[Androzani84]

Well if you want to see what world Tackle came from, there’s an S.I.C story I can share with you anytime.

And now, for what I do best: random trivia.

Blade’s grunts in his fight are provided by the OG actor because… they’d already booked him for the movie they had to scrap and couldn’t think of a new role for him in a movie that wasn’t called ‘All Riders vs Decade”.

Narutaki’s Nazi-esque disguise here is meant to be Colonel Zol, the first secondary main villain not just in Rider, but in Tokusatsu itself. Though it’s not meant to be a reveal, since all he does here is wear a costume. A different S.I.C story to the one I mentioned above has him assume the guise again, turning into the monster form that the OG version had, Golden Wolfman, leading to this line from Yusuke.

“I saw a guy on a tv show who turned into something like that. He kinda looked like Tsukasa”

And for the rest of the casting trivia, New Takumi is the only AR rider who’s actor they couldn’t bring back for the movie (instead, he’s voiced by the same impersonator doing either Skyrider or Super-1). And the Bee Woman (an incarnation of Rider’s first female monster) is played by Nao Oikawa, fresh off a stint as the female villain in the previous year’s Sentai (and just before she reassumed that role for THEIR yearly crossover.

As for thoughts on the film. It’s mostly rule of cool, but sometimes, that’s all I need.