Yadda yadda yadda some bad dudes wanna kill Goku or whatever. What I enjoy is that the first half of the movie takes place in an urban city. The Dragon Ball world shines when it shows off its wacky cartoon world, and I love any time they spend in cities, where tech is futuristic and all the buildings are domes, but everyone operates as if it's the early 1990s and our POV characters are always a bunch of weirdos in martial arts costumes that everyone eyes suspiciously. Combined with some better fights than the past couple movies, and it's a good time-waster.
Though... reaaaaaally iffy on that kinda-blackface robot and I feel like it might be a disservice to give this one more than a 4/10 when there's that there. I've also read that the English dub version of this gives the robot more lines (in the Japanese version he only says about five words the whole movie), and they're spoken with a stereotypical African-American accent. If true... that's... not OK.... But I don't want to watch the dub to find out so whatever.
This one comes SO CLOSE to fitting in the series timeline! Weirdly, it would take place BEFORE the previous movie, because of Trunks being there. There's a good gap in the story where Cell has not yet appeared but Androids 16-18 are still on the loose, and three more kinda-weak Androids suddenly appearing and getting the shit kicked out of them could fit, though it'd be a little weird. Sadly, the thing that probably kills it is that Gohan is preparing to enter into summer cram school classes... In a worldwide search for some possibly-genocidal robots, it doesn't seem very likely that the cast would take a break to go shopping at the mall, either. Curse the extremely tight timeline constraints that Akira Toriyama gave his comic books!
