Today's review is on Gokager Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle:
This movie is made to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Super Sentai, and the DVD and subs just came out. So let us begin with a short summary. SPOILER WARNING
The movie starts with an extension of the Legend War shown in Gokaiger Episode One. This time, we have the addition of Bangai Heroes such as Dekamaster, Knight Wolzard and all that jazz. So just like in episode one, the Zangyack comes, Akaranger got the idea of sacrificing all the powers of the sentai to wipe out the fleet.
GoseiBlack: Eh Akaranger, who died and made you boss?
Well, Akaranger's questionable plan is accepted by everyone (Why did they go through with it is a mystery). Zangyack's fleet is thwarted, and as we all know, the powers of the Super Sentai are turned into ranger keys. The Goseigers are quite miffed since they can't protect the planet anymore. But who gives a shit. So the planet is super sentai-less for a few YEARS (#nonsensicalplothole: why the hell is it years later I don't know since months later would put everything in better perspective but what the hell we watch sentai for fun not logic). Fast Forward.
The Gokaigers are fighting Zangyack AGAIN, with Insarn and Barizorg standing there like dummies with trollfaces on. As usual we have the shenanigans of the Gormin and Zgormin getting their asses whopped. For some reason Marvelous wants to use the powers of Goseigers. He takes it out, and shit gets real. Agri and Moune jump out of nowhere and grab all the keys! Turns out the Goseigers are stalking the Gokaigers waiting for this moment and they think the Gokaigers are underqualified for this job. Understandably, the Gokaigers are pissed at that "Protecting the Earth is an Angel's duty" shit that has been thrown around for a year. (#nonsensicalplothole: Has anyone realized that the Goseigers piss off every previous sentai with this statement? Because that sounds conceited.) Anyways they get their powers back and change into Goseigers once again!
Yeah. Angels. Again.
They finish off the remaining pawns and Marvelous tells them to give the keys back, since playtime is over. Alata refuses, and they battle, wanting GoseiKnight's key. Poor GoseiKnight. Now nothing but a talking robotic head. Skip battle, skip battle, skip battle.
The Gokaigers return to the GokaiGalleon, randomly searching for GoseiKnight's key. They find it, then BOOM! Douchebag angels got into their mecha first. Time for GokaiOh! A Mecha fight ensues, and shit get real again.
Meanwhile, at the Gigant Horse, Waruzu Giru is getting miffed. Again. [Facepalm]. Black Cross King revives out of nowhere (#randomlypullingshitoutoftheirass) and gives Waruzu a deal: he kills all the sentai, and Waruzu gets all of Earth. The dick agrees, because his balls are terrified to death of this guy and Black Cross King departs to Earth.
Completely unrelated to this is a scene showing Denziblue, the tough-as-nails old guy working hard selling bread. [Facepalm at his job]. He meets a kid who has a DaiDenzin figure, and soon meets, by coincidence, Both DaiRed and DekaPink and a sad little man who lost everything and planning to sell a Variblune model for some cash. Mint grade Variblune. Bear in mind that this guy and the kid has a role to play.
On the other hand, Alata, the sneaky douche, sneaked onto the Galleon to steal/find/pilfer/snatch GoseiKnight's key. GokaiRed catches him red-handed and they take the fight outside. The box of keys is taken out as well. The fight between mechas escalates and they get the hell out of the mechas to have a Mexican Standoff. Then POW! Black Cross King arrives. He resurrects Dagon, SomeguyIWon'tbotherNamingWhoHasADamnLongName and Bura-f*cking-Jira.
Hi Kids! It's me again! AGAIN! THIS TIME WITH A MOTHERFACKING BELT!
Black Cross King activates some sort of bullshit ray and transports the Gokaigers and Goseigers to different places, splitting the team into the trademark team split. Yawn.
Marvelous gets stuck in time with Alata, Joe and Luka get stuck with Agri and Moune, and Ahim and Doc gets stuck with Eri and Hyde.
Marvy and Alata end up fighting Burajira, Joe and his peers fight The One With The Long Name and the others fight Dagon. The fights are pretty standard, so I won't bother with the details. Predictably they win, and before they can celebrate, they have to fight Black Cross King.
But Black Cross King has a secret weapon: A pimped out version of Basco's trumpet! He calls all the other past sentai, reusing the same scene that I see on every episode of Gokaiger AGAIN FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE MOVIE.
Toei: Kids won't notice if we use this again.
So they change and say all their phrases, and fight the Sentai senpais. It's just a larger version of a Basco fight, and there are some notable scenes, like these below:
Those are actual scenes from the fight. Toei gave us stock footage. In a battle. Dammit.
So they get all their ranger keys back by defeating them Basco-style, with a bit of colour-on-colour action. Black Cross King gets pissed and grows big and I mean BIG! The teams are forced to a corner but WAIT! SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!
Something. Is. On.
The Akaranger key shines, and soon the other keys shown here shines as well. We are treated to scenes with an Unhenshined Akaranger, Big One, DynaPink, TurboRed and a few others too tedious to name. Akaranger gives Marvelous their Great Power, and POW! All the Previous Rangers are called!
Dragonball!!!
This is a technically predictable scene since they were fighting here.
What are those steps for?! The mystery!
So the past rangers are summoned. And to defeat Black Cross King a weapon called the Super Sentai Bazooka is pulled out of nowhere and used against him.
Black Cross King dies, the past rangers become keys once more, and things become quiet...for about a minute, then Black Cross King becomes Black Cross Colossus. Back to the Mechas.
GoseiKnight tries to attack Black Cross Colossus, to no avail. The Mechas are losing as well. Everyone loses hope, then the guy who met the sentai members previously with his Daidenzin tells them to Never Give Up, and the kid with the Variblune tells them to keep hoping. Then their toys shine, and BAM! We get ALL mechas from Variblune to Shinkenger's Mecha.
Gosei Knight is amazed and states that this is the greatest miracle on Earth. And now here comes a part that makes me facepalm. We are treated to stock footage of Daidenzin Slashing Black Cross Colussus. Black Cross Colossus calls some villains, including all incarnations of Buredoran.
It's me again. Burajira, 2011
So all the mechas use their finishing moves on all of the monsters, and we're treated to more and more stock footage. The Gokaigers use the Great Power of Gorangers and becomes Goren Gokai-Oh. I won't put any images because I'm not gonna spoil the surprise. Black Cross Colossus dies with the finisher of Goren Gokai-Oh.
The movie ends with a nice note, with Goseigers giving back their keys to the Gokaigers. A passing the torch moment ensues, with Gokai Silver outside the Galleon, smirking I think, and the movie ends.
REVIEW:
This movie is quite interesting as it shows that the Gokaigers completely accept their role as protectors of the Earth, no less. Goseigers however still have the same vibe as they always have, completely caught up in the duty of being an angel. Alata shows really good leadership skills, but I still think he's a pussy. Not cool enough. The role of Zangyack was kept to a minimum, which kinda sucks. Plotholes? Yes. But utterly negligible. The involvement of all past rangers and mechas? EPIC.
It's kinda sad that this movie couldn't be combined with Let's Go Kamen Riders, but this is an epic movie nonetheless.
Rating: 4.5 stars