It was to be expected that the Power Rangers movie wouldn’t be nearly as goofy and ridiculous as the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers TV series since it was aiming for that PG-13, young adult, Hunger Games type of feel.
Second, while a movie isn’t obligated to remain entirely on one side of the spectrum or the other, Power Rangers 2 needs to resolve its identity crisis and not be so tonally erratic.
First off, let’s avoid material like that altogether.
One moment the story delving all the way into gritty territory, while other times its silliness almost resembled its TV predecessor.