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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It?s a shockingly cruel plan, even if I can sort of see Tsukasa trying it. (I don?t know Marvelous, so maybe it?s similarly believable that he?d shit all over his friends and team-up with the very villains he spent a season eliminating?)

Yyyeah, kinda? In the same way you could 'see' Tsukasa doing it anyway; you know deep down the guy's a hero, but he's always been just a bit ~ambiguous~ and less than squeaky-clean where if he does something like this, you do question if maybe he is being legit. The Gokaigers are very much that in Sentai and I could name a few times in post-series adventures where I've had a will-they-won't-they thing with their flirtation with villainy.

This movie! Bad! Like, really bad! Phenomenally bad! The posterchild for every single little wrong with All Riders movies (which sometimes have Sentai in them) with plenty of character assassination to go around. It's undeniably one of the worst projects Toei put out in the Heisei Era.

I'll always have a soft spot for it, though?

For whatever bizarre reason, this was my introduction to Tokusatsu; Sentai and Rider as a whole. Before Gokaiger was my first actual series, I for whatever reason in my infinite wisdom found this movie on youtube and decided to watch it for the hell of it, and I'm pretty sure it was unsubbed; and naturally it was sort of making my mind do loops. It was bad then and I didn't have much to say for it, and I'm a little shocked in retrospect I decided "yeah let's check out Gokaiger" after such a ~wonderful~ outing for them. But I dunno. You'll always like your first, I guess, and this melts your brain so much it's hard to have the processing power to actually articulate reasoning for its objective quality; and also there's so much insane bullshit going on like Tsukasa and Kaitou's ongoing baffling divorce marriage, an absolutely brazen bold speedrun of Black and Shadow Moon's conflict out of nowhere that's so stupid you can't even be offended by it, and the wild decision to show Kiva and Go-Onger as one of the specific team-ups everyone wanted to see. Also, Doras and Daguva and Mezool standing next to each other on a spaceship as if they've got a banner behind them saying "GUYS WHO ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BE HERE CLUB".

Stupid movie! I love it! I hate it! It's the best! It's the worst! I will watch it at least once every year