If you're a child of the '90s, hearing the words "Power Rangers" and "James Van Der Beek" in the same sentence might cause you go into nostalgia-induced convulsions and start blurting out some weird mash-up of "I Don't Want to Wait" and that sugar-rush "Go Go" song.
So make sure you're in a safe place before pressing play on the video below, because the combination of Dawson, Zords, and Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff may result in a life-threatening nerd-gasm:
When you hear it described as a "gritty reboot," you might think that this clip is some sort of humorous send-up of the inexplicably popular Japanese import for particularly hyper kids.
But that's not the quite the case. Or maybe it is? As far as we can tell, the joke is that there is no joke. Allow director Joseph Kahn to explain:
"What I really want to accomplish when you watch, is you should really take it seriously," Kahn says. "Overall, it's a pretty serious thing. The joke isn't that you're laughing at each particular scene; the joke is that we did this 'f--k you' thing in the first place."
Anyone who's seen Van Der Beek's Kesha video knows that the former Lord of the Creek has a sense of humor, but you won't find the actor cracking a wry smile here.
You will see him cracking some skulls, however.
Of course, given the impressive production value in this thing, we can't help but wonder if it's really a joke.
Given the glut of superhero movies coming our way in the next couple years, can a Power Rangers flick for grown-ups be far behind?
After all, it wasn't that long Ant-Man and Aquaman were nothing more than geeky punchlines.
Jumanji basically made us all terrified to play board games ever again for the rest of our lives. WHAT IF WE HAVE TO PAY RENT ON TWO HOTELS ON BOARDWALK AND WE GO BANKRUPT?!
Jumanji opened the door to give us Zathura, a movie featuring Dax Shepard as an astronaut and a (still not smiling) Kristin Stewart. On the plus side, the world was introduced to Josh Hutcherson, so it's not a total loss.
The Mario brothers are Italian. They were played by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, neither of whom are Italian. And then there was all that snot and everybody doing the dinosaur after opening the door and getting on the floor and maybe you had to be high to enjoy this as an adult.
This Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas flick is everything wrong with the over-commercialism of the holiday and is probably the reason fights broke out over Tickle Me Elmo toys.
A young Elijah Wood takes off in search of new parents because he doesn't like his and ends up walking for two weeks straight across frozen Alaska because the sun never goes down and he never runs out of water or food and doesn't get tired and also WHAT JUST HAPPENED HOW DO I REMEMBER THAT?
As a kid? Camp Nowhere was THE BEST MOVIE EVER! Except for that whole trying to go on vacation with your three best friends and the entire school tagging along part.
Kid gets sick and mom leaves her MAYBE 6 year old home alone to go to a business meeting. He, meanwhile, protects the entire neighborhood with a bird and a remote control car. Nope.
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