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In The Agreeably Schlocky 'Power Rangers,' 'Transformers' Meets 'The Breakfast Club'

"Go, Go Power Rangers!" - but should you? The film's playful, earnest tone and "gung-ho chintziness" slowly won critic Scott Tobias over.
Zack (Ludi Lin), Kimberly (Naomi Scott), Jason (Dacre Montgomery), Billy (RJ Cyler) and Trini (Becky G) check the time, to determine if conditions are yet favorable for morphin', in <em>Power Rangers</em>.

To fully understand the dollar-store appeal of , the first big-screen iteration of the media and action-figure line in two decades, one must sit through at least one or two of the five Michael Bay-directed movies, which is by no means an advisable experience. The two franchises are more or less the same — a busy assemblage of thinly wrought characters, unforgivably dense mythology,

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