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Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler · review

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Top reader May 6, 2020 · 1 min read
↓ Not recommended
4 /10

I appreciate that these movies are keeping some minor focus, even if only for comedic value, on the minor characters like Oolong and Yajirobe. It makes me want more plain old Dragon Ball stuff, in the time before constant power levels and fifty-chapter long fight scenes forced all of the humor and fantasy into the background. Considering how unstoppably popular Dragon Ball Z was at the time, they easily could have utilized these movies to focus on the lesser characters and the ways they've grown over the years when they aren't training or anything. Instead, we get more Goku (and Vegeta this time!) fighting againsta bland villain with bland motives.

Worst of all, this movie is made impossible to reconcile with canon BECAUSE of Goku existing. This story has to take place after the Cell Saga stuff in the series due to a few factors, but... clearly that ain't it here.

Anyway, Cooler sucks, even though cyborg planetary hybrid Cooler is a neat cosmic horror concept that could have been real cool, and the plot is once again just "fighting fighting fighting." It's not the worst thing in the world I guess.

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