[Starscream Gaga]

I'm honestly surprised and a little confused by the mostly negative reactions this is getting.

It looks formulaic as hell and doesn't look like it particularly breaks any new ground or do anything particularly different from what is expected, but that's exactly it! What were people expecting? Its a Power Rangers movie, we're getting exactly the plot that we were always going to get; Rita awakens, tries to rule the world, five teens get together, get recruited by Zordon, save the world. There isn't anything here that is worth getting upset about here.

Does it look like an awesome addition to cinema? God no- but it was never going to be. It looks like a fun, inoffensive movie with lots of action and comedy. At the very least it looks better and truer to its roots then the Transformers films! It reminds me a lot of the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, they're not great, they're not terrible, they're formulaic action movies for kids based on making toys with a few awkwardly placed adult jokes and nostalgic nods to get adults to buy the tickets too. I doubt it'll run very long either, I'm guessing not much over 90 minutes if over that at all, but I think that's OK.

Plus it has Elizabeth Banks as the main villain, that's really better then what I could imagine them doing from the get go right there.