Story: The story is what it needs to be for a DBZ film. Most of it is handled in little chunks just so they can hurry up and start fighting, which starts about 9 and a half minutes in. Granted, this low level of storytelling wouldn't really work for other animes or any other movies, but this is DBZ and the biggest reason anyone watches it is for the fighting, not so much the storytelling. However, I did like how they tied it in with the show instead of just saying "Hey, at some point in the story, this stuff happens. We don't know when, but by looking at the characters, you can probably guess". It's pretty easy to point out that this most likely takes place during that large time gap between Goku's arrival back on Earth and the androids first appearance. While this is a movie, and thus not canon, it can work fit itself in rather well without screwing up too much of the timeline, unless I'm forgetting something. However, characters do still seem to pop up out of nowhere when the writers can't find any other solution to a problem, but I guess that's what's to be expected of the DBZ movies.
Art: The artwork isn't necessarily anything spectacular. It's not anymore detailed than the artwork of the show, but that's not a bad thing. The artwork of the show is pretty good and the design of Cooler is interesting, especially his transformation.
Sound: As expected from a DBZ movie, the music is amazing. While it's still random rock music that most likely don't sing about anything going on, it still gets your blood pumping for the fights. As for voice acting, everyone sounds good, although Salza's extremely heavy French accent can be annoying for some.
Character: I'll skip over the good guys since there's no real reason to discuss them for this review (I'll save that for my review of the series if I ever get around to finishing it). Instead, I'll focus on the villains. Cooler's minions really are just the Ginyu Force's hand-me-downs, right down to their intro poses. Cooler does make up for this since he's actually one of the best villains I can think of for the series. Instead of wanting to kill Goku because of how much he cared for his brother, he just wants to keep his family's name from being ruined. He doesn't care about Frieza at all. I wish they would have had an arc about him in the show. Cooler definitely deserves one more than Garlic Jr.
Enjoyment: Taking it as a DBZ film and then comparing it to other films in the series, this is most likely one of the better ones. Granted I haven't seen all of the films in the franchise and there is at least one other DBZ film that I enjoy more than this, but this is a really good one.
