This was surprisingly enjoyable. There is no reason to expect that the afternoon-TV staple (having been through twenty four series and two movies) was going to produce anything except disposable junk. Years of remarkably similar storylines where a bunch of teens team up to fight monsters, only they have to change into colour-coded outfits to do it because all the monster-fighting footage is taken from a Japanese series, has made the formula ingrained.
But it seems nobody actually thought about making the characters feel lived-in a bit until now. Because that's where this version shines. The five largely unknown performers playing the teens are given a lot more depth - admittedly, this is moving from the depth of an afternoon TV show to, say, a reasonable mid-level CW series like "The 100", but still, the effort is appreciated. The big-names include Bryan Cranston as Zordon-the-face-on-the-wall-that-does-the-exposition, which he takes reasonably seriously, and Elizabeth Banks as Rita-the-villian, which she takes fairly OTT in a weird kinda way.
The eventual giant-monster-versus-robot-things ending is only middling, in all honesty, but enough groundwork has been laid out by then that you're happy to go with it. A remarkably pleasurable experience.
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