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Looks like even villains like Questers didn't have any lines.
Not sure about the Questers, but concluding on who got lines or not at this point from the vague description that skimmed over many battles throughout the movie (and especially the final battle itself) can be rather misleading.
In the 2ch thread, they've went on to say that there's a Fouze vs Apollogeist battle and he uses Magnet States to defeat him, and it had been confirmed before that Apollogeist uses the Geist Cutter in the movie at some point. Brajira also apparently had lines, introducing himself as "Brajira of the Dai-Zangyack". The spoiler provider in the 2ch thread did confirm that Mezool had no lines though. In general, it seems that many of the returning villains are actually putting up fights here, even if quick, rather than just rolling over like grunts during the final battle, differently from in All Riders vs Dai-Shocker and Let's Go Kamen Riders.
Although, yes, regarding past actors, it seems like they didn't put much effort here. Even Apollogeist has been confirmed to be played by Diend's actor rather than even the Decade guy again... Either way, I don't think the presence of actors makes much difference. Let's Go Kamen Riders had returning actors for most of the villains, and yet they still rolled over and fell like dominoes in the final battle, often without putting up any kind of fight. The fact that the spoilers mention Hibiki getting beaten up before turning around the battle, and Fourze needing to use Magnet States against a villain that doesn't seem plot relevant at all for this movie is a very good sign, IMO.
^ That's all well and good, but just advertise is a "Kamen Rider Decade VS Gokaiger" then, and not pretend like it's going to be some super-huge-important, mind-blowing team-up spanning the entire history of both franchises when it chooses to focus on just, like, two shows/heroes from each.
They've said since the start that Decade and Gokaired are the leads. Well, I don't think the advertising was misleading this time anyway. Decade and Gokaiger have the most focus, but, unlike in previous movies, you've got various other heroes appearing multiple times throughout. Now, yes, Decade and Gokaiger are a constant presence, but you've also got scenes with the 7 first Riders, Fourze, Go-Busters, OOO, Goseiger, Den-O, the Kuuga-> Kiva Heisei Riders (minus Den-O), various Sentai teams from the 90s and 00s... All that before we get to the final battle with everyone around - and this time they are around in the final battle and don't disappear from many scenes, unlike in Let's Go Kamen Riders. Just compare Den-O, New Den-O and OOO randomly being alone for the final battles against the Shocker executives there, while in this movie Ryuuki, Blade and the Goseiger all pop up to fight Doctor G/Narutaki alongside Decade.
Now, there's the issue of the actors which is where your main complaint is, but the focus clearly wasn't just on Decade and Gokaiger here, especially when you compare that synopsis with past crossovers.
You think Toei would have made a real team-up movie by now. That is...get select people representing different eras, and don't limit it to suits. Nobody gives a **** if Akaranger and Stronger pose during a big CGI fight scene because they both aired in '75. It's not special, it's something you can see in any frigging stage show ad or promo.
Stage shows miss the whole "special effects" side of "tokusatsu". Comparing any actual production to one is just pointless.
You know what you can't see at the stage shows? All the frigging actors! You know what would make a movie special? Naoya Makoto as Tsuyoshi Kaijou and Hiroshi Fujioka as Takeshi Hongo sharing the screen together. But that might actually come too close to being a real team-up.
There are some special stage shows with the real actors though... Anyway, if you look at Skyrider, the episodes with 7 suits and no actors had better ratings than the episodes with individual team ups, but with the past actors on set. Let's Go Kamen Riders was Toei's biggest recent effort in bringing past actors for a Rider movie. It also focused almost exclusively on original Rider, Den-O and OOO, with the other shows combined getting like 4 minutes of screentime out of a 1:30 minutes movie. But it didn't do better than any of the other modern Rider crossovers.
I think there's a lot of evidence that the suits are actually remembered more than the actors themselves in most cases. Anyway, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong for wanting more original actors, but going on comparing movies without original actors to "stage shows" is just a fallacy.
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