Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu

OK, so this one is almost a scene-for-scene rehash of the previous Dragon Ball Z movie, but with a fancier sci-fi gloss and a more interesting setup. Sadly, when I mentioned in my last review that the 40 minute first movie was the perfect length? It still applies, and World's Strongest feels a good ten or fifteen minutes longer than it needed to be. The Genki Dama stuff is always kind of a bore in this series, but here in a movie it was especially so.

Still, some of the fights are really good, where Goku wasn't able to instantly overpower his foes and got beaten ... around a little bit. I like that. You can't go wrong if you're looking for lightweight action entertainment.

Also, World's Strongest, continuity-wise, is in even MORE of an impossible situation. There is no conceivable way to fit this move into the events of the TV show, namely because there ain't no point where Goku and Piccolo are both alive at once when this could take place. However, the weirdest part of them all is that later on in the show, and this was NOT cut out of the Dragon Ball Kai remake, Gohan has a flashback to his failures as a kid, and getting beaten up by one of the mooks here is one of them. It was quite bizarre seeing as the movie otherwise goes unmentioned in any other material.

While the premise of the movie, to fight the worlds strongest, is quite interesting. In a clever way giving light to a supporting character, who hasn't had a good fight since the King Piccolo Saga. This movie turns out to be just another scream until the enemy dies kind of thing. This story would have fit much better at the end of Dragon Ball (the original series) and not after Goku attained the Kaioken, but hey this movie is not canon.
Dr. Wheelo is a interesting concept, but every other villain in this movie is quite stupid in design and originality. They even turned a familiar ... 'good' character against the good guys, because they didn't know how to write a threat in this movie. Overall this movie is pretty mediocre, which is the case with a lot of DBZ movies.