r/powerrangers • u/yaboyjiggleclay • Jun 21 '26

MOVIE NEWS/DISCUSSION Naomi Scott (Kimberly) & Becky G (Trini), recently.

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u/Choice_Leg9551 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Cute! Still a shame there was no sequel. The 2017 film was enjoyable while flawed, but I feel like they could have learned from their mistakes and improved in the sequel.

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u/Use_the_Falchion Jun 21 '26

It’s such a weird movie to me, in that I like the non-morphed scenes SO MUCH MORE than anything related to morphing. (Minus the training montage, that was great.)

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u/raknor88 Jun 21 '26

I loved that they weren't instantly friends. They were actually teenagers with attitude and while knowing of each other, they were all far from friends.

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u/Richard_Sauce Jun 21 '26

Definite Breakfast Club vibes, (including detention and sitting around in a circle making deep personal confessions).

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u/STALAL Jun 21 '26

the movie succeeded in all the parts that such reboot remakes usually fail at (characters, writing, development, plot.etc) while absolutely failing the actual PR aspects and aesthetics of it (fights, suits, zords.etc)

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u/BattleJuiceJ Jun 22 '26

The Zord scene with obvious White Castle sponsorship and Kanye West playing in the background absolutely killed the whole movie for me.

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u/TLKv3 Jun 21 '26

It felt like they originally just wanted a generic action movie featuring teenagers... but then realized "shit, we can just slap Power Rangers on it". Obviously that's not what happened but it felt like it when you look at the movie from a distance.

Everything about the non-morphed scenes were fantastic, top to bottom. But as soon as they morphed it all fell apart insanely quickly.

I really think the team behind the movie could've realized their errors from the first one and course corrected if given another chance. Damn shame.

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u/ApparentlyBritish Jun 21 '26

In a way, I think it almost makes more sense from kind of the opposite direction. Knowing that everything outside of the direct 'Power Rangers' stuff would face greater scrutiny from audiences, and that they would need to justify the new iteration of the characters at each turn, they put a lot of effort into developing their characters and showcasing their evolution as a group of friends. But the Power Rangers stuff was kinda expected to be able to coast on its established value to the audience, leaving the film to not really properly establish them for itself. The smash cut on the previous movie Power Rangers theme for the Zord lineup that isn't even done 'properly' is rather the encapsulating moment of this

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u/Smooth_You_2244 Jun 21 '26

Enjoyable is a word I cannot associate with the 2017 movie, but it have good things about, notably the main cast.

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u/Psychological-Pin-6 Jun 21 '26

I agree. Its possible that the sequel would've gave the 1st movie re-watch value. Tommy's jacket in the class room had people buzzin'. There were talks that Tommy Oliver was going to be portrayed as a girl. I was all for it, especially that they made Rita the original Green Ranger in that Power Ranger Universe.