| DBZ Movie #1- Return My Gohan! Synopsis: The story begins with Piccolo training in the wilderness, muttering about defeating Goku in the next Budoukai. He is ambushed by three mysterious warriors, members of the Makyo race. The three of them gang up on Piccolo, and in typical DBZ movie fashion, beat the crap out of him. They smash him into a mountain, and you see one lone shadowy figure, talking about how Piccolo's death means that Kami is gone as well, and soon the world will be his! The next scene switches to Gohan, studying some books, and setting a standard that would haunt him for the rest of his life. His studying is interrupted by a visit from Gyuu Mao, laden with presents (All books O_o). While delivering the packaged textbooks, Gyuu Mao falls victim to one of the three demons (he survives). The short, irritating creature demands the Dragon ball on Gohan's hat, and he and his two comerades proceed to beat up Chichi and kidnap Gohan. Goku, sensing that something is wrong, rushes back to his injured wife and father-in-law, and then begins his mission to find whoever did this. Meanwhile our villain, Garlic Jr, succeeds where all other DB/DBZ villains had failed: he is granted immortality. Reveling in his newfound eternal life, Garlic Jr. decides not to kill Gohan outright but instead to train him. From there comes one of the funniest scenes in DBZ, involving a demon, Gohan, some alcoholic apples, and millions of dancing purple dinosaurs and multicoloured fuzz-balls. After the majority of the joke is over, Goku arrives to challenge Garlic Jr. and his henchmen. He begins a fight with the three demons; Ginger, Nikki, and Sansho by name. During the fight, Kami comes in to face Garlic Jr. himself, showing that neither he nor Piccolo had actually died. It is revealed that 300 years ago, Kami had a rival to the throne: a demon named Garlic. Kami made it, garlic didn't. So, being the well-to-do demon that he was, Garlic called up the demon hordes and was then consequently locked up for eternity. Now seeking revenge, Garlic Jr. wants the throne that his father coveted. Garlic Jr. and Kami fight, while Goku fights the demons inside the castle. He is assisted by Kuririn and Piccolo; Kuririn gets Gohan out to safety (or at least tries to), while Piccolo and Goku make short work of the henchmen. Kami loses his fight against the now-immortal Garlic Jr., and the Namek/Saiya-jin team pick up the battle. At this point, one of the most dramatic transformations takes place: 3-foot Garlic Jr. becomes 12-foot Garlic Jr. The fight resumes in pure late DB-style, ending with Garlic Jr. creating a portal to a "Dead Zone," and accidentally sucking himself in when Gohan gets angry and starts blasting things. Our Thoughts: While not one of the best of the DBZ movies, Return my Gohan! does have some comedic value, and the animation/background artwork, particularly with Garlic Jr's castle, is incredible. The movie suffers from a lack of, well, life in the plot, and was really saved only by the humor and visuals. The Alcoholic Apples scene really must be seen to be believed. Japan Release Date: 3/10/1990 Our Rating: 4.5 of 7 - Excellent animation, but poor plot. DBZ Movie #2 - The World's Strongest Man Synopsis: Coming soon! Our Thoughts: Coming soon! Japan Release Date: 7/7/1990 Our Rating: 3.5 of 7 - "Dry" animation, boring plot. DBZ Movie #3 - Ultimate Decisive Battle for Earth Synopsis: A small probe from Outer Space lands and causes a forest fire. Gohan and Kuririn manage to put out the fire and save a small purple dragon, but the forest is destroyed. Saddened, they gather the dragon balls, and Gohan wishes the Forest back to its earlier state. The next morning, the probe activates and starts scouting out the earth. It reports back to a strange group of Space Pirates, led by a mysterious leader. They decide that the planet is suitable for growing "Shinseiju (Tree of Might)," and plant the seed. The Shinseiju literally demolishes several square miles in its growth, and starts sucking the life out of everything. The tree is made to bear fruit for the gods (Think the Immortality peaches in the old Chinese Myths). Goku, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and Yamcha all rush to the base of the tree (Gohan was told by his mother to stay home), where they face off against the Pirates. Gohan sneaks away from his mother to fight, and runs into a Saiya-jin, the leader of the pirates, who looks exactly like his dad. Taurus grabs Gohan, and recognizing that he's part Saiya-jin, creates a fake moon. Oozaru Gohan comes after Goku first, and a small fight begins between them. This fight lasts until Gohan sees Higher Dragon, in which Gohan's short attention span is diverted. Enraged, Taurus blows the Dragon away, and then attacks Gohan. Goku cuts off the Gohan's tail, and sets him aside where he's safe. Having defeated the rest of the Z warriors, Taurus' henchmen surround our hero. Goku takes them all on and kills the lot with ease. Taurus resumes the fight, and they find that their power levels are nearly equal. Taurus grabs some of the fruit from the Tree, and takes a healthy bite. He then trashes Goku, leaving him for dead. Goku attempts to make a Genki-dama, and the other heroes band together against Taurus to stall for time. The villain defeats them all with ease, and concentrates back on Goku just in time to see him lob the ball of energy. Taurus deflects the Genki-dama, and is totally unaffected. The earth had been drained so much that it was impossible to gather any real energy. Goku begins draining energy from the Tree of might itself, until he builds one last Genki-dama. He then confronts Taurus for the last time, and hits him with the attack. Both Taurus and the tree are destroyed, and all of the energy taken by the tree is restored to the earth. Our Thoughts: Not the best DBZ movie, nor is it the worst, Tree of Might has a few good points in it, but overall the lack of character originality, and the strange plot holes--like why the Heck Taurus looks like Gokou--detract from the movie. Japan Release Date: 3/19/1991 Our Rating: 2 of 7 - Pure cheese, the worst of the movies. DBZ Movie #4 - Super Saiya-jin Goku Synopsis: The fourth DBZ Movie starts out with a scene of Piccolo meditating by a waterfall--something that he does often. His quiet time is interrupted by Gohan and Higher Dragon. Gohan has taught his little pet dragon to dance to his whistling, and he wants to show it to Mr. Piccolo! Before the Namek can stop him, Gohan begins his little song-and dance routine. Before the sickening display becomes enough to harm us, though, Piccolo screams out in pain (I would, too, but this is apparently because Namek's can't stand human whistling), and Gohan is forced to stop. Then, after that little "cute scene," the actual "plot" begins. In the movie, a giant planetoid looks like it's going to hit the earth, yet explodes just before it makes impact. The inhabitants of the planet, a group of space-pirates, land on the Earth in their little ship to terraform it and use it as a new home base. They are a bunch of horned, sun-sensitive oddities led by Lord Slug--a strangely familiar green alien. Slug learns of the Dragonballs by reading Bulma's mind; he immediately collects them and makes his wish: restore his youth. After becoming young again, the fight begins. Gohan and Piccolo face off against Slug's three main henchman: Dorodabo, a fat gargoyle (Blown to bits by Piccolo early), Angira, a Zarbon look-alike, and Medametcha, an extremely strange frog with the ability to create energy-sucking clones of himself. After a little bit of fighting, Goku steps in and kills Medametcha and Angira rather easily. Then it's Goku vs. Slug in one of the most predictable DBZ movie battles ever. Slug Trashes Gokou. Goku goes "Super Saiya-jin" (Well, not really...his hair remains black) Goku trashes Slug. Slug proves to all that he's a Namek. Slug grows to super size and trashes Goku. Piccolo joins in and gets hurt. Ho-hum. Then more wierdness enters the story, as Piccolo tells Gohan to whistle--causing Slug to fall to his knees in pain. Goku flies through Slug's stomach, and then creates a small Genki-dama and defeats the Evil namek. The Earth returns to normal, birds sing, and Master Roshi wakes up from his nap and comments about the beautiful weather. Our Thoughts: There is a running debate over which DBZ movie is worse: 4, or 11. Basically everything was done wrong in this movie. The characters were flat, the plot sucked, the villains were wasted (Just look at Zeeun in the beginning), and the humor was about as funny as eating stale yogurt. The "Super Saiya-jin" transformation need not be mentioned. In fact, the only good points of the movie were Piccolo's reaction to Gohan's whistling (hehe), and the look on Slug's face right before he killed one of his henchmen for calling him old (Classic). So, get this movie only if you really want to see EVERYTHING, or if you're in a weird mood. Either way, we'll forgive you. Japan Release Date: 7/20/1991 Our Rating: 4 of 7 - Nice samurai action, less focus on Goku for a change. DBZ Movie #5 - Battle of the Strongest Synopsis: Coming soon! Our Thoughts: Coming soon! Japan Release Date: 3/7/1992 Our Rating: 6.5 of 7 - Great animation and story, fun to watch. DBZ Movie #6 - Attack! 10,000,000,000 Power Warriors Synopsis: Our story begins on New Namek, where a giant, planet-sized machine begins to devour the world. The Z warriors catch wind of the plot, and fly off to the crippled planet. By this time, all the inhabitants of Namek have been captured by advanced battle droids, and are being led off to a prison camp where they are to be executed. However, our heros arrive just in time, and save the Nameks from certain death. As the droids prepare for battle, the leader of the machine army, Metal Koola, reveals himself. He explains that after Koola was blasted into the sun, the space-faring Big Ghetti Star came across his remains and assimilated Koola's brain. The only way to sustain the tremendous sphere is to sap large amounts of energy from the cores of planets and its inhabitants. Piccolo, Kuririn, and Gohan begin battle with the robots, but their armor proves to be exceedingly tough to puncture. While his friends are occupied with the droid army, Goku begins to battle Metal Koola. It isn't long until Goku gains the upper hand, and knocks off one of Metal Koola's arms. Unfortunately, Koola regenerates his limb, and informs our hero that the Big Ghetti Star instantaneously corrects weaknesses and repairs damage. Now with better tactics, Metal Koola begins to win the fight. Yet out of nowhere, Vegeta comes to the rescue, and joins Goku in his foray. Meanwhile, Kuririn and Gohan have been captured by the droids, and flown to the prison camp. Only Piccolo remains, and with a huge burst of energy, he evaporates the remaining droids. With the army destroyed, Piccolo flies to the heart of the Big Ghetti Star. Vegeta and Goku attack Metal Koola at full strength, and turn his body into such a fine powder that no regeneration is possibly. Thinking that they have won, they are shocked to see hundreds of Metal Koola's sliding down a nearby ridge, and running straight towards them. The next thing they know, they are hanging in the main chamber of the Big Ghetti Star by thousands of tiny electrodes. Koola begins to steal their energy, but finds that the Ki of a Super Saiya-jin is too much to handle. With overloading batteries, the Big Ghetti Star begins to self-destruct. Goku and Vegeta, in a final showdown with the massive core of the world-eater, destroy Koola's remains. The good guys barely manage an escape, and the Big Ghetti Star explodes in a fireball. Namek is left scarred, but no blood is shed this day. Our Thoughts: This is, by far, my favorite Dragonball movie. The animation and music are far above the standard, and the battle droids are just plain cool-looking. The plot is fairly simple, but it is different from the usual "all-powerful being arrives, Z warriors must kill it." Instead, we are treated with a tale about a giant, ever-evolving spore colony. My one complaint would have to be the length of the movie: it was just too darn short. Many of the fight scenes seemed compressed for time, and the 45 minutes just didn't do it justice. This is one of the better anime films available, and even casual DBZ fans should own a copy. Japan Release Date: 7/11/1992 Our Rating: 6 of 7 - Some great panning shots, interesting characters. DBZ Movie #7 - The Three Super Saiya-jin Synopsis: The trouble starts when two odd looking androids (#15 and #14) make their way through the streets toward a hotel where Goku, Gohan, Kuririn, Master Roshi, Oolong, Chichi, and Trunks are staying. They wreak havoc as they blow up buildings and cars and send people screaming in terror. Eventually they locate Goku and destroy his temporary residence. The Z warriors rescue everyone in the skyscraper before it fully collapses. Trunks reminds Goku that they will only hurt civilians if they continue to fight in the city. As a result, Goku flies, chased by the two androids, to some uninhabited ice plains. There they battle, and we see that yet another robot has been released from Dr. Gero's laboratory. This robot, #13, tells Goku that the and the others were created by Dr. Gero's computer, and though Dr. Gero is dead, his computer magnified his hatred for Goku many times over, and created #13, #14, and #15 as a result. As they fight, it is clear that the androids are gaining the upper hand (Goku fights #13, while Mirai Trunks takes #14 and #15). Vegeta comes to help out Goku, because he wants to save the victory over Goku to himself. There is now one Saiya-jin per android (Vegeta takes #15). Soon, all the Saiya-jin go SSJ. Vegeta and Trunks make short work of their foes. Gohan tries to help his father, but is shot at, and saved by Piccolo, who helps Goku take on #13. #13 absorbs the batteries and processing units of the two fallen androids after realizes they have been disposed of. With the power of the other two androids within him, android #13 is transformed into Super 13. This blue monstrosity makes short work of all the Z warriors but Goku. He continues to pummel Goku until Goku falls under water, at which point he turns his attention to Gohan. Gohan sees that Goku is gathering energy for a Genki-dama, and one by one, the Z warriors sacrifice themselves yet again, though they are near unconcious. Eventually, Goku turns SSJ while gathering energy, and absorbs the Genki-dama's energy. His aura is so powerful that Super 13's skin begins to melt away. Goku embeds his fist into Super 13's abdomen, and destroys his remains. Our Thoughts: As far as DBZ movies go, this one is close to the top. It's quite action packed, and blends elements of humor well with the action, so that one can get a little comic relief every now and then. The fight scenes are up to the usual DBZ par, and are very fun to watch. The ending is actually a little anti-climatic; we were hoping for Goku to have another fight at full power with Super #13 after the Genki-dama was absorbed. Even so, however, this movie is definitely worth buying. You won't be dissapointed. Japan Release Date: 3/6/1993 Our Rating: 5.5 of 7 - Longest DBZ movie, compelling story. DBZ Movie #8 - Valiant Fight! Violent Fight! Super Exciting Fight! Synopsis: Coming soon! Our Thoughts: Coming soon! Japan Release Date: 7/10/1993 Our Rating: 5.5 of 7 - Spectacular battle scenes. DBZ Movie #9 - The Galaxy's in Danger! The Super Awesome Guy! Synopsis: Movie 9 begins with a tournament, organized as a birthday present for Dollar Money, the son of Gyusan Money, the richest man in the world. The combatants are to fight simultaneously, until there are only four contestants left. At this point, the remaining four were to fight four "aliens" (Idiots dressed up in costumes), and whoever finished first was to fight Mr. Satan for the grand prize. The first half of the movie is mainly comedy, with Gohan, Mirai no Trunks, and Kuririn fighting their way through the tournament, becoming three of the four finalists (The fourth was a huge sumo wrestler named Daisuke). All the while Gokou is watching his son from heaven, and Mr. Satan is engaged in his usual antics in trying to get away from "Those people!" The second half begins when, in the final rounds, the four "Aliens" have most obviously been replaced with REAL aliens- led by one named Bojack. Bojack had apparently tried to fight the gods some time ago, and was imprisoned in a star. Kaiou's death during the Cell game freed him, and he was trying to get special revenge on the North Kaiou by taking his student's planet first. Trunks defeats his opponent, but loses to Bojack, while Kuririn and Daisuke both lose to theirs- at the cost of Daisuke's life. Gohan doesn't finish his fight before all of the villains convene and introduce themselves, thus spawning one of the finest one-sided movie fight scenes yet, which lasts until everyone is trashed and Gohan is being crushed to death by Bojack. Gokou, breaking the afterlife rules, teleports out of heaven in an effort to save Gohan (He whacks Bojack in the jaw in what was actually a rather funny scene). Gohan then goes SSJ2 and kills two out of the three henchmen (The third expired at BojackÕs hands for showing fear), and Gohan then kills Bojack. The movie ends with everybody recovering in the hospital, a typical happy movie ending. Our Thoughts: Despite its shortcomings, which I will get into later, Movie 9 was one of the best of the DBZ movies. The fight scenes were well-done, the one-shot characters were creative, the music was incredible, particularly near the end, and it had a good mix of humor and action- not to mention the fact that it actually fit into the DBZ timeline. The only problems were that it was excessively short, that the enemy characters were not developed nearly enough (I hate wasted characters), and that it ended too abruptly. Gohan defeated Bojack with one punch. With those few exceptions, the movie was about as good as any DBZ movie could get, and was actually on par with the series a lot. Being one of the few that Toriyama had a big hand in, I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to find a good DBZ movie. Japan Release Date: 3/12/1994 Our Rating: 4.5 of 7 - Reused plot, corny ending. DBZ Movie #10 - The Mischievious Partners! Super Warriors Never Rest! Synopsis: The Tenth DBZ movie opens with a strange scene in a dark valley. A dark, powerful figure is unconscious, experiencing vivid flashbacks of Kakarotto defeating him. The scene switches to a happy one of Goten and Trunks searching for the Dragon balls, chaperoned by Videl. Goten wants to wish for lots and lots of food to eat, and Trunks wants the Dragon balls so he can go on lots of adventures (As if the Buu saga isn't enough for them). They have some fun, cute adventures finding the DBs, and eventually make it to the last one, which is strung on the necklace of a village shaman. The villagers are about to sacrifice a young, beautiful maiden to the monster god of the village, in return for their peace and well-being. Goten and Trunks fly off and defeat the monster--a really goofy dinosaur--easily. The villagers congratulate them and give them the Dragon ball, and all three Z soldiers stay in the village overnight. The next morning, Videl goes out early and runs into Brolli, who has inexplicably survived Movie #8, and has also inexplicably lost most of his brain. Brolli mistakes Videl for Kakarotto and knocks her unconscious in a lake, then goes after Goten and Trunks. The two boys spend some time running around, avoiding Brolli, and getting into hi-jinks. This goes on until Gohan steps in |
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