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Dragon Ball Z - The Return of Cooler (Uncut Feature)

Dragon Ball Z - The Return of Cooler (Uncut Feature)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Attack! 1,000,000 power warriors!
Review: (Note: This review is based on the fansub or Jappaneese version)

Whew! A great DBZ movie! The best one yet (before #6) Attack! 1,000,000 power warriors is far better than Battle of the Strongest. I haven't seen neither in english though. Great one, check it out.

Summary:
Goku, Master Roshi, Yajorboie, Krillin, Gohan, Picolo, and Oolong are traveling to the new Namek on vacation. When they arrive, the Big Getia Star is *eating* the planet. The nameks have become slaves of Cooler (refered in this movie as Meta Coola)and his many copies. While Cooler's body parts were floating in space, they rebuilt him (so much like the Freezer Saga) So he wants to make Sayia-Jin copies, Sort of Meta Suepr Sayia-Jins. Cooler unleashes alot of robots, they seem to be to tough, blood flies, eyes couge, and people get hurt. They eventually beat the (crud) out of them, and win. Cooler starts to battle Goku, since nobody else stands a chance. Everyone except Picolo, Gohan, and Goku are taken prisoner. Cooler starts whopping Goku's but, and is about to kill him. Vegeta shows up (Note: this is Vegeta's first DBZ movie) and saves Goku's life while he is battling Cooler. Vegeta and Goku go into a huge battle between Cooler, and defeat him (yay! :-)But as they look up a cliff, thousands of Meta Coolers come out. Vegeta and Goku swear themselves silly, and decide to take them on. They end up in a big room with wires around them. The real Cooler (who they couldn't truly rebuild) is a big face in the middle of this huge room. Cooler tells them they are to be sucked of their energy, so he can make Meta Super Sayia-Jins. So, he starts to suck energy, (Note: Picolo battles a Meta Cooler right about now) Goku and Vegeta decide to give them to much power, so it will blow up the system (much like Goku did with Yakon in the Babadi saga) so, everything goes boom. THE END, right? No. The big Cooler face pops up, and his body is made of wires. HE IS HUGE! He battles Goku, Goku whops but, and THEN EVERYTHING GOES BOOM! Including most of the planet. That means, everyone (including the Nameks) are dead! No, Goku uses his instant trancemisson and teleports everyone back to his ship. The movie ends with Goku giving the screen a peace sign.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: What is up with the subtitles?
Review: All in all this movie was pretty good, but there seems to be some strange technical difficulties considering the subtitles. Sometimes there would be complete subtitled conversations when no one was talking. This was very distracting and at time very entertaining. But besides that...

GO GREEN!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Much better than the first Cooler movie
Review: Although many people consider movie #7 the turning point in the DBZ movies, I personally think that this is where they take off (although they are all great.) It doesn't take place in the normal Dragon Ball universe for Dende is the Earth's Guardian, but Gohan's not even a Super Saiyan yet, but that doesn't take anything away from this one. It has everything that you could want from a DBZ movie--great fight, a cool bad guy, and Vegeta (finally.) The music in this was also pretty good for Dragon Ball Z, but I have to admit that I'm looking forward to FUNimation's soundtrack (but not the dubbing.) My favorite part about the fight is that it's not a Goku gets beat up then suddenly comes back to kill the bad guy in one powerful attack kind of thing, but rather one with the good guy and bad guy running almost even, the good guy one step behind most of the fight and then wins by a thread. All in all, although not nearly the best, this is one DBZ movie that even the wavering fans wouldn't want to miss.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: balla
Review: charge! 10billion warriors(coolers return) a pretty good movie but movie 8 and 13 will always be the best they wont be relesed for about a year u should BUY them this movie is alot better then 5 and anyone who thinks the title of this movie is attack 1,000,000 power warriors is [wrong] and doesnt know anything about dragon ball z

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Meta Cooler
Review: Cooler returns and lands on namek and starts killing then goku pikkolo vigeta etc go to namek 2 to find cooler in a metal suit and pikolo destroys the robots while goku and vigeta fight meta cooler right before cooler lunches his attack vieta goes ss and with both of them ss they kill meta cooler.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another 45 minute mini movie
Review: I remember that one of the biggest complaints for Coolers Revenge was the LAck of Vegeta. Well according to the mainstream story line he was either A: Training barbarically hard in the Capsule, B: Critically injured becasue of training and was in the sack with Bulnma or C: In Space Training. With that said the story revolves around the Z fighters traeling to New Namek to take on a new menace that is attacking the NAmekians. The crew is GOku, GOhan, Krillin, Oolong, and I think Piccolo (I am going based off memory here). Once there they take on these cybornetic Beings that are challenging but not to bad. Than Later COoler himself Shows up in a new Chrome outfit to take on Goku. THey prove to be evenly matched as the otehr head towards the villians base to take it down. SOmewhre along the lines Vegeta shows up as backup but early on just gets in the way. LAter the two are captured and while in Super Sayin form release enough energy that COolers main frame (only his head and slight chunks of his body was saved from the sun) and destroy the ship. In which case Vegeta leaves as quickly as he came.

Overall this is a good follow up to Coolers REvenge, however it s once again a 45 minut short. It's not truely a movie but at the same time doesn't quite fit anywhere in the story line (it looks like it takes somewhere during the Android Saga or maybe Cell). Overall it's a must buy for DBZ fans, a rentla for others.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another 45 minute mini movie
Review: I remember that one of the biggest complaints for Coolers Revenge was the LAck of Vegeta. Well according to the mainstream story line he was either A: Training barbarically hard in the Capsule, B: Critically injured becasue of training and was in the sack with Bulnma or C: In Space Training. With that said the story revolves around the Z fighters traeling to New Namek to take on a new menace that is attacking the NAmekians. The crew is GOku, GOhan, Krillin, Oolong, and I think Piccolo (I am going based off memory here). Once there they take on these cybornetic Beings that are challenging but not to bad. Than Later COoler himself Shows up in a new Chrome outfit to take on Goku. THey prove to be evenly matched as the otehr head towards the villians base to take it down. SOmewhre along the lines Vegeta shows up as backup but early on just gets in the way. LAter the two are captured and while in Super Sayin form release enough energy that COolers main frame (only his head and slight chunks of his body was saved from the sun) and destroy the ship. In which case Vegeta leaves as quickly as he came.

Overall this is a good follow up to Coolers REvenge, however it s once again a 45 minut short. It's not truely a movie but at the same time doesn't quite fit anywhere in the story line (it looks like it takes somewhere during the Android Saga or maybe Cell). Overall it's a must buy for DBZ fans, a rentla for others.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Metal Cooler!!
Review: I saw this movie in Japanese however found that it was [utterly bad]! It is a bad conversion of the Metallic Freiza only this time with cooler. The plus sides to this film would be the constant fight that Gokou and Vegeta both Super Saiyan have with an army of metal coolers. This movie will no doubtfully be dubbed with the usualy heavy metal music that funimation has a habit of using in there movie dubs however fans will no doubtfully be able to look forward to the original japanese version on the dvd as well!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why?
Review: I see an anime like this and I wonder. Why? Why did they waste their time, and money? Why did I waste my time and money? What's the point of even making an anime feature or series if your not gonna put the time and effort into it to make it atleast tolerable?

The movie is suppose to be a sequel to the first feature with Cooler in it. The Revenge of Cooler. But the two are totally unreleated outside of the fact that Cooler is in both of them. Cooler was beaten badly by Goku in the previous film, now he's back, one with a super computer that found his scattered body floating in space. Together they become the Big Getti Star, and they travel to Namek for reasons undisclosed. They attach themselves to the planet of Namek in a parasitic fashion and enslave it's inhabitants. This is were the Z fighters come in. They're apparently on vacation and they were visiting Namek anyway, so everything works out. The fighters arrive, they fight a bunch of giant robots which obviously aren't going to be a factor, the Cooler makes his apperance as the new and improved T2 Cooler. Dipped in mercury, the new Cooler is far more powerful and while the rest of the Z fighters duke it out with weak robots they should be able to defeat handily, Goku and Cooler begin their rematch.

Some of the action sequences are very cool, I will admit. The one thing the Dragon Ball Z series will not let you down on is some good ol' fashion punching and kicking. But not even the apperance of Vegita can save this steaming pile of nonsense. The story is stupid, plain and simple, there's nothing else to call it. If your a fan of even mediocre story telling, it's stupid. The plot is forced, rushed(hence the 40 minute running time), and unrelated to any thing DB or DBZ except for the use of the characters. It makes no sense even in the fantasy world of DragonBall Z where power levels are kept secret, time lines don't exist, and a female android can give birth to a human child. The animation is average. It's not bad, but it's nothing to write home about. That goes with most all things DBZ, so that's no surprise. Maybe the production company and creators behind DBZ will finally get enough money from merchandising to spend some real cash on some good animation.

The end of the movie is the worst part. Once again DBZ movies rewrite the book on how to make a totally anti-climatic ending to a Saga or a feature. It takes the combined forces of Vegita and Goku to destroy just one Metal Cooler. When it's revealed to you that there are like a million Metal Coolers all at the same power level you begin to wonder. What are the robots the Z fighters face at the begining for? Why does Cooler attempt to use Goku and Vegita to power the Star when he has a million other fighters far more powerful? And were the hell does Vegita come from. How would he know about this as it's happening? Why can Cooler not stop Goku and Vegita from overloading the ship at the end? Questions that can't be answered. Why, because that's what bad story telling does to an already weak story. Do not rent this movie. Don't purchase this movie unless they promise you Jennifer Love Hewitt will come with it and make love to you while you watch it. Even if your over a friends house and he has it, and decides to pop it in, stop him, warn him of the risks. Just like friends don't let friends drive drunk.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why?
Review: I see an anime like this and I wonder. Why? Why did they waste their time, and money? Why did I waste my time and money? What's the point of even making an anime feature or series if your not gonna put the time and effort into it to make it atleast tolerable?

The movie is suppose to be a sequel to the first feature with Cooler in it. The Revenge of Cooler. But the two are totally unreleated outside of the fact that Cooler is in both of them. Cooler was beaten badly by Goku in the previous film, now he's back, one with a super computer that found his scattered body floating in space. Together they become the Big Getti Star, and they travel to Namek for reasons undisclosed. They attach themselves to the planet of Namek in a parasitic fashion and enslave it's inhabitants. This is were the Z fighters come in. They're apparently on vacation and they were visiting Namek anyway, so everything works out. The fighters arrive, they fight a bunch of giant robots which obviously aren't going to be a factor, the Cooler makes his apperance as the new and improved T2 Cooler. Dipped in mercury, the new Cooler is far more powerful and while the rest of the Z fighters duke it out with weak robots they should be able to defeat handily, Goku and Cooler begin their rematch.

Some of the action sequences are very cool, I will admit. The one thing the Dragon Ball Z series will not let you down on is some good ol' fashion punching and kicking. But not even the apperance of Vegita can save this steaming pile of nonsense. The story is stupid, plain and simple, there's nothing else to call it. If your a fan of even mediocre story telling, it's stupid. The plot is forced, rushed(hence the 40 minute running time), and unrelated to any thing DB or DBZ except for the use of the characters. It makes no sense even in the fantasy world of DragonBall Z where power levels are kept secret, time lines don't exist, and a female android can give birth to a human child. The animation is average. It's not bad, but it's nothing to write home about. That goes with most all things DBZ, so that's no surprise. Maybe the production company and creators behind DBZ will finally get enough money from merchandising to spend some real cash on some good animation.

The end of the movie is the worst part. Once again DBZ movies rewrite the book on how to make a totally anti-climatic ending to a Saga or a feature. It takes the combined forces of Vegita and Goku to destroy just one Metal Cooler. When it's revealed to you that there are like a million Metal Coolers all at the same power level you begin to wonder. What are the robots the Z fighters face at the begining for? Why does Cooler attempt to use Goku and Vegita to power the Star when he has a million other fighters far more powerful? And were the hell does Vegita come from. How would he know about this as it's happening? Why can Cooler not stop Goku and Vegita from overloading the ship at the end? Questions that can't be answered. Why, because that's what bad story telling does to an already weak story. Do not rent this movie. Don't purchase this movie unless they promise you Jennifer Love Hewitt will come with it and make love to you while you watch it. Even if your over a friends house and he has it, and decides to pop it in, stop him, warn him of the risks. Just like friends don't let friends drive drunk.


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