Dragon Ball Super: Broly

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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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

Freeza Supporting

Nakao, Ryusei Japanese

Trunks Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi Japanese

Bulma Supporting

Hisakawa, Aya Japanese

Bardock Supporting

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Beerus Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer, ADR Director

Bezerra, Wendel Producer, Production Coordination, ADR Director

Cook, Justin Producer

Hayashida, Norihiro Producer

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Dec 17, 2018

Otaku329

Recommended

" 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 !!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 23, 2018

literaturenerd

Mixed Feelings

Overview:

Firstly, I would like to thank the random Japanese guy who recorded this in the theater and uploaded it to Kissanime with subtitles. You're doing the lord's work! If Toriyama wanted our money, he wouldn't have made the events of Dragonball Minus canon.

This movie has some awesome action and animation, but the writing is just...ugh. The best part is that it was written by Toriyama himself and this movie is now officially canon. I had some minor gripes and issues with Resurrection F that I brought up in my review of that film, but this was just awful!

Background:

"If you listen to the fans, you'll be ... sitting up there with them." - NFL coach Buddy Ryan

This movie was made solely because Broly fanboys wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP! They just kept demanding over and over that Broly be added into DB Super because he's just SOOO cool. Despite the fact that his character gets boring really fast, has no depth, and he has the single stupidest character motivation of any villain ever. He hates Goku because he cried a lot as a baby and it disturbed Broly's nap time. I'm dead serious.

DB Super eventually relented and created a female Saiyan character named Kale, who would have all the same powers as Broly while still having a personality. It was supposed to be a win/win scenario that would appease both the Broly fans and Broly haters. I personally thought Kale was fine, but the plan didn't work. The Broly fanboys considered Kale to be a blasphemy against their lord and savior Broly, who is the greatest character ever written! They absolutely demanded that Broly in his original form be added into Super. I ultimately blame Toriyama for making this movie, but I also blame the Broly fandom. You guys are responsible for this mess!

Plot: (Spoilers if you care!!!)

We flashback to Planet Vegeta 40 years ago and see a retelling of the events from DBZ Movie 8. Broly is born with a super high power level and King Vegeta is upset because Broly's potential is higher than his son Prince Vegeta. Instead of stabbing Broly like in the 8th movie, the king sends Broly into exile on a deserted planet in the middle of nowhere. Broly's father Paragus goes into space to rescue his young son, but the ship crashes and they end up stranded together. We then go to 35 years before the series starts and we see the events of a doujin that Toriyama wrote called Dragonball Minus. Goku's father Bardock existed, but the awesome TV special that everyone loved never happened. Also Goku was actually around 7 years old when he was sent to Earth, not a newborn like in the original manga or anime. Toriyama just retconned 33 years of Dragonball continuity for absolutely no reason. Bardock never had psychic powers, but he was the only Saiyan smart enough to realize Freeza's genocidal ambitions towards the Saiyans. Bardock sent Goku away towards Earth and then promptly died along with the rest of the Saiyans. Oh and Vegeta's little brother Tarble is now officially canon. Thanks Toriyama! Super explicitly went out of its way to not mention Tarble and say that he wasn't canon, but now he exists and it creates a plothole for Super. Now we must wonder why they invited fucking Roshi and not him to join the Tournament of Power. He's the last Saiyan who can use the Great Ape transformation and that obviously would have been a MUCH bigger help than Roshi, Krillin, or Tien. I now officially prefer the Ocean Dub where Bardock was "a brilliant scientist".

We flashforward back to the present and Broly's father has been sending out a distress signal for 40 years. This signal was never noticed during the time when Freeza's Empire was massive, but now the new Freeza Empire that has existed for the 5 months since the Tournament of Power manage to see it. We are introduced to some comical good guys that work for Freeza and...this is dumb. I have a hard enough time accepting that lots of good people would fight for Zeon in the Gundam franchise, but Freeza?!! He's one of the most over the top, evil bastards in anime! He makes Gihren Zabi look subtle! The good guy Freeza soldiers meet Paragus and Broly and discover that Broly is absurdly strong, despite the fact he's never trained and has never fought anyone besides his weakling father. Freeza is overjoyed that another Saiyan exists that is stronger than him. Toriyama...did you forget which character you were writing?! Freeza believes he can manipulate Broly into killing Goku and Vegeta because King Vegeta was the one who exiled him. It actually works and they head for Earth.

Goku and Vegeta have an argument and Goku believes that Freeza has reformed his ways and doesn't need to be killed. Goku, you're a fucking idiot! This is dumb even for you! The bad guys arrive and Broly starts fighting Vegeta. Throughout Super, Vegeta actually has some character growth and becomes less of a massive dick. It's one of the only positive things I can say about Super. Here he throws that away and tries to kill this random Saiyan he's never met. Broly fights back and soon Goku and Vegeta are on their back feet. Freeza kills Paragus to enrage Broly and we get the climactic fight of the movie. Toriyama rips off the fusion dance gag from DBZ movie 12 and they form Gogeta to make quick work of Broly. Oh and Freeza gets injured by Broly, but Freeza's "good guy" henchmen bring him back to health. Seriously, do they not comprehend how many hundreds of billions of people Freeza has killed? Anyways, Gogeta allows Freeza to live for...reasons and Freeza and Broly both retreat. We end the movie with Freeza's henchmen continuing to befriend Broly and Freeza hoping that the rematch will go better.

Art:

Here is the entire reason this movie gets a 5 from me. The fight has some very creative shots and camera angles we haven't really seen in DB. The animation is fluid, the CGI is actually used well, and the whole fight is gorgeous. I have no real complaints here. This was Toei doing the absolute best they can do.

Overall:

We expect DBZ movies to have awesome action and stupid plots. It's ok if the stories and villains are dumb because it isn't canon. It's like an "elseworld" in Western comics. The problem with this movie is that it IS canon. It creates plotholes, derails characters, and retcons longstanding continuity for no reason! If Toyiyama gave a flying fuck about his millions of fans around the world, he would check with an editor and we wouldn't end up in a mess like this. He doesn't. Even Vince McMahon doesn't have the sheer level of disdain for his own fans and his own product that Toriyama seems to. The Star Wars fans think THEY have a right to complain? Look guys! George Lucas is an idiot when it comes to science. He thinks a parsec is a unit of time and that light speed is fast enough to traverse the whole galaxy in minutes. You want to know why Lucas never thought of using a relativistic kill vehicle in the original trilogy? It isn't because the ships have special force fields preventing this. It's because Lucas is NOT a hard science fiction writer! Anyways, back to Dragonball. Fuck this movie. I would advise DB fans to wait until this gets uploaded to Youtube, watch the Broly fight for eye candy, and pretend the rest never happened.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 17, 2018

Karhu

Not Recommended

"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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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