Kamen Rider The Movie Episode Red: Zero no Star Twinkle
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by amyboomerang
A completely straight '9' for me all around. Den-O is probably my favorite of all the Kamen Rider series I've seen, and will possibly always be, so I was excited to get a chance to watch this trilogy after having been parted with the original for a while. I was personally surprised at how, well... not Kamen Rider filmish they seemed. Most of the Kamen Rider films I find rather inferior in comparison to the shows because they seem to be a bit... hokey? Perhaps more like under-developed. Part of it is because they are trying to create a distinctive plot using a prior world, and they don't always translate cleanly into the films. However, these three were surprisingly enjoyable. I found the cinematography, especially in the first (Episode Red, which is also my favorite) to the best, and actually really beautifully done on an aesthetic level. They were all also very amusing, as well as interesting, and the tadest bit heartwarming.
The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy about the three films is that I thought they were interconnect a little bit--but they are really completely separate from each other. On one hand that's a nice quality for watching them... but on the other, it was called a "trilogy", but really it was just three films released in tandem in the same storyverse.
I would definitely recommend this series to people who enjoyed Den-O.
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