[Megabattimus]

Watched this earlier today. The first 40 or so minutes were BAD. WAY too much exposition and stuff in it. Too be perfectly honest, as someone who's new to Metal Heroes (Only seen Gavan in Gokaiger vs Gavan and in Go-Busters (Well, Type-G. Not the cool Gavan. ) previously) the first half was really overwhelming. There's a reason Dredd only focused on Anderson and Judge Dredd, guys.

The only really interesting part of the first half, other then the sheer amount of times Geki gets his ass kicked, was this:





What in the hell is Shelly wearing? Is it a thing in Japan to wear dresses that make you look fat?

Anyways, the movie really picks up when Kenji Ohba shows up in his SUV:



After Ohba shows up, the movie actually becomes FUN and INTERESTING. The climax in Makuu Space was cool, though the Shaider and Sharivan cameos, while cool, were really unneeded in the grand scheme of things and just Toei overloading the movie again. The reveal that Toya is the main villain was so expected that I wonder why I even bother spoiler-tagging it.

Other than the overloaded first half, it was pretty good, but I'm not surprised it flopped. Especially when they advertised it in Go-Busters: the awesome Sentai that nobody in Japan watched.