Audience reviews
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Fun and different!
This was the first film where the focus truly shifted to Gohan, and this change in protagonism was very fun and refreshing to watch. After so many films and sagas centered mainly on Goku, seeing Gohan take on the main role brings a sense of novelty and even a certain charm, especially considering the potential the character had at that point in the story.
The plot takes place shortly after the events of the Cell Saga, an important moment both for Gohan's development and for the overall direction of the Dragon Ball story. Precisely for this reason, it wouldn't be strange if this film were considered canonical, since the events, the setting, and even the power levels make perfect sense within the chronological period in which it supposedly fits. Nothing here seems exagge…
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Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound is an epic action fest with some great moments for our underutilized characters, which is basically Tournament of Power in Z.
Taking place after the defeat of cell, Goku not being present actually benefited a ton. A disappointing formula was always the other characters getting pushed aside so Goku could get the main spotlight (except for Android 13 and Dead Zone, which had amazing group battles). And I get it- these are 50 minute movies and they wanna play it safe. (Lord Slug and Broly LSSJ had slightly different conclusions but were both written incredibly stupid) However the main characters complete absence in these fights gives the others a chance to shine too.
A tournament with fighters coming from across the universe is formed, but quickly turns south a…
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Dragon Ball Z Movie 9 Bojack Unbound takes place shortly after the defeat of Cell, and is one of few movies that can fit into the main story. To celebrate the birthday of his son, Mr Money holds a tournament where the winner can challenge Mr Satan. However, your average space invader appears to ruin everything. It is up to the Z fighters to stop them and safe Earth.
This movie is one of few where Yamcha and Tenshinhan take part in and the film does a good job utilizing them especially during the tournament part. The movie uses humor in a good way too especially with the scene with Yamcha who like usual gets humiliated, but not in a disrespectful way. While Tenshinhan had an impressive showing fighting a Super Saiyan tier opponent respecting his strength.
Even when facing opponents far abo…
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Dragon Ball Z Movie 09, Bojack: Unbound, is a masterpiece of a movie when compared to the Dragon ball T.V series. For the sake of this review, Bojack: Unbound will be rated, assuming that those who have watched this movie, are up to date with the T.V show.
Not to point out the obvious, but I think that it goes without say that anything dragon ball Z (T.V series) related, will not be taken into consideration when writing this review, as this is only a small branch taken out of the dragon ball franchise. This means that the timeline, and characters in the movie should be already understood by the viewer, assuming that they are up to date.
Characters: All main characters from the cell arc (previous season of the show) are apparent, all of them fill out their purpose appropriately in the mov…
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The first one without Goku being in the story turns out to be the best one yet, probably because the story is unable to rely on constant deus ex machina spirit bomb stuff (aside from the almost-literal deus ex machina found near the end, but whatever).
Most of the movie is a fun tournament where all the characters get to beat each other up and have races and tell jokes. This part is great. You know the entire time that it's gonna get ruined by a boring fight scene with boring villains, but it's great while it lasts.
Like with Broly, the very fact it mixes up the formula makes it a whole lot more interesting than usual. Yeah, it still devolves into mindless fighting, but the stakes are more fun when you know Goku can't save the day (mostly). There's a couple REALLY iffy moments in the cl…
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Honestly, this is the best Dragonball movie out there.
Story:
The story itself is nothing to write home about. It does have the problem of characters not fully powering up at the start of a fight, in order to create some artificial drama. But all of the dragon ball movies have that problem. I kind of like the flow of this movie better than a lot of them though. Starts off with a tournament that eventually goes awry because some villains show up. A lot of the comedy here works surprisingly well, better than most of the movies.
Art & Sound:
The art is fantastic for something from 1993. Period.
The sound is good, but I prefer the Falconer replacement, and unfortunately this movie has very little (none?) of that. Regardless, I still enjoyed what it had, especially the climax.
Characters:…
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Bojack: Unbound is the ninth movie in the long running Dragon Ball Z series, and I have to say it's not only among my most hated movies in the franchise, but also in the anime genre altogether. Even for a DBZ movie, there is no imagination or any attempt whatsoever to at least make the already beaten path the least bit tolerable. It's so by the numbers that after watching the first eight movies, you can actually create a checklist and start marking off plot related elements as you go.
After a few very boring fights and mind-numbingly lame comedy; Trunks, Gohan, and Krillin advance in the tournament and leave for a new area to continue fighting. From there they meet Bojack, his minions, and then several brawls occur. DBZ is an all out action anime, this is something we all know and there'…
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I grew up with Dragon Ball Z, but for some absurd reason it took me until 2014 to watch the Bojack movie which is the 9th movie in the Dragon Ball Z franchise. There are numerous Dragon Ball Z movies out there that are pretty bad or left me feeling it could of been better, but let me tell you that the Bojack movie is not one of those Bio-Broly failures. The movie started out with the richest guy in the world offering a huge sum of money to whoever can win his global tournament and then get the honor of facing the world champion Hercule. While it should be obvious to you viewers who the top dogs will be, you may be amused to see a random finding his way into the mix! Though, avoiding spoilers that is all that needs to be said about the tournament.
Now, enter the space pirate Bojack. The ma…
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Like any other DBZ movie, there will be an occasion or activity, people will gathered or participate then something bad will happen, as always the DBZ Warriors will always be there except for Goku this time, he's dead.
What I don't like about DBZ is when they make Vegeta character look like weak. He's the 2nd strongest main character (for me) but everytime or even when Goku is dead, there was someone in his heritage would always defeat the enemy/ies, for example Gohan. Goku found out that a half saiyan-half earthling is stronger than pure blood saiyan but Trunks was also a half saiyan-earthling but why is he appears to be weaker or it seems to be tahn Gohan in this movie. That's what I hate about the author of DBZ.
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