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Dragon Ball Z - The Movie - Tree of Might

Dragon Ball Z - The Movie - Tree of Might

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dragon ball is tight fast with a lot of suspence
Review: Japan has the best animation in the world. No contest. The imagination and no holds barred graphics an story lines make almost every anime I've ever seen intence.Especially dragon ball. The suspence will take you from show to show. Even it you have to pay for it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Movie Rules!
Review: Amazing. Just the best thing sin The World's Strongest and Dead Zone. Terles is kind of wierd but he's still pretty cool for a villian.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A science fiction episode of mass porportions
Review: You will enjoy this movie even if you don't know much about the series. The plot is action packed. I enjoyed how the antagonist was stronger than the protagonist. The movie is about A group of evil space warriors who are planning to over throw there king. To do that one must become outsandingly powerfull. So they plan to plant a seed that will grow the Tree of Might on the planet with most life, Earth. The tree then will spread its roots and absorb all the energy on earth. After it completes its firts phase the second phase will begin. It will grow fruits that contain the energy of earth. When eaten it will multiply your strenght many times. Leaving the earth barren and life less. After the first phase the earth special forces ( 7 REALY pwerful people, Goku being the strongest) The batlle gets fierce as they try to save there own planet. END

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Clinic in Animation
Review: Love, love, love this movie. Blows me away almost every time I see it. Obviously the title of this review refers to its visual superiority, and that's exactly what it has, in almost every facet. It's puzzling why some people allude to this film as having mediocre animation, because frankly, I think it dazzles in that department. It's on par with any other DBZ movie visually, and that includes "The Return of Cooler," which I believe to be the best of the DBZ movies animation-wise. Maybe I just have awful taste in what looks good, or perhaps I just have no grasp on what good, clean, crisp animation looks like. Who knows really? All I know is that my eyes love what they see when I pop this in the DVD player.

The fight scenes are a little sparse and take some time to get to (I happen to like that, but not a lot of people do), but they're more than worth the wait. There's about a 15 second sequence after Turles takes a bite out of a piece of fruit from the Tree of Might that's about one of the sweetest animated action scenes I've ever seen in my life.

Although I love the way it looks, the sound is pretty delightful in its own right. Pioneer does a good job with dubbing. They leave it relatively untouched and close to its original form, and I like the Pioneer voices a lot better than FUNimation's, especially Piccolo's and Vegeta's.

The sound effects are nice and crystal clear, and I happen to prefer the original score for all DBZ films and episodes, though some of it gets repetitive. I don't really take to a lot of the music that some of these western companies have added, though mainly it's because there's just too damn much of it! I love how in the original form of this anime, there are many points of pure silence, accompanied by only wind whirling in the background or the sounds of the inside of a spaceship. Also, FUNimation and Pioneer (mostly FUNimation) just can't seem to appreciate a scene where no one's supposed to be talking. In the Japanese versions, there are many scenes in which they'll be showing the back of someone's head or their eyes or something and they're completely silent, but FUNimation/Pioneer feels it's incumbent upon them to throw in some voice and it ends up sounding really forced and generic. You never know what type of ambiance silence can create until you watch one of these FUNimation produced movies/episodes in which they just bombard you with music and dialogue non-stop.

Anyway, apart from the impressive visuals and good sound, the story's pretty average, but that's expected since none of the DBZ movies are meant to be linear with the actual plot of the series, rather just side projects done for fun and entertainment purposes. This is why I don't judge these by their storylines/plots, mainly just animation, presentation and general badassedness. This movie excels in all three, so buy it!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Hyped
Review: The movie followed along the Dragonball Z theme. Evil does wants to destroy earth. Goku and friends fights ever one falls even Goku but he doesn't stay down. Goku saves the day. The movie is good don't get me wrong I just wished there was more fighting.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A cool DBZ flick
Review: This is an example of a cool movie that really doesn't fit anywhere in the universe. The story revolves around an evil Sayin named Turles who along with his group of pirates plants the Tree of Might on earth. The tree sole purpose is to drain the planet of it's energy into fruit which can power up a character to double his strength at that time. Goku, KRillin, Yamcha, Tien, and CHaotzu all arrive to try and destroy the tree. They are then ambushed and the battle begins. Later Gohan and Piccolo show up and the battle heats up even more.

Eventually it comes down to GOku and TUrles and in the end the spirit bomb is used to finish him off.

THis movie doesn't really fit into the univeres for the following reasons.
1:The story takes place between Sayin and Namek.
2:Goku was hospitalized at this time, Krillin and Gohan were in space, and Tien, Yamcha, CHiatzu, and Piccolo were dead.

SO as you can see this movie takes place in a subuniverse of the series. It doesn't fit into any particular story line but is still cool non the less.


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