This Isn’t Flying - This Is Falling… With Style

Stomach is already skydiving

Ever since I watched the first Power Rangers movie in 1995, I’ve always wanted to skydive. Okay, I know how weird that might sound, but hear me out. The film opens with the six power rangers leaping from an aeroplane (not in their costumes but given the colour-coordination of their jumpsuits, they may as well have been), and it was this scene that inspired me to want to do the same.

With Cinema Suffocated By The Likes Of Marvel And DC, The Power Rangers Reboot Makes Its Superhero-Landing At The Right Morphin’ Time

                            A breakfast club you certainly won't forget about...

There seems to be such a pattern forming with films being targeted with controversy, doubt, hate and scrutiny, that you can almost expect these things to now form part of the promotional material and marketing strategy for most franchise films. But it probably doesn’t help when a film’s advertising is conducted mostly through its merchandise counterparts. And in the case of Power Rangers 2017, it was the toys.