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Feb 25, 2011 3:00 PM
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The third DBZ movie and they still fail. Well at least the villain wasn't complete trash like those in the first 2. Also I don't understand why Yamcha, Tien, and co. weren't even able to beat the lackeys. Yeah Goku's the strongest character, but he doesn't always have to be the one to take out all the enemies :/
May 30, 2011 6:58 AM
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Well, it beat the first two films for me. The first two films were meh, but this one I actually somewhat liked. It wasn't great, but it was fun and not boring. I'll watch the fifth soon, I think.
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Aug 13, 2012 2:42 PM
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I think it's not a good movie.
- first 20 minutes are filler with no action at all.
- why Turles looks like Goku and Bardack? He even has the same voice (in japanese dub).
- the story of the Tree of Might bored me.
- they talk about Freeza, but there isn't Vegeta.

5/10, average.
Oct 12, 2012 9:45 PM
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kratos_aurion said:
I think it's not a good movie.
- first 20 minutes are filler with no action at all.
- why Turles looks like Goku and Bardack? He even has the same voice (in japanese dub).
- the story of the Tree of Might bored me.
- they talk about Freeza, but there isn't Vegeta.

5/10, average.
They explained the reason why Goku looks like Turles.....
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Jul 20, 2013 2:43 PM
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Srly going for DBalls just to restore some wood?...
Nov 27, 2013 11:12 AM
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Not bad actually, I quite liked the movie and the concept and especially the enemy they faced this time! But lets see what the next movie will be like!
Dec 16, 2013 8:18 PM
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I liked the last two movies better, honestly. Another defeat via spirit bomb, just like last movie. Can they think of something more creative please?

Quoting what I posted last movie.

Tyestor said:
There's a list on Kanzenshuu that shows where each movie takes place and where you can watch them while watching DBZ despite the fact that all the DBZ movies technically take place in an alternate universe. http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=573
Jan 21, 2014 10:07 PM
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kratos_aurion said:
- first 20 minutes are filler with no action at all.

Maybe yes, but I still liked it. I don't need action, and it featured Haiya Dragon :D I wonder how he survived in the end?

Tyestor said:
I liked the last two movies better, honestly.

And I didn't. The first 20 minutes made it my favourite so far

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Feb 26, 2014 4:44 AM
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Best watched after you first see Gohans dragon pet. It was quite a good movie but I will rate it 7/10 for some weak spots, this quote (not exactly like this) "no wonder that I look like Kakarot, there are just a few versions of low end Saiyans" this sounds lame, starting to get bored of Son being called a trash. And the ending relying on Genki Dama again..
Mar 29, 2014 8:51 AM

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I liked this movie much more than the other two. It was definitely more interesting and entertaining, and had actual villains that weren't completely lame, like the first two.
Aug 23, 2015 2:46 PM

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The one thing I dislike about these movies is that they took no care to make them fit into the time line at all so at this point I just treat them as alternate timelines like what Future Trunks discovers.
Jun 13, 2016 10:14 AM

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Okay movie, I'm more of a action guy so these few movies so far haven't really been cutting it for my personal taste.

Sure there's fighting and such, but not really grand imo.

Two things I noted about this movie though:

"Gohan: Bulma, you think the dragon radar is all charged up?"

Wait, wait, wait.... charged up? It runs on batteries? ._.

Other thing was, I really found Goku at the table just sitting there while Chi-Chi was barking at Gohan funny.



I don't what it is, but I guess maybe because I'm use to seeing Goku in some simple filler segment like that.

Also, the ending seemed a bit cliche to me, like 'plot armor' as I've noticed someone say recently on the forums here. He just miraculously got up and throws a ki blast that wipes Turtles out basically... and is this a alt timeline basically technically since the last saiyans were suppose to be: Goku, Gohan, Nappa, Vegeta, Raditz. Movie just suddenly adds a new Saiyan to the list.

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Mar 15, 2020 4:13 PM
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i both like and hate this movie. i think theres a lot of cool things, like how they actually remembered piccolo's stretchy arms, the earth dying, the music, the villain being a little more interesting than the rest of the movie's villains, but there are also a lot of dumb things.
you're telling me ape gohan is willing to kill his own father and he only wakes up to this seeing some cute ass dragon he met that day? what the hell? and as someone said in this thread previously, the first 20 minutes of this is just a lot of nothing, waiting for the plot to start. even though i like the villain he falls apart in the face of the actual canon villains which he seems to be based on: nappa, vegeta, even raditz is more interesting than him (at least in my opinion). i think it's an average movie on it's own but after how much fun i had with the second movie and the problems i had with it that i just said, i give this one a

4/10

i was thinking about giving it a 5/10 since it is a bit better than the first but i just didn't because it isn't as good as the second one (which i gave a 5/10)
Jul 16, 2020 5:58 PM

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This movie still wasn't good, but at least it was better then the first. I enjoyed this one a bit more then the first 2
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Jul 17, 2020 5:11 PM

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I enjoyed this one a bit more then the last one, but i don't like how in the movies the ending is rushed, there is like 5 minutes left and the problem hasn't been resolved yet.






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Jul 18, 2020 10:51 PM
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Ah, let's see. This movie had a lot of interesting features, yet it fails to deliver in some other key features. All the movies, so far, were entertaining in their distinctive traits but lacked in some areas to truly deliver the home run, so to say. This film deviated from the normal DBZ formula by enlarging the threat level and presenting a villain, while very dull, still posed a serious threat. The action scenes weren't terrible, and the fun little adventure at the beginning was amusing.

Sadly, the rest of the Z fighters couldn't even hold a candle to the lackeys, leaving Goku to handle them all, that was very much disappointing. Especially Piccolo, that man isn't as weak as the movie portrayed him to be. The main villain, Turles, a grave danger he may have been, he was, unfortunately, very bland. How did he survive the destruction of his home planet? Why do he and Goku have the same facial structures? Nothing was explained, leaving quite a bad taste in my mouth.

Regardless, it was another averagely entertaining DBZ film. I give it a 6/10.
Oct 5, 2020 11:20 AM
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Well, yet another blatantly average movie. Just like the first two movies, it had some interesting concepts but ultimately failed to deliver on them. This antagonist, Turlus, remains rather unexplained and seems to only exist for this movie alone. They leave so many things unexplained, which just makes this antagonist seem like a rather one-dimensional plot device. That's one cute pet dragon Gohan has though.
Nov 23, 2021 9:30 PM
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the pacing in this was poor, it could easily have been cut down by 10 minutes to make it more compacta nd less dragge dout. They really, really wnated to emphasise all the environmental stuff with this movie but after 30 minutes have passed its time to get a move on already.

6/10 cause its still dragon ball and i liked it overall despite the poor pacing
Jun 1, 2022 8:17 PM
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That Haiya dragon is so cute! I'm glad he didn't die. It was horrible for Turles to try to kill him, I'm glad Goku gave him an ass-kicking!

In real life, humans are the Shinseiju. We all need to get blasted by a Genki Dama seriously.

7/10
Jun 13, 2023 4:43 AM
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Good one!...........
Oct 12, 2023 1:59 AM

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Turles great villain and great movie,

as to the discussion around where it fits in the timeline, all the movies are confirmed non-canon alternate timelines (despite at the time the two tv specials history of trunks and bardock father of goku [now has it's own canon issues]), but to someone suggesting this takes place after Frieza/Namek that clearly doesn't check out, and I think the Cooler movie is meant to be the first movie following Namek/Frieza.

Ofc this and slug don't fit perfectly in the timeline, but it's likely after the saiyan saga but before namek. Ofc is in the canon with Goku dead it doesn't quite fit in, that's why they're alternate.



the movies only really "make sense" as alternate timelines that branch off at some point. I'd say Turles and Lord Slug branch off after saiyan saga without them heading to namek/Frieza, with Goku revived, recovered and living his life on earth.
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Nov 3, 2023 9:35 PM

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Icarus is so cute!



Nov 27, 2023 7:48 PM

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An alright movie i like the villain.


Apr 18, 11:21 PM

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The movie was decent. It's good to meet Icarus and it was fun to be reminded of Bulma and Yamcha's relationship. Also more great ape scenes are always cool.
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