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I gave it a 3, and even then I think I was being generous. Honestly I thought it was the worst vs. film there's been in years.

Regardless of how much they actually appeared in the film, the Go-Busters were completely shafted. They did half the hard work and didn't even get to be in the big fight, Usada and Gorisaki were completely absent (and Nick kinda pointless being there), Enter and Escape were superfluous and then taken down without by the Kyoyrugers without any real face off against the Go-Busters (on which note, how exactly did the Enter copy have Dark Red Buster), the Kyoryuzin combo was lame....I could go on. That said, I have REALLY missed all of the Go-Busters cast. Especially J.

The Kyoryuger portion wasn't much better. So past Gabutyra travelled to the future to warn Daigo that he'd die in the future? And then knew all about it when they travelled into the past again? Did the writers not have a real concept of how meeting yourself in the past work or are dinosaurs suddenly all knowing and all seeing? The "evil Kyoryuger" thing lasted for all of 30 seconds too, which I guess is good given how horribly forced it was.

And then there's the dino crossover itself, which was the best part of the film. The new villain seemed pretty lame and I still think the Neo Grifforzer and Abaranger-guy suits looked terrible, but I can't argue that the all-dino roll call wasn't incredibly cool. I think the film could have done a little better explaining why the other 4 Zyurangers and Abare Yellow weren't around, but I won't hold that too much against the film. I don't know what was going on with the Tiger Ranger costume though.

And a few final thoughts - I'm not usually one to complain about this but this film had OBSCENE amounts of awful CGI. And I'm kinda disappointed the ToQger cameo wasn't actually part of the film itself - half the fun is having the current Sentai react to the newcomers.

I think if it had opted to just be a Dino crossover film it might have fared much better, but it felt like half the time it didn't know what it wanted to be and really suffered because of it.