… I sort
of wonder who the intended audience is?
I went to
watch Rogue One (good movie,
though I feel I've rather missed the boat on posting a review) there
was a trailer for the Power Rangers reboot and it looked...not awful.
It looked dark and a little self-serious but I could certainly see
how this could be not the worst superhero movie coming out this year.
I mean, I know its a trailer and its meant to look good but there are
enough decent moments I'd be hopeful of an entertaining two hours.
But
the thing about this reboot that makes it different from a lot of
other reboots is that Power Rangers never stopped being a thing. I
mean, it isn't the all-conquering super-franchise it was when it
began but it is still
running and it looks like this...
… which
is pretty much indistinguishable from what it looked like when I was
a kid.
So,
in theory there's two audiences for this thing: the kids who are into
the show now and the adults (like me) who watched the series this
movie is based on. I'm not sure either audience gets anything out of
this thing, though. The modern audience is used to Power Rangers as
it is in all its low-budget, bright and colourful glory. Meanwhile,
people my age, whether coming back to it after years or still being
part of the fandom, don't get their nostalgia kick because out of
this dark, gritty and inevitably brooding version for pretty much the
same reason.
So
I worry that this might actually be a competent and entertaining
movie that just isn't going to have the built-in audience it thinks
it does.
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