Power Rangers Early Review Round-Up

Even though the movie doesn't hit theaters until this weekend, the first reviews for the Power [...]

By Charlie Ridgely

Even though the movie doesn't hit theaters until this weekend, the first reviews for the Power Rangers movie are starting to surface online.

With the modern take on the silly 90's premise, most are unsure of what to expect from the film. While it could easily be an incredible adventure, Power Rangers also has the ability to come off as a bit of a mess.

When looking through the reviews, it's a bit of a mixed bag. The positive reviews are saying the movie is a ton of fun. The negative ones, well they don't have great things to say.

With that in mind, the overall outcome is much more positive than many expected. If you're curious, see for yourself. Click ahead to check out some of the early reviews for Power Rangers.

The Hollywood Reporter

The current version creatively reimagines the Power Rangers' origins by establishing them as a team of intergalactic protectors, which certainly provides a high degree of flexibility for potential future iterations. However, a proliferation of memorable teen action-adventure movies have solidified their own loyal followings over the past two decades, leaving the impression that a revived Power Rangers franchise may lack the distinction necessary to sustain a full-fledged relaunch, although its worldwide appeal should assure satisfactory initial results.

-The Hollywood Reporter

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The Wrap

Power Rangers is baloney through and through, but as baloney goes, it's better than you might expect. It packs enough zing to make you forgive the origin-story clichés. And the predictable save-the-world stuff. And the insanely ubiquitous product placement.

-The Wrap

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Indiewire

After 90 minutes of hip and hollow teen banter, woefully generic origin story, and molehill-posing-as-mountain-size triumph (our heroes spend half the film learning how to morph, when all that comes down to is getting their color-coordinated chintzy sci-fi armor suits to snap into place), Power Rangers finally uncorks one of those high-flying digital-blitzkrieg action finales that was mocked in Birdman as the essence of blockbuster decadence. It is indeed, but to put it in movie-junk-food terms: Just because you know a sequence like this one is bad for you doesn't mean that it's not fun to watch.

-Variety

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Screen Daily

A teen group therapy session disguised as a superhero movie, Power Rangers is numbingly predictable and cynically made, recycling myriad blockbuster tropes but draining their adolescent pleasures in the process. Based on the loony Japanese series, which morphed into an equally goofy American TV show, this more sincere big-screen version wants to honour its characters' high-school angst while maintaining the property's campy spirit. However, neither tone works.

-Screen Daily

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