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Speaking of Rider movies, I just got done watching the Kamen Rider 1 movie. Here's my one-sentence review: WAY better than The First!

No but really, outside of the usual strangely convoluted Shocker evil plan, I think they did a pretty good job with it.

The whole generational thing isn't as much of a theme as I would've assumed but the contrast between the old-school bombasticness of OG Shocker and Nova Shocker's more "subtle" attitude came across real well and just like with Kouta in Kamen Rider Wars, Takeru already has a "young hero" vibe that makes him well-suited to being opposite Hongo.

It also justifies being specifically about Ghost beyond simply being the show airing by very naturally tying into Ghost's usual themes of connections and whatnot, which I didn't expect.

Beyond that it was just a generally fun action movie that made Hongo look cool and in my opinion it works very well as a "send-off" for him. Probably the most all-around solid Spring movie we've gotten yet, even if that's faint praise.