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09-14-2019, 09:39 PM
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KAMEN RIDER BUILD MOVIE: HEISEI GENERATIONS FINAL
So, I've seen this one before. Back when I was first watching Ex-Aid (I want to say before I watched Another Ending?) I saw that there was a Build/Ex-Aid movie on the Wiki. I'm like,
sure
, I'll watch that. I saw Build in the True Ending movie and a brief bit in the series, so this should be a good continuation. It, uh,
really wasn't
. I didn't know virtually anyone in the movie, and, unlike Dr. Pac-Man, Ex-Aid wasn't even the main character. It wasn't a super-fun watch. I mean, bad Kamen Rider is
still fun
, I didn't regret watching it, but there wasn't a lot in the story I could latch onto. I didn't know or care about
any
of the Legend Riders. However, as I would almost immediately go back to W and start watching forward on the Heisei Riders, this became a movie I was
desperate
to revisit. Not because I remembered it as being some franchise highlight, no.
I remembered that this is the one where Ankh comes back.
It's, unfortunately, not a huge part of the story. Most of the movie is a slightly-dumber version of a Build adventure. There's a strange emphasis on Banjou, and why he's a Kamen Rider. I think that's a solid idea in theory (
science term!
), but the execution is mostly a corny-ass "Always help people" whatever. It's fine. It's totally generic, in that it applies to
literally every Rider in the movie
, but, sure,
okay
, Banjou wants to help people now. You could've plugged nearly any secondary Rider from the last nine years in his place, but it's still a serviceable story that largely respects his storyline to date. (It's a bit of a step back, but only a bit.) Sento is pretty much just a dogged investigator, with a story that should feel more personal (this villain has a grudge against Takumi!) but just comes off as some random mad scientist Build has to beat to save the world. There's fun guest appearances by the non-W Riders who didn't show up in last series's winter movie. The Legend Rider fight sequences aren't as good as the last winter movie, though. Honestly,
nothing
was as good as the last winter movie. Dr-Pac Man was
outstanding
. This hits the beats, it's all decent, but the story just never elevated it for me. The "what is heroism" runner is so
dull
.
But,
Ankh comes back
.
I think OOO is maybe my favorite Kamen Rider show. I feel like I watched it in a day or two. (It was probably a couple weeks.) I couldn't get enough of it. I don't think it's the perfect show, but it's good at everything. It's the rare Kamen Rider show where I don't think it makes any mistakes. (Okay, maybe the theme song? Ska has not aged well!) Other shows may beat it at certain things, but they all have problems. OOO only problem is that I can't watch more of it
right now
.
So, here's this gift I'm given where, six years after we were promised Ankh would be revived, they
actually pay it off
. Sure, it's for a minute, and sure, he doesn't stick around, but
Ankh comes back
. And he
immediately
tells Eiji he looks like shit! (He sort-of does. He is, uh,
definitely
six years older.) This was a thing that, when I first saw it, meant nothing to me. Now, it means
everything
. I don't want to say it made this movie great (it didn't, this is a pretty forgettable movie), but it's hard to take too many shots at epic fan service like this.
It obviously would've been better if that kind of moment, along with the Fourze and Gaim and Ghost stuff, had been part of a better movie. I don't know. It's possible I'm being too hard on it. Build is a really good series, and I sort-of expect better from its related content. The villains on Build, in particular, are so richly realized that Bikaiser feels even more thin. He's a couple of cackling lunatics, trying to destroy the world. What
ever
. It's no wonder that, while I remembered that Ankh was in this (
he came back!
), I remembered virtually nothing else about the plot. It's a movie that's great at being a Legend Rider delivery system, but only okay at being a Build or Ex-Aid story.
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