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11-02-2021, 08:06 AM
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Androzani84
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Let?s go flashy with another instalment of?
Androzani?s Tsukai Detour
And today, we?re looking at?
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs Uchuu Keiji Gavan: The Movie
"
The 34 Super Sentai who have protected the smiles of the people! They lost their powers fighting the Space Empire Zangyack, but their powers have been inherited by these unbelievable rogues! These youths travel the great seas of space searching for adventure and romance. They revolt against Space Empire Zangyack. These hearty fellows proudly bear the pirate name! And their name is...
" (well a lot of this is a pack of lies)
Gokaiger
:
Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red
: formerly part of an organised movement of pirates fighting Zangyack with the Ranger Keys, who fell apart due to infighting.
Joe Gibken/Gokai Blue
: A former Zangyack swordsman who defected when he realised what he was getting into.
Luka Milfy/Gokai Yellow
: A pickpocket who?s moved onto outright burglary.
Ahim de Famille/Gokai Pink
: The princess of the destroyed planet Famille and the only core Gokaiger with anything resembling a conscience.
Gai Ikari/Gokai Silver
: A human who was granted transformation abilities by the ghosts of Yamato Knight Burai/DragonRanger, Naoto Takizawa/TimeFire and Mikoto Nakadai/AbareKiller. Also a major Sentai fanboy who knows stuff he logically shouldn?t know.
I think that?s all of them.
Allies
:
Navi: a robot parrot with an annoying voice, fond of misquoting Denziman?s ending (he only says ?do suru? twice instead of three times). Whenever he gets hit on the head, he states some vague hint that inevitably pushes the quest along.
Gavan
: The legendary Space Cop who prevented the Interdimensional Crime Sundicate Makuu from sending the Earth into the Makuu Zone almost 30 years ago. He is known on Earth as ?Retsu Ichijouji?.
Jealoushitto: A former Zangyack Action Commander who was kicked out for his incompetence. He later faked his death to settle down and marry the owner of a cafe.
Engine
Machalcon
(Mach + Falcon): The son of Engines Speedor and BeaRV and the Greater Power of Go-Onger. He joined with the Gokaigers due to feeling like an outcast.
Space Empire Zangyack:
An intergalactic empire that has now set its sights on Earth.
Ackdos Gil: The emperor of the Zangyack, he came to oversee the invasion following the death of his son, Warz Gil at the hands of the Gokaigers.
Dyrandoh: Ackdos? bodyguard who oversees the invasion plans.
Insarn: The smart girl of the Zangyack, who invented their growth ray and upgrades their Action Commanders if they struggle the first time. She is the last member of the original invasion force still alive.
Gormin: the robotic footsoldiers of the Zangyack. Their greatest weakness is a dumpster (though it doesn? come up much).
Sugormin: A higher ranked version of the Gorman. They normally appear in groups of three.
Other villains:
Basco te Jolaika: Marvelous? former crew mate turned arch enemy after he rated out his fellow crewmen to the Zangyack in exchange for a reprieve, a reprieve that was later revoked after he acted in defiance of the Zangyack. He is also after the Greater Power of the Super Sentai, but for evil purposes.
Sally: Basco?s pet monkey, who houses Kaiju known as Solidroids.
Month Drekk of the Planet: Leader of the Universe Annihilation Army Warstar, he was lured to attack Earth by Brajil the Messiah under the guise of Bladerun of the Comet. After the deaths of his subordinates, Drekk took to the field to face the Goseigers personally, only to be defeated by Hyper Gosei Great and destroyed with his ship.
King-Gong the Bigfoot: Co-leader of the Earth Condemnation Group Yuma-Beasts, who were unleashed from the EllRai Box after being sealed by Brajil millions of years ago. He and his partner Mc-Quin the Blob set about polluting Earth to make it suitable for their people, with the aid of Brajil in the guise of Blade-Run the Chupacabra. They were eventually thwarted by the efforts of the Goseigers, with King-Gong being defeated by the new mecha Gosei Ultimate.
Calami-ten Robo-Gog: A scientist from the ancient society of Matrintis, who turned his body into a machine and took over the empire following its collapse, spending millions of years planning to subjugate the organics on the surface with his Matroids. However, he made the mistakes of implanting his loyal servant Meta-ALIS with a bomb in the event he was displeased with her and reviving Brajil from death as Cyborg Blade-RUN, giving the two an opportunity to take him down by destroying the Salvation Cell that had kept him alive for millions of years.
Personally, I think Gokaiger is overrated. There wasn?t a lot I found worth watching the whole series for and there were only two characters I found likeable and one more I found worthwhile. Among the show?s tributes, I found 5 to be actually good (none of which were written by the main writer). In fact, I?ve named this series my least favourite ever and I stand by that decision.
As for the credits, the writer is Arakawa and the director is Nakazawa, so with all of that said, let?s get on with this.
We open with the Gokaigers? Gokai Galleon being pursued across the skies by Gavan?s DolGiran.
After a prolonged chase, our heroes (such as they are) are shot down by their pursuer.
They then emerge to be met with Gavan.
The defence that the Dekarangers already pardoned them (as seen in episode 5 of Gokaiger) falls flat, since Gavan works for the Galactic Federal Police, which is a different jurisdiction (make your own tax avoidance jokes. I?m too lazy). After a short fight, Gavan manages to single handedly overpower and capture all of them.
Gavan escorts the pirates to his superior, Superintendent Weevil (played by Shiro Sano, the narrator for some of Tsuburaya?s Ultra Series shows, who later played Dr. PAC-Man in Heisei Generations and Valma in Ryusoulger?s movie), who has a firing squad ready. Gavan questioning the order reveals that Weevil is executing them because he?s a Zangyack loyalist (That would explain the lack of a trial)
But before the actual execution can be carried out, Gavan decides to save them (Boo.), revealing that he had the handcuffs bugged to open at the push of a button the whole time. The capture was simply part of a sting operation to bust the guy currently about to execute them.
?Weevil? commends Gavan on his detective prowess, while revealing his true face. (Which is still voiced by Sano, probably to make his disguise more plausible)
Ashurada then reveals that he?s combined the technologies of the GFP and the Zangyack to create an ?ultimate? warrior.
(Bootleg = pirate copy)
Gavan tries to fight the robot double, only to be overwhelmed, though he returns everyone?s Mobirates so they can help out, while doing this (It?s not his catchphrase, it?s a quote from his ED that they made into a catchphrase).
The pose causes Marvelous to have a Vietnam flashback.
After beating his way through the Gormin single handedly, Gavan transforms to fight Ashurada, only to be overwhelmed by Robo-Gavan. And while the others fight, Marvelous is just standing there (Has he really betrayed them?)
It?s at that point that Gai (who wasn?t with the others, since he was grocery shopping) bursts in for a dramatic rescue, with Luka (f*cking Luka) chastising him for being late (Where?s the thank you for saving your ungrateful hide?). Against his better judgement, Marvelous has everyone withdraw, while Gavan is sucked into a portal to the Makuu Zone (to his shock) along with Ashurada and Robo-Gavan.
And what is the Makuu Zone, you ask? Well here?s Gavan?s narrator to spell it out.
?Don Horror was able to control the Earth?s axis and create a Makuu Zone similar to a black hole. BEM beasts are able to absorb Makuu energy and have three times as much power as they have on Earth?
YouTuber playing through the Space Sheriff Spirits video game: He is not three times more powerful.
Back to safety, the others ask Marvelous why he froze, to which he flashes back to his childhood (back before he figured out that Sittin
g
around
do
ing nothing won?t get us nowhere)
He explains that when the ship came under attack, a man came to rescue him, giving him a rousing speech that ended with ?Yoroshiku, Yuuki?.
Everyone then receives a call from Basco (f*cking Basco) who offers them some information on how to rescue Gavan.
Back at the Gigant Horse, Dyrandoh chews out Ashurada on not going through with the scheme he was ordered to carry out.
Ashurada reveals that he kidnapped Gavan for his own plan. He reveals that he is the son of Makuu?s leader, Don Horror and he intends to torture Gavan in order to enrage the blood of Don Horror so that the Makuu Zone will expand and engulf the Earth (okay, that plan makes no sense. Why would torturing his arch enemy make Don Horror angry? Wouldn?t having him torture you be more likely to produce results). Elsewhere, Basco reveals that Gavan has been locked in the Zangyack?s Makuu Prison, the deadliest prison in the universe, from which no-one has ever escaped in 26000 years. As the pirates ponder their next move, a guy shows up with a panda (or rather, a guy in a panda suit).
As everyone else assumes Gavan somehow escaped, Gai recognises who this really is. Namely, Shiro Akebone, or rather?
As Gai gets Shiro?s autograph, the others run into a familiar face (who they met in the 199 Heroes movie).
Daigoro Oume, or rather?
Gai explains how he can tell these two apart: Akebone smells like the Savannah, while Oume smells like anpan (which doesn?t help, but whatever). After filling the two in on the situation with Gavan (and Oume mentioning having met Gavan once, to further this joke), the two tell the Gokaigers that, to drag this joke further into the audience?s skulls, er I mean, enter the Makuu Zone, they need the combined powers of Battle Kenya and DenziBlue. Which they happen to have.
As the others decide to join Marvelous in his quest to pay Gavan back, they enter the Makuu Zone at the same place Ashurada did.
Against all odds, they arrive exactly outside where they need to go.
Once inside, they discover their old pal Jealoushitto in jail, but decide not to ask why, because it?s probably not important. Elsewhere, Ashurada?s torture turns out to be? Robo-Gavan lightly whipping Real-Gavan (what?s this meant to do? Annoy him?)
And then they notice that the three Gaiark Ministers are also in the jail (aside from it being too cramped, they?re fine with the filthy living conditions).
And in the next cell is Kaze no Shizuka, who evidently suggested that Gekkou move from stealing Precious to selling gravure.
Oh, and Gekkou?s also in jail.
As is Bae.
And Yatsudenwani (but there aren?t any reformed bad guys from earlier series, despite there being just as many as the more recent series. Which kind of illustrates one of Gokaiger?s main problems. It panders way too much to the more modern series? fans), who drags Ahim and Luka towards him through the bars.
And to top it all off, Joe gets hit on by Vancuria.
But Don somehow has two villainesses going after him (is the curly hair and bow tie look really that attractive?)
But all this noise catches the attention of a Gormin, who summons reinforcements, with Marvelous deciding to free everyone in the block. Elsewhere, Basco asks himself the greatest moral conundrum he?s faced since ?should I wear the red fur coat and tricolour today?.
But he doesn?t even get near the ship, as a new guy with a motorcycle blocks his route.
The newcomer introduces himself as Red Buster, as Basco?s exits are blocked off by two more newcomers.
Basco takes note of their colour coded leather outfits and leaps to the obvious conclusion. (No, I am not making a joke referencing Among Us. That game sucks)
But Yellow Buster says that they aren?t impostors (that?s the other RBY trio this year).
Red Buster: Tokumei Sentai?
Basco then engages Red Buster in a brief fight, during which the latter briefly displays super speed, with the other two providing interference both by joining the fight and doing to Sally the one thing Basco never would? feed her.
Basco decides to withdraw, with the Go-Busters deciding to leave the rest to the Gokaigers (unless you have a method of interdimensional travel, there?s not much you can do). Back at Makuu Prison, Joe and Gai stay behind to let the others go to the next level, turning into DenjiBlue and Go-On Gold (no, I have no reasoning for the last one, but it?s nice to see some variety beyond ?same team, same colour or same motif?.)
The next level turns out to be a European town replica, where they meet their old foe Sneak Brothers Elder, now with a different younger sibling.
This time, Don and Luka hold the line, turning into Battle Kenya and HurricaneYellow.
On level three, Marvelous and Ahim face Robo-Gog in the sea.
So the guys in the pirate suits decide to go into the Angel suits (still better than? nope, not gonna go there).
They make it to the woods, where they have an altercation with King-Gong.
And then they head to a quarry near the sky, where Drekk appears.
Ahim sacrifices herself so Marvelous can proceed, finding Gavan and his jailers on the top floor.
Unfortunately for simple plans, Robo-Gavan is just as tough as the real one in battle, with Marvelous having to resort to trapping it? and even that fails. Luckily, he manages to get close enough to Gavan to trick the robot into freeing him, which gives Gai the all-clear to blow the place with the Gokai Galleon Buster.
Everyone reunites and climbs out of the prison as it explodes behind them.
Back in reality, as Marvelous and Gavan properly thank each other for their respective saves of the other, Ashurada appears from the Makuu Zone with an army, deciding to kill them all here.
Which means it?s time to transform.
Gavan: Jouchaku (lit. ?Deposition?. Translated officially as ?Metamorphosis?).
?It takes Uchuu Keiji Gavan less than a tenth of a second to go through the deposition process. Let?s see it again.?
Gokaigers: Gokai Change!
(Transformation)
?It takes Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger a tenth of a second to transform. So let?s watch it again.?
Marvelous: Gokai Red!
Joe: Gokai Blue!
Luka: Gokai Yellow!
Don: Gokai Green!
Ahim: Gokai Pink!
Gai: Gokai Silver!
Marvelous: Kaizoku Sentai?
All: Gokaiger!
Gavan: Uchuu Keiji? Gavan!
And it?s time for the unadulterated awesome that is Gavan?s theme song.
You're a man, aren't you?
Then you shouldn't hesitate.
The
engine
of your heart,
Start it at full burn.
I'm on the scene, always one step ahead of you,
Moving at the speed of light towards tomorrow, now
dash
!
(
Beam! Beam!
)
Youth, youth, what is it?
It's never turning your back.
What is love?
It?s letting nothing stop you.
Gavan! Wipe away the tears.
Gavan! Yoroshiku yuuki.
Uchuu Keiji Gavan!
The heroes go through the grunts with ease, with the Gokaigers swapping weapons, while Gavan uses his Dimension Bomber to wipe a whole group out. As Ashurada engages the Gokaigers, Gavan goes after his robot duplicate, pushing it into a warehouse. And then the still pretty alright, but not as cool Gokaiger theme plays.
Go ahead! Fly the flag of courage
Let's cut through the seven seas
When it's do or die, the invincible wind
Will take you in its stride
Open your eyes! For the place that's not in any map
Because it isn't an illusion
Each one of us, has their very own
Treasure that everyone is seeking
Test it out, because everyone
Is different from each other
Now is the time to do whatever you want
Your life's on the edge
So reach out for what you desire, and grab it!
Let's go! Let's!
Gokaiger
Go! Go! Let's go
!
Let's
! Take the helm
In the sea that spreads out in front of you
We will carve a path that was not there
Let's go! Let's!
Gokaiger
Go! Go! Let's go! Let's!
In the eye of the storm
Work hard on your "recklessness" right now
And you will change this world
Giant dreams are infinite
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
The Gokaigers then face Ashurada, while Gavan?s battle with his robot double continues.
After a fairly groan-worthy joke about how one of our heroes and Ashurada?s dad are both called ?Don", Robo-Gavan continues to press his assault.
But then Gavan pulls out his Laser Blade and manages to get the better of Bootleg, mocking it.
He then destroys it for good with his main finishing move.
Elsewhere, the Gokaigers weaken Ashurada with a procession of All Colour changes.
They then revert to normal to kill him with a low-powered attack (Nice to see all of my issues with Gokaiger are coming to the fore with this movie). But this is bad, since he simply revives as a giant, having unlocked Don Horror's power (see what I meant earlier) and begins to have the Makuu Zone envelop the Earth.
The Gokaigers call in the Gokai Galleon, Gai calls in the GoZyuDrill while Gavan calls in Denshi Seijuu Dol.
And then the pirates use the Abaranger powers to combine into GoZyuGokaiOh (aka, the most forgettable of Gokaiger?s combinations).
But that quickly proves insufficient, so they call upon Machalcon and combine into Kanzen GokaiOh.
As Dol joins the battle, Kanzen GokaiOh leaps onto it to have the two launch a combined attack that destroys Ashurada?s extra arms.
Marvelous then joins Gavan on the hull for a combination attack.
As Ashurada is destroyed, Gai decides to become a fan of Gavan, Marvelous tells the closest thing he has to a father now what he?s been doing with his life and Akebone and Oume show up again to pound the joke even further into the ground.
Cue credits.
Final thoughts: All things considered, this annoyed me a lot less than the standard Gokaiger fare. You may think it?s because of the Gavan elements but I?ll tell you now I?ve seen little of that series, and what I share here is what I?ve managed to pick up. But it probably did make a difference.
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The song has ended. But the story never ends
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