Ranked #3026

Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: The Deadzone

Wow, these Dragon Ball Z movies do actually get better and better... but only if you watch them in reverse order! After watching this movie, I can almost see a trend here of the makers running out of ideas as they squeezed out more and more movies and episodes out of the show. This, being Dragon Ball Z movie numero uno, managed the epic feat of being quite exciting AND funny on occasions. It also feels like there's more of a story than the later movies. In fact, even the music isn't too bad. Definitely the best out of all those Dragon Ball Z movies that I've seen so far. Unfortunately, as this is movie 1, I'm guessing this is probably as good as it gets... and it's still not very good. But it's very good by Dragon Ball Z standards though :P read more

The first Dragon Ball Z movie.

Each character follows the same personality they have in the series, holding every grudge, knowledge, technique, etc., they had up to the release date of this movie. It develops the pre-existing characters very well. However, most of the characters that were introduced exclusively for this movie are not developed.

The story revolves around the Dragon Balls, just like everything else related to this series; some evil character appears and tries to grab a hold on the Dragon Balls in order to rule/destroy the world. It's not unique or original, but it at least entertains.

The art remains the same as the one employed in the series, with the same buffed up muscles we're all accustomed to see. The fight scenes remain as thrilling as they were in the series, too. Art and animation, overall, was pretty good.

I happened to watch the movie already dubbed in English. I guess the voice acting was just alright, but I prefer the original japanese voice actors, the ones that did the voices in the original 291-episodes series. Opening and ending songs are the same as the series' japanese version ones.

If you're a Dragon Ball fan, you're definitely going to enjoy watching Goku and company get into some new fights, just like I did. read more