Film Review – Power Rangers

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise has always been a bit bewildering. There's clearly a huge fan base for the brand, but numerous television shows and previous attempts to bring the series to the big screen have already been aimed at a younger audience, with children delighting in the mix of sci-fi fantasy and cartoonish action, much the dismay of parents forced to endure constant living room recreations. To help the saga reach a new level of popularity, “Power Rangers” is a reimagining of the source material, butching it up for a PG-13 audience used to a little more grit than stuntmen in primary colored suits battling rubber monsters typically provides. Trying to compete with all the superhero extravaganzas out in the marketplace today, “Power Rangers” goes big with emotional reach and visual effects, with director Dean Israelite (“Project Almanac”) fighting to make something substantial out of weekday afternoon entertainment. He doesn't quite pull off a spinning, high-kicking triumph, spending so much time establishing the heroes that they barely have time to be heroes. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com