Is there too much of a good thing? I loved how this started out with the Bemular fight. I loved seeing M78, the planet of light and all the Ultrapeople and learning more about their mythos. I loved the Belial design, and can see why he's so popular.
I loved seeing the jubilee of monsters. The problem was that everything just seemed *too* big, and for how great, albeit short, the Bemular fight was, it turned out to be one of the longer normal monster fights with all the other cameo kaiju being dispatched even more quickly.
And then Zero shows up and suprisingly makes even shorter work of the foot soldier kaiju. I get that Belial's the big bad here, but something feels a little off decimating these monsters so quickly when individually they'd normally fill an entire regular episode. For the record, I'm not a huge fan of G:FW's rampage across the world either for the exact same reason.
But what bothered me was the lack of scale. Because the movie centers so prominently on the Ultramen and their mythos, there's no reason to have anything in frame to have them appear giant sized when they're fighting. It's not until the end when they fight the monster made of monsters, which actually is pretty cool, that things feel pretty large.
What's he doing there?
It's also kind of obvious that this was mostly filmed on a green screen set. Although the effects and acting are pretty good despite that. Ultimately I found myself missing the human angle, which is usually the opposite when I watch a kaiju flick or Ultra show where I want to see more Ultra and monster action. Like I said, perhaps too much of a good thing? Also, I am not a fan of the Ultra King's design. Despite all these Ultramen from different eras interacting with one another, he's the only one that kind of stuck out in a bad way.
I'm going to need to revisit this again sometime down the road. Perhaps after watching the Ultra Seven set to see if I'll feel differently. It may be because its a bit different from the typical Ultra formula that I'm used to that I feel a little overloaded from it. Definitely liked watching it though, just didn't love it like I was hoping.