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Boukenger vs. Super Sentai
By Gerald Conde

Summary
At night, Time Demon Chronos meets with High Priest Gaja to obtain three Gordom Engines to get rid of the Boukenger. As they plot, a mysterious figure watches above them. Afterwards, the Boukenger, excluding BoukenSilver, were summoned to battle some Karths. After their battle, Chronos sends them to a different dimension. Eiji was alerted of the situation, but before he could set out to rescue the other Boukengers, a mysterious figure introduces himself. He is the embodiment of all the Red warriors: AkaRed. He gives him the Super Sentai Address Book, where information of every Super Sentai member is listed, and opens it to first see Tsubasa Ozu, MagiYellow from Mahou Sentai Magiranger. Eiji tries to talk to Tsubasa during his boxing match, but ends up getting ejected from the side of the ring since he was interfering with his match. Next, Tetsu, DekaBreak from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, is undercover and trying to negotiate with Alienizers when Eiji interrupts.

Eiji tries to acknowledge Tetsu's background as DekaBreak, but Tetsu beats him up and sends him out the window to maintain his cover. Elsewhere, at the Duel Bond site, Chronos shows a time device, a reverse flowing hourglass, to Gajah, which when augmented to a Godom Engine enable him to revive one of the Three Sorcerers, past Super Sentai villains whose magic caused the greatest harm to the Earth. Chronos would set another up at the Matrix ruins with Gajah remaining to welcome the second Sorcerer while Chronos installed the final device at the countryside. In Chronos' time prison, the Boukengers find out they were blocked of their technology and they meet up with Hikaru,  MagiShine. Eiji then receives a call through his GoGo Changer from Asuka, AbareBlack from Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, all the way from Dino-Earth while taking care of his daughter. He tells Eiji that AkaRed contacted him, but the connection to Earth is weak since the power of the dimension door is weak as well.

He loses connection to Eiji after a few minutes. While Chronos set up his time devices, Hikaru talks to the Boukengers about Chronos and the Boukengers are introduced to Smokey, although at first mistaking him as precious. Eiji then tries to meet Nanami, Hurricane Blue from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, before her rehearsal, but is blocked by security and many fans. He gets to her but she thinks he wants an autograph. She is taken away by her guards when Eiji shouts out "Hurricane Blue," which Nanami is surprised by. Chronos was then successful in summoning Meemy, from Mahou Sentai Magiranger, who meets up with Chronos. In frustration, Eiji throws out the Super Sentai Address Book and decides to battle Meemy and Chronos on his own. After Eiji is overpowered, he was rescued by Hurricane Blue, AbareBlack, DekaBreak and MagiYellow. However, the warriors get into each other's way and Meemy and Chronos were able to escape. In the time prison, Akashi reveals that he has Zuban with him. Tsuetsue from Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger was then revived and welcomed by Gajah.

At SGS, Eiji receives a message from Akashi concerning Chronos, their closenes touches the Super Sentai warriors and move them. They promise to help Eiji rescue the rest of the Boukengers and meet AkaRed while the time prison holding the Boukengers and Hikaru is slowly disappearing. Chronos and the other villains found the last hourglass tipped over, with the final Sorcerer missing, when they were attacked by the Super Sentai warriors. As the time prison started to disintegrate, Sakura analyzed and concluded that the clock with root-like designs in the wall was the key to their escape. The Boukengers and Hikaru then utilize the MagiLamp Buster's Smoky Shining Attack, accompanied by Zuban, on the clock in the wall. Although this does not damage the clock at all, it causes another root-like clock in the real world to appear. AkaRed orders the other warriors to destroy the clock while he takes care of the villains, transforming into MagiRed and GaoRed respectively, and frightening both Meemy and TsueTsue in the process; for both respective villains, MagiRed and GaoRed were their worst enemies. As AkaRed fights off the villains, the others succeed in freeing the Boukengers and MagiShine from the alternate dimension.

The Super Sentai warriors and the villains face off, with the Sentai warriors getting the upper hand until Furabiijo from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger interferes, saying she was late because she took a walk. But with all three Sorcerers present and accounted, Chronos fuses them all into the Staff of the Three Philosophers, his intended goal from the start. With the power of the staff, Chronos enabled himself to grow to gigantic proportions with new golden armor. The Boukengers countered with Ultimate Daibouken and SirenBuilder, but Chronos proved too powerful for both the mecha and were defeated. In a last-ditch effort, the Boukengers summoned DaiVoyager, which was almost defeated by Chronos as well. AkaRed, sensing the danger, came back into the action, becoming a vessel to power up DaiVoyager using the Spirits given by the remaining Super Sentai warriors, enabling DaiVoyager to access its Burning Legend Form. Burning Legend DaiVoyager went on to defeat Chronos with the special attack, 30 Super Sentai Soul, and sent the released sorcerers back into the afterlife. After their victory, the Boukengers and the other Super Sentai warriors return to the SGS headquarters, and then parted ways. The Boukengers, however, would not have time to relax, as they receive another call from Mr. Voice concerning another Negative Syndicate on the move. At the end, AkaRed watches over the Earth in outer space, going into a deep sleep until he is needed again. The movie closes with the book and images of each team.

My Opinion
This teamup was cool, it feels longer than regular teamups but somehow still feels uneven. At least it is not like Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai that was full of clips from various Super Sentai series. While we weren't given a Boukenger vs. Magiranger, there was a mini teamup in the form of Hikaru and Tsubasa. While Tsubasa was my personal favorite of the Magiranger, he seemed like almost a different character. While he was into boxing sometimes, I didn't imagine him as a boxer. What I always like about the recent teamups is the special attacks, in this one Smoky does a special attack with Zuuban. Boukenger's counterpart Power Rangers Operation Overdrive included a team of veteran warriors and that one also included Hurricane Blue (Blue Wind Ranger). Akashi's counterpart also used the weapons of the Red SPD Ranger / DekaRed. I personally love Akared's design, the use of different shapes of red, while I am not crazy about the flames on his helmet. The popped up collar is very vintage, nice. Tsuetsue, Furabijou and Memmy are one of my favorite villains, so I am glad they were chosen. Eiji is also fun to see and he mostly is the entire special, so it is great to see him be spotlighted.

Conclusion
Great interactions and organization of who fights who and fights with whom. It is worth watching, but I suggest seeing a couple of these series before this one.