Power Rangers Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

4. The Drama Is Genuinely Involving

One of the film's big surprises is that the character drama mostly works. Yes, each of the Rangers has their own sob story or personal turmoil, but it's well-massaged into the overall narrative, and makes that long wait for the Ranger suits decidedly more tolerable than you'll probably expect.

It's well-developed and fleshed out, so that once the team is formed, the audience actually cares, which is so often missing from ensemble superhero movies.

You can certainly argue that Kimberly's weird revenge porn drama is a little on the unnecessary side, but actual teens will probably relate to it, and it thankfully only takes up about two minutes of the movie, so it can be forgiven.

Most surely expected the character work to be transparent padding, but they totally pulled it off.