This is the one that puts Buriburi Zaemon front and center, and if that name means something to you, you already know why it matters. The gag is right there in the title: three minutes of pig-samurai heroics, an Ultraman-style countdown played entirely for laughs, and Shin-chan being the worst possible person to hold that kind of power. It follows a run of movies that had already proven this franchise could do anything, from dragging the whole Nohara family inside a western at an abandoned theater in Kasukabe Boys to putting them on a nationwide wanted list over yakiniku in Yakiniku Road of Honor. So the 2005 entry leans back into pure slapstick, the Kasukabe Defense Force in tow, Hiroshi and Misae bickering through the chaos, Shiro along for the ride. It is dumb on purpose and precise about it. Then the timer runs out and you realize you cared about a cartoon pig.

The thirteenth Crayon Shin-chan film is an action comedy that spoofs tokusatsu monster and hero stories in the vein of Godzilla and Ultraman. Miraiman, a time-space conditioner from the future, turns up at the Nohara home without warning. He asks the family to battle the giant monsters that keep emerging from distortions in time and space, so that the world can be saved from destruction. Whenever a monster appears, Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi and mother Misae travel to that world, change into heroes and must defeat it before a three-minute limit runs out. The couple grow absorbed in the monster hunting, and Misae gives up on the housework. Then a powerful monster arrives that cannot be beaten in three minutes, and Shinnosuke steps up to face it.