Dragon Ball Super: Broly Review

Anime fans the Dragon Ball franchise is an iconic anime franchise that's been a round for a long time and has spawned many films and a few TV shows but tho it was when the latest show Dragon Ball Super ended that made fans sad. There sadness can now come to an end tho as we now have the first film in that timeline and it's one that as you can tell by the title reintroduces a fan favorite character so here is my review of Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

To put it simply the plot of this movie is Frieza wants to show of Broly to Goku and Vegeta and so he takes him to earth. I really wish I could tell you more of what the story was but the fact is there's barely any story there to speak of other then what I just described and what makes it worse is that the original film to feature Broly actually had a decent story so we know the team working on this franchise are capable of coming up with a story.

Now i'm reviewing the original Japanese version of the film so starring in the film is Masako Nozawa as Goku , Ryō Horikawa as Vegeta , Bin Shimada as Broly and Ryūsei Nakao as Frieza. I admit it was hard for me to see this film and not hear the English voices just because those were the voices that not only myself but many others would have grown up with but the actors in this film are really good but in my eyes no one is going to top Sean Schemmel.

What really doesn't help this movie is the fact that it's so freaking boring i'm not kidding when I say this but the first twenty or minuets is just backstory and it's a backstory that we don't need. The reason why we don't need all that time dedicated to telling everyone Broly , Vegeta's and Goku's backstory is because we already know it so there's no point in retreading that ground. Heck I even found a natural end point for when that whole prolog should have ended.

Returning to do the animation for the film is Toei Animation and I have to say that for me the animation was easily one of the best things seen in the whole film that's not really saying alot but still. For me the animation is at it's best during the fight scenes which in my opinion is when it should be at it's best because this franchise in well known for having great looking fight scenes and there's some moments where they use CGI and it looks pretty good.

There is one thing that this film does better over Dragon Ball Z: Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan and that's Broly's backstory incase you don't know in that film he hated Goku just because Goku cried when he was a baby and that was here. Here tho his dad hates Vegeta because his dad sent Broly to a planet where he wasn't going to survive it's something that i'm glad they fixed because the old backstory is laughable at best.

This is the second Dragon Ball film to be written by it's original creator Akira Toriyama as well as the third film is which he personally oversaw it's production and it really does show because this feels like it's an extended arc of the show. That's not really a good thing since a movie shouldn't feel like that at all it should feel like a movie and not something that was edited together and then released to make some easy money.

If it seems like i'm being really hard on this film it's because i truly love this franchise your talking to the guy who would stay up late when he was a kid to watch the latest episode and yes I watched GT. So if i'm being hard on this film it's because i've seen what this franchise can be like when it's at it's best heck as well as seeing GT when it first aired I even saw Dragonball Evolution in cinema's and I have it on DVD so i've seen this franchise at it's best and it's worst.

Like I said in this review one of the things that this franchise was it's epic fights and in my opinion the fights in this movie are really well done. Heck i'd even go as far to say there the best thing about the whole movie and again like I said this is where the animation is at it's best because there's so much energy thrown into these sequences they come alive. They also have some really freaking cool moments thrown in as well so your not going to get bored when they happen.

Overall for me this film isn't the franchise at it's best but it's also not the franchise at it's worse either and I think that fans need to except that this film does have it's flaws and so that's why it's getting a 6 out of 10 from me.