Versions of DBZ Films 1-13

[jamiljamtheman]

Hello all,

I recently completed my collection of these movies; I have them as the 3 "movie pack" box sets. Curiosity has lead me to want to find out when they were actually dubbed - based on the Kanzenshuu Home Video Guide, my understanding is this:
- Movies 1-3 use the 2005-2006 funimation dubs ("ultimate uncut edition")
- Movies 4-13 use the 2001-2006 dubs from when they were first released.

Am I understanding that correctly? Also, does anyone know if the 16:9 cropping is the same as the ones used theatrically by Toei or if it is Funimation's own like the season sets?

Bonus question: I saw that on those older DVD releases, several of the movies came with "edited" editions. What was the difference? Were these versions shown on TV or something?

[Puto]

It's FUNi's own cropping, but it mostly matches.

[DHM211]

From what I've noticed Funis 16:9 crop of the Movie's usually has a little bit more footage on all four sides then the Dragon Box does.

[VegettoEX]

Bonus question: I saw that on those older DVD releases, several of the movies came with "edited" editions. What was the difference? Were these versions shown on TV or something?

Several of these films ultimately did air on Toonami (and would have used these edited versions as their base), but the edited home releases came first. This was at a point in time when FUNimation was still actively releasing both "uncut" and "edited" versions of their English dub on home video. In terms of DVD, only the movies had edited releases; the rest of the DVD releases (of the TV series) were solely uncut/bilingual. The VHS releases were (obviously) dub-only, and had separate uncut and edited versions for the vast majority of the show's production on that format.

[jamiljamtheman]

Several of these films ultimately did air on Toonami (and would have used these edited versions as their base), but the edited home releases came first. This was at a point in time when FUNimation was still actively releasing both "uncut" and "edited" versions of their English dub on home video. In terms of DVD, only the movies had edited releases; the rest of the DVD releases (of the TV series) were solely uncut/bilingual. The VHS releases were (obviously) dub-only, and had separate uncut and edited versions for the vast majority of the show's production on that format.

Interesting... Were the changes (on the dvds/tapes I suppose) mostly mundane stuff like omitting a couple minutes of violence? Were there any movies significantly changed in the edited ones?

[ABED]

I don't think there were entire minutes of footage cut. I think it was mostly blood that was cut out. Does anyone know if they cut out 13 punching Goku in the nards?

[Tyro]

I don't think there were entire minutes of footage cut. I think it was mostly blood that was cut out. Does anyone know if they cut out 13 punching Goku in the nards?

I could be totally off here, but I think minutes were cut from the films. When you compare the running times listed on the back of the DVD/VHS cases, normally the "uncut" version is 2-3 minutes longer than its censored counterpart.

[ABED]

I don't think there were entire minutes of footage cut. I think it was mostly blood that was cut out. Does anyone know if they cut out 13 punching Goku in the nards?

I could be totally off here, but I think minutes were cut from the films. When you compare the running times listed on the back of the DVD/VHS cases, normally the "uncut" version is 2-3 minutes longer than its censored counterpart.

I think that's the result of shaving things here and there rather than full minutes of footage.