So I just seen the new Dragon Ball Z movie; ''Resurrection Of F'', literally like 5 minutes ago. Figured while I have all these Dragon Ball Z thoughts still in my head I would put out a review on the movie. And I know that we don't normally review movies, but this is Dragon Ball Z, and with Anime I will take an exception. Not to mention Dragon Ball Z to me is the best Anime to ever come out...just saying. Ok on with the review. So ''Resurrection Of F'' starts off with Frieza's men searching for the Dragon Balls so they can wish Lord Frieza back to life. They don't really go in depth about how they are going to find the Dragon Balls, instead they find that Emperor Pilaf has already collected 6 out of 7 of the Dragon Balls and so they go to earth and make him find the 7th ball and take them for themselves. Once they have them all they have a few cut scenes back and forth of Frieza's men and Piccolo and Gohan about sensing danger, but they never jump to action, instead Frieza is wished back to life on Earth and his pieces(He is still in several pieces thanks to Trunks)are taken back to space. Once we get past that boring build up, there is some small comical acts from Frieza killing his men and trashing talking his top commander about his new master plan on how to kill Goku and Vegeta. Frieza says he is going to train for 4 months and gain a power level of 1.3 million....didn't know we were still keeping track of the power levels. But I guess Frieza still can't sense power levels or something, who knows. Back off ship, Vegeta and Goku are training with Whis in Lord Beerus realm to get stronger, and we have more of a little build up here about the strengths and weakness of both Vegeta and Goku. I really don't want to bore you all to death so I will skip a head a little bit. Frieza comes back to earth 6 months later with his 1000 troop army and attacks Krillin, Master Roshi, Tien, Gohan, and Piccolo. Of course Frieza doesn't fight them, the troops do, and the fights are entertaining watching all the heroes kill off every troop but two. One of the final two troops attacks and puts up a little fight with Piccolo only to be put down by Gohan in one hit. More talks are said, and Frieza attacks Gohan and almost kills him with one blow. Now I'm not a Gohan fan, never have been, but he has gone so downhill since defeating Cell it isn't even funny. He even admits to Master Roshi that he doesn't train anymore but he can still transform into a SSJ 2.....whoopee. Eventually Bulma reaches Whis and gets Goku to instant transmission him and Vegeta back to Earth to fight Frieza. Frieza and Goku talk trash and Frieza transforms into his final form. Goku tells Frieza that he doesn't have to transform to fight Frieza and beats Frieza to a pulp and makes Frieza transform into Golden Frieza....not to be confused with Golden Freddy from FNAF lol. Now we get a little better action, lots of trashing talking, Frieza has the upper hand as he is beating SSJ God Goku up pretty bad. If you were wondering where Vegeta was, it wasn't his turn to get into the fight, we will talk more about that in a second. Eventually Goku tells Frieza that his power is going to run out and that he should have trained harder and mastered his new form before rushing back to Earth to kill him. Frustrated Frieza starts getting pummeled by Goku and right before Goku has time to finish him he gets shot and taken down by a ray gun from the final troop Frieza had. You heard right, a ray gun took Goku in SSJ God form down and almost kills him. How it didn't just bounce off him in this form is beyond me and how he didn't see if coming is even more mind bending but either way it happened and Frieza loved it. Frieza beats on Goku some more while he is lifeless and right before he kills Goku, Vegeta saves him because he says he needs Goku to continue to grow stronger. He even turns down chance from Frieza to kill Goku and take his side by Frieza in his new empire. Now Vegeta transforms into SSJ God form and is stronger then Goku and literally is untouchable. Frieza can't lay a hand on him and gets the crap beat out of him and eventually loses his Golden Form. Now Vegeta comes in for the kill, but right before Vegeta fires a ki blast at Frieza, he blows up the planet killing all life. Somehow Goku and friends were standing close enough to Lord Beerus and Whis to survive the blast and ask for their help to save their planet. Whis says that he can rewind time 3 minutes to try and give them a chance at redemption. So with that said, Whis rewinds time, and Goku comes in the second before Frieza blows up the planet and kills Frieza with his Kamehameha Blast. And Vegeta is pissed but that pretty much ends the movie. So thats the new movie in a nut shell. Not going to lie, the movie was a huge let down in a lot of aspects. Sure the animations were beautiful, all the characters voices were the same, and there were plenty of good fight scenes. But it was just missing too much from the original series to be considered an awesome movie. What really saved the movie was Vegeta and Frieza's humor, and I'm not over reacting either. If it wasn't for the funny bits and pieces that Vegeta and Frieza put into this title, the movie would have been nothing but low level fighters and another big fight scene where Goku is beating the crap out of the bad guy. And I'm sorry, but that's not very entertaining. The only time that you see Vegeta fight is at the end, and you find out that he is stronger then Goku yet they only let him fight for about 1 minute, and then still have Goku kill Frieza in the end and save the day....Why?!? Just to get the kiddies who watch this movie all to smile because their hero saved the day again? That was pure garbage. Heaven forbid if the bad guy beats the bad guy and makes Goku look weak in the end of a Dragon Ball Z movie. I understand the whole hero thing, but the Dragon Ball series really needs to start re-inventing themselves if they want to continue to support their fan base and not just the 10 years olds that watch these movies. Last time I checked, Dragon Ball Z was a Teen to Adult based Anime, not a child based Anime...just saying!
6 out of 10
Great Animations, good fight scenes, and some occasional humor make you want to watch this movie the first time, but I don't see anybody paying more money to go back to the theatre to watch this again. There is just not enough satisfaction out of this movie to make you really get into the story. The trailer was nicely done, but you feel very deceived after you watch the entire movie through. Hopefully Dragon Ball Z next movie can surpass more then just mere hype, and make an awesome movie that utilizes all the characters, and not just one of them.
Written By Sam Vaught
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