Not bad. It's clearly after the movie that I haven't seen yet, since the Zenkaigers recognize their Super Sempais and Kaitou greets Akarenger as a prior acquaintance. We're finally getting a
bit more connection to the past with the impostor teams and robos, though it's still not the actual character appearances I was hoping for.
Stacey seems like he's motivated by the desire to prove himself to his father (?)
Ijirude [correction -- Barashitara]. That might make him redeemable, or it might just drive him to greater villainy.
The Grand Finale of the Zenkai Gattais duking it out with their Classic Counterparts was cool to see.
The creativity of the choreography, the way we move from a solid two-on-four to a four-on-four free-for-all, the excellence of the camera work (there's a bit where our perspective follows the course of one of the blasts that is absolutely exquisite)
...it's seriously some absolutely fantastic stuff.
Yes, the giant battle choreography is so much better these days. It's kind of ironic to see it paired with older robos that generally had much more mediocre fight choreography, although the weakest period was probably before any of the four counterparts featured here.
The series also recreated the exact scene of how the Goranger's performed their team attack with the football
Well, not quite exact. The original went Green, Yellow, Blue, Red. I guess Pink, Yellow, Blue, Red, White was as close as they could come. And they didn't duplicate the moves and calls precisely, but did a quicker, more streamlined version. Also, in the original, it was Momorenger who called out what the End Ball would transform into at the start of the Hurricane, rather than the leader calling it out at the end.
Plus, in Gorenger Hurricane (as opposed to the earlier, soccer-like Gorenger Storm), the monster and enemy grunts would usually run interference during the maneuver, befitting the football theme. Though later on there was a simpler version where the End Ball just hung in midair and the Gorengers vaulted over it and tagged it one by one. (I guess the idea was that they were charging it with their respective energies, or something.)
In a meta moment. The past core mecha emerge through the original box art they had when the toys were released.
I think that's pushing a bit too far through the fourth wall. And is too much of a reminder of how commercial this all is.
