When Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in 1979, it received far worse than the middling reviews of Power Rangers.
Power Rangers is the film reboot of the popular kids’ series from the 90s.
A similar strategy could work for Power Rangers, albeit with one major caveat; as poorly received as Star Trek: The Motion Picture was, it made enough money to justify the risk.
In that way, much of Power Rangers was a two-hour trailer for a movie that we will likely now never see.