[Blade Raider]

I enjoyed this movie, but I've seen better. It's lacking what makes crossovers great, team interaction. The teams spend little time mingling. We a little with Gai, J, and Yoko and Marvelous and Hirmou, but it's just not enough.

For example, here's a small list of things these teams could do if they had mingled more:
Nick getting Navi lost.
Jin, Doc, Ryuuji have to put their engineering skill together to sovle the problem.
Joe and Ryuuji having a badass team up moment where Ryuuji has to overheat and Joe cools him down with a water based Gokai Change.
Ahim and Yoko dressing Roger Rabbit up.

Instead, they mostly just keep to their own teams. You could replace any of the characters and nothing would really change.


ON THE GOOD:
The Megazord Gokai Changes were awesome. Now if they could combine this and the 199 Heroes' Megazord battle, that'd be the best thing ever. There also seemed to be a few continuous action shots in this that were decently done. The Edo battle was good to. Honestly, all of the fights were good in this movie. I'll definitely be rewatching the fights over and over.

What little mingling we did get was okay. Chicken Curry was funny (though the camera effect was strange). The subplot with the Buddyroids being turned into a help version of Bender (I hope someone gets that reference) was nice, I just wish it wasn't used here as that could've been used in the show and the time here could've been used for more mingling. The cameos were mostly good. Red Princess was one of the more clever uses of a cameo and Dino Curry was just down right fun.

When it comes down to it I'll call it a good toku movie, but sadly wastes a lot of character moment potential. There's better and there's far worse.


PS Anyone else think Flash Robo only appears to screw with Saban?

PPS While most of the cameos were good, Jealousto has no reason to be here and makes no sense.

PPPS Also, since one of the time frames is 2005, they could've had Jin meet MagiYellow or one of the Gokaigers think MagiYellow is Jin.