Before watching this I didn't realize that "B-class" cuisine was actually a celebrated thing in Japan rather than a pejorative, and the designation is actually used to celebrate often hyper-local, "ordinary" foods to revitalize small towns (the Japanese are very good at tourism) so what I thought was one of the weirdest/funniest things about this film is actually just normal, apparently.

Anyway, this is a Crayon Shin-chan movie, so you sort of know what you're getting. Even at 96 minutes though this one feels pretty padded out and there's some, uh, problematic stuff even if this is anti-classism in the end. It's fine.

Fly Me To The Saitama got a sequel??? How???

Despite this being entirely regional jokes about the region of Japan I know best, nothing in this hits quite as hard as the original. Still a few chuckles, here and there--the Kansai-ben stuff works--so it passed the time. It was fine.

Contains the most vile, disgusting, and yet unrealistic thing I've ever seen put to film (England winning the World Cup).

It owns that in 2002 Steve Oedekerk, largely a screenwriter of low brow comedies (and there's nothing wrong with that) managed to convince a studio to pay for a Hollywood-class bodybuilding coach until he was ripped to make a movie that's mostly a redubbed Jimmy Wang Yu flick and then give it a full wide release in cinemas.

And it made a profit!

Features one extremely solid Stephen Chow-esque gag and the rest of the movie isn't really "jokes" more just "things said in a funny voice" but we stan a king