Power Rangers Beast Morphers: Finders Keepers Review

PRBM "Finders Keepers"

It's team-up time! That most exciting time for Power Rangers fans, and just in time to promote the new dinosaur-themed season Dino Fury, Beast Morphers is teaming up with all three previous dinosaur-themed teams, starting with Dino Charge. While "Finders Keepers" gets some wonderful mileage from the crossover, it also bears flaws that hold it back from true greatness.

The MacGuffin of the episode is Dino Charge mentor Keeper (who Ravi recognizes from "Ranger History Class"! - shades of Dino Thunder's "Legacy of Power"), who is kept hostage by Evox and the resurrected villain Snide. At first Zoey mistakes Keeper for an alien hostile and slaps him with a compliance collar - that's right, we're repeating the same plot point we just had when Chaku was mistaken for an alien hostile and arrested.

Showing up to help are four Dino Charge Rangers; since there are so many Rangers from that team, that's exactly half of their full roster. It's Tyler, Chase, Koda, and Ivan! And it sure helped to already know their names, because the episode doesn't introduce any of them or even name them...! Shelby and Riley are the only ones namechecked, and that's only because they show up late already morphed. I guess they unfortunately couldn't get Camille Hyde or Michael Taber to appear unmorphed.

The main action centerpiece of the episode is a warehouse fight with Snide featuring decent if unspectacular wirework. But then the fight explodes into another level of quality when (also resurrected) Sledge and his generals show up and there are enough villains to fight each Dino Charge Ranger one on one! This leads Sledge to say, "Who said teaming up is just for Rangers?", which is fantastic.

It is a sign of the episode's need to hold a lot of elements that Ben and Betty are absent. But it is unfortunate that the episode doesn't find time to introduce the Dino Charge Rangers individually, or at least name them, or properly bring in the other Rangers from that team. Time is what militates against pretty much all team-ups; they often desperately need to be longer. But at least we got a pretty good morphing sequence, and the base-level joy of a crossover. Can't wait for what I assume is Dino Thunder's turn next week. 7/10.