[Fish Sandwich]

I wish I rewatched this one more often than I do, but I think it ends up buried in the shadow of Mega Max whenever I think "movies with Fourze in them". Fourze's summer movie is great because it carries a lot of the same spirit as the excellent Double summer movie, but I think the difference here is that Fourze, from the start, was already something made through the lens of Sakamoto. There's probably a very, very easy argument to be made that Fourze nails the idea of the Rider summer movie as a culmination of the series more than most. It's got like every Sakamoto-ism you can think of, and even though those things are all over his work, it's seriously like *everything* here, just in that one hour, and all that joyous excess and high-octane energy probably wouldn't fit quite as naturally if this were like, Gaim, or Den-O, or what have you.

Even his penchant for getting literally anyone who's ever worked with him to make a guest appearance contributes to that huge crescendo of the Switch flipping montage, which is *such* an all-timer Rider moment. Die gave it its due credit on the simple dramatic level, but I think it should also be appreciated that there's a Peter Pan meta quality to it, where any kids in those actual theaters in actual 2012 who were carrying around an Astro Switch to fidget with are also implicitly being invited to help out Gentarou, because if you care about these characters, then you're Gentarou's friend too. Could not be anything more perfect for the Rider show that consciously set out to bring people joy above all else.