Dragon Ball blasted this year, with a new movie, a new anime series and officially declared May 9th as Goku Day. But we came to talk about the movie.
I'll start by saying this: I liked the film... until the part where the beatings begun, there after the movie was falling to my taste so much that came to my mind the idea better get out of the theater.
But before dwelling on this boredom that caused me the film, I will say what I liked:
-Art: 8.
The animation of Battle of the Gods was very good, but still could not help feeling that there was "something" that did not fit the picture. Now in F, animators greatly improved animation, for example, in the last film was little hair thing organic Goku not sit here.
-Story 5.
Actually, seeing the synopsis briefly were giving, were some things that left a bad taste, but since seeing the film, I thought some of them were well excused and doesn't left you with the idea that Toriyama had forgotten his own canon. But beware, they maybe covered the issues that concerned me before seeing the film, but does not mean they have committed other horrors that I will explain later.
Anyway, now it comes what I did not like.
-Sound: 5.
At first, the music. I don't mean that it is bad, it is non-existent! The music was not heard, and you had to distract a bit from the movie to see if you heard something. Throughout the film I heard only two songs, and one of those was the theme of the movie who kept shouting "Frieza! Frieza!" like twenty times in the chorus (which by the way is not nearly as good as Hero FLOW).
-Character: 4.
Another thing I did not like was the choice of the leading cast to fight Frieza. I understand that 18 has been stayed home to care for her daughter, I applaud that also the fact that Chaos and Yamcha to stay hidden out there to not be killed and a new meme of Dragon Ball.
"Hey Yamcha, have you seen...?"
[Insert here Yamcha Death Meme]
"What?! But if we're not even fighting!"
But what the hell, Toriyama?! What are Roshi and Ten Shin Han doing there?! Roshi stopped being support since the saga of Piccolo and Ten Shin Han two after, when Nappa used him as mop.
The next downside is that this film use information that it's not on the series or films. At the start of the frame we see Jako the Galactic Patrolman.
Now, I'm sure everyone here knows that Jako is the protagonist of a proto pseudo-prequel manga Dragon Ball. The problem here is that many of those who watched Dragon Ball did not read that manga, so when Jako appeared and mentioned Bulma's sister ... not only the children said What? But also many of the adults who accompanied them.
The problem with Jako is that it is just a meaningless pretext to warn the appearance of Frieza, when that same role it could have made any character that can detect the ki, because when Frieza went to Earth for the first time and Future Trunks kicked his ass, all the warriors could even feel it even when I was still far away. As someone said: "The reference is only good if everyone understands", and outside of Japan I think the vast majority did not understand the reference that Toriyama put.
-Enjoyment: 4.
But ... this is Dragon Ball, and as such you can not ask for a perfect and error-free argument. Dragon Ball needs only two things to be good: good comedy and good fights, and the film complies with that in the first half of the film, good comedy and the action sequence of the few Z warriors gathered against Frieza's eight thousand troops is great, but when Goku and Frieza show stellar transformations of the film, the thing starts to stink.
I have no complaint about Golden Frieza, Toriyama knows explain it without sounding ridiculous. What was a complete stupidity was that of ...
"I am a Saiyan God who became Super Saiyan"
¡Tori! Really there was no need to create a transformation for the transformation of the last film, which incidentally the transformation is useless because Beerus defeated it in a matter of seconds.
It would have been Goku this time could control the Divine Ki, as far as I was, in the last film he did not control and therefore Beerus managed to use him as mop, so Goku could demonstrate the power of this transformation he could not in the last film could have been a good reason. This new transformation seemed no more an excuse to sell more toys and DLCs in videogames. Tori, I never thought you'd fall so low to the point doing pure nonsense with your franchise as Kuramada just to make easy money.
After the bad shot of the Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is passed, one would say "well, at least now the fight will be good". Nope. The fight is boring. In Dragon Ball Z and movies of this, we know that Goku (or whoever the protagonist) will win, but when it comes time, the enemy is infinitely more powerful than our hero and that's exciting to see when Goku can finally win. Here throughout the fight I kept saying "No, Frieza will not defeat Goku".
The height of the ridiculous is the way that Frieza takes advantage in the fight against Goku ... making one of his minions to shoot him in the back with a laser gun! I need to say how ridiculous was that? If it had happened when Goku was in normal mode it would have been passable, but they shoot when in Full Power Mode, when that transformation has endured more powerful attacks coming from Frieza in Full Power Mode.
In the last film we had people complaining about how ridiculous it was Vegeta singing in an attempt to calm Beerus, well, now where's those same people complaining that according to Toriyama, to beat Goku only takes a pistol and grab him neglected even though is at its most powerful transformation?
And I don't want to continue with what follows: A Deus Ex Machina shoehorned only to rob Vegeta's glorious moment, that when he finally is going to fuck the motherfucker that made him miserable his childhood just after Vegeta has saved Goku. Tori seriously, do not do that, do not create a badass moment which justifies have held half an hour of crap, and then you wash your ass in the last three minutes with it (literally).
-Overall: 4
In short, what is my final verdict on the film? This: it is a typical movie Dragon Ball Z added nothing to the plot (which has been forged since the previous film) and it was only fan service for those who do not like the previous film under the guise of "is a lot of comedy and nothing of Dragon Ball".
