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Power Rangers | 2017 | PG-13 | - 2.5.4
Based on the TV franchise: When five teenagers find glowing coins in a gold mine, they are imbued with superpowers and begin to understand that they now have the responsibility of saving the planet from an evil entity. With Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin, Becky G., Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston and Bill Hader. Directed by Dean Israelite. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in an alien language with English subtitles and a few are spoken in Chinese with English subtitles. [2:04]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - A teenage boy tells another teen boy that he just milked a cow and is surprised to learn that the cow is not female (we see the bull's hair-covered crotch).
► A teenage girl takes off her clothes (we see her wearing a bra and underwear that reveal cleavage, bare shoulders, bare abdomen and bare legs to the hips) to dive into water as a teen boy watches. A teenage girl is shown wearing a mini-skirt that reveals her bare upper thighs. A shirtless teenage boy is shown and we see his bare shoulders, chest, back and abdomen. Teenage girls wear low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes. Female ranger armor is form fitted with breast plates and both male and female have buttocks outlines.
► A man and a woman kiss while looking at wedding rings in a jewelry store. A teen boy hugs another teen boy and the second asks, "Can you stop touching me now?"
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Five teens powering a giant robot fight with a giant monster, they punch and kick each other, and then one stabs the other in the chest with two swords (we see fluid running from the wounds) and an alien is backhanded and thrown through the air and into space (we see the alien unconscious and she crystallizes as she moves into space). Five teenagers are tied to fishing cages while an alien interrogates and threatens them; she presses the end of her staff against a teen's throat and the veins in his face bulge and turn black, and then a teen boy is seemingly killed and he falls into the water (we see his body when the other teens pull him out and carry him away; he is revived later).
► An alien attacks a man for his teeth: she slams him against a wall and we see a shadow of her pulling out his teeth. A van with five teenagers speeds at barrier by a train track and is struck in the side, thrown over an incline and rolls (we see the crumpled remains of the car but the passengers are uninjured). Two teenage boys tie a cow to a locker room bench and run when they hear a police car approaching; one boy backs his car into a squad car, speeds away and crashes into a parked car (we see the driver with a bloody nose after the car flips). An alien is shot in the chest by a police officer and she falls back through a glass display case (we see no blood and she revives), and she is shot at several more times until a giant monster grows from the ground and presumably kills the officer (we do not see the action). An alien hovers over a teen girl sleeping in bed, she grabs her by the face and they slam each other into a wall (we see the damaged wall later). A man is tied into a chair and gagged with tape; an alien crashes down on him and he seems to disintegrate (we do not see blood). A man in a truck speeds through a town, the vehicle flips and flames burn around him until a teen pulls him out and helps him to safety (we see the man with a bloody head and face).
► Five teens in vehicles attack a giant monster and shoot at it; it hits them, throws them and throws a fire ball at them, eventually pushing them off a cliff and into a fiery pit below and then they return as a giant robot and they appear unharmed. Five teens wearing armor fight many rock monsters underwater, crushing them to rubble. Five teens wearing armor fight many rock monsters on land and crush many to rubble (one has its head pulled off); eventually the teens use dinosaur shaped vehicles to dispatch the remaining monsters. A golden demon looking monster (it has horns and wings and large claws) plods through a town and destroys buildings, cars and streets as people run and scream.
► The remains of an alien being are wrapped in plastic and we see glowing lights from inside the wrapping; the screen goes black and we later see the police officer who was investigating the body dead and he's missing several of his teeth. Something crashes into the planet and the explosion and shockwave kills an alien (we see the body on the ground) and throws another through the air and into the water. An injured alien crawls through mud while gasping and reaches another injured alien that dies (no blood or injuries are shown). An alien asks a jewelry store clerk for gold and she eats it (we see the alien's skin glow gold), the alien inspects the clerk's mouth for gold teeth by sticking her fingers with long nails into her mouth and then melts a tray of gold. An alien collapses and many rock monsters crumble to the ground; the alien revives.
► Five teens train against large rock creatures that hit and throw them repeatedly (we see them with cuts, bruises and bandages in a few scenes).
► Two teen boys punch each other in the face until another teen stops them. A teen boy tries to break another teen boy's wrist, but it won't twist, and he then head-butts the boy and he falls to the ground dazed (the victim's head is apparently very hard). A teenage boy tries to punch another teen boy in the face twice but misses and the second boy slaps the first boy hard in the face. A teenage boy teases and bullies another teen boy in a classroom. Two teen girls tell another teen girl that they are cutting her out of their group and one girl cuts a photograph then stabs it into a wall with the scissors.
► Five teens see the future and the destruction of mankind; we see ashen bodies and they crumble when they are touched as an evil entity walks with a giant monster that destroys the area. Men on a fishing boat are tossed around in a heavy storm and when they dump a net filled with fish they find a body (we see the body is discolored and decayed); a police officer remarks about the odor of the hold where he investigates the body later. We hear a TV news report that two fishermen were found dead.
► A teenage boy causes an explosion in a mine, the wall crumbles causing several teens to be thrown to the ground including one that was standing at the top of the wall (no injuries are shown) and we see glowing coins behind a "glass wall" that another teen chisels out with a pick.
► While investigating an alien vessel, five teens hear noises and passageways close trapping them inside; one teen is grabbed by the ankle and dragged by the long arm of a cyborg (she is not harmed) as the others yell, "Kill it." Security sirens blare in a mine and several teens speed away in a can chased by security vehicles; two teen girls are pulled into the van as it moves along a dirt road and a teen boy jumps onto the roof (we see it dented in) and then climbs inside uninjured. A man's giant face is seen moving along a wall of tiles in an alien vessel in several scenes (like he is inside a computer).
► Alien vehicles look like dinosaurs and a teen boy takes one out for a joy-ride; he crashes through a rock wall and down a hillside toward a bus filled with nuns (they do not collide), and then he speeds toward a group of other teens but manages to stop before hitting anyone. A piece of a giant monster falls off and lands on the hood of a car crushing it and the teens inside scream (no injuries).
► A teen girl dives off a tall rock wall and into water; she doesn't appear to surface and a teen boy calls for her in a panic and nearly jumps in (the girl is OK). Several teens skitter up a sheer rock wall, jump across wide chasms (one lands and spits out blood), then jump off a ledge and through a narrow opening and into water. A teenage boy pulls the door off a metal locker accidentally, a teen boy breaks the corner of a sink off accidentally, and a teen girl crushes her telephone in her hand accidentally. Five teens swim under water and through a wall of water that dumps them into a dry cavern where they find an alien structure/vessel.
► A teen boy talks about his father and when he died. A woman tells a giant monster, "Let's kill them all." A woman tells a man, "You will die," and he replies, "We will die together." A teen girl talks about having punched a teen boy's tooth out when he called her mean. A teen boy talks about the name that people used to call him when he was younger. A teen boy says, "I'm on the spectrum." A teen boy tells a teen girl, "I have a van," and she says, "That's creepy." A teen boy says, "Death is imminent" before jumping across a chasm. A teen boy talks about his mother being sick and fearing that she won't make it. A teen boy talks about having blown up his lunch box in school.
► A teenage boy vomits (we hear retching and do not see goo. Food and beverages on a cafeteria line boil and explode splashing teens with food and drinks. A teenage girl cuts her long hair off with scissors in a school bathroom. A woman yells at her teen daughter and tells her to "Pee in a cup." A teen boy coughs up water after having been submerged in water.
LANGUAGE 4 - 1 not fully enunciated F-word derivative, 9 scatological terms (1 feces emoji and 1 not fully enunciated), 6 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (dumbest, dumber, weirdos, criminals, freak, crazy, mean, dumb, freaky, boss man, delusional, insane, crazy girl), 8 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Thank God, Jesus, Holy Shhh).
SUBSTANCE USE - A teen boy dispenses medicine for his mother and she takes a tablet, and a woman yells at her teen daughter and tells her to "pee in a cup" (suspecting drug use). A teenage girl drinks from a bottle that could be beer.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Life choices, mistakes, bullies, friendship, death of a parent, parenting, fear, being the new kid, teenagers, disappointment, fate of the universe, androids, aliens, fate, anger, misery.
MESSAGE - A united team can wield great power for good.
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