Dragon Force: So Long, Ultraman

Dragon Force: So Long, Ultraman (钢铁飞龙之再见奥特曼 Gāngtiě Fēilóng zhī Zàijiàn Àotèmàn) is a 3D-animated crossover movie between the characters of BlueArc Studios' Dragon Force, and the titular protagonist of a Japanese tokusatsu series created by Tsuburaya Productions Ultraman. It is the first outlawed "Ultraman" movie to be produced by BlueArc Studios.

Synopsis
Protecting the earth and maintaining peace, Ultraman used to be a god-like existence for the Earth, but in recent decades, he disappeared into a mystery... The replacement for him was the elite team Dragon Force, part of the GSB Earth Security Organization. GSB has been receiving reports of global energy anomalies in the near future, and there have been huge disasters around the world. The GSB organization sent the Dragon Force to find out the causes of the energy anomalies, but unexpectedly found that the incident had a relationship with Ultraman... The unexpected encounters between the old and new generations of the Earth's guardians led to the hostile sides of life and death. In the end, is this an accident or a conspiracy, who saw the final truth?

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It is a complete disgrace to the Ultraman franchise as since the character Ultraman in this movie is instead portrayed as one of the villains of this movie instead of being one of the protagonists.
 * 2) Besides being an antagonist, Ultraman himself has some inconsistencies and changes for vague reasons.
 * 3) For most of the time, the movie is actually being composed of stock footage from an existing old Dragon Force movie which was released before the Dragon Force Ultraman crossover movie was released, with the addition of the character Ultraman and a few minor script changes.
 * 4) * Because of this, Tsuburaya brought UMC into the court and seemingly won. And thus, causing Tsuburaya Productions to bring official releases of Ultra Series to Mainland China.
 * 5) Campy dialogue despite the decent voice acting.
 * 6) This movie had severely damaged the reputation of Tsuburaya Productions as well as the Ultra series, and even intoxicated its fanbase.
 * 7) Although the CGI can be good at times, the visual effects still look mediocre.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Great, detailed animation and visual quality.
 * 2) It's sequel, Dragon Force: Rise of Ultraman is a bit of improvement. But, it's still considered to be a bad movie nonetheless.
 * 3) *Ultraman is now a hero in the sequel at least.
 * 4) Decent voice acting, despite the bad dialogue.

Reception
The movie scored 2.6 out of a possible 10 based on 4551 reviews on Douban Movie's review aggregator (As at the time of this page's writing), with many comments expressing their dislike towards Ultraman's inclusion and portrayal in the movie. Trailers on Youtube also received the same comments, calling it a "crappy domestic ripoff". Even the actor of Ultraman Dyna Takeshi Tsuruno expressed his disgust towards the movie itself, thus calling out the "Fake Ultraman". The movie grossed USD$1,408,159 in its opening weekend and made a total gross profit of $6,120,728.

Trivia
Although TsuPro had won the first lawsuit, BlueArc is still producing more Dragon Force x Ultraman crossover movies (Rise Of Ultraman is one of the Dragon Force x Ultraman movies that got released)

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