Bought the latest Power Rangers movie on Blu-ray the other day. It was an alright movie, but a bit too much like Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise for my taste.
For one, I’m not sure I like the idea of Angel Grove being a small fishing town in what looks like the Pacific Northwest instead of it being basically in Greater Los Angeles like in the original MMPR. I do like the ranger suits, though. It’s basically high-tech armor, now.
I liked how Rita Repulsa has upped the stakes a bit than in the original MMPR. She basically wants to kill all life on earth (as Bandora did in Zyuranger) by extracting the Zeo Crystal, whereas she wanted to simply conquer and enslave it in MMPR. The battle between good and evil is always better when it’s life or death, imo.
Speaking of the Zeo Crystal (spoilers ahead)…it was under a freakin’ Krispy Kreme. Really?! A Krispy Kreme?! Can you get any more blatant with the advertising than a freakin’ Krispy Kreme being at a critical plot point?! This kind of advertising might be more bearable if it were a bit more subtle or not a major plot point…like the Burger King at the beginning of Gremlins, that was the only part of that movie that I thought about BK.