<em>Power Rangers</em> Is Exactly as Silly as It’s Supposed to Be
The big-budget reboot of the ’90s kids TV show never takes itself too seriously, even as it dials up the teen angst.
It’s hard to say what’s more indicative of Hollywood’s franchise-happy, nostalgia-centric present—the fact that there’s a new movie in theaters with a budget of over $100 million, or the fact that it’s pretty good. It seems that studios long ago hit rock bottom in their efforts to mine every marginally beloved piece of pop culture from a certain generation’s childhood to make new reboots and sequels. Nonetheless, they kept digging, and the latest result is —a bizarre mish-mash of teen drama, kitschy
