You’re not a good friend of mine if you don’t know that I still have a fascination for "Power Rangers" to this day. "Power Rangers" was my entire childhood growing up. Take a quick walk into my pre-adolescent bedroom and you’ll see a plethora of action figures from each season’s titular team, not to mention the giant poster of the original "Mighty Morphin'" hanging right over the living room. If there were an MVP award for mothers, it’d have to go to mine, who blew hundreds of dollars making sure I had all the latest Power Rangers toys and DVDs for four Christmases in a row. Every single day, you could catch me screaming out, "It's morphin' time!"
It wasn’t just me, though. Ask any five-year-old back in the 90s or early 2000s and all they could talk about was "Power Rangers." The team of five multi-colored superheroes fighting their way through armies of bad guys stole every young boy’s heart. Starting in 1993 with the original "Mighty Morphin',"...
…"Power Rangers" has surprisingly managed to make it through twenty-two seasons, with the 23rd currently showing as "Power Rangers: Dino Charge" and a 24th soon to come.
Each season comes with its own unique motif. You have the animal-themed "Wild Force"…
…then you have the magical "Mystical Force"…
…the out-of-this-world "In Space" team, who managed to have a team-up episode with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…
…the police force "SPD"…
…and you can never go wrong with a dinosaur theme.
And don’t even get me started on the two "Power Rangers" movies that came out in the 90s; the VHS cassettes I had of those films are definitely burnt out by now.
"Power Rangers" is the show that will probably never go away, but for what reason? It’s always great to wake up to teenage superheroes fighting a monster from which I, in all honesty, would run the other way were I to see it in the street. Those teenagers have guts, for sure.
Words can’t express how grateful I am for this show, and words cannot express the amount of optimism and caution I had when I heard Lionsgate announce the making of a new, upcoming "Power Rangers" feature film. My childhood self would run into the theater and watch this movie with no questions asked. All I want to know is whether or not this new team features teenagers with attitude, kicking ass in spandex suits and saving the world from a hysterical witch from space.
If it does, then maybe the Power Rangers world will be even bigger than it was when I was a kid, and one day my own kids will be running down the hallways screaming, "It's Morphin' time!"
