Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Fukkatsu no "F"

Earth is finally peaceful again, but this calm is short-lived. The remnants of Frieza's army, led by Sorbet and his right hand Tagoma, arrive on Earth in order to summon Shen Long with the goal of resurrecting their old master. To do so, they threaten Emperor Pilaf, Shuu, and Mai for the Dragon Balls in their possession.

Once successfully revived, Frieza—who had been stoking his hatred for Gokuu Son and Future Trunks in Hell—proclaims that he will not be content until they are dead by his hand. Sorbet informs him that Future Trunks has not been heard of in years, and Gokuu's power has far surpassed even that of the mighty Majin Buu. Unfazed, Frieza responds that he only requires a few months of training before being capable of defeating Gokuu.

Will Frieza be able to exact revenge upon his nemesis, or will Gokuu, Vegeta, and their friends prevail against adversity, saving Earth once more?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Son, Gokuu Main

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Vegeta Main

Horikawa, Ryo Japanese

Freeza Main

Nakao, Ryusei Japanese

Son, Gohan Supporting

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Piccolo Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio Japanese

Future Trunks Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi Japanese

Bulma Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi Japanese

Muten-Roushi Supporting

Satou, Masaharu Japanese

Kuririn Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi Japanese

Beerus Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer, ADR Director

Bezerra, Wendel Producer, ADR Director

Cook, Justin Producer

Yamamuro, Tadayoshi Director, Storyboard, Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Key Animation, Animation Director

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Jan 29, 2022

Aboocalypse

Recommended

This is a review of the extended edition, unlike Battle of Gods I wouldn't consider this cut to be essential, it's just a bit of flashback fanservice and an ad for the Future Trunks television arc, nothing serious.

This canon sequel to the previous film, Battle of Gods, continues to deliver a fun and engaging followup to Akira Toriyama's legendary shonen manga. Whereas Battle of Gods treaded similar ground to Yo! Son Goku and Friends Return!, with a nice balance of slice of life and fighting, this movie is all about the fights, which isn't really a bad thing! Once again I'm very pleased to see ... side characters get focus, most notably Krillin who has a nice little scene with his wife, Jaco who was nice to see animated and Master Roshi out on the battle field kicking ass! As far as a film where the conceit of the thing is bringing back the most popular villain from the dead, Fukkatsu no F essentially delivers on everything it needs to. The world progresses logically, we get to see Goku and Vegeta pushing themselves to the next level of strength, Frieza feels consistent and love-to-hate as ever. Once again the Super Era seems to have a healthy level of self awareness, recognizing Goku and Vegeta's flaws directly in the text, rather than between the lines, Beerus and Whis also feel right at home among the core cast, I really like them!

It's not all sunshine and rainbows, the production side can still be a little rough. The effects animation was definitely better this time around, and generally the fights and characters were smooth and on model, but the use of CG, especially in the crowd scenes remained an eyesore. This is a marginal improvement over BoG, but not quite where a film in a series this big should be. The music was a bit all over the place in this one, some of it I really liked (specifically Frieza's surprise death metal theme!) but some cues felt a bit out of place. Finally, and most glaringly, there is a form in this movie that was not built up to properly, this is probably my biggest issue with the plot of the film. Still, this stuff isn't enough to kill it for me, and it shouldn't be enough to kill it for you. I'm excited to keep moving forward into the Super era of Dragon Ball!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 1, 2021

MacaJolen

Mixed Feelings

Okay, so pinanood ko ng buo yung Tagalog dubbed ng Resurrection F. I know, it's been released for like; 2 or 3 years now pero ngayon ko lang napanood yung fight scenes na tagalized. Dati kase pag labanan na, biglang magshi-shift yung audio from Tagalog into English. Ngayon, tagalized na ang full movie. MABUHAY ANG MGA PIRATA!! So yun, maraming beses ko nang napanood/nabasa ang kwentong ito. English, Japanese kahit Latino pa par napanood ko na. At ang performance sa bawat languages ay exhilarating. Though ito ang worst canon part ng story ng buong Dragon Ball Franchise, you can still enjoy it for nostalgia. Dati ... kase nae-enjoy ko lang yung movie dahil sa it's Dragon Ball. And that's it. So Yun, napanood ko yung Tagalog dubbed. Boss Jefferson Utanes as Goku at ang iba pang magaling na cast. No offense sa batang 90s pero hindi naman talaga Z ang napanood kong Dragon Ball eh. Pero yung Kai. Ang tanging part lang ng Z na napanood ko in Tagalog ay ang Cell Games Saga, kalahati ng Babidi Saga hanggang End of Z. So, yeah. Iba yung nostalgia na meron ako kesa sa most of the Dragon Ball Community (yes we have a community), kase ang pinanood ko noon ay Kai. Na-exposed ako sa Kai mga grade 3 ako. Yung naramdaman kong "sensation" (korni ng expression, sorry) nung pinanood ko yung movie ng full Tagalog dubbed ay hindi nostalgia, para bang reunion sa isang kaibigan mula sa pagkabata na matagal kong hinanap pero di ko na muling nakita. Sa ibang dub kase; di naman kase ako sa dub na yon lumaki kaya walang gantong revelation. Wala lang. Ang saya lang. It's weird. Siguro ganto yung naramdaman nung fans ng F4 nang i-remake ang Meteor Garden. Ang naramdaman ng isang die hard fan community ng muling mag-perform ang isang banda o idol group na ilang taon nang disbanded. It's just SO GOOD. It's weird na na-realize ko lang nung panoorin ko ang dub pero, tulad ng Sailor Moon sa mga babaeng Otaku; Dragon Ball is not just an anime from my childhood. It's kinda like an old friend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 5, 2022

KeflaSimp69

Not Recommended

I think Toei or Toriyama have an obsession with Frieza just like with Broly. The dude can't stay death for a single arc.
Even if he isn't the centre of the story, his cells are still involved. He is in almost every flashback or with anyone involved. It just doesn't stop. And every time he returns he is the butt of all jokes, even if he gets an illogical power boost like in this movie by training for 6 month off screen and surpass even the latest recolor power up by our Toriyama-Sensei :D

Frieza poses no threat. Whis and Beavus are there eating desert while Frieza ... shits his pants seeing them. Like in the previous movie Billus is treated like a gary stu and turns everyone into his bitch. Honestly, I feel if instead of a movie we got a slice of life series, Frieza's power up would be more tolerable. But this movie tries to be serious and ruins Frieza in the process. Not that he needed any more humiliation. Trunks, GT, Fusion Reborn etc already did a fantastic job in making Frieza look like a jobber. And Dragon Ball Super would turn Frieza into full Team Rocket.

Toriyama-Sensei was inspired by a Music which the people keep yell Frieza. Said music appears in the theatres and its making me honestly laugh. I like a good comedy but I don't feel that was the intended reaction by the directors.

How about the fights? So the jobber teams exchange some blows. Piccolo struggles with some orc dude. Is he perfect Cell Level? I doubt. The movie nerved Gohan and Piccolo making them look weaker than they were on Namek. Gohan apparently can't even use his full power and gets humiliated like usual since the Buu Saga.

Goku and Frieza would finally enter the fight. For some reason Goku and Vegeta care more about taking turns than just finishing off Frieza who like every DBZ villain would blow up the planet if cornered. Thank god he won't do that...
Goku and Frieza would change colors looking like designs I am certain I saw on Deviantart at some point.
Then Goku gets almost killed by some gunlaser making him look like a weakling. Isn't he in some kind of God Form? How did that happen when back then he could tank shit like that and not even flinch?
Talk about inconsistency.

So Vegeta enters the ring and gets killed by Frieza because Frieza did the unthinkable and blew up the planet. :/
Thank god we have the Dragon Balls to fix that, but since nobody wanted to animate Porunga for this movie, Whis turns into a plot device who can just rewind time so Frieza can be stopped.

I think I spoiled the movie, but seriously I didn't. You can see the ending miles ahead. Vegeta being a jobber and getting humiliated even by a worn down Frieza is Toriyama's specialty. He hates Vegeta and I don't know if I love him for that.

Music was meh. I liked the jokes with Jaco. Tien used the Tri Beam so he gets points for trying. The CGI was a turn off, but the colors were pretty. I like pretty colors :]

Sadly I can't give this movie a good score. Every character in this movie was a disappointment. The premise is something we have seen billions of times. And it kinda negates the things that happened on Namek. If only Frieza trained before coming to earth... maybe even Super Saiyan Blue Trunks wouldn't be able to stop him.
Why didn't Frieza train anyways in the first place? Being scared of Super Saiyans... that fear was unjustified.

Also the entire exploration of all the universes was halted wasting the things established from Battle of Gods for a filler movie.

And there were no cute waifus. If you can't give me a good story, good fights or ruin previous arcs... the least you can do add someone as hot as Kefla to keep my attention and excitement. If a Love Live movie were called a Dragon Ball Z movie, at least that would get at least a 5.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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