Is DBS: Broly overrated?

[Melkaniator]

Yes, it's overrated, but in fighting is the best one we got yet.

Broly being a "better character" isn't that impressive when his original backstory is literally that he hated Goku for crying--for like, three whole hours. So instead of being an awful character, he's merely a generic one. And despite that, he's still the same mindless bruiser as he was in the original film

Broly wasn't a “mindless bruiser” in the original, for all the complaints we got from OG Broly, Broly (Br) was the actual mindless one.

[Hulk10]

DBS Broly being overrated is DEFINATELY an opinion.

[BWri]

Overrated? Don't know.

Incomplete? Yes. On re-examination of it, it feels like entire chunks of the story is simply missing. Maybe it was knowing Toriyama's original script would have made it about 3 hours, but yeah. The first part, on Planet Vegeta, was fine. Its after that where it feels rushed or missing scenes.

Definitely incomplete. And the acts don't really connect very well. For me, it all hinges on Vegeta who is the bridge that connects all this. His overall apathy for the situation later on makes the movie flat to me. What should be this seminal moment in Saiyan history between the prince of the Saiyan race, the low class Saiyan who became the greatest of them all, and the exiled Saiyan prodigy just ended up feeling like a random fight. Broly could've been any other alien race and it wouldn't have changed the 2nd and 3rd acts.

I think the beginning set the stage for a really good story but they wasted precious time on things that didn't fill out the story they were trying to tell. It would've been much better if Gogeta did not show up and it was all left to Goku and Vegeta. At least then, we could have a better connection between these 3 characters.

[Hulk10]

There is a lot of things that are missing I agree.


I also have a hard time believing that Broly hates fighting. He seemed to enjoy it during his fight with Goku and Vegeta, once he went berserk. But its true that it wasn't his choice to fight Vegeta and he wasn't himself when he was berserk.

[WittyUsername]

There is a lot of things that are missing I agree.


I also have a hard time believing that Broly hates fighting. He seemed to enjoy it during his fight with Goku and Vegeta, once he went berserk. But its true that it wasn't his choice to fight Vegeta and he wasn't himself when he was berserk.

I think the ending is supposed to imply that he does in fact like fighting. He’s just not bloodthirsty.

[Hulk10]

There is a lot of things that are missing I agree.


I also have a hard time believing that Broly hates fighting. He seemed to enjoy it during his fight with Goku and Vegeta, once he went berserk. But its true that it wasn't his choice to fight Vegeta and he wasn't himself when he was berserk.

I think the ending is supposed to imply that he does in fact like fighting. He’s just not bloodthirsty.

Yeah I'd say your probably right.

[Rory]

Obviously it isn't overrated, it's one of the single most gorgeous looking thing post-revival Dragon Ball has produced. A lot of people here seem to be viewing that as a side-thing, and not, y'know, the thing? A film is the sum of its parts, and a lot of the parts used to make this film are really, really good. I was more engaged with the characters due to the character acting, I was more into the fights due to the choreography, I liked being in this world due to the new designs, art style and colour palette. Hell, even the overly long final battle was broken up into easily digestible chunks which you can identity based on the characters fighting, their form and how they look.
When people say "yeah well the story wasn't good"... all that stuff I mentioned is a part of the story, and that's all great. Do people mean the script isn't good? Like, strip out the context of the events that take place?
At that point you're robbing a movie of its most important elements. Like man Blade Runner sucks, there was barely a story and the protagonist kept getting his ass kicked.

[Hulk10]

People will beat on anything they don't like.