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Summary: Battle of the Strongest vs. the Strongest
Review: Originally entitled "Battle of the Strongest vs. the Strongest", "Cooler's Revenge" is a feature which takes place in a seperate continuity from the main DBZ storyline. At the outset of this story the primary antagonist, Cooler, is witnessing his brother Frieza demolishing the planet Vegeta (Bardock, the Father of Goku). After being completely disgusted with his brother's baseless arrogance, Cooler's henchmen detect a Saiyan space pod being launched from Vegeta. Cooler dismisses this as his brother's problem (which it will be) and not his (which it will be). This, of course, is the pod containing baby Kakorrot, known on the Earth as Son Goku...who will eventually free the Universe from the tyrrany of Frieza and his clan. Fast forward several decades... Upon hearing of his brother's humiliating defeat at the hands of a low-level Saiyan monkey, Cooler sets out for the homeworld of this upstart to avenge the honor of his clan. On Earth the unsuspecting Z Warriors Goku, Gohan, Krillin, Oolong & the Haiya Dragon are on a camping expedition, when they are suddenly assaulted by the (hilariously effeminate) henchmen of Cooler...Cooler's Armored Squadron. Krillin is laid low before Goku can return from fishing to do battle with the Squadron. After making sport of the Squadron, Goku is confronted by their villainous leader...Cooler! At first Goku mistakes Cooler for Frieza...but this mistake is soon rectified, as this being is vastly more powerful than the maniacal tyrant Goku faced on Namek. Gohan attempts to aid his Father in the battle, but merely becomes a target for the merciless Cooler's attack. Goku is badly hurt saving his son & is forced to make a tactical withdrawal from the battlefield to nurse his quite serious wounds. Krillin is roused by the Haiya Dragon, as well & joins the pair in a nearby cave. In the meantime the Squadron has been tearing up the landscape in an attempt to destroy Goku...causing much devestation. Inadvertantly, while rescuing some trapped animals at Goku's request, Oolong is nearly crushed by a rock and is barely saved by an energy blast from Krillin. Unfortunately, the blast is picked up by the Squadron's scouters and they are drawn to the source of the blast. Gohan is sent to Korin Tower to procure a few Senzu Beans, aboard the Haiya Dragon Express. After getting a hard time from Korin, Yajirobi hands over a huge bag of Senzu, plus one that Gohan places in his sash. On his return trip Haiya Dragon sets of the Squadron's Scouters and they close in on the boy. Gohan is battered by the Squadron until a timely rescue is intiated by Gohan's mentor, Piccolo. Piccolo annihilates the squadron while Gohan brings the Senzu to his ailing Father. Piccolo's victory is short-lived, however as he is quickly dispatched at the hands of Cooler, who sends the sole remaining member of the Squadron, Salza, to deal with Gohan. Gohan arrives at the cave, but before he can aid his Father, the entire sack of Senzu is incinerated by Salza. Krillin does battle with Salza, but is overcome. In the meantime Gohan remembers the Senzu he stashed in his sash and gives it to Goku. Renewed, Goku emerges from the cave. Brushing off Salza like a flea, Goku goes into battle with Cooler. Having a more difficult with the Saiyan than he'd anticipated, Cooler initiates a transformation into his fourth form, with augmented muscle growth, a huge crest above his head, heightened speed & endurance & an overall increased ability to kick Saiyan ass. Goku launches an all-out offensive against Cooler...but to no avail. Cooler, in his new form, is simply too powerful for the Saiyan warrior to overcome, even using his powerful Kaio-Ken technique. Faced with his ultimate defeat and the destruction of Earth, Goku once again transforms into the mighty Super Saiyan...and proceeds to hand Cooler a whoopin'. Nonplussed, Cooler gathers a huge ball of energy and pitches it at Goku, & the Earth... Goku is determined, however, and sends the energy back at Cooler, launching him into space. Before Cooler is incinerated in the fiery funace of the Sun, he realizes his error. This was the Sayian he allowed to escape! He could have avoided his destruction with ease!This is the fifth DBZ movie and one of the better ones. It is a bit above average, as some of the character actually (GASP!) interact! It is standard FUNimation ADR, with lots of added dialogue & the ever present hard rock ... sountrack, I hear a lot of complaints about this, but it's miles better than the Casiotone crapola which adorns the original Japanese. Overall a lot of fun & a decently thought-out story, 4.5 stars.
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Summary: "Cooler rocks the house...!"
Review: The fifth DBZ film, Cooler's Revenge, is very cool and will not disappoint you if you are a true Dragon Ball Z fan! The soundtrack is awesome, but has only one song by Disturbed: The Game. There are also a few songs by Drowning Pool: Told You So, Reminded, and Mute. One by Dust for Life: Poison. Three by Breaking Point: Under and Falling Down. And the rest from American Pearl: Seven Years and Revelation. All those songs fit very well with the movie, especially The Game and Told You So. The voice of Cooler surprised me a bit, since I was half expecting him to sound like a girl, just like his brother, Frieza, but I guess he takes after his father in the voice. Also, I kind of liked the fact that Cooler doesn't really let pride blind him, and he actually admitted to his mistakes, unlike his whimpy brother, Frieza. Cooler's fourth transformation was really cool, it sounded like a cross between the giant Lord Slug and Dabura. This form of Cooler reminds me kind of like Imperfect Cell, because of his lined mask, and of Uber-Jason from Jason X because of the particular shape of his face mask, the musculinity, and the red eyes. The voices were excellent, the same voices from the series, but sadly, Vegeta doesn't appear until the next movie, The Return of Cooler. Yamcha or Tien do not make appearances here either, I don't think they appear in any of the movies, but I could be wrong. The animation was done well, it kind of looks like the animation from the newer episodes of DBZ, clear and well-drawn, not curved and poorly done like the last episode on the third fusion tape: Play for Time, or the first episode on the second Perfect Cell tape: Temptation. I'd definitely recommend the uncut version though, because the edited one cuts out the blood and shortens the fight scenes. The ending was perfect, and it was pretty clever how Cooler was defeated, but that wasn't the last they or we would see of him. But it's kind of the same as all the endings, after the bad guy is defeated, either Piccolo or one of the other good guys disappears for a while and doesn't appear again. But I'm getting so sick of FUNimation recycling the idea of Gohan being in peril and Piccolo all of a sudden appearing to save him, that's just getting really old. The cover is designed rather plainly, just a picture of Cooler's final stage and that's it. I thought the covers fro Lord Slug and Return of Cooler were done better, they stayed true to the original Japanese covers. There's one thing wrong with Lord Slug thru Return of Cooler, the script is well-done, but they are not dubbing the exact words of the Japanese version, what they say is not what the translated Japanese dialogue would be. If the dialogue was dubbed from the exact words of the Japanses version, there would be occasional mild cuss words. But, that's not a huge problem, I'm just fine with what is in the movie now. It really surprised me when Cooler blasted Piccolo through the shoulder, it was like a sudden mini-sonic boom! The fight between Sauza and Piccolo was sort of boring, it just didn't look very good when Piccolo kicked Sauza out of the trees and into the air, but it was really cool when Piccolo grabbed Niez and fried him with his own attack. Doore, however, looks like your typical boring strong-man, and sounds like one too, and his death is pretty original and old-fashioned, just being disintegrated by a heat-seaking energy blast. If you watch the uncut version of Lord Slug, you'll find that FUNimation didn't cut out the F-word in Stupify, weird isn't it? For 47 minutes, Cooler's Revenge delivers amazing fight scenes, booming soundtrack, and [good] animation! So pick it up today, but if you decide to take my advice, then I suggest buying the uncut version. I hope this review has been helpful!
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Summary: Edited version of a 5-star movie, for the children.
Review: The Frieza saga was drawn out, emotional, and seems like ages ago compared to the Buu saga, but here you get to meet his brother. The fight with Cooler is not as long as his brother's, but it does have some very dramatic scenes. Goku and Vegeta fight together to destroy the brother of the madman who was responsible for the destruction of their entire race! Fight scenes are above-average quality. Get the DVD to watch it in Japanese. This version is edited, so be prepared for that.
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Summary: Another must-see movie from the Dragonball universe
Review: The Frieza saga was drawn out, emotional, and seems like ages ago compared to the Buu saga. (...)Fight scenes are above-average quality. Get the DVD to watch it in Japanese.
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Summary: FUNimation movies are really going down hill.
Review: The last 2 movies were the worst two movies ever made for Dragonball Z. They are unimportant, and all the movies are the same. I don't recommend this movie if you want the same great DBZ like the shows, but if you have to have every movie (Like me) buy it.
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Summary: Cooler's Revenge
Review: This DVD is awesome it has a good plot and awesome fighting parts and it has awesome music from bands like drowning pool i have whatched it about 10 times and it never gets boring ive rated this dvd 5 out of 5 this dvd belongs to any dbz fan
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Summary: For 45 minutes, you really get your moneys worth
Review: This featurette is only 45 minutes but you really get your moneys worth. Along the line of short side episode style films as Lord Slug, History of Trunks, and Bardock Father of Goku, this title packs a enough action to last through somethinmg Like Garlic Junior or Cell in the short time period of at most 2 episodes. The story takes palce after we meet Trunks, during the three year intermission before the Androids or Cell show up. Coller finds out a Saiyin killed Freiza, although not at to much of a loss he feels that his Families Honor has been ruined by this travesty. He then journeys to Earth with his own Ginyu FOrce style group and decides to take out Goku (although he doesn't know who killed Freiza). From there the action doesn't stop as Goku, Gohan, Krillion, and Piccolo fight to stop Cooler from his revenge. For the most part I like this and gave it 5 stars because I am a preety solid DBZ fan and am dedicated to it to a certain extent. I purchase the side stories (that won't be aired on TV) and just enjoy it. However if you are not a Dragon Ball Z fan then chances are you should probably watch the series and see if you like that, and hold off on purchasing this.
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Summary: Japanese Original: 5 stars / English Dub: Ugh!
Review: This has been one of my favorite DBZ stories since I first watched it over a decade ago. The flow of the battles, timing, artistic composition, and scene direction are all fantastically done. To watch this in the original Japanese is truly 45 minutes well spent, even if you can't understand a word of it. I should know. I've done just that more times than I can count. However, to watch the Funimation English dub of this film is like watching someone set fire to the Mona Lisa. All of the dramatic silences, perfectly timed music, and short, to the point dialogues are scrapped in favor of constant babbling by nails-on-the-chalkboard irritating American voice actors and totally inappropriate pop music. At times it seems that the English script is being made up as they go along! Luckily for us, you may watch this DVD in the original Japanese with directly translated subtitles to match. It is only by this saving grace that I rate it a 5 star DVD. However, if you'd like to conduct a small study in abysmal US translation, try watching it in English with the Japanese version subtitles on-screen. You'll hear Cooler say, "I wanna just blow this planet up, and I will", but see on-screen that he actually said, "It would be easy to destroy this planet, but my pride will not allow it." You'll read that Karin scolds Gohan for not climbing up from the bottom of his tower, but hear Gohan appologize for not bringing a gift! And possibly worst of all, you'll hear characters spout endless, nonsensical trash-talk about how much pain they're going to inflict, while in the original Japanese they just stood calmly, staring each other down with confidence. It's amazing how arrogant we Americans can be. Does Funimation actually think they are IMPROVING on the original by lazily throwing in bad pop music and idiotic jokes, and changing key story elements for no reason? Please, Funimation. In the future, stick to the script. Distribution rights DO NOT make you Akira Toriyama.
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Summary: Better than Frieza
Review: This is an awesome movie! Cooler is much stronger than Frieza, if you ask me. In this movie, it starts out when Frieza destroys planet Vegeta, Cooler is of somewhere watching Frieza. And Cooler sees a small Saiyan pod. His Minions prepare to destroy it, but Cooler says to ignore it, for it was in Frieza�s territory. But what he didn�t know is that in that small pod, was a small baby saiyan named Goku.
Many years later, when Cooler learns his brother Frieza was killed, he goes to earth to kill Goku. Meanwhile, Goku and Krillan are out camping, when Coolers minions intrude. Cooler is about to kill Gohan when Goku jumps in the way. Goku and Gohan fall into a river and off a waterfall. Gohan goes to Corans look out for senzu beans. When he returns, the senzu beans are burned before Goku could eat one, but Gohan remembers that he put one in his shirt, and gives it to Goku. Then begins one of the coolest fights ever. Cooler transforms and beats up Goku. But Goku finally goes Super Saiyan. The end is cool; Goku blasts a kameamea at Cooler and blasts him to the sun.
But Cooler is not dead, he returns in the movie, �The Return Of Cooler.� I really want to see it, but I don�t want to pay $20 for a 1-hour movie. So i'm going to wait to see it.
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Summary: Better than Frieza
Review: This is an awesome movie! Cooler is much stronger than Frieza, if you ask me. In this movie, it starts out when Frieza destroys planet Vegeta, Cooler is of somewhere watching Frieza. And Cooler sees a small Saiyan pod. His Minions prepare to destroy it, but Cooler says to ignore it, for it was in Frieza's territory. But what he didn't know is that in that small pod, was a small baby saiyan named Goku.
Many years later, when Cooler learns his brother Frieza was killed, he goes to earth to kill Goku. Meanwhile, Goku and Krillan are out camping, when Coolers minions intrude. Cooler is about to kill Gohan when Goku jumps in the way. Goku and Gohan fall into a river and off a waterfall. Gohan goes to Corans look out for senzu beans. When he returns, the senzu beans are burned before Goku could eat one, but Gohan remembers that he put one in his shirt, and gives it to Goku. Then begins one of the coolest fights ever. Cooler transforms and beats up Goku. But Goku finally goes Super Saiyan. The end is cool; Goku blasts a kameamea at Cooler and blasts him to the sun.
But Cooler is not dead, he returns in the movie, 'The Return Of Cooler.' I really want to see it, but I don't want to pay $20 for a 1-hour movie. So i'm going to wait to see it.
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