This is a KAMEN RIDER DECADE movie? You could have fooled me! Decade is in like a scene and a half, and his supporting cast is in even less then that.

Just as well, because I’d rather watch a movie about the KAMEN RIDER DEN-O characters anyway. And it… basically delivers on that.

As the years go on, the cast members who are willing to continue appearing in the follow-up films is dwindling. And so, Ryotaro is recast as a child, with a quick explanation given that the same time fuckery that turned Hana into Kohana has happened again. The child Ryotaro has no screen presence at all. He’s not given much to do anyway, he’s just a body for…

O meu favoritismo gritante não me impediu de gostar um pouco demais de um filme mediano: se tem Odebu, tem meu coração. Parece inacreditável que é um filme do Decade, por isso fica ainda melhor, ele mal aparece.
Piadas de lado, mesmo com um roteiro simples demais, o filme me ganha pelos personagens. Impossível assistir Den-O e não se apaixonar perdidamente pelas personalidades marcantes, tanto dos Imagins, quanto das pessoas do trem.
A sensação assistindo a esta obra é a mesma de ver O Filho de Godzilla, onde Minilla fica amigo de uma criança e eles vivem uma aventura; nesse, vemos Yuuto enquanto criança encontrando os imagins e, seu futuro/passado/presente grande amigo, Deneb.
Talvez por ser focado no desenvolvimento do…

Whew, this movie is…a lot. Way too many characters, concepts, side threads, tonalities, just the whole works, I don’t know where to begin; such a mess, worst Den-O movie so far, but still fine in its own right I guess.

The story starts out with this slower, more earnest and serious story about a boy named Yu mulling about how he hates living in the country after moving to the city, the reasons for which are touched on passively and in few fleeting details instead of drawing on more of the affecting potential it could have. Yu starts out kind of annoying with his shallow complaints at first (which, would seem less so if they better foregrounded his backstory which…