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It's about to get wild, just try and stop this latest instalment of:

Androzani's Tsukai Detour

And this week, we're covering:

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs Go-Busters: Dinosaur Great Battle! Farewell, Eternal Friends.



"Dinosaurs plus humans. Crossing over billions of years to protect the world, History's strongest brave team has now appeared! You'll be surprised when you hear!"

Kyoryugers:
Daigo "King" Kiryu/KyoryuRed: The leader of the Kyoryugers, who has been following the path of the great lizards since he was a child. In the present, he fought the Zyudenryu Gabutyra for a month without stopping to win its approval, which he did not receive until he saved Gabutyra's life. An easy going, strong, excitable, and very optimistic person, Daigo is surprisingly insightful, knowing how strong people are (like when he sees Amy and warns Ian that she is stronger than she looks) or can be (such as Nobuharu hindering himself with guilt), as well as figuring out why Gabutyra didn't accept him as a Kyoryuger initially. This insightfulness often serves him well, as he manages to get by without using a considerable amount of intellectuality. Whenever he is touted as harbouring a particular trait by others, he tends to repeat it back with a "super" (i.e., Torin saying Gabutyra is serious, Hyogakki calling him insane) added to it. Daigo never tries to solve difficult problems with his head, instead, he just relies on gut instinct to win. He has a tendency to announce "It's about to get wild, just try and stop me/us!" (荒れるぜ、止めてみな！ Areruze, tometemina!) before going into battle. He is very reckless and tends to act first and think later in fights, and it was this very same recklessness that prevented Daigo from getting stronger, as evidenced in Tessai's harsh lessons. Despite all this, Daigo is the one that brings the core team together and even the others showed hostility at first, they come to accept Daigo as the leader of Kyoryugers.
Ian Yorkland/KyoryuBlack: An archaeologist from Europe who is partnered with Zyudenryu Parasagun. While studying ancient civilisations, his friend Shiro Mofune was murdered by Aigaron, leaving him with a fear of opening up to others. Ian is a cheerful and talkative charmer who loves to flirt with girls, especially Amy Yuuzuki earlier on in Kyoryuger. He is the gag-maker of the group who is never one to miss a joke, often at the expense of people's feelings (often Nobuharu). However, despite his personality, he has a checkered past. Regardless, Ian is very loyal and will fulfill any promise he has made. He is also intelligent and quick-witted, allowing him to come up with plans to take down opponents quickly with maximum efficiency, as well as making back-up plans in case something should pop up. Ian also has the habit of saying the phrase "Oh, my!" to express shock, surprise, and disappointment.
Nobuharu "Nossan" Udo: An older member of the Kyoryugers, who is partnered with Zyudenryu Stegotchi. He helps his sister Yuko take care of her daughter Rika, following the death of their husband/father. Very clumsy, shy, and hilarious, Nobuharu is a hardworking Jack-of-All-Trades. Actually, he loves to try and act cool, but can never pull it off (like how he failed to spin his Gaburivolver). Despite his looks, he is a person with incredible strength, even in his civilian form. Nobuharu always displays a bad habit of cracking old man jokes in every situation, even at an unsuitable time. However, while his jokes sound lame to most everyone, certain people however like his jokes. Nobuharu also grows envious of Utsusemimaru sometimes, because of him being three years younger than Nobuharu even after being time-displaced, And also because Utsusemimaru is able to create funnier old man jokes than him.
Souji Rippukan/KyoryuGreen: The heir to a long line of swordsmen, partnered with Zyudenryu Zakutor. However, he refuses to follow his family?s ancestral style, the Musou-Ken, due to believing that his father's adherence to it led to his parents getting divorced, instead creating his own Zangeki Musou-Ken. Souji is a cold, cool, and calm high-school student and a member of Rippukan House. Souji wishes that he was the swordsman of the team, a status that is most jeopardized by Utsusemimaru and Torin. Souji also practices with his father to improve his swordsmanship.
Amy Suuzuki/KyoryuPink: An 18-year-old college student. She defeated the Zyudenryu Dricera while in America, and became a warrior, gaining its power. A cheerful, "High Kick Girl", she specializes in Hand-to-Hand combat. She is from America, studying abroad, and is the daughter of a wealthy family. A butler known as "Gentle" is taking care of her in her current accommodations. Amy has a free-spirited personality and is the exact opposite of the expectations of her family. While they expect her to act like a princess, she is an all-out tomboy that loves to bend the rules. She appeals to Daigo, as he also loves to bend the rules. Amy also has an array of special talents, from working a remote with her feet to defeating a group of zorima with a unicycle. Having studying abroad in America, she also knows a good amount of the English language.
Utsusemimaru, nicknamed Utchy/KyoryuGold: A samurai from the Sengoku era, who was sworn in to serve Torin during the Deboss's third reappearance and becoming partners with Zyudenryu Pteragordon. During his battle, all of his fellows and his master were killed by Deboss, while he was trapped within Dogold, kept from aging for 400 years while his rage sustained the sentient armour. He was freed in the present through the quick thinking of Amy, Torin and Ramirez, rejoining the Kyoryugers and getting his GaburiChanger upgraded to match the others. While initially appearing to be cold and calm, Utchy is actually a very caring and comforting person. Utchy is also rather humble, using the pronoun ?sessha? (拙者 sessha, lit "one who is clumsy") as a personal pronoun. While he is very out of place at times in the modern world, he does possess an understanding of how things work and is able to embrace new concepts.
Yayoi Kise/KyoryuViolet II: The granddaughter of Dr. Ulshade, the previous KyoryuViolet and the inventor of the modern Kyoryuger equipment, who took over his position following his retirement and her proving herself a worthy replacement to his partner, Zyudenryu Plezuon. Growing up admiring her grandfather, both as a scientist and a Kyoryuger, Yayoi was surprisingly reserved and was easy to get disheartened. After the 5 main Kyoryugers were assembled and her grandfather journeyed to space, she kept a close eye on them, admiring Daigo Kiryu as a result. After succeeding her grandfather as the next Kyoryu Violet, and with some help from Daigo and Amy, she became more confident. She considers Amy to be her rival, since both of them have a crush on Daigo.
Wise God Torin/KyoryuSilver: A former Maken Priest of the Deboss Army, who defected upon realising the moral wrongness of their actions, creating the 23 Zyudenryu to counter them and partnering with the strongest of them, Zyudenryu Bragigas. But during the final battle with Deboss?s creation Gadoma, Bragigas was drained of life unleashing its full power, sinking to the bottom of Debo Hell and stripping Torin of his powers. Torin then spent the next 65 million years recruiting 9 individuals with strong ?Brave? (Tessai in 6th Century China, Ramirez in Dark Ages Europe and all of the above-mentioned people) to carry on the fight. Torin was finally able to regain his power following Bragigas's revival through the power of the 13 Greater Zyudenryu and he disavowed his past as a Debo Monster while fighting his evil clone Mad Torin.

Allies:
Dantetsu Kiryu, Daigo's father, who left him many years ago when the latter chose to walk the path of the Greater Lizards, gifting him the fossilised remains of the Greater Zyudenryu Allomerus. He has some familiarity with Torin, knowing of his status as a former Debo Monster, while also dropping in to watch over his son as he has found his own path.
Gabutyra: A Zyudenryu, Gabutyra was a Tyrannosaurus that agreed to be modified to battle the Deboss Army in ancient times. In modern times, he was awoken by Torin once more when the Deboss Army returned on Gabutyra's island, where Daigo Kiryu had just battled several Zorima. After the Zorima were dealt with, Gabutyra expressed interest in Daigo. One long month later, Daigo finally defeats Gabutyra by blasting him from within his jaws, but Gabutyra strangely didn't offer him his partnership, getting a concerned Torin to take Gabutyra's drained Zyudenchi to recharge it. Later on, however, Gabutyra went after Debo Hyogakki in Japan, who was the one that destroyed the dinosaurs by causing an ice age, but without a Zyudenchi, he was overwhelmed by the Giant Zorima, and was frozen by Hyogakki. Daigo soon arrived and once again bravely fighting off Zorima and came to help, putting himself at personal risk, and was nearly frozen by Hyogakki had not Gabutyra took the shot for him. Daigo said that he knew the reason why Gabutyra didn't make him a Kyoryuger in the beginning: because Gabutyra was a survivor of the Deboss Army's first attack, and didn't want Daigo to get hurt because of them. However, the human reminded the Zyudenryu that he is the man that had bested him, so he pledged that the both of them destroy Hyogakki, reinvigorating Gabutyra, and allowed Daigo to become a Kyoryuger, and later avenged the dinosaurs by killing Debo Hyogakki. Gabutyra forms the base of Kyoryuzin, including the head, torso/shoulders, and the lower body, thus Gabutyra is the only Zyudenryu to be in all of Kyoryuzin's combinations. He can also attain an Overcharge mode, dubbed "Minityra", who can allow Daigo to access his Carnival Form, granting him the ability to be a ?human Kyoryuzin?.

Deboss Army: A group of monsters created by a wandering destructive entity known as Deboss initially to help him destroy the planets he discovered. But since his heart was damaged and his body frozen in battle with the Zyudenryu, they are now working to gather the necessary emotional energy to revive him.
100-Faced High Priest Chaos: Calling himself the voice of Deboss, Chaos was among the first beings created by the entity alongside his younger brother Wise God Torin in the past. However, when Torin betrayed them, a wounded Chaos vowed a vendetta that continued for many centuries up to the present day. Chaos is wise, evil, and completely loyal to Deboss. He also holds a deep grudge against Torin for betraying him, going so far as to not heal the wound to his shoulder so as to never forget the betrayal. Despite that, he shows respect towards his loyal followers at the start of the series, such as ensuring a frustrated Dogold that he could keep him an endless supply of Cambrima to use as hosts.
Sorrowful Knight Aigaron: The general in charge of collecting human sadness and the murderer of Ian's friend Shiro. Aigaron is a Debo Knight General who cries all the time but has fierce tactics and fights with a battle axe. He was the first of Deboss?s generals to be revived. After he was the last known alive Knights, Aigaron went on a full assault on the Kyoryugers without Daigo at the the time, and due to Hyogakki's plot, he couldn't cry lest he gets frozen, and so decided to use a new emotion: anger. He was so angry, that he glowed red at one point and he literally exploded in a plot to get rid of the Kyoryugers, though it was thanks to Ian's quick thinking that spared the Kyoryugers. It was then revealed that Deboss had saved his life when he exploded, much to Ian's frustration at Aigaron's inability to stay dead. It turned out the Aigaron is suffering from a mental side effect resulting from his self destruction as he becomes extremely frightening and psychotic, with the telltale signs of having black eyes and tar-like tears, whenever he gets mad. It is only his feelings for Candelilla that Aigaron attempts self restraint when he is about to be consumed in rage.
Fun filled Spy Luckyuro: Candelillia's assistant, who would rather slack off and read Shojo manga than commit villainy. She made the fewest monsters compared to her fellow knights but is responsible for causing them to grow in size after their defeat using Restoration Water containing Deboss's cells.
Raging Knight Dogold: A sentient suit of armour in charge of gathering human anger. His primary mission was to possess Utsusemimaru and take control of the powerful Zyudenryu, Pteragordon. Chaos formulated a plan to increase Utsusemimaru's anger by killing his fellow samurai and holding his best friend Torin hostage to be executed in front of him. Enraged, Utsusemimaru charged at Chaos but Dogold grabbed onto him and pulled him into a portal, where he formed around Utsusemimaru. Dogold's consciousness would become dormant, and Utsusemimaru's anger, increasing at the loss of his friends (and being forced to serve the Deboss Army) was allowed to be dominant. However, this resulted in a possessed and amnesiac Utsusemimaru with no memories of his past, except for the name 'Dogold'. The last of Chaos's followers to be revived, Chaos asked him his name upon thawing him. The raging "Dogold" fumes when Chaos apparently forgot his name. Eventually, the two were separated, with Dogold prevailing at first using the bodies of Cambrima. Because the Cambrima aren't powerful enough to withstand Dogold's power, they disintegrate on a monthly basis. Dogold gains a fur collar around his neck when he first took over a Cabrima. After almost gaining a new vessel in the robot G-BO, Dogold possesses fellow Debo Knight Endolf, whom had been cruel towards him and manipulative with his comrades.
Joyful Knight Candelilia: An airheaded, jovial, happy-go-lucky knight, who encourages others like Aigaron to "Keep smiling!" (キープスマイリングよ! Kīpu Sumairingu yo!). She was the second Knight to be thawed out after the Deboss Army's big freeze. She seems to abhor senseless violence, such as when her fellow Knight forced her lieutenant to grow his fallen Debo Monster. During the Debo Honenukky incident, she met Nobuharu Udo, KyoryuBlue, and found a kindred spirit in the pun-spouting Kyoryuger. She said then that she could even come to love him, if they weren't enemies. She is also the only character that finds Nobuharu's jokes funny.

What do I think of Kyoryuger? Compared to the last two, I love it. It's definitely the Cybertron to their Armada and Energon. It?s especially nice that they were able to work with more than the usual 6 and still give them all distinctive personalities and sufficient screen time to make them likeable and carry out their arcs. And after how much of a slog Gokai and Busters were plot-wise, it's nice to get back to having an ongoing storyline throughout most of the episodes.

As for the staff, Kyoryuger is the first and only full series by Takahito Ohmori, who later moved over to Kamen Rider to produce Drive, Ex-Aid, Build and 01. The writer is Riku Sanjo, who had previously been the head writer for Kamen Rider W and the secondary writer for Kamen Rider Fourze (not the primary writer, that was the Gurren Lagann guy) while our director is Koichi Sakamoto (and if you don't know who he is, what?s wrong with you?). With all of that said, let's go back to action and get on with the review.

We open with a mysterious meteor drifting through space, as an ominous voice makes clear why it has decided it's time to conquer Earth.







We then cut down to Earth, where after Torin senses a new evil arising, Hiromu and Nick are in pursuit of a truck carrying a hostage in a familiar jacket.



Nick identifies the truck drivers as Deboss's Zorimas, who promptly try to fight him off, along with Ryuuji and Yoko when they arrive (with three of them getting a familiar looking overhead leap).



In the middle of the battle, a snide looking fellow appears to heckle them with the aid of Invasion Life Garden Evolian's Boemia troops (the ones who look like they came out of a video game), allowing the truck to make tracks.



As they wonder who the bodyguard they'd never heard about is, we cutaway to Dantetsu meeting with Yamato Prince Geki, or if you're not familiar with who he is?



(Yes, the title "Great Dinosaur War" isn't just there to be fancy. The previous Dinosaur Sentai's Red heroes are here)

As they discuss the impending threat to the Earth, another newcomer in gold-armour appears, accompanied by the putty-like Golems used by Witch Bandora.



Geki: Grifforzer?

?: I'm not the Grifforzer you know. (For one thing, his voice is deeper and more gravelly) I am the ultimate warrior created by a space war god.

After a quick fight, the Golems capture and subdue Geki, with Not-Grifforzer stating that the villains intend to steal the powers of the dinosaur Sentai (did they recycle an unused Gokaiger script for this?) which Dantetsu sees as worrying.



Elsewhere, the main Kyoryugers see a dark aura gathering in the sky, before a mysterious T-Rex appears a few seconds after Minityra runs off (and somehow, it's more scientifically accurate than Jurassic World, despite being on a much lower budget).



The T-Rex then passes on a warning to Daigo about Dino Hope being taken, before vanishing.



As Daigo ponders these words, all three henchmen groups seen so far show up, with Souji vividly seeing that there's more than just Deboss grunts, cuing the opening sequence where they beat up said grunts set to this song (which I kind of prefer to Kyoryuger's regular opening, not gonna lie).

Burning, raging, howling fire
It?s so cool! This surprising power
Look and see how it's used
Surpassing the apex with hot energy

A rising dance that's getting wilder
They become the eternal warriors
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger

Brave in! Soul at full power
The ultimate partners form an unbeatable team
Fearing nothing
Unshakable, absolutely unbeatable
Never losing courage
Giving their all in every ordeal
History's strongest braves

But after they've beaten up all of the grunts, the guy who attacked the Go-Busters earlier appears with his hostage, Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger's Ryouga Hakua/AbaRed, who promptly powers up. But there's something wrong.





Ryouga then proceeds to beat up the Kyoryugers with his Tyranno Rod, only for the Go-Busters to appear to knock him back. But that's no consolation, as Neo-Grifforzer shows up with an equally brainwashed Geki, who has already transformed into TyrannoRanger.



Making things worse, it turns out that his Ryugekiken is charged with the power of all 5 Kyoryu Medals used by the Zyurangers to transform (yeah, it's kind of a rule for any 90s tokusatsu show with a mecha who is an explicit god for the heroes empowered by said god to use medals to transform. See Kakuranger and B-Fighter Kabuto for more examples), which causes Hiromu to realise that they've already stolen the powers of all the Zyurangers.



As the heroes withdraw, we cut to Deboss?s fortress for some exposition. The newcomers are Neo-Grifforzer and Neo-Gayrton, embodiment clones of the regret and rage of Bandora and Evil Life God Dezumozorlya for failing to defeat the Zyurangers and Abarangers. Those same qualities also caused the creation of their progenitor, Space War God Voldos. Chaos is having Deboss collaborate due to Voldos being equal in power to Deboss (surely that means you'd want to get rid of him? Then there'd be less competition to destroy Earth). Voldos will soon appear on Earth to destroy all the Dinosaur Sentai (well considering that his minions haven?t captured any Ryusoulgers, even by accident, shows what a bang up job they're doing). It's at that point that Enter and Escape appear (hey, the Busters need a narrative reason to be here. I'm gonna let this slide).



Enter then explains that Vaglass created the device to drain the power from the Dinosaur Sentai, as we cut to Ian and Souji running into J in the woods, who tries to force them to live as beetles like him (I think being made of steel might make that harder for you).



As they dismiss him and leave after fighting off some Zorimas, with something happening to J, we cut to Nossan, Utchy and Ryuuji in conversation while hiding from Boemias, with the two blues bonding over old man jokes (with Ryuuji making a crack about Utchy's age by saying ?Gold will go-old soon?). The next pairing are Amy and Yoko, who despite coming from two different social classes, get on well, even taking on Escape and her electronic minions, the Buglars while wearing schoolgirl uniforms (that's Sakamoto for you), with Yoko advising to kick the Buglars in the chest to break them.



Finally, we cut to Daigo and Hiromu, the latter of whom takes the opportunity to call back to the last movie.



As the two discuss what Dino Hope could be and the message the tyrannosaurus imparted, Enter appears to fight them. He explains that Voldos found a Vaglass backup and reactivated the two avatars to serve him. As Hiromu stays behind to fight Enter, Daigo moves on to join up with the other Kyoryugers, who were similarly sent on their way. At an abandoned warehouse where the villains have set up shop, Ryouga and Geki, along with the other 4 Dino Bucklers, have their power drained, converted to dark energy, and beamed to Voldos.



The Kyoryugers show up to help, but are stopped by Neo-Gayrton (who Ryouga mistakes for the Armour of Darkness. Nice touch, since Gayrton was only around for 2 episodes. It would make more sense to have called the character Neo-Jeanne, but it probably would've confused people unfamiliar with Abaranger), who gets into a fight with them. During the fight, Daigo summons Minityra to go Carnival.

After a short pounding, they knock Neo-Gayrton down by using the Victory Zyudenchi for the 5 Zyuden Victory Finish.

But Voldos has attained enough power to make his other monster grow, using a magic wand.



Neo-Grifforzer then erects a Evil Energy barrier to prevent the Zyudenchi from working. As he reaches down to attack the Kyoryugers, Minityra enlarges into Gabutyra, speaking for the first time. And it's not what he says, but the fact he has the same voice as the tyrannosaurus (provided by Koichi Yamadera, one of three VAs to be in every Pok?mon movie).

Gabutyra: Daigo, watch out!

But the ensuing battle is all for naught, as Neo-Grifforzer poisons Gabutyra with Evil Energy, making him look like the black repaint toy, before Neo-Gayrton takes the Kyoryugers' Dino Hope.



By the time, the Busters find them, the Kyoryugers have become Voldos' dinosaur hunters.





As the 6 disappear into a time portal, Kuroki calls everyone to Spirit Base, where Torin and Yayoi are waiting (and Hiromu mishears Torin as "torii" (chicken). Yes really), having gathered the other Zyudenryu into Bragigas?s dimension (the same one Spirit Base is in).



Back in the past, the dinosaur hunters get to work, killing their partners.













Back in the present, Abaranger's Yukito Sanjo/AbareBlue enters Spirit Base, offering to help (and getting weirded out by the Pink triceratops).





He then reveals that he and the EMC, in co-operation with Dr. Ulshade, have created a set of Super Sentai Zyudenchi, into which he infuses his Dino Guts so they can't be taken by Voldos.



As Torin and the Busters go to stop the energy flow, Daigo realises the T-Rex he is about to kill is a) Gabutyra and b) the best friend he had to protect (which is kind of sad, when you think about it), breaking the spell over the 6 as they realise who the dinosaurs they were trying to kill were. As they return to the present via a program created using the Abaranger Zyudenchi, where the Gabutyra there collapses, the party there enter Voldos' warehouse lair.



But they're stopped from destroying the machinery by Aigaron and co showing up to throw a wrench into their plans.



As Enter, Escape and the two embodiment clones leave, the Busters take on the 3 Knights, while Torin deals with the grunts. But Dogold calls upon his full fury (with everyone else calling upon their respective emotions), to knock them back with the Deboss Finish. Outside, the embodiment clones prepare to revive Voldos with the gathered Dino Hope, when the Kyoryugers appeared, now powerless. But that won't stop them because once a hero, always a hero, which causes Geki and Ryouga to get up and join the fight. While it appears hopeless, Daigo takes encouragement from everyone and generates his own Dino Hope to revive Gabutyra. Meanwhile the Busters get saved from certain doom by the arrival of J.



And he brought a friend.



Jin explains that he managed to cheat his death (in Go-Busters' final episode) by creating a backup program to be activated in the event that Vaglass returned. But it will shut down permanently once Vaglass is defeated, so it's one use. But that doesn?t stop them from doing the standard sequence.

Morphin' Brace/Morphin' Blaster: It's Morphin' Time!

All: Let's Morphin!

Hiromu: Red Buster!

Ryuuji: Blue Buster!

Yoko: Yellow Buster!

Jin: Beet Buster!

J: Stag Buster!

Hiromu: Tokumei Sentai...

All: Go-Busters!



Hiromu: Busters! Ready?

All: Go!

A new fight breaks out, which is more in the heroes' favour and ends with them using their respective finishing moves to destroy the transmitter, restoring the gathered Dino Hope to everyone.



Soon, 4 hands appear to retrieve the Dino Bucklers.



And with the Dino Hope returned, Gabutyra's back baby!



And then the Kyoryugers' fight gets joined by 4 figures with a power and a force that they've never seen before.



Well, all except Nossan.

Nossan: It's the Zyurangers.

And then they see a light in the distance coming closer.



Amy: Wow! It's the Abarangers.

The two Legend Reds have a reunion with their allies (who are voiced by their original actors, Eka Darville-ing it up), before Enter and Escape assume their Unite and Evolve forms.



And then Neo-Grifforzer calls upon the full strength of this united alliance of evil.





But Yukito gives Geki and Ryouga their own Zyudenchi, which they use to summon embodiment clones of Shugojuu Tyrannosaurus and Bakuryuu Tyranno.





With the giant army taken care of, it's time to get back to action with the little guys.

Geki: Dino Buckler!





Ryouga: Bakuryuu Change!





Kyoryugers: Brave In!

Gaburevolver/GaburiChanger: Gaburincho: Gabutyra/Parasagun/Stegotchi/Zakutor/Dricera/Pteragordon!

Kyoryugers: Kyoryu Change! Fire!



Daigo: You'll be surprised when you hear! The Fanged Brave! KyoryuRed!

Ian: The Bullet Brave! KyoryuBlack!

Nossan: The Armoured Brave! KyoryuBlue!

Souji: The Slashing Brave! KyoryuGreen!

Amy: The Horned Brave! KyoryuPink!

Utchy: The Thudering Brave! KyoryuGold!

All: The strongest braves in history!

Daigo: Zyuden Sentai...

All: Kyoryuger!

Ryouga: Explosive Energy: AbaRed!

Yukito: Seriously Exploding: AbareBlue!

Ranru: The Explosive Dash of Courage: AbareYellow!

Ryouga: The wild Dino Guts...

All: Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger!

Geki: TyrannoRanger: Geki!

Goushi: MammothRanger: Goushi!

Dan: TriceraRanger: Dan!

Boi: TigerRanger: Boi!

Mei: PteraRanger: Mei!

Geki: Kyoryu Sentai...

All: Zyuranger!

Just the Reds: The hope that crosses over time...

Everyone: We are the Dinosaur Super Sentai!

Daigo: It's about to get wild! Just try and stop us!

Cue a specially written song, featuring Kyoryuger's instrumentals, Abaranger's singer and composer and Zyuranger's lyrics.

After a series of combo attacks to take out the grunts (such as the three pteranodons, the three triceratops, the sword fighters and the strong ones), we get down to the main battles. First off, as the others go Armed On to take on Enter, Utchy defeats Escape by doing a Brave Finish using Allomerus and Beyonsmo. This causes Enter to evolve into Dark Buster.



Though Dark Buster proves powerful, he ends up being eventually stopped by Ian and destroyed by Daigo using Kentrospiker.



The Abarangers take on Neo-Gayrton and give him a taste of their Super Dino power using their Abare Modes.



They then destroy him with the Dino Bomber.



Finally, the Zyurangers take on Neo-Grifforzer in a slightly altered order, after entering their usual tower formation to do the Babel Attack.



Mei: Ptera Arrow!

Boi: Tiger Daggers!

Dan: Tricelance!

Goushi: Moth Breaker!

Geki: Ryugekiken!

All 3 Sentai then combine their weapons into one.





But this doesn't kill Neo-Grifforzer. If anything, it helps him.



He then converts this to Evil Life Energy and sacrifices himself to give Voldos a body (and if you thought Dai Satan was freaky enough, this guy has seven heads).



The Kyoryugers then summon Stegotchi and Dricera to combine into Kyoryuzin, while the two embodiment clones transform into DaiZyuJin and AbarenOh.





But when regular Kyoryuzin isn't enough (to be fair, neither are the other 2), Pteragordon appears to combine into Raiden Kyoryuzin.

On the ground, Jin uses his last few minutes to entrust Hiromu with a Go-Busters Zyudenchi Kuroki had him create (when did he have time to do that?), before dying again.



Using it, they enter Raiden Kyoryuzin and summon Tategami Lioh to donate its head to create Tategami Raiden Kyoryuzin.





Using their new weapon, the three mecha combine their powers to finish off Voldos for good.



After the battle, past Gabutyra thanks them before fading away, while Hiromu sends mixed signals in his attempts to cheer Daigo up and Yoko turns down Ian's advances, as Geki, Ryouga and Dantetsu watch on.



Cue the credits (and honestly, I'm not as keen on this song. It's probably the weakest of the three offerings on this soundtrack)

Alright! Gabu, Zaku, Gochi, Gun, Pte, Dri, Zuo, Dogo
Gigan, and Pachy, let's all carnival

That's right! Destiny brings us together across time
It's like we're connected by the baton of hope
I'll walk with you if it can make our dreams come true
I'll always be friends with you and the dinosaurs too

Vamola! Oh Matsurincho!
Our bravery is as high as the sky!

Alright! Gabu, Zaku, Gochi, Gun, Pte, Dri, Zuo, Dogo
Gigan, and Pachy break out dancing
Now! Gabu, Zaku, Gochi, Gun, Pte, Dri, Zuo, Dogo
Gigan, and Pachy
Let's all carnival

But, that?s not the end. As Neo-Gayrton survived, and uses a Messiah Card to become Neo-Messiah (who is basically the Messiah Cell suit with the black parts turned purple).



As he's about to take his revenge, a voice rings out.

"The train is now arriving. Please wait behind the white line."

And then 5 new figures appear from a train, who the same voice announces.

"ToQIchigou, ToQIchigou! ToQNigou, ToQNigou! ToQSangou, ToQSangou! ToQYongou, ToQYongou! ToQGogou, ToQGogou!"

After Ichigou says they're not a Sentai, briefly confusing the others before they get annoyed, they take over the rest of the speech.

All: The victorious imagination! Ressha Sentai ToQger!



Neo-Messiah isn't impressed by their lack of seriousness and sends in the Buglars to fight, only for them to be defeated easily. Ichigou then takes something out of Nigou's Morpher and swaps it with the equivalent in his own.

"Those in a hurry, please transfer now. (Swaps the two) ToQIchigou! Red transfer to Blue! ToQNigou! Blue transfer to Red!"



After using his new power set to wail on Neo-Messiah, he does the same with the other three (who are only semi-okay with it), before going back to his own.









With everyone back to normal, they then finish off Neo-Messiah with their guns.



With that done, the movie actually ends on this announcement.

"Next is the ToQgers. After Kyoryuger is ToQger. Be careful not to forget anything."

Final thoughts: A fairly decent action flick with a lot of heartfelt moments and a good shake up for the usual formula.

The challenge: Given that this movie features Go-Busters, Zyuranger, and Koichi Sakamoto's direction, I've hidden a few subtle but appropriate jokes in here. Can you spot them all?