Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly (Dragon Ball Super: Broly)

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English: Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Japanese: ドラゴンボール超（スーパー）ブロリー

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Dec 14, 2018

Producers: Shueisha, Echoes

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Toei Animation

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Super Power, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Shounen

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.11¹ (scored by 127,365 users)

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Ranked: #403²

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Popularity: #738

Members: 195,758

Favorites: 1,519

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Synopsis

Forty-one years ago on Planet Vegeta, home of the infamous Saiyan warrior race, King Vegeta noticed a baby named Broly whose latent power exceeded that of his own son. Believing that Broly's power would one day surpass that of his child, Vegeta, the king sends Broly to the desolate planet Vampa. Broly's father Paragus follows after him, intent on rescuing his son. However, his ship gets damaged, causing the two to spend years trapped on the barren world, unaware of the salvation that would one day come from an unlikely ally.

Years later on Earth, Gokuu Son and Prince Vegeta—believed to be the last survivors of the Saiyan race—are busy training on a remote island. But their sparring is interrupted when the appearance of their old enemy Frieza drives them to search for the last of the wish-granting Dragon Balls on a frozen continent. Once there, Frieza shows off his new allies: Paragus and the now extremely powerful Broly. A legendary battle that shakes the foundation of the world ensues as Gokuu and Vegeta face off against Broly, a warrior without equal whose rage is just waiting to be unleashed.

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Prequel:	Dragon Ball Super
Other:	Dragon Ball Super: Broly - Skytree Super

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Characters & Voice Actors

Son, Gokuu

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Vegeta

Main

Horikawa, Ryo
Japanese

Broly

Main

Shimada, Bin
Japanese

Gogeta

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Piccolo

Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Trunks

Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi
Japanese

Frieza

Supporting

Nakao, Ryusei
Japanese

Bulma

Supporting

Hisakawa, Aya
Japanese

Son, Goten

Supporting

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Bardock

Supporting

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

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Staff

Nagamine, Tatsuya

Director, Storyboard

Toriyama, Akira

Script, Original Creator, Screenplay, Character Design, Original Character Design

Mitsuka, Masato

Storyboard

Karasawa, Kazuya

Storyboard, Assistant Director

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Ending Theme

"Blizzard" by Daichi Miura

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Dec 17, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Otaku329 (All reviews)

280 people found this review helpful

" THIS IS A NON SPOILER REVIEW"
This is an absolute gem of a movie. Modern Dragon ball can't get any better than this. It was really phenomenal. Here a few key features of the movie

Story 9

The movie is divided into 2 phases. The "Past&The Present". The start of the movie is all about the history of the Saiyans. The movie does a half an hour long depiction of the history of the Saiyans. The past is mostly based on "DB MINUS" with a few tidbits from the "Bardock: The Father of Goku". The movie is more about broly. Broly was a Saiyan with really high potential. King Vegeta being jealous of Broly's latent potential decided to send away baby Broly to a faraway planet "Vampa". Paragus(Father of broly) being betrayed by The King, vowed to find his son and one day get revenge on the king. The movie explains the ties of fate between Goku, Vegeta and Broly. The present section of the movie takes place after "THE TOURNAMENT OF POWER". It's about the encounter of the 3 fated Saiyans with each other. Pretty simple plot not too complex or anything but is really well written and executed pretty well!

Art 9

The animation of this movie is out of this world. Toriyama and Toei Animation decided to change the animation supervisor and character designer "Tadayoshi Yamamuro" to "Nahiro Shintani". His animation is more fluid and gives a refreshing feel to the movie. There is a use of CG as well. In short, this is the best anime movie of 2018 when it comes to animation. Having animators from My hero academia, one punch man etc working on it. Also got Toei's best staff with the likes of Naotoshi Shida, Yuya Takahashi, Naoki tate and other great animators. The movie is one hour and forty minutes of pure " SAGAKA".

SOUND AND DIRECTION 8

The movie director is "Nagamine" who produced one of the best episodes of super like episode 95 or the introduction of Ultra Instinct etc. The movie is directed really well by him. His storyboards were really amazing. The music is composed by " Sumitomo" who had his fair share of criticism from the fans because of his music at the beginning of super. His music in the battle of gods was pretty good but in this movie it's so emotional and captivating

FIGHT SCENES 10

Dragon Ball is known for producing some of the best fights in all of anime. And this movie is no exception. With the likes of Takahashi and Naotoshi Shida handling the main action parts of the film, the fight scenes are absolutely mind-blowing. Especially the final section of the movie where Shida brings his A game to the movie, Shida mixed with Shintani sheets produced some of the best fights in all of anime.

CONCLUSION..... overall 10

You should absolutely watch this movie. Not only its animated really well, but it also showcases some of the best fights of 2018, and it has great music too. Please go and watch this movie in the theatres. Its theatrical experience will blow your mind. Overall it's a pretty solid movie. 10/10 for me !!!

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Dec 17, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Karhu (All reviews)

227 people found this review helpful

"I smell death in the air."
-Goku who has a scar in his face

"I smell obligatory money grab in the air."
-Me, and about half of the DB fandom

Let's face it, Dragon Ball Super is just fanfiction written by the original Dragon Ball creator. First the amazing Dragon Ball manga was ruined by the Z route with its fillers and godawful pacing, and then the franchise got extended with million different side/backstories/sequels over decades and they are shamelessly even called "canon" because that's the best insult anyone could ever come up with when trying to mock DB. I wish this would stop because nothing was needed after Kai. Nothing.

In this movie, Goku and Vegeta have an obligatory fist fight, Bulma tried to be sexy. Beerus and his buddy eat some cake and every main character acts like a clown to add some comedy. Rest of the story focuses around 2 things: recycling the same shit in the exact same manner as DB Super did, and adding new story elements and characters in the mix in purpose of rewriting the true canon story. It's truly amazing how mere 20 minutes of the movie's air time is put in something that quite literally just rapes the history of Saiyan race once again. "There was this guy and that guy and then this happened oh and that, and yes, it totally existed always now I am just confirming this shit, I swear." What a joke. At the very least, separate, 2-hour long movie about this subject would have been needed, but I guess that's fine, it's not like this franchise is supposed to be taken seriously anymore. I actually read that the original script was 3 hours long, but the storyboard was changed by the director and the outcome is now this 1 hour 35 minutes of messiness that doesn't give a shit about Dragon Ball. Quality level: shonen.

Character-wise, at least the main cast's personalities aren't as heavily altered as in the later DBS arcs, so I guess that's an achievement of some sort. Broly himself is basically acting like a mentally handicapped dog. I am sure he couldn't even fetch a stick, etc. ETC standing for Electrical Training Collar. Seriously, this version of his character is pretty much just a ripoff of Danny the Dog. Frezzamocca (Freeza) also talks about planet Vegeta's destruction for the 90.000th time here as well because no one has yet grown tired of hearing about that shit. Such a fresh experience this one. It's truly great to see the fans getting respected this way, love letter to the fandom, no less. //sarcasm. Art and sounds are pretty much the same as earlier, tho the last fight scenes are quite spectacular especially considering it's the work of 2018's Toei. If we talk about the event that lead to the fight, the pacing, the fusion training, the powerlevel asspullery... well, maybe they pass as a comedy. Lots of lung work is put in the yelling sequences and the hair designs are matching all colors of rainbow. The 3 seconds long OP doesn't really make any sense, but who cares really. Broly's own song is cringe as duck, tho. "Go Broly, go go" and I hate myself for letting it get stuck in my head.

Because I considered myself a fan of Dragon Ball, I can only call this movie trash. I give a 2 instead of a 1 because Piccolo.

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Dec 17, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

deejay_BUM (All reviews)

162 people found this review helpful

i have written this review after watching the movie unlike the many reviews written by wannabe anime fans who even never watched it.Sadly this is a more common thing happening between weebs.

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STORY:

I am not going to explain the story because the internet is flooded with it.

What i do can say is that the story used for the movie is built up better than most popular series movies in the last 3-4 years.To be honest i did not expect that because most of the past movies are not that big story based in the DB universe.
however i do feel that they could've exploit some topics broader.

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Dec 27, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Draculoid (All reviews)

76 people found this review helpful

With Dragon Ball surging back in a big way with Dragon Ball Super and it's "conclusion" , along with the news of this film focusing on fan favorite Broly and showcasing some great animation in the trailers, this film is likely the most anticipated Dragon Ball film yet. While Battle of Gods had some great character and comedy standouts and Resurrection F upped the action and brought back the series greatest villian, Broly ramps up the action to the series heights while also providing some solid character work.

Story/Character:

The first third of the film deals with Broly's backstory as well as an abridged and slightly rewritten backstory for the Saiyans and their conquering by King Cold and Frieza. It's great to see so many classic characters like Goku's parents and King Vegeta as well as younger versions of a few others.

All the character cameos are great and Broly's new backstory makes sense but this backstory is also where I found myself scratching my head the hardest. In this backstory, Goku's parents save Goku by sending him into space in a Saiyan pod, though they do this while he is clearly a small child, not a baby like when we originally see him in Dragon Ball. This detail really sat with me, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they couldn't have written this backstory in a way which lined up with the original source material.

Besides this major complaint, Broly is shown as a sympathetic character with a fleshed out backstory in comparison to the minimal explanation we got with the original movies. He is shown to have an immeasurable power level at birth and his father Paragus sees this as proof that his son has the potential to be the most powerful of all the Saiyans (mainly above King Vegeta's son). He controls him with a shock collar device and you definitely feel sorry for the poor guy...never getting a chance to live normally and abused both physically and mentally by his father while surviving on a far off planet.

My one last point concerning the characters in this film is the inclusion of two new characters that work for Frieza's army. As far as I can remember, these guys are the first "good" characters we've ever been seen to work under Frieza, showing kindness to Broly and becoming his first friends. These two are really cool and I really liked their inclusion.

Art/Animation/Sound:

Being the action spectacle that it is, this film features some of the best animation the series has seen to date. However, with the sheer volume of action sequences featured , the CG of Resurrection F rears it's ugly head yet again. With trying to avoid some pacing spoilers of the film, the major fight against Broly which takes up about the latter 2 thirds of the film begins with 2D animation and after about a quarter of the fight switches to a CG/2D style blend and ends on a high note with more 2D sequences. While the CG is certainly noticeable, it's directed so well during the more bombastic action sequences that it covers the lower quality visuals. The only times it really hurts is during some of the sequences that really slow down and draw attention to the visuals, but as along as characters are whizzing around beating each other up the CG doesn't hurt it too much. To drive this point of the directing outwaying what the CG lacks, one of my favorite sequences of the film takes place with almost entirely CG backgrounds and characters but is so over-the-top, colourful and well directed that it entirely makes up for it.

As far as the music is concerned, there isn't much to be said besides a few highlight that got me extremely excited. There are two battles in the film with musical accompaniments that chant the characters names that got me so excited, they were definitely a highlight of the film. During Broly's initial fight with Goku a song plays, where once the fight really starts kicking in, begins to chant "GO BROLY GO GO! GO BROLY GO GO!". In moments like this, I couldn't help much smile ear to ear and feel like a kid again. Even though this is the "first" appearance of Broly in the canon of this series, the song really expresses to the viewers a knowing of and excitement for the character.

Overall:

This is definitely the most entertaining and action packed Dragon Ball film to date. I can't think about much to sum this up as other than saying it's an absolute crowd-pleaser. Besides some issues with the rewriting of some major character/plot details and a few unfortunate CG moments this film delivers in spades as being an ultimate showcase of everything that makes Dragon Ball great.

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