Forget flying, super-strength and morphing. In the new reboot, it turns out the Power Rangers’ real superpower is friendship.
Okay, that might be overstating the case a bit. But while Power Rangers may be no one’s idea of an A-list property, it manages to stand out from the pack by getting right what so few other films like these do. Namely, it actually establishes its superhero team as a team.
To back up a bit, the new Power Rangers movie functions as an origin story. Jason, Kim, Billy, Trini and Zach (the future Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow and Black Rangers, respectively) are five teenagers who attend the same small-town high school but barely know each other. That all changes when they happen to be in the same abandoned quarry at the same time, at the exact moment that they uncover five mystical glowing coins that grant them superpowers. Read more…
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