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Excessive Krispy Kreme product placement in Power Rangers fails to smother movie reviews

on Mar 28, 2017 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The newly released Saban’s Power Rangers has taken movie product placement to a whole new level, centring the final act around an absurd skirmish at a Krispy Kreme. However, it does not seem to have ushered any badwill from viewers with many of the social media responses positive towards the partnership.

Empire’s review said an “extended product placement for Krispy Kreme (deliberately) bags the biggest laughs of all,” meanwhile Vulture said “It is also, jaw-droppingly, one long Krispy Kreme commercial” adding “the Power Rangers product-placement game is strong.”

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Source: The Drum