The Power Rangers movie cut a scene you'll have seen in the trailer all to make the Pink Ranger - aka Kimberly - a stronger feminist role.

Naomi Scott was due to have a smooch with Red Ranger Jason (Dacre Montgomery); however after the movie was screened, the audience actually hated the crowbarred-in romance.

(You can see the kiss in the trailer below at 1:29.)

In the scene Kimberly sneaks into Jason's room to explain why she ended up in detention, but director Dean Israelite told Entertainment Weekly: "Nobody liked the kiss. It's one of those rare times in a preview when something is so unanimous."

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The backlash stemmed from the fact that Kimberly's storyline had been about her transition from meanie to world-saving Power Ranger, but by adding in the kiss, it made the story an archetypal tale about a woman supporting a male hero (Jason).

We've seen that a million times before on screen, so thankfully they made the right choice.

Dean explained: "For that scene to culminate in some kind of romantic moment between her and Jason undermines her character and feels a little old-fashioned and becomes a movie trope of the female lead there to support some kind of male arc.

"I think it was actually kind of lovely that the audience pushed so hard against that, and the moment we took it out, everybody liked Kimberly way more and felt she was much stronger, and I loved that we got that reaction.

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"I loved that we did it because my intention was never to have a female character try and be there for the male's arc. It was always that she needed to stand independent of him."

Although considering there's a potential FIVE more Power Rangers movies in the works and the Green Ranger – Tommy Oliver – is almost definitely going to appear, you can probably expect some sort of love story, or love triangle, in the future.

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Aside from creating stronger female characters, Power Rangers was praised for its other progressive story choices, which included the Blue Ranger's autism and an LGBT storyline for the Yellow Ranger.

Sadly, the film as a whole was weirdly obsessed with Krispy Kremes and some critics felt that it just wasn't ridiculous enough, despite the fact it's about teenagers with magical coins, who wear coloured armour and fight in the giant robots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Power Rangers is in cinemas now.

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