[Androzani84]

Well, in an inversion of what I did for Den-O, I’ll explain what the human guest stars are known for.

The guy playing Suzuki went on to play a regular role in Decade. I won’t say who, since I’m not sure it qualifies as a spoiler (most people don’t think things in the first episode count as spoilers). And as mentioned, his dad is Chalice (which as one person pointed out, combined with Otoya being in the scene, kills the emotional impact the scene might’ve had).

And there’s the fact that everything from Negataros’ transformation onwards is contrived as hell.

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In the climatic fight for Climax Deka, everyone transforms into their rider forms and the spare Imagin go into the fight to fend off the spare Fangire around the room. What should have been an awesome fight is severely undercut by the problems of the scene.
Overall, the fight choreography is terrible. Zeronos is unable to even scratch the Clown Imagin due to it staying out of his sword's range, despite his sword being able to turn into a crossbow. For some reason, Ryutaros enters the fight without his Ryuvolver, but everyone else comes in with their own weapons; whenever the Taros swap out in their fight against Negataros, they also come away without their weapons and are never seen using them again in the film. The Fangire they fight, too, never go out of their human disguises when fighting the Taros. The fight is only resolved because Zeronos becomes Vega Form, and Deneb is the only one who thinks to actually use a ranged final attack...and is somehow able to fire off a volley of these shots on one charge, destroying anyone not an ally or Negataros.
The fight against Nega Den-O itself, though inventive in that everyone swaps weapons around to counter the new ones their opponent wields, comes to a jarring close in that, even when in Climax form, none of the Taros are able to match him. Things only turn around for them from the inclusion of Kiva, who, unlike in his own series, wasn't directed to the fight, but simply managed to ''find it'' while hunting down Fangire.
Furthermore, why was the Zero Liner, a train that relied on close range combat, set behind the ranged fighting Den Liner when fighting against Negataros' own time train, and where were the support trains that Den-O has access to? Oh, yeah, because Kiva has barely been in the movie and they needed an excuse to bring him in again to save everyones' sorry backsides.

And let’s not get into the film just having Negataros having a time train and Castle Doran having the ability to travel through time purely so we can have a battle in the sands of time.

I’ll point out that, as someone who watched the Den-O movies before the show, and not in chronological order, this was my first (and for a time, only) experience with Takeru Sato. Compared to the various leads other Den-O movies went through (they seemed to be drawing names out of a hat), he didn’t do much for me here.