[Androzani84]

So I don’t really hate this movie, but like a lot of Toei’s reunion movies, it doesn’t leave me with anything other than being something to rewatch if I’m bored (Faiz Paradise Regained, Go-Onger 10 Years Grand Prix, and Hurricaneger 20th being the exceptions. Eiji’s death doesn’t really do much but make the movie anything but predictable, in spite of being planned for a while (Kobayashi confirmed in the leaflet that Ankh in Megamax was written with the fact Eiji died to bring him back in mind, and indeed, a lot of his actions there are properly recontextualised here).

But I will commend them for sticking mostly to props from OOO in the recycling department, with the sole exceptions being King OOO’s cloak (reused from Kamen Rider Extremer/the Great Eyezer) and Kamen Rider Goda’s shins (reused from Another OOO). Talking of Goda, his name is derived from “godatsu”, Japanese for “hijack”. At least it’s more creative than “Muchiri”.

And now, for some highlights from that group watch I went to (and I’ll reveal here that my video failed to load at the start, so I did a download which didn’t finish until after everyone else had finished, so I kept quiet and only commented based on what everyone was saying and what I already knew from online spoilers to avoid delaying everyone else.

(After Eiji gets exploded by King OOO in a flashback) How’d he even survive that?

(After Goda is introduced) Dreamsword: If I end up hating this guy, I’m gonna call him “Gouda”.

(A few minutes later)

En-chan: I’m starting to hate [Goda]

(When Kougami reveals that he created Goda) Name: Oh goddamnit, not again.

DreamSword: I see that for En-chan, he is Gouda.

Ancient OOO’s Multi-King form and KR Goda both got compared to DeviantArt OCs, with the latter being called “peak DeviantArt”.

(After pointing out that Goda is made up of BuraKaWani’s head, TaMaShii’s body and Super TaToBa’s legs) I hope no-one will be needing any OOO movie forms anymore.

And to close off, one gripe I did specifically have was going from an appropriately solemn cover of Anything Goes at the end to the usual upbeat inspirational version.