Well he is stronger or at least as strong as Goku and Vegeta so...no. It would have been so much better if he was a real threat.radrappy wrote:The kotaku review makes a good point but kind of disregards the entire context of Freeza's return. Fans are already livid that he's now stronger than Gohan, imagine the reaction had he been somehow able to take both Vegeta and Goku as super saiyan god super saiyans? Yeesh. No, I thought the movie handled the whole affair brilliantly. It was ultimately both the hubris of Freeza and Goku that gives the movie its most insightful moments. For the first time in probably the franchise's history, Goku has to look his mistakes right in the face(namely Bulma sobbing) and concede that he was too stubborn for his own good. I agree that as a standalone movie with no series context, RoF suffers from some pretty serious structural problems. However as a continuation of the franchise, it's amazing.
The stroke of Genius with Freeza is that by the end of the movie, he has basically done away with anyone who would have possibly wished him back again in the first place bringing his story to a final close. All because he couldn't just look the other way and enjoy the 75 planets he currently owns. And of course, because he's extremely abusive of his own followers.
If the next villain will be stronger than Gohan (and of course he will be) should we complain about that? Hell, at least here the villain is the one who trains, not some new guy out of nowhere that is "the strongest of all the universes!1!!!!!" because who cares.