Go-onger vs Gekiranger : the vs movie where the current team is sidelined

[live jetabare]

Usually, especially in vs movies, either the focus on the two teams is well balanced (examples : Deka vs Aba, Magi vs Deka, Timeranger vs GogoV, Geki vs Bouken), or the current team has much more focus (Car vs Oh, Ginga vs Mega)
However, Go-onger vs Geki is one of the few cases where is the current team (Go-onger) which is sidelined : most of the drama is focused on the Gekiranger, with the main villain being Long and a Rinjyuken warrior, with the Gaiark being mostly comic relief. Likewise, the Go-onger look like comic relief compared to the Gekiranger, which feel much more pro warriors than the Engine warriors. The main climax seems more to be the showdown between Long, Jan and a resurrected Rio than the Go-onger and Gekiranger teamwork. Even with the supporting characters, Gekiranger has more focus, with Shafu, Natsume and Miki having a good buch of fun scenes.
It may be explained by the fact that the writer of the movie was Naruhisa Arakawa, who was much more involved in Gekiranger than Go-onger, and, as a result, gave more focus on the team he knew more.
Your thoughts?

 

[lazycoconut]

Even though Geki wasn't a very successful series I guess they thought they needed drama to pull in the audiences and Go-onger wasn't going to provide that? (There had been serious/dramatic moments in Go-onger like Sousuke's two-episode "death", but the Vs movie was short and it would seem out of character to make the Go-ongers suddenly all Srs Bizness.)

The Go-ongers got shafted by both Vs movies really. Shinkenger Vs Go-onger was almost as bad about giving the returning team screen time as Go-Busters Vs Gokaiger AND it turned the ending credits into a big Shinkenger dance scene with the Go-ongers appearing in only one frame ...

 

[RossoEagleBurst]

And usually the current team and previous team hanging out in the current team's base, but we only get Gou and Ken in Go-Onger's bus driver seat, not the "command center" room (Bomper's place). And the ending showed both team in Gekiranger's SCRTC outdoor area since the SCRTC set are no more.