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.
