Saturday, December 24, 2016

A Megazord with Luke Skywalker's Light Saber... Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive: Sudden Shock! A New Warrior Mini-Review



In 1999, It was novel to see a super sentai movie that wasn't a team up, because from 1975 to 1989 on and off, and for a brief comeback from 1993-1995 (paired with a Metal Hero and Kamen Rider or Hakaider movie). Sure it wouldn't make a return as a yearly tradition until 2001. So this Film got people Excited, but it was a V-Cinema (Japan's version of Direct to Video), so that was a detractor, However was it any good?



SO THE FILM BEGINS WITH A FIREBALL LANDING ON EARTH, AND IT'S DESTROYING TOKYO!!!! THE GOGOFIVE GET INTO ACTION, HENSHIN AND GET THEIR MECHS AS THE GOGOFIVE THEME PLAYS!!! WE ALSO GET A MONTAGE OF THE GOGOFIVE SAVING PEOPLE!!!!! THEY BUMP INTO KYOKO, AN ALLY OF THEIRS!!!!! THEY FIND THE CAUSE OF THE DISASTERS, AND IT'S AN FALLEN ANGEL!!!! THE GOGOFIVE USE THEIR CANNON BUT IT BARELY EVEN SCRATCHES HIM!!!! AS THE VILLAIN PREPARES TO KILL THE RANGERS!!!! A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE APPEARS, HE FIGHTS THE MONSTER, BUT ENDS UP DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD!!!! THE MONSTER IS CAPTURED, BUT THE GRUDGE BETWEEN 2 HEROES SHINES REALLY HARD!!!! THE MONSTER EXPLAINS THE MACGUFF... I MEAN DARK SWORD!!!!! THE PSYMA TEAM UP WITH THIS MONSTER, THE RANGERS FIND DATA ON THE MONSTER AND THE MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, AND THE MYSTERY FIGURE GOES INSIDE KYOKO'S ROOM TO HELP HER, BUT THAT RESULTS IN ANOTHER FIGHT!!!! THE MYSTERY MAN AND GORED FIGHT UNTIL THE SEE KYOKO HEALED!!!! THE MYSTERY FIGURE DETRANSFORMS AND IS REVEALED TO BE ZEEK, AN ALIEN WITH A GRUDGE FOR THIS MOVIE'S VILLAIN!!!!! THE HEROES DISCUSS WHAT THEY JUST SAW AND HEARD, AND ARE SUMMONED TO ACTION!!!! ZEEK SEES THE FIREBALL AND HENSHINS!!!!!! HEADS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME!!!! THE VILLAINS APPEAR AND THE GOGOFIVE AND ZEEK FIGHT THE VILLAINS!!!! THE RANGERS HENSHIN AND ROLL CALL!!!! GORED AND GOBLUE CHARGE AT ZYLPHEEZA ONLY TO SEE A MAJOR MINDF**K!!!!!! THE OTHER RANGERS AREN'T DOING MUCH BETTER AND ZEEK GOES AFTER THE MONSTER!!!!! HE EVEN ALMOST DIES FROM BEING STABBED IN THE CHEST!!!!! THE MONSTER CONTINUES HIS SEARCH, AND GORED TRIES TO SAVE ZEEK!!!! THE VILLAINS CONTINUE TO FIGHT, GETTING THEIR ASSES WHOOPED!!!! ZEEK IS SAVED, BUT STILL DOESN'T LIKE THE GOGOFIVE!!!! GORED GOES BACK TO THE BATTLEGROUND, BUT IS STOPPED BY ZYLPHEEZA!!!!!! KYOKO MAKES A DYING ZEEK TO SAFE SPOT, AND THE MONSTER FINDS A RED STONE, PRESUMABLY CONTAINING THE DARK SWORD!!!!! HE GETS THE DARK SWORD AND GROWS!!!!! HE SENDS AN ENERGY ATTACK TO THE PSYMA AND RANGERS, AND MUTATES INTO HIS TRUE FORM!!!!!! THE RANGERS GET THE GRANDLINER OUT AND FIRES GUNS AT IT!!!! ZEEK IS STILL DYING, AND TELLS HIS EMOTIONAL BACKSTORY!!!! THE SUN SETS AS ZEEK TRADES HIS LAST WORDS TO KYOKO!!!!! ZEEK DIES AND KYOKO IS GIVEN THE ZEEK CRYSTAL!!!! KYOKO TRANSFORMS INTO A FEMALE VERSION OF ZEEK AND IS PRETTY BADASS (WHY AREN'T THERE MORE SENTAI SIXTH RANGERS WHO ARE FEMALE?)!!!! THE MECH BATTLE IS STILL GOING AND THE MONSTER USES A DARK SWORD-SHADOW SWORD SPINOUT ATTACK, I'M NOT EVEN JOKING!!!!!AS THE GRANDLINER IS DOWN FOR THE COUNT, KYOKO STRIKES AT THE MONSTER, AND THE VICTORY ROBO IS FORMED, AND GOES RIGHT TO THE FINISHER POWERED BY ZEEK'S ENERGY!!!!! THE FINAL MOMENTS OF THE BATTLE ARE POWERED TO THE GREAT GOGOFIVE THEME!!!! THERE FINISHER IS THAT A LIGHT SABER DESTROYS THE MONSTER!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH... THE RANGERS GIVE A PEP TALK TO KYOKO, AND SEND THE ZEEK CRYSTAL TO HEAVEN!!!! PART OF THE CRYSTAL IS GIVEN BACK TO KYOKO, AND THE HEROES LOOK AT THE RISING SUN TO A BRIGHT FUTURE!!!!! THE FILM ENDS WITH SOME HIJINX AT THE WATER PARK AS CREDITS ROLL!!!!!


This is a damned good movie, though it would've made as better TV Special or 2, 3, or 4 parter, just axe some of the Suckier episodes, give Zeek his own mech, and make a storyline about it that spreads through a good portion of the series, and wa-lah. It may've had a boring Villain, It did have Zeek, Who' is all kinds of badass, with a great story, and Kyoko essentially becomes a sixth ranger (Why aren't there any Solo Female Sixth Rangers, we could use a lot more female representation in toku It only takes a lil' touching up, #amirite?) It's a more satisfying 40 minutes in a Direct to Video than most Sentai's 20-30 minutes in movies from Theaters.... You wonder why I refer most sentai movies as glorified episodes of their respective series. Like the Series it was based on, I give this movie 3.25 Zeek Crystals out of 4.



Next week, Wake Up! The Hero! BECAUSE IT'S KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX!!!!!!

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