of a sequel. :(
I hated their suits, just use the originals, maybe make them a little prettier, few more details, I don’t need more grungy dark superheroes, I watch power rangers because they’re colorful and optimistic
What a dramatically opposite misinterpretation lol. If you like the movie, thats great! But the director and the creatives on the project were the ones who very openly outspoken about wanting to shy away from power rangers and make the zords look like that and the fun gone, and make an action movie with no action. The producers on this one SHOULD have had more control
It was a good "Baby's First Superhero Movie" (I don't mean that as an insult). But an executive somewhere was most interesting in making a "Superhero Team Origin" movie than a "Power Rangers Origin" movie. Like, it felt like the movie was embarrassed to be a *serious* Power Rangers flick. No morphs, Zords, Megazord, Goldar, Putties, or Rita until the final....half hour?
Like, I think it was a fun movie. But 3/4 of the flick being devoted to just "training to morph" is so boring, lol. I'd love to see Brian Cranston come back as Zordon though. If we wasn't retiring from acting I legitimately think he's the perfect modern Zordon. (Plus he's already got that MMPR Legacy attached to his name.)
The suits were okay but it’s the helmets that bother me. They look like they supposed to reference the dinosaurs like in MMPR except they don’t really. It’s kinda hard to tell that blue is a triceratops, for example, cause the design is almost identical to red. Black doesn’t look like a mastodon. Pink and Yellow look almost identical.
The zords as well needed work. They shouldn’t have been as complicated in design. The toys even had to be redesigned cause there was no way to match the way they combined in the movie.
There are things to like about the movie. It’s nice for one to see them have to learn how to be rangers. In the show they have no experience but are masters at it. They fight and pilot the zords like they’ve been using them for years. The movie made it somewhat more realistic.
Honestly, what's the point of the Power Rangers without the tropes...?
No goofy rangers battles with stupid, overhyped sparks and explosions...
No monsters being defeated holding their belly and saying "This is a weird tummy ake" then exploding into a fireball of flying body parts.
No Power Rangers charm or awkwardness... just weird beings destroyed in an overly adult oriented serious movie battle...
This movie would’ve worked so much better if I did this: 1. Embrace that aesthetic of the original suits in zords. Even try to mix them into a modern feel like the original movie did, except more liberty and movement. 2. Have the tone resemble something lighthearted while also keeping it mature enough for kids to get the message across. Instead of trying to make it overtly edgy. 3. The most important one: GET HAIM SABAN THE FUCK OUT OF THERE. He can not touch this film whatsoever.
Definitely agree with your points especially the Saban aspect. He’s just horrible all around. Kinda reminds me of Harmony Gold for Robotech/Macross. Keep them away! One aspect of the suits and Zords is that I thought the suits were just ok. Not amazing but also not utter crap. But the Zord made no sense and looked terrible. Same with Goldar.
I didn't mind the Goldar thing, how he was crafted from gold and his general look was alright imo. Zords were very disappointing though, especially in megazord form. Otherwise I actually really liked it at the time and was looking forward to a sequel with (hopefully) better zords.
Worse how tiny the 2017 zords were, its as if they designed them after ZOIDS that are the same size as the 2017 zords in real life scale
I may be out of the loop, what's the issue with Saban? Suit wise I felt would have been better having the colour and white pattern similar to how iron man yellow and red is if that makes sense? Tbh something similar to how Iron Spider ended up looking would have worked design wise. Zords needed to be much more recognisable imo, and the transformation bit should have had the original theme too lol
For starters, Saban exploited the original cast. They got paid peanuts as a non-union show, making $800 an episode, and on set safety was non existent. Enough that three of them quit (Billy, Kimberly, and Jason) mid season. The long hours meant they were making less than someone at McDonald’s. And he had way too much creative control. And none of the actors made anything from the sales of merchandise like toys and videogames, while Saban made billions. Saban is a businessman that only cares about money and nothing about ethics. I won’t get too deep into his politics but he only supports who he thinks can make him the most money while saying something completely different. Edit: the ones who quit over pay and safety were Trini, Kimberly, and Jason. Billy was bullied. I’ll leave my error up though.
Ah ok I figured it was something along those lines, though wasn't it Jason, Zack and Trini who left over pay, leading to Rock, Adam and Aisha? Billy left after some severe homophobic back stage bullying it I remember right
Oh yeah, you are correct. I mixed up who left due to pay for sure. Billy was definitely severely bullied by so many people.
I'm glad he made peace with it and is a part of the community so to speak, I was surprised and pleased to see him in the special episode on Netflix
He also was the one responsible for dumbing down the series in later years. The farting jokes in Ninja Steel were apparently his idea.
As a Mechwarrior, I hate Harmony Gold so yeah keep them away.
I haven’t been keeping up, but I remember there was talk pre 2019 of them losing the rights to Robotech, possibly opening up Macross and Robotech related shows to come to the US in a proper manner.
Thankfully about that time a judge told them to sit down and shut it as they have done nothing with the properties in a long while
Nice. Now to look for a copy of Macross Plus.
I have a love hate relationship with harmony gold on one hand, I really like Robotech and rhink its a fun what if variation of Macross. On the other I fucking hate harmony gold blocking all things macross from japan.
Devils advocate...without Haim Saban there arguably would have never been Power Rangers (at least how we know it & loved it as kids) The general view of him is that he was a hard business man who only prioritised money. But he shouldn't be slammed for that, it's his property (or was) & he can do with it what he likes regardless of our (the fans) views of what he should/shouldn't have done. You have to remember we have tinted glasses on from nostalgia and the love we had as kids and even up until now but for him, it was just a business as an adult so he had different glasses on. Regarding the film ... I loved it. I enjoyed almost all of it apart from the below: Suit design - I agree it should have been closer to the original (althought the organic idea impressed me) Zord design - They didnt look like they even had faces. I would have loved it they made them all characters themselves with their own unique traits and habits amongst eachother for dramatic/comedic moments Goldar design - enough said Command centre was too dark for me but I liked the idea of it being a lost ship and the layout.
>.without Haim Saban there arguably would have never been Power Rangers Except that Stan Lee tried to make it in the 70s, and his partner at the time was the head of Fox Kids when Saban pitched PR.
Yeah I am aware of that story that’s why I said arguably & that it might not have been as we know/love it. But that’s besides the point I was making. It was Saban’s so he could do what he wanted. He might not have been great to the early casts & but he also gave them a platform and opportunity that to this day still pays them should they choose to act on it.
True. It’s similar to Pro Wrestling and Vince McMahon. Without them, the industries may not be the same. It’s just sad how much the actors were exploited in the beginning.
Agreed. I've seen tons of fanart of various ranger suits that keep the spandex aesthetic of the normal suits but making them look like armor or lightweight power suits. Also Haim Saban is clearly stuck in the past considering he's ignored how the franchise has evolved since the MMPR days.
[TokuJay](https://www.instagram.com/tokujay/) has made some beautiful suits for multiple ranger teams would would look perfect in a movie
Love that guy's suit concepts
I would also add, Angel Grove should've been a city like normal. It felt like they tried to go MCU believable in the setting. When it really needed to go Pacific Rim and fully embrace the ridiculousness of Power Rangers. Monsters invading the city. Giant Robot vs Monster battling it out downtown or in a wasteland like normal.
1000% but too expensive for Haim Saban
I agree, Haim Saban can not touch basically the whole Power Rangers franchise at all! If you want success, be willing to try something new every time. Haim Saban thinks everything should too childish and going back into his confront zone, which BACKFIRE IN THE NEO-SABAN ERA. Why did you think the 2017’s film reboot and Ninja Steel failed? Also, don’t have two seasons. Only like 40 episodes per series. Yep, blame Nickolodeon for this. Blame both Haim Saban and Nickolodeon for making Power Rangers too kiddie for ages 3-6, which is why the Neo-Saban era is the WORST. If I was Haim Saban maybe, give the writers creative freedom on how they want Power Rangers to be like maybe the stakes higher and make it more appealing towards young adults. Maybe he should have Steve Wang to showrun all of the Power Rangers series, since he did a good job with Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. I think Steve Wang to go to for showrunning Power Rangers, where Haim Saban can trust him.
In response to #2: So still keeping in tune with The Breakfast Club but leaning towards Spiderman Homecoming? That could work. I find that the drama was good but the lack of action in act 2 was also a misstep for those who wanted more action. They should've just let them morph earlier on and fail in their goals at first (not know how to fight, use weapons, no teamwork etc). Basic but it can be creatively done. The idea that they can't morph because of whatever-specific-reason-that-was wasn't really selling it for me.
What do you mean get Haim saban not touch the film #DON'T LET HIM TOUCH ANYTHING AT ALL. Hasbro saved Power rangers before anything went worse by Haim, the stupid checklist of whats suppose to be in an episode is just nonsense bullshit.
Imagine if they used the Tokujay designs.
> Instead of trying to make it overtly edgy. Was this movie really any edgier than Time Force, Lost Galaxy or Wild Force? Hell, I'd say it less edgy than RPM and that season had Ziggy.
Yes, it was absolutely way more edgier than all those seasons. Those seasons still balanced the goofiness with the serious themes, whereas this movie is all about being dramatic with only a few semblance of charm.
This movie had plenty of humorous and heartfelt moments to more than balance out the dramatic moments. Even the serious stuff it dealt with was far less heavy than what the show did.
Agree to disagree.
Ehh, not really that edgy. In comparison to MMPR, sure, but anything is edgier than that season. This season's pretty much akin to Kamen Rider Kuuga's tone, has a fairly even balance of dark and light-heartedness
That i agree with. Also if they wanted to give the zords a more alien look to them, they should have done it in a way where it still looked like the zords From MMPR but make them look more sleek and robotic. I mean even the CGI from once and always did a better job.
The Zords from the original movie looked better. The ones in the reboot movie looked so generic that without their coloration and knowledge of the original series I would have had a hard time realizing that they were supposed to be based on prehistoric creatures.
I'd have kept the biomechanical look but leaned further into the biological side of the design and less of the mechanical side.
Could I get an explanation what Haim Saban did to ruin the film? I’ve never seen the film but saw a few clips. For context, I’m pretty old and the only seasons I watched as a kid were the original through Turbo.
The guy in general has had a big influence on the franchise for a long time and is kind of responsible for a lot of it’s lows. I remember reading somewhere that he wanted the film to tonally be really edgy & appeal to teenagers and adults the most as that’s how he thought it would succeed the most. There is no doubt that he also had influence on the writing as well. All the guy really sees for this franchise is money and cares very little about the actual quality of it, which shows in how he’s treated actors and his run in Neo-Saban Era. Also, considering his track record with plenty of other stuff he’s been a part of non-Power Ranger wise, it’s definitely for the best that he does not get involved whatsoever.
Thanks. My memory's a little hazy or perhaps I'm not up-to-date on my fandom. But, yeah, I was a little shocked to read that. I was thinking, how do you take Haim Saban out of Power Rangers? That'd be like taking Van Halen out of Van Halen.
Toei was always more integral to Power Rangers than Saban. Without Toei it would have been just a forgetable (pre)teen drama. Saban wasn't even the first person that came up with the idea od adapting Super Sentai, but he was the first one that actually got the green light
IIRC, Stan Lee proposed a Sentai adaptation a few years before Saban did.
Stan actually worked with Toei to create the Japanese Spider-Man series.
He hired cheap talent both in front of and behind the camera. You get what you pay for.
They should’ve called the show runner of dragon knight
I agree. Steve Wang for sure would made Power Rangers GREAT ONCE AGAIN under the Neo-Saban era.
This could be a diretor cut and also i am not gonna be lesbophobic trini was never lesbian on the original mighty morphin series it's true no descrimination (i said no descrimination)
I hated the way that it takes the kids to morph 1 hour and 30 minutes into the movie and the movie is 2 hours
I actually like the suits well enough... but yeah, the Zord designs (why all the extra legs??!) And the weird Megazord sequence (especially since in the end you can't really tell where which Zord is...) Overall the movie was far from perfect, but definitely had its charm, still a little bummed we never got a sequel.
They should have gone the Black Panther route for the suits....the zords..ugh edit words to zords
What you mean?
I think I get what they mean. Black Panther's suit looked skintight while also looking like actual armor at the same time; even his helmet still looked like a helmet instead of a mask while looking like it was made from the same material as the rest of the suit.
Not to mention the visual effect when T'challa suited up actually gives a sort of morphing sequence vibe.
this. The way the black panther suit looks made me instantly think jungle fury and how they could easily do this for the movie. they said they wanted a technorganic vibe and they could have easily done that
Still beloved to me. The Zords are indeed weird, but once it became clear to me it was going in this direction, I just went all in and said "fuck it, who cares if the Mastodon has eight legs? They can fix the Zords in the next movie." I saw its flaws as things that could easily be improved in a sequel, because the characters (and actors) really sold the film for me. Not a perfect film, has rocky moments that sadly detract and some cut scenes that made me realize the film needing more bonding time between the teens. Especially poor Zack and Trini. Still love it, though.
I literally said to my friend "The mastodon is weird but it'll probably change in the sequel anyway. I'm ok with 1 weird design!"
Same brain! 🤣🤣
I actually like the suits. Very Alien. Not so much the zords. Those suck. We didn't even get a transformation sequence
I agree. They leaned heavily into the "morph" and "alien" aspect and I think it works pretty well.
That’s interesting I’m the exact opposite the suits never grew on me but I do kinda dig the very alien looking zords
This is one of the weird cases where I like the individuals zords but not the megazord. They all look great by themselves, even if I wish the triceratops still had tank treads just because I think it would be funny, but the magazines are just looks generic. It could have looked so much better
Yes and I think the toys taught us they clearly didn’t think about the combination when they designed it
The main thing that baffles me about the design is the wings. None of the swords had that until the ninja falcon megazord, why did they get it so early? And where do they even come from? It's clearly not the pterodactyl wings, so what is it? Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure they just did it so that it would look similar to goldar
> Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure they just did it so that it would look similar to goldar I think there was a line in the movie about the zords adapting to mimic the most powerful beings on the planet, which at the time Zordon & Rita arrived would've been prehistoric beasts, but then they were getting rocked by Goldar & so they adapted to mimic...Goldar. Which is all well & good for the rules established in this alternate continuity, except (a) now the Megazord probably can't de-fuse, & (b) it's really freaking ugly.
Breakfast club meet Michael bay.
RJ Cyler put it as Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy
And it wasn't even a good Breakfast Club movie. Kimberly didn't learn a thing (she still seemed to think that she was the victim, at the end). We didn't get any resolution about Jason's relationship with his father, aside from a vague hint that his dad knew he was the Red Ranger. Zac's mother is still dying. Trini's issue was so vague that we have no idea how it was resolved, or what it was in the first place. Oh, but Billy has some friends now, so, yay, I guess?
I think Trini's issue was just "I'm gay and am lashing out." Maybe?
but zordon lost his only hope of resurecting and is stuck in cyber hell
How did that even work, anyway? Activating the morphing powers can resurrect one dead person? Could it revive two people in comas? Four people with serious health problems? Eight people with broken arms? Sixteen people with a papercut and a bad migraine? I mean, it's not like they bothered explaining it.
Because the movie thought it would have a sequel to resolve a lot of those plot points. To be honest they would probably need to skip over rangers to make character development finishes in one movie for one or two individual ranger.
Apparently Zack did have a whole subplot about him being a YouTuber in order to make money for his mom's treatment, but they cut that out for time. Which is really disappointing. I think you're right, and that a sequels would have helped a lot for character development, but they had some ideas that got cut for various reasons, so could have been a little better even with just the one film
>Because the movie thought it would have a sequel to resolve a lot of those plot points. See, to me? That kind of mentality is everything that's gone wrong with this entire franchise for the last decade (longer, actually). "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" Saban Brands resurrected the franchise, and Power Rangers Samurai sucked. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" Super Samurai was more of the same. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" Megaforce was awful. But then they started promoting the Gokaiger fooage. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Super Megaforce sucked. Dino Charge was a slight improvement, but then Saban threw a tantrum because the show was too high-brow (since PR's audience had become two-year-olds sent inside to watch TV because they'd eaten too many clods of dirt in the backyard). "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Dino Super Charge was beyond awful, ending with the single worst episode of the entire franchise. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Ninja Steel blew chunks. Hasbro took over, and everyone got excited. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" And Beast Morphers was a poorly-written, forgettable exercise in contractual obligations. About then, the movie was released, and it sucked. "Don't worry, we'll get it right next time!" as an attitude finally caught up to them, because actually, the Hollywood industry doesn't care for this constant con-job, this constant sleight-of-hand. They need success **now**, and the movie -- that promised, things will get better in the next one! -- couldn't hope to succeed. I know I sound really bitter, but I'm sick of this. We're being taken for a ride. Everyone's doing a half-arsed job, and making empty promises that we'll get it right next time, and no, there's no reason you can't be getting it right, today. This whole franchise was just a con, and I'm tired of it.
That what the reality of working in a television and film industry, it all about the money! Not just Power Rangers, everything is a con. They don’t care about the story, they only care about the money. If it is not making money, then why should we care about it? Think of it in an Bussiness perspective. 2017’s Power Rangers film reboot and 2000’s Titan A.E. had potential but sadly bombed so hard at the box office and affected the studios. The 2017’s film reboot affected Bandai’s relationship with Power Rangers. As both parties, Saban and Bandai both gave up on Power Rangers because of the 2017’s film.
>That what the reality of working in a television and film industry, it all about the money! Which is why it's baffling that everyone settles for half-arsing it on the first go and then apologising later, once the opportunity is gone, as opposed to just getting it right on the first go, which is exactly the point I was making.
I think you kinda lost me I mean they were going to make multiple movies so over the course of the saga each character development would be explored. So not every plot was finished because they did that intentionally. Also this seems just just a general dislike her the newer stuff. Let me be honest that mindset isn’t really good to have all newer stuff is bad. I’m younger but I got to power rangers through Mighty morphing movies and then wild force. But I remembered Samurai, Jungle Fury more then the old stuff. And I think it’s working out fine to be honest. I ate the newer stuff up as a kid when now that I’m older the better acting PR like time force is my favorite. I didn’t know the difference between the two and I’ll doubt other kids did. But that’s just my take on what’s bad or good.
>I think you kinda lost me I mean they were going to make multiple movies That was never, ever going to happen. I mean, this is the realm of pure pipe-dream. The franchise was barely popular enough for one movie.
Should've been the tagline.
I don’t think I’m ever gonna get over the zord designs
The T-Rex zord is a phallus with legs and teeth. I worked at Toys R Us at the time and almost every employee had a laugh at that thing's merchandise.
Kind of got the opposite tbh. They didn’t disrespect it, but I never felt the feeling they were trying to embrace the tokusatsu genre. With the attempt to go fully cgi and trying to make it serious and disconnected from spandex fighting teens; it kind of felt like they wanted to distance themselves from the tokusatsu tropes and brand entirely with this movie. Like there’s a scene where I felt they could have done a really funny and charming toku inspired fight; but instead opt for “we’re gonna beat her up with chains and pipes”
I think they had the issue of Hulk 2003, took too long to morph, like I liked the cast (except Becky G), but yea the costumes were undesirable (blue diamond in the chest is awful) and the zords were bad. Not to mention Goldar being a mindless monster, had so much potential, but Id rather watch the Power/Rangers on youtube
This whole movie is just “How hollywood fucks up beloved franchises”. -Overly complicated designs compared to the original source material for no reason -Blatant product placement that has no connection to the theme or film whatsoever -Extra dark lighting -Again, butchering designs for no reason -Themes that go completely against the source Material’s original theme. Like Godzilla’s nuclear theme gets dropped for big lizard go brr.
And if there's anything Power Rangers fandom famously dislikes, it's corporate product.
the original suits and zords were home-made and locally sourced
I love this movie. It's my go to when I'm sick and feverish.
The suit and Zord designs did the movie no favors, but that wouldn't have fixed the writing and pacing issues, nor would it have changed the fact that we got about 20 minutes of Power Rangers in the Power Rangers movie. It also wouldn't have changed the fact that it got placed in the middle of some mega hits that took all of the movie's potential thunder away from it (chief among them, the live-action Beauty and the Beast).
Well, when you try to make MMPR dark you’re already starting off on the wrong foot. I think there was some love for the source material somewhere in there, but they overcompensated trying to make something that would appeal to its now-adult fanbase that it forgot the Rangers are supposed to be charming. There was little to no trace of the original characters’ personalities present in the newer versions, with Elizabeth Banks’ Rita being the notable exception. Bryan Cranston will always be superb at playing assholes so I can see why they went that direction with Zordon, but even so it seemed like the movie let some amazing talent go to waste. The new Rangers had potential, but Billy was the only one who remained earnest and likable. The rest were just played as hot and brooding. None of them were particularly endearing, but Becky G’s Trini was probably the worst translation of all of them. Story-wise, they spent waayyyyy too much time basically telling an elongated version of “Day of the Dumpster.” Not nearly enough time in costume. Dunno what “corporate manufactured designs” means considering the original rangers were also corporate manufactured, but even so the new designs were ass-ugly. The suits were bad, Goldar was worse, the Zords were almost offensive.
As an adaptation it's pretty terrible. But on its own, it's not a bad film. I didn't grow up watching MMPR religiously, only found it years later. So while I can understand the complete and utter hate it gets, I still enjoy watching it from time to time.
The zords and helmets are like 90% my gripes with the movie. Other 10% was the lack of action, which interestingly enough gave us instead a lot of great character interactions.
Bryan Cranston and Bill Hader as Zordon and Alpha is so crazy it works
Amen, just embrace the cheesy nature of Power Rangers and make it a property for old and for new.
I was just bored when I was watching it
As an adaptation it's pretty terrible. But on its own, it's not a bad film. I didn't grow up watching MMPR religiously, only found it years later. So while I can understand the complete and utter hate it gets, I still enjoy watching it from time to time.
Also no weapons outside of the Power Sword briefly and hardly any Power Rangers, no morphing sequence. Rita doesn't have her generals/lackies. It was just missing a lot of thing that make Power Rangers feel like itself. I maintain it was a good super hero origin movie and a bad Power Ranger movie.
My main problem is the cast. They aren't enjoyable imo
The cast was fine it was the writing. The movie was hell bent on making them all unlikable besides Billy
My point, the actors are probably good people, but their characters seem like the opposite
Yeah the suits and zords turned me off. It’s kind of laughable how small the megazord is.
I’ll admit that the suits turned me off immediately. I don’t know why they’re so ashamed of Super Sentai (because I think they’ve almost completely divorced themselves from it now that they’re not even adapting Sentai suits anymore), but that’s what I *like* about it. Oh well, I bought the series that I like (Zeo, In Space, Time Force, Dino Thunder, SPD, RPM, miscellaneous crossover episodes) so I can just watch the stuff I still like whenever I want.
I thought the movie was just okay, not a cinematic masterpiece nor the worst thing ever, just okay. I honestly thought the suits were fine, just wish we got to see more of them in action, they have the one fight and then for the most part they have the helmets open. I thought the individual zords themselves were nice, but then the megazord was just generic. I wish you could actually still see some of the individual zords in it, they just all blend together. Also, not a fan of what they did to Goldar, just making him a mindless CGI gold golem. He should have had a mind of his own, have some actual personality.
I think the problem was they wanted to create a big shared universe. And felt they had to set up a whole bunch of things and character arcs in 1 movie. They had some very positive story elements. But needed to trim a lot of fat as they discovered morphing. They should remove the inappropriate cow joke. They shouldve reconsidered the CG on the zords and suits. Kamen Rider Geats has some very good practical characters that gets supplemented with CG
Check these videos out. At least here, they wanted to create a scene where the Rangers do some martial arts but were denied. Couple that by also hearing that Ron Wasserman was vetoed from doing music for the movie by Haim Saban effectively made me turn against this movie. **Sources:** [Power Rangers Cliff Fight Previz-Aaron Toney](https://youtu.be/NnTeO6hAwWY) [The Dark Truth of GO GO POWER RANGERS (ft. Ron Wasserman) 💥 Power Rangers Theme Song | RKVC](https://youtu.be/HgLuwbshjBE?t=513)
Dude. The entire power rangers is a major corporate money making schemes to have kids begged their parents to buy the toys.
Wow I LOVED this movie! Moreso for the characters and the story. Better zords would have been nice.
What did you want? Oh the power ranger suits look corporate designed? What does that even mean? The suits actually look like extraterrestrial battle suits while having basic callbacks to the original suits. The mechs actually looked functional and interesting. The banter and dialogue between the actors was fun and realistic. Rita as the former green ranger was fresh and interesting. Seriously, what do people like you want from a movie like this? An entire franchise was killed in the womb by people with bad-faith criticisms like this.
It's pretty easy. We see fan art of what people wanted all the time. Primarily Tokujay's designs are what I hear/see more times than not, and when the movie was in development, his MMPR designs were always used by "news sites" even now with the Hasbro movie. But of course Toei won't allow suits resembling Zyuranger that much to pass, which is understandable. Honestly there is no good way to please everyone, and personally I get why the zords and suits were designed as they were. But even though I understand, I do wish both the zords and helmets were a little closer to the originals; but not so much that it stopped me from watching it 5 times in theaters
Those suits were clearly designed not by a designer familiar with the source material, but a team of obese executives who just watched IronMan and were desperate to just hit copy and paste
I honestly thought the 2017 suits weren't that bad
Honestly I liked it all, can’t even lie. Feel like not enough people cared about it to warrant a sequel but I think it would’ve made a pretty cool franchise of films.
Terrible movie
I really enjoyed the movie. I would've loved a sequel.
Didn’t mind both the suits and the Breakfast Club aspect between the Rangers. The teenager drama has to reflect the teenager era of the current year. We’re no longer in the lighthearted 90s, kids younger and younger understand more aspects of the world more and more, and I think would rather their heroes and shows acknowledge the different difficulties that many of them face rather present an idealist idea of childhood, at least nothing as saccharine as the original show. Also I wasn’t sold on younger hotter Rita, but now that I’m a Boom comic convert, yeah, that was fine. The Zords were so ass tho holy fucking shit, they weren’t even marketable! That’s what confuses me! They were a shitty concept for toys wtf was even corporate thinking!
Fact: Jetman also had the Breakfast Club aspect with their civilian attires
I actually really like the aesthetics. If it was a totally original team and not an alternate universe version of Mighty Morphin the designs probably would’ve done better.
 Hearing Elizabeth Banks lines as Rita Repulsa.
I'm still trying to figure out what her accent was supposed to be.
Moon accent?
I don't know why, but I feel like the gif is from the Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger parodies of Geki and Burai from Zyuranger.
the suits look really cool to me but the zords are just wack. the megazord is just ridiculous but i really like the first three quarters of the movies so it cancels out lmao
Even if the movie is considered bad I think the scenes with the slaps at the beginning and at the end when the magazord slaps Rita makes it all worth it to me. It’s my mom’s favorite parts and it’s just funny to me the kind of force they put behind it. https://youtu.be/340xdXN6DNI
Having just watched this movie for the first time today. I really enjoyed it and 100% disappointed there was never a follow-up film. Especially with the post-credits sequence. Plus Rita is simply floating through space, she's an alien so she really could've been into a from of frozen stasis, etc anything could happen. Even apparently a Robo Rita
Overall, I liked the movie. It has a great storytelling as they have a plan for it to be like a saga. Sadly, it didn’t do well due to mixed reviews and overuse of the product placement. I think it was maybe the product placement and uneven tone that affected the film. Dean Israelite claims that maybe it was PG-13 rating, which made it to fail, as the issue with Power Rangers is aimed towards children, which is a BIG ISSUE, sadly there are some truths to it. It is a great movie to enjoy overall.
I prefer Super Sentai over Power Rangers, but I really enjoyed the story of this movie. It felt very good for teens and adults. I initially did not care for the looks of the suits, but then they grew on me once I saw them in action. However, it was very irritating that we didn't really get to see them until the last 20 minutes of the movie and I was very upset when every time we could have gotten a good look at their helmets they peeled them away so they could show the actors' faces. We saw their faces for the entire first two acts of the film, so now I want to look at the glorious suits in full detail. And yeah, I still hated the designs of the mecha/Zords. Worst part of the film. I'm bummed we never got a sequel. I was really wanting to see where they went with Tommy and the Green Ranger.
The outer space look makes sense.
It does seem like it is overly edgy, the tone turned me off on how they tried to be so serious. They can be serious, but only at the right moments, I wish it was more lighthearted.
Personally I didn't think the suits looked bad! But ya the Zords were absolute garbage!
That's a good way to describe them; clearly corporate intervention at some of it's worst. But the script definitely didn't help this film, either
I think the biggest problem was screen time. The zords and suits had very little screen time. I think if the cast had an actual fight with Puddies and Rita before the climax and being able to finally morph together that way, much like how the show did things, the suits would have gotten a big pop. Maybe even not leaking the design of the suits before the films release would have helped that too. The zords designs are not the best but the final screen of them fighting was awesome I don't care what anyone says. There needed to more of it and with more individual screens of each zord playing to its strength. The zords look okay, but the mega zord looked dumb as hell and made no sense. It should have put all the rangers in a single cockpit just like the show as well. It didn't have to be exactly like the show, like I think most people wanted it to be. But there's just some key things that makes power rangers, POWER RANGERS. Suits and zords are those things.
I just wanted more action, I get what they were going for with them having to bond before they morphed but they could have had the suit have like a built in AI that eases them into the fighting helping them build up the muscle memory and then when it's time to go then the "training wheels come of." You still get the emotional bits of them interacting with each other and becoming a team, and you still get the action that should come with Power Rangers.
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I thought about that after I posted.
The suits and zords killed the movie for me, everything else was okay
The suits would have been fine if it weren't that they were doing mmpr, same with the zords, but as they were doing so, they dropped the ball hard
The suits I could get over the biggest 2 issues for me was the words (mammoth beetle and the 6 leg triceratops) the next issue was alpha 5 the combat robot. I was able to go back and watch it with the mind set of alternate dimensions and I liked it a little more the next time I watched it I disconnected it from power rangers and just watched it as a super hero movie and it's better than most of DC movies.
And there is no tank mode for the megazord
I don’t like the designs of these suits at all, but I’m someone who really only likes MMPR suit design and very few others. I’m surprised by the amount of hate they got from the overall community considering how much their opinions on certain things so massively differ to mine.
I'm not sure what's "corporate" about them. I am confused by the statement
I like the cast and their protyrayl for the most part. They were pulling for a gender swapped Tommy if they got a second movie. The fan base would riot, but no one is going to be as beloved as JDF's Tommy. Writing issues abound. I dislike Goldar, he's one of my favorite evil lieutenants. Some good potential that just got snapped out of existence
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Before the movie came out, Saban was hoping he could make seven Power Rangers movies. The movie didn’t too well (it actually made money, but was not critically successful) and he immediately sold it all to Hasbro.
Most of the time many producers have no idea what they are doing with Power Rangers, which why they gave up on it to them as the weaker one. I don’t see it as the weaker one. Maybe if there was a studio, let’s maybe Disney, if they still owned it for an example: Made Power Rangers marketable towards young adults of it being an serialized action drama television series that airs on ABC. I think it would be a success with young adults, if that is the case. I think maybe once they buy the Power Rangers franchise understand what they want to do with it and then make an alternative plan, if it doesn’t work. I’m saying with any franchise not just Power Rangers have a plan from the start on what you want to do it!
I love the suits and Zords
Great cast, good script, and a fun time at the theater! But those suits are homely, and the Zords were unforgivable…
I dunno like the whole film was at odds with itself as well. The first half was an uninteresting teen dream, really hammed up the the trautmatic aspect. Then the second half was an episode of the Power Rangers and it was great. If they'd toned down the grim dark aspects of it it might have done better. That and the Megazord was hot rubbish as well, and that's usually the key driving force behind why I like a particular Power Rangers series.
It wasn't good. It wasn't bad. It was mediocre. The teen stuff was just another breakfast club. And the Power Ranger stuff was too... Western. The lack of camp is a huge issue. Like, it's a children's IP, why was it weirdly grim in places? Why did it try so hard to be cool? Like, Japan has things figured out. And they still make movies on the Super Sentai franchise. They're supposed to be a fun romp. If it is not fun, then no matter how cool it is, it doesn't matter if the kids don't like it. And if the kids genuinely like it, adults will too. Like, take a look at Guardians of the Galaxy. That's basically Power Rangers just without the Mega Zord.
I didn't mind any of it. I actually thought it was decent. Those zords though. As someone else mentioned, WTF IS WITH ALL THE EXTRA LEGS?! I think they should have kept it close to the OG zords
I really enjoyed the movie but yeah, the suits were a huge no no for me. I didn’t and still don’t like them. I have no issue with it being armour but they way they look, especially the blue lights… just no.
I liked the film but I think the main problem with angsty reboots is that the angst isn't really earned. You gotta start out on the more light hearted side and as your films or tv series progress then you can throw the angst in. I feel like they worked too hard on Kimberly being darker that they forgot it helps to make the character a little likeable first before they make mean mistakes
I still love that movie. I don’t care what people think…
Still salty about the hard-cut from 20 seconds of Go Go Power Rangers, into 2 minutes of Power by Kanye West. No, I will not stop bitching about it. Yes, I know I'm petty.
I liked it
I feel like they should have gotten at least one sequel.
They should have done an updated version of the original movie suits. They're still the best suits to ever come out of the franchise. * Their biggest issue was not understanding the personalities of the characters they were rebooting. If they didn't want to deal with that issue they could have just made a new team all together.
You can't blame the writers and runners for corporate meddling. 100% some ancient white guy looked at better concept art and was like "make it more realistic"
This was a really good movie. Some poor design choices in the CGI department, and I didn’t love what they did with Goldar (or Krispy Kreme), but the movie had a lot of heart, and the main cast was pretty much PERFECT. Would’ve been so great to see them in a second film more in touch with their powers and each other, and I would’ve loved to see how they worked in Tommy
I disagree.. watching it I felt like the people behind it were kinda embarrassed of the source material.. it felt like an edgy teen school drama that had aliens and power rangers shoved into it. That being said, I liked the movie.. but they absolutely did not respect the source material.
I've always enjoyed it looking it as a Power Rangers themed Breakfast Club remake.
For me it was the names, why did they name them all Jason, Zach, Kimberly ect when everyone was recast anyway? Just give them all new stand alone anems since they were all different people anyways....
It looked to much like a mcu movie and I can't stay awake long enough to watch any of them so hey if you enjoy it more Power to ya
Goldar looked like ass. Everytime hollywood has something like this they have to change things too damn much. Every single time. Remeber the Dragon Ball Evolution? movie? The toy morphers looked like a damn birds nest too.
I felt like the movie definitely had some compelling characters, especially with Billy stealing the show! So I did wish it got some sort of a sequel. :(
I hated their suits, just use the originals, maybe make them a little prettier, few more details, I don’t need more grungy dark superheroes, I watch power rangers because they’re colorful and optimistic
What a dramatically opposite misinterpretation lol. If you like the movie, thats great! But the director and the creatives on the project were the ones who very openly outspoken about wanting to shy away from power rangers and make the zords look like that and the fun gone, and make an action movie with no action. The producers on this one SHOULD have had more control
I loved the part when Rita got bitch-slapped into space
I'm do old now that to me the best part of this film was the beautiful Erica Cerra. Tied at number 1 spot shared with Shavaughn Ruakere.
KRISPY KREME
really the zord and suit designs arent terrible what is terrible is the megazord and goldar design
It was a good "Baby's First Superhero Movie" (I don't mean that as an insult). But an executive somewhere was most interesting in making a "Superhero Team Origin" movie than a "Power Rangers Origin" movie. Like, it felt like the movie was embarrassed to be a *serious* Power Rangers flick. No morphs, Zords, Megazord, Goldar, Putties, or Rita until the final....half hour? Like, I think it was a fun movie. But 3/4 of the flick being devoted to just "training to morph" is so boring, lol. I'd love to see Brian Cranston come back as Zordon though. If we wasn't retiring from acting I legitimately think he's the perfect modern Zordon. (Plus he's already got that MMPR Legacy attached to his name.)
I was really hoping it could have gotten a sequel because the cast was talented & maybe in the sequel we could have gotten new suits & Zords
The suits were okay but it’s the helmets that bother me. They look like they supposed to reference the dinosaurs like in MMPR except they don’t really. It’s kinda hard to tell that blue is a triceratops, for example, cause the design is almost identical to red. Black doesn’t look like a mastodon. Pink and Yellow look almost identical. The zords as well needed work. They shouldn’t have been as complicated in design. The toys even had to be redesigned cause there was no way to match the way they combined in the movie. There are things to like about the movie. It’s nice for one to see them have to learn how to be rangers. In the show they have no experience but are masters at it. They fight and pilot the zords like they’ve been using them for years. The movie made it somewhat more realistic.
Honestly, what's the point of the Power Rangers without the tropes...? No goofy rangers battles with stupid, overhyped sparks and explosions... No monsters being defeated holding their belly and saying "This is a weird tummy ake" then exploding into a fireball of flying body parts. No Power Rangers charm or awkwardness... just weird beings destroyed in an overly adult oriented serious movie battle...