Film

Kamen Rider Den-O: Singing, Dancing, Great Training!!

Name: Kamen Rider Den-O: Singing, Dancing, Great Training!!
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Comedy
Released: 2007
Cast: Takeru Satoh, Tamaki Matsumoto, Toshihiko Seki, Koji Yusa, Masaki Terasoma

Fantasy
Superhero
Light-hearted

A fifteen-minute training montage wrapped in Kamen Rider spectacle: Ryotaro and his quartet of possessing spirits work out, sing, and dance before bad guys crash the party. It's pure tokusatsu chaos—absurdist, kinetic, gloriously silly. For anyone who loves their superhero action unserious and their comedy physical.

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy big-hearted, gleefully silly tokusatsu and want a quick dose of a bickering crew of time-travel companions being goofy before the action kicks in.

Skip it if you need stakes or a plot to follow; this is a 15-minute stretch of goofy training montage with song and dance, leaning hard on a series you already know.

What it asks of you: Barely a quarter of an hour, and it moves at a brisk, cheerful clip with no slow build; you give it attention for a few minutes and it ends.

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