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

I remember this being one of the better DBZ movies when I was a dumbass 14 year-old who liked the franchise, half a lifetime ago. I particularly recall enjoying the biomechanical monsters the Z warriors fought. Needless to write, nostalgia clouded my judgment.

As with any property related to DBZ, the plot is insipid. A mad scientist, Dr. Kochin, is able to easily gather all 7 Dragonballs before Goku and company even figure out what is going on. Some defenders of Earth they are! What is the point of even having a radar if they are going to ignore ... it? It's not like Goku has a day job.

After summoning the Eternal Dragon, instead of wishing for ultimate power to easily defeat anyone in the universe, Dr. Kochin wishes for a few piddly glaciers to melt. This frees up the main mad scientist, Dr. Wheelo, who has been trapped there for 50 years.

Magically, despite being there all that time and unable to escape, he has a fully functioning laboratory, a power supply, and numerous minions when the glaciers are broken! Frankly, I was disappointed he didn't have a French restaurant with waiters, too.

Instead of getting straight to the fights, there is an interlude during which Gohan is back home and studying. It is boring and worthless. As usual with DBZ, there is entirely too much talking in this movie, and of the most moronic variety. "I'll make you pay!" "Silence, you fool!" "(Insert character name, yelled loudly)" "You can't win!" "My boy is growing up!"

Considering how mediocre and low-effort the fight scenes are to begin with, did the animators really have to take a break to insert dialogue worse than a 13 year-old's fan fiction?

Okay okay, but what about the actual enemies and fights themselves? While better than some of the DBZ movie sequels, they weren't as cool as I remembered them. Dr. Wheelo's biomechanical creations fight and function very similarly to the standard alien antagonists of the Z universe. Hell, they even look like aliens. One has a stretchy stomach, another ice breath, and a third tentacles of electricity. That's about it for the "creativity".

Also, any final fight that ends with a spirit bomb is disappointing and anticlimactic.

I can't imagine anything more boring (Goku stands there, with his hands raised, doing nothing) or more deus ex machina. (An easy get out of jail card when Goku is weaker than his nemesis but needs to defeat him in the last few minutes of the film)

In conclusion, this is lousy, although admittedly not as wretched as some of the mass-produced DBZ movies that followed.

Hmmm, "The World's Strongest" was actually better than the last Dragon Ball Z movie I watched (the one with the cyborgs). So I guessed (correctly) this must have been made before the other one, when they were less short of ideas. This movie is slightly more exciting than the other one, but other than that, it's the same stuff. Same crappy jokes, same unimpressive animation, and same retarded storyline. Again, the story spends a few minutes introducing who the bad guys are... then promptly descends into endless fighting. The only differences between this and the last Dragon Ball movie I watched is that this movie ... spends maybe five minutes longer before the main battles start, and also Goku is fighting different opponents this time round. The fighting itself isn't much to talk about either, as it gets seriously repetitive after a few minutes. A bit of a worthless movie whichever angle you look at it from.

It's at this point evident to me, that some franchises are just designed to be utter dissapointments. Land Before Time - crap. Pokemon, after third generation - embarassing and crap. DBZ, and this movie - do you want me to get crucified?!

This time, dragon testicles are gathered together in this fonderous, magical ceremony... of melting off ice! After that... eh... Bulma gets harrased... and that old goote gets abducted by those uglier saibamen... and Bulma's there too, in chains... and then fighting ensues... and some more fighting... Piccohan-fans will get something to work with... some evil lair will get obliterated to the ground, ad ... something other about that brain-in-a-jar- guy who wants a body... to have sex with a Bulma, prehaps. I don't know - this story's already remainding me of those stupid rambles that my talking blue fairy brother used to tell me, when he was drunk!

If the overall score doesn't say anything to you, then I'm gonna just say it... I hate this movie. I really do - it's DBZ, so no surprises there. But why is it, exactly? Well, to put it bluntly, this movie illustrates perfectly my two favourite allegories, of bad animes, which are The Shitpie-anime, and Fanboy porn- anime! You know? It looks like a delicious pie, smells like it, and others around it say it's really good, but when you taste it, it's just mouthful of shit! And instead of story, there's just wanking, and shouting, with cheesy dialog, and nothing else! And this pie really burned my mouth quite a lot, since I actually thought, that I would be pleasantly surprised about this movie, considering how subtly it starts! Nothing groundbreaking, but still.. decent enough, for a DBZ movie. Actually... I was looking for something similar to a Pokemon 3- movie, with Gohan struggling to loose everything he loves, and cares for, while the villains having their own personal, and well-thought out plans, morals and reasons, that will force us to think, what live really is worth, how far science should really go, considering said human live, and how much can one small child actually accomplish alone, to overcome his fears, doubts, and... Yeah. I was hoping for too much, wasn't I?

The story would have actually been kinda semi-decent, if this was one of those noterous filler episodes, that most of us would just skip anyway... to get waster into the wanking... fighting, and loose all that unneede story-shite in the process. This story could have easily been told in less, than 20 minutes - 40, if we wan't to be stupid about it! With a story so small, stupid and thin, like this one, is no wonder that they needed all that meaningless and pointless fighting, in order to give this movie over 40 minutes-long runingtime - it's not like we can muster out any kinda actual story out of this, now can't we?! Instead of all this fighting and exposition, why not give us more detail about, oh, I don't know... the relationship, between Gohan and Piccolo - one friendship, almost as shrouded in darkness considering plausibility, like Bulma and Vegeta - the fragility of humanlive, and struggles between science and morals around it, or our villain... in a jar? No, in a mecha-costume! What?! How?! Why?! No, wait... I want to learn more about this guy! Is he totally insane-in-a-membrain- kinda villain, or is he just chaotic-neutral?! In a TFS parody, he was given actual personality, morals and will to just be normal human being again, with somewhat happy ending! Is none of that in here... at all?! Why you want to first control the world, with your mind, and then destroy it, like a psychotic manchild, who lost his lolligun?! Aren't you supposed to be the first actually intelligent - and therefore more conpitent - villain, in the whole franchise, with plans, means, and capability to count down the characters of pi?! Why would you want a human body, that'll age and break, if you're already a giant brain, in the almost-indestructible robot-suit, willing to take over the world?! Aren't you gonna tell us anything, about youself, that all of this exposition couldn't already tell us?! No? Nothing? Kay!

In conclusion... the story is dumb. The villain is dumb. The premise is almost decent, but the way, they executed it, was also dumb. This movie is... dumb. Just... dumb. Just as yours truly could expect, from such a dissapointing franchise, called DBZ. I can still see, why the fans of the franchise, would still like this movie, despite that it - once again - takes, more than offers. It's simple, so you won't get confused. It offers nothing to think about, so you don't need to... think about you're own morals, or sides on the story, considering the premise. The story-part of the movie is very short - about 15 minutes - and the rest of 45 minutes, is used some fighting, and 2nd-grader- level dialog - much like the tv-series - so you don't need to know, what's going on, or why are they fighting... again. And again. And again.

This is a perfect movie, for fans to wank on, and I won't take it as anything else, but that - a porn, with a dissapointing climax. I will never see it again, I will pretend for the rest of my life that I never did, and for now on, I'm gonna enjoy the glorious parody even more, than one hour ago.

Story: 2
Art: 4
Sound: 3
Characters: 3
Enjoyment: 3
Overall: 3

"Hey Gohan, let's not tell anyone about evil guys, who just kicked Piccolo butt just to extend this movie and make it a disgraceful replica of Goku and Vegeta fight". I did not expect The World's Strongest to be a low budget replica of Saiyan saga, and I come out pretty angry after watching it.

The World's Strongest is a non-canon movie (luckily) meaning it's anime original, and these events do not happen in DBZ manga. Without further ado, let's get into this movie.

My positives from TWS:
1, Art and Sound are in DBZ coat. You can't go wrong with this one.

My neutrals from TWS:
1, Fights ... with the minions were pretty much average entertaining, but nothing special, but there was one thing that will get attention in negatives.

My negatives from TWS:
1, This movie starts being a joke, when Oolong for some reason (movie length extension) wants Gohan to remain silent about some old guy using Dragon Balls in F***ing ANTARCTICA followed by bad guys beating Piccolo. Nope, this isn't anything to be concerned about.
2, Gohan drugged sequence and yes, I am fully aware he's not on drugs, but since the last movie had a similar singing thing, I am calling this lazy and worse reskin of Gohan scene from Garlic jr. movie.
3, Scientist wants to do an evil thing, destroy the world, because people laughed at him and called him eccentric cliche.
4, Are you telling me that two doctors could create such a colossal laboratory with all its features, and they were able to run it on its own for more than 50 years? Make them an organization then and not just two old robots.
5, Piccolo, who fought Saiyans for some reason, isn't concentrating whenever he sees Gohan or whenever the plot demands it. Same with Roshi when he lets villain minions capture Bulma. Are you telling me that the world best martial artists with extensive ki sensing training cannot tell when their opponent is still in fighting condition and why our characters in some cases cannot DOOOODGE (Team Four Star reference)?
6, Fight between Goku and Uiro is a disgraceful joke to the Saiyan saga. This movie did a great job to stomp every fantastic aspect from S saga and makes it mediocre and emotionless nonsense of fight. Kaio-ken times 4, Genki Dama (spirit bomb), both techniques had deep emotional and consequential value behind them in Saiyan saga, well this movie doesn't care.

Let's summer this up: This movie takes fantastic features of the Saiyan saga and replicates them so disgracefully. The movie setup is a joke. Oolong not telling about an old guy using Dragon Balls in ANTARCTICA bad guys appearing is a dumb excuse for this movie to be 1 hour long. If I were to rank it just from my feelings about this movie, it gets 2/10, maybe even 1/10. But if I somehow watched it before DBZ, I would probably like it to some degree, but it wouldn't stand the test against Saiyan saga.

Final Ranking: Dragon Ball Z Movie 2: The World's Strongest earns 4/10, surprised after all my negatives and toxic comments? How to put it, this movie isn't the worst. Its only fault was the effort to replicate one of the greatest moments in DBZ. Of course, it was going to fail miserably. If we put that aside TWS is a mediocre movie with some good moments.