JulieYBM wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:44 pm
I think the best qualities of each film are always the parts that Toriyama Akira could never contribute himself. I think the weakest parts of the films are that they always try to put the toys back in the box neatly, thus defeating the purpose and benefit of many of their side story and ill-fitting continuity elements.
This is exactly what I'd have said too. I think that Toriyama can come up with interesting ideas, but his ideas mostly shine when others interfer and give him better directives. From my understanding, he is way into "I do this because it's fun/funny/cool/awesome", some people might like it but I don't. I sincerely think that his work becomes more appreciable with the help of others. But ofc, it's his piece of work so he does what he "wants". Now, if I have to say one good thing for most of the movies is that we can see their "everyday life" like the shopping scene in movie 7 etc.. and it's always a + for me.
Anyway, I didn't watch all the movies but I'll give my take on the movies I've watched:
Dead Zone
Main Quality- How the movie starts with the unknown enemies with the sound effect in the background & the intriguing atmosphere.
Main Flaw- The main's villain design.
The World's Strongest
Main Quality- Gohan's Piccolo song... (Joke joke) in all seriousness I like all this "mad scientist" aspect of the movie + cool design for Dr.Wheelo.
Main Flaw- The amount of time it takes for them to actually meet the main villain.
The Tree of Might
Main Quality- Bad side of Goku + cool-looking-tree.
Main Flaw- Nothing more than just being a bad Goku.
Bardock - The Father of Goku
Main Quality- Everything that is related to planet Vegeta and Bardock's relation with his crew, his development, being Goku's father and a cool character.
Main Flaw- The ending where he throws a small ki blast or whatever and expects to change the futur... maybe a more impactful final attack would make the scene better.
Coola's Revenge
Main Quality- Cool design, awesome transformation + Coola being Frieza's big brotha. Goku and the bird scene that shows once again his pure side and that he cares for all the living beings, its a masterclass.
Main Flaw- Just being Frieza's big brotha.
The Return of Coola
Main Quality- Coola being Coolar and bringing more Coolas. Big Gete Star is a cool concept.
Main Flaw- Just another Coola movie where he loses.
Super Android 13
Main Quality- Getting a glimpse of C-13.
Main Flaw- Everything else?
The History of Trunks
Main Quality- All this dramatic atmosphere, all this despair. Trunks' transformation.
Main Flaw- No new characters. And the characters are whatever to me, I'm not particularly fond of them.
Bully - The Legendary Super Saiyan
Main Quality- Broly's design and sad backstory. How big Bully puts Vegeta in his place.
Main Flaw- Broly's ambiguous motivation, mostly interpreted in the wrong way. Unfortunately...
Bojack Unbound
Main Quality- Cool tournament, cool fights, cool crew, cool Gohan+Goku moment, cool Gohan SSJ2 transformation.
Main Flaw- The villains are.. easily forgettable. Like most of them. Yamcha getting Yamched.
Bully - Second Coming
Main Quality- Bully normal SSJ form. Gohan vs SSJ Bully. Final scene.
Main Flaw- All the memes around Bully start because of this movie...
Bio-Bull
Main Quality- Rivalry between Satan and Jaguar. The start of the movie is very interesting, enjoyable and fun.
Main Flaw- All the memes around big Bully are even more strengthened because of this movie... sad
Fusion Reborn
Main Quality- Pikkon. Janemba's cool attacks, all the cool fights. Gogeta.
Main Flaw- Janemba is a giant baby.
Wrath of the Dragon
Main Quality- Tapion's design, his backstory, the melody, his relation with Trunks, all the good stuff.
Main Flaw- The main villain is... original but easily forgettable.
Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans (only watched the remake)
Main Quality- It's nice to see that they tried to make a movie around the Tuffles + Hatchiyack's design is very good!
Main Flaw- It's lacking... they could have done so much better...
Episode of Bardock
Main Quality- Cool transformation. Bardock's interaction with the warmhearted little being (dunno its name).
Main Flaw- How did he end up in the past? + Chilled is uglier than Frieza's first form, what's up with the orange swimsuit?
Battle of Gods
Main Quality- Cool new characters, cool fights.
Main Flaw- SSGod transformation... too skinny. Once again another movie that revolves around Goku.
Resurrection 'F'
Main Quality- The song.
Main Flaw- Worse than Bio Bully.
DBS Bully
Main Quality- Saiyans' background. Cute Bully? amazing animation.
Main Flaw- Too much dynamic effects... S Bully seems more bland than Z Bully... long azz-fights for no reason...
Super Hero
Main Quality- The new characters, specially the Gammas! Piccolo & Pan got more screentime. No Goku & Vegeta involved.
Main Flaw- Beast Gohan is just a no-no for me.
