Plus, I mean... I dunno, how do you do a Power Rangers movie? It's way too silly and dumb to be taken super seriously, you can't make it too light-hearted without making it a parody, and while yeah we like it's goofy, childlike charm and cheeziness, what is acceptable for a fun kid's show is not exactly transmittable to the big screen.

It just seems like a doomed project.

If they can turn kids shows like Transformers into a serious movie franchise without being too light-heated then anything is possible. It's not like the G1 seasons where not dark and gritty or anything besides the movie have some swearing.

Called it!

They only achieved that through massively reinventing the superficial aspects of the brand (which is a large part of it) and I don't think even TF movie supporters would call them "serious" let alone hold them as a positive example of how to translate kid's shows to movies.

In fact, the "direction" the Transformers movies took seems to be exactly what people don't want this movie to be. From the mention of 'dark and gritty' and the assumption that swearing equals maturity you just described everything wrong with the mentality of these adaptations.

Welp. This movie had something for it, now it's just a thing that will be forgotten. "Hey remember that PR movie by Lionsgate?" " Kinda, it wasn't that great."

Now I don't think this movie will reach as wide of an audience as the TF films have. I just don't see that happening, what would kids want to see more? TF, because of the action and robot fights. Now I'm not saying that the new movie can't be enjoyable, but I can't help and feel that it's gonna be half-assed.

Just crossing my fingers that this will still succeed.

Same here, always hopeful =)

I'd much rather they delay the movie by a few months to ensure that the product is solid, rather than them rushing it to theaters and us ending up with Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I don't think they're delaying it for extra work. I think they're delaying it due to lack of interest.

I hope that isn't the case. There might still be some reason for optimism, it was said by the news people that Lionsgate execs were wowed by what director Dean Israelite showed them.