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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.
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