Dragon Ball Z Movie 11: Super Senshi Gekiha!! Katsu no wa Ore da

Holy crap, a great Dragon Ball movie out of nowhere!

What do you get when you take the plot of a gore-heavy sci-fi B-movie and put it in the world of Dragon Ball? You get a movie where a rich snob, basically Augustus St. Cloud from Venture Bros., challenges world-famous "hero" Mr. Satan to a duel as revenge for ruining his childhood, and then sics a bunch of ooze-covered bio-warriors on him. And then Broly comes back, this time in the form of a clone covered in ooze, and he looks like Swamp Thing.

This is everything I want out of an action-packed anime movie, and ... I had no idea I'd be getting it out of the, what, eleventh one of these stupid things? The movie is filled with fighting and action and danger but it's not all about one overly-powerful buff dude beating everyone up; instead, it focuses on the bizarre sci-fi elements, which includes a lot of gross-out horror with dudes getting melted by acid and stuff. Thankfully (sadly?) it's not graphic at all, and the movie is more geared towards the ridiculous humor of it all.

What kind of Dragon Ball movie has a cast like this? Our main heroes are... wait for it... Goten, Trunks, Mr. Satan, and... Android 18? Krillin makes an appearance too, but other than that, we don't have any of the usual cast coming in here and turning things into a monotonous punchfest.

Crazy good stuff, and I might recommend it even more highly on a rewatch. Since it's just 46 minutes long including credits, it's also a zippy-fast watch, and the first one since Dead Zone I can recommend with zero caveats. We've got a few more DBZ movies to go, and I have high hopes for Fusion Reborn based on my knowledge of it, but Bio-Broly could end up being the tops, and that's crazy.

As for the timeline, this is a direct sequel to the previous Broly movie, featuring some of the same plot threads and apparently taking place very shortly afterwards. It would also be set shortly before the Budokai Tenkaichi though Mr. Satan's prominent role makes it a bit suspect considering how shocked he was about having to duel one of these two kids during the tournament. Once again it can't be "canon" because of the Super Broly movie, but "canon" is stupid anyway.

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This Dragon Ball Z movie was very unnecessary, i'm very positive Akira Toriyama was going through mid-life crisis and needed money badly, so voilà! I present to you Swamp Monster! I mean Bio-Broly! What is the point of bringing back Broly if you're literally going to make him walking fecal-matter! I should have watched this movie in Japanese and without subtitles just so I didn't have to worry about missing any important piece to the movie, because literally story is not a thing here. Toriyama looked up to the sky, shed a tear and said "Lord, do not smite me for what I have bestowed ... on the people who made me successful and is the reason why I sleep comfortably and eat every night and day, but muah! muah! My latest masterpiece! A silver platter of spicy sh*t!" I have not seen a larger disaster since the 2010 BP Oil Spill, or even worse, shall I even say it, the birth of Jaden Smith. Goku, our lord and savior wasn't even in the film, and i'm sure he couldn't have saved this catastrophe of a DBZ movie. Goku shows up at the very last few seconds of the movie and is shown eating. That's about it, just eating. I'm sure Toriyama only added that last scene of Goku eating because that is what they think us "Westerners" can relate to. Eating. Well Toriyama, i'm ending this on the note of saying that I am appalled that you created this movie and i'm shocked to see that you didn't make this a hentai film because that is another stereotype of your western fans. No, not all of us eat a lot and no, not all of us touch ourselves to animated drawings doing obscene things like getting penetrated by 8 ft tentacles! At least you got that one right, good thing you have loyal fans because i'm sure if they weren't loyal you'd be creating mediocre flash "dress up games" like "Dress up Selena Gomez" or "Dress up Whoopi Goldberg!" Anyway, this has been a Clams review. Barely. I can't review a 40 minute milked movie with no story or good characters. If you'd like me to review anything just message me.

Dragon Ball Z Movie 11 Bio Broli is one of the most forgettable Dragon Ball movies despite featuring the selling point of having one of the most popular villainous character involved.
The reason why its ignored is mainly nothing really stands out. There is no big scene like Goku using a new transformation. No signature move is used to defeat the enemy.

But these alone wouldn't make a movie bad.
The action is really good. Bio Broli's power is justified being a clone of Broli. Every scene with Mr Satan is hilarious.

So how can this movie be considered bad?

Bio Broli's antagonist is Mr Satan's former martial arts rival. ... Some rich and fat dude. He wants to humiliate Mr Satan by letting him get beat up by fighters made from Bio Technology. So he blackmails Mr Satan to make him accepts his challenge.
Goten, Trunks and Android 18 get involved because 18 wants the price money Mr Satan promised. This movie should have been released around the end of the Dragon Ball Z tournament, that took place before Boo awakened, but it can't fit simply because Fusion isn't used.

Turns out that one of the Bio Warriors is a clone of Broli. It looks hideous which honestly makes people rather not want to see him in video games. When people say Broli has no personality they probably talk about Bio Broli. The guy can't speak and randomly destroys shit. No mimic no nothing.
It's not the only antagonist. The next one is gue that consumes anything organic it touches

They win through Mr Satan giving Goten a clue what his weakness is. And that weakness is one of the stupidest thing because it's basically everywhere so it would never really pose a threat after Trunks did a certain thing.

This movie is better than what most people would let you believe. It's not as bad as Battle of Gods or Revival of F. And one can argue if anything ruins Broli's character, its Dragon Ball Z Movie 10. Bio Broli is its own entity.
This movie also tried to focus on a new cast of character that aren't usually involved or get minimal roles.
Android 18 does something. Main antagonist wants revenge on Mr Satan. Goten and Trunks are the lead.

Sadly Goten and Trunks just aren't interesting characters and the movie wasted the opportunity to make us care for them. They were already annoying in Movie 10 and parody characters in the Boo Saga that made the arc worse. Now staring them in a movie was risky and didn't pay off simply because they are characters known to just goof around.

It also seems like the writers wanted to make a Dragon Ball movie by the style of the original. More comedic. Child protagonists. Mitged antagonist similar to Commander Red which both have immense resources to get what they want.

And I think that's a problem because people don't usually watch Dragon Ball Z to see these kinds of things especially in a movie that has Broli in it. A story with a character with a deep backstory, lots of symbolic imagery and muscle bound brawls. So Broli fans were disappointed.
Even if you like those things, it fails to catch the essence of original Dragon Ball since Goten and Trunks aren't like Goku outcasts from society. So they can't fit into similar situation where kid Goku would have worked better.
Which leaves both parties disappointed.

Overall, visuals are great and OST are good. Fight against Bio Broli was engaging but like Gotenks vs Super Boo it is pretty forgettable.

Wouldn't recommend this to anyone but it is not as bad as many make it out to be.