(Ominous score plays.)

Narrator: In late-December, the onslaught of snowstorms that had trapped the Donner Party showed no sign of ceasing. By then, the immigrants’ supply of Super Sentai from Sutter’s Fort was almost depleted.

Virginia Reed: It had been weeks since we last saw a Sentai episode. We were so desperate to watch any, even Hurricaneger. On Christmas, mother took us all aside and took out a movie she had hidden for us. Most of it was Kamen Rider,…

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After much waiting, I was finally able to watch this movie. Featuring all of the Showa era Kamen Riders doing battle with the Heisei era Kamen Riders, all while the evil Badan Empire lurks in the background, utilizing a new evil Kamen Rider 15.

The film primarily features the characters from Kamen Rider Gaim, the current series of Kamen Rider, but makes plenty of room for returning actors. Seeing as…

While it starts out with a refreshingly simple plot, it eventually spirals out of control into a whirlwind of fanservice that makes it hard to follow with all of the excesses that have become par for the course with these Toei crossover movies. It also has two different endings, but as you would expect they are both of little consequence to anything in the film. I really wish Toei would either scale back the sheer number of spin-offs or at…