Doragon bôru Z: Tobikkiri no saikyô tai saikyô
Tags: good versus evil, violence

Plot synopsis:
Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball anime, with Son Goku as a young adult and father to his son Gohan. A humanoid alien named Raditz arrives on Earth in a spacecraft and tracks down Goku, revealing to him that he is his long-lost big brother and that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin). The Saiyans had sent Goku (originally named "Kakarrot") to Earth as an infant to conquer the planet for them, but he suffered a severe head injury soon after his arrival and lost all memory of his mission, as well as his blood-thirsty Saiyan nature. Goku refuses to help Raditz continue the mission, which results in Raditz kidnapping Gohan. Goku decides to team up with his former enemy Piccolo in order to defeat Raditz and save his son, while sacrificing his own life in the process. In the afterlife, Goku trains under Kaiō-sama until he is revived by the Dragon Balls a year later in order to save the Earth from Raditz' comrades; Nappa and the Saiyan prince Vegeta. During the battle Piccolo is killed, along with Goku's allies Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Chaozu, and the Dragon Balls cease to exist because of Piccolo's death. Goku arrives at the battlefield late, but avenges his fallen friends by defeating Nappa with his new level of power. Vegeta himself enters into the battle with Goku and after numerous clashes Goku manages to defeat him as well, with the help of Gohan and his best friend Kuririn. At Goku's request, they spare Vegeta's life and allow him to escape Earth. During the battle, Kuririn overhears Vegeta mentioning the original set of Dragon Balls from Piccolo's home planet Namek (ナメック星, Namekku-sei). While Goku recovers from his injuries at the hospital, Gohan, Kuririn and Goku's oldest friend Bulma depart for Namek in order to use these Dragon Balls to revive their dead friends. However, they discover that Vegeta's superior, the galactic tyrant Lord Freeza, is already there, seeking the Dragon Balls to be granted eternal life. A fully healed Vegeta arrives on Namek as well, seeking the Dragon Balls for himself, which leads to several battles between him and Freeza's henchmen. Realizing he is overpowered, Vegeta teams up with Gohan and Kuririn to fight the Ginyu Force, a team of mercenaries summoned by Freeza. After Goku finally arrives on Namek, the epic battle with Freeza himself comes to a close when Goku transforms into a fabled Super Saiyan (超サイヤ人, Sūpā Saiya-jin) and defeats him.
Upon his return to Earth a year later, Goku encounters a time traveler named Trunks, the future son of Bulma and Vegeta, who warns Goku that two Artificial Humans (人造人間, Jinzōningen, lit. "Artificial Humans") will appear three years later, seeking revenge against Goku for destroying the Red Ribbon Army when he was a child. During this time, an evil life form called Cell emerges and after absorbing two of the Artificial Humans to achieve his "perfect form," holds his own fighting tournament to decide the fate of the Earth, called the "Cell Games". After Goku sacrifices his own life a second time, to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by defeating Cell after ascending to the second level of Super Saiyan. Seven years later Goku, who has been briefly revived for one day and meets his youngest son Goten, and his allies are drawn into a fight by the Kaioshin against a magical being named Majin Buu. After numerous battles resulting in the destruction and recreation of the Earth, Goku (whose life is permanently restored by the Elder Kaioshin) destroys Majin Buu with a Genki Dama attack containing the energy of everyone on Earth. Goku makes a wish for Buu to be reincarnated as a good person and ten years later, at another martial arts tournament, Goku meets Buu's human reincarnation, Uub. Leaving the match between them unfinished, Goku departs with Uub to train him to become Earth's new defender.

Review: Frieza's brother revealed to be one cool customer..
This film features the first of two appearances of Cooler, the older brother of Frieza.
A creature that is going to go after the one who killed his brother though he does not really care all that much for his younger sibling.
This one like the previous Z movie "Lord Slug" tried to sync a rocking soundtrack to the movie.
However, this one had mixed results at best as they just did not do the job of the previous film.
Also annoying on the American voice track is the strange Cooler henchman who for some reason is dubbed as having a French accent.
You listen to the Japanese track and he is not voiced any differently than any other character and while this may make him a bit more unique in the dubbers minds to me it makes him very annoying.
The story has the gang all camping and of course their camping trip is interrupted by the arrival of Cooler and his men.
Some good fights here and there, but also the need for more development a lot of these Z movies need.
The final fight is a bit okay, and a bit to over quickly.
Though you do get to see a fifth stage of the Frieza clan, though to me it just looked a lot like stage three to me.
Once again though Vegeta is sadly absent from the movie, and considering how popular he is it is sad that he was in so few of the movies..
great dragon ball z movie well done.
Dragon ball z cooler revenge was awesome movie awesome fights cool soundtrack its is so awesome you have to watch it.
An excellent DBZ movie..
While I don't feel like Cooler's Revenge is quite as good as Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan, this movie had just the same effect.
Cooler's revenge does a great job of doing a mini-saga with a new villain, full with character development, motivations, and a good ending.Many people in the DBZ fandom see Cooler as a great villain, and while I don't like him as much as some of the main villains, he is good enough to warrant his own movie.This movie also confirmed the joke that Frieza's clan is all named after cold things; Frieza, Cooler, King Cold, etc....Really...?.
Maybe the best so far.
I think this is probably my favorite of the "Dragonball Z" movies before the new longer ones came out.
It's mostly because I really do enjoy the notion of Freiza's brother appearing.
I admit that it doesn't make much sense, because it would cause you to ask why Cooler doesn't want to avenge his father, King Kold.
He obviously has more respect towards him than his brother.
You could argue that he didn't find out about Freiza being killed by Future Trunks later, but he should have at least known that.
This is good probably because of the film's beginning.I just find it interesting where they set up the mythology of the series.
Cooler is great as a villain and I really do like his final form.
His voice is very nice and deep and he truly comes off as intimidating here.
It's great to see Piccolo do a lot of damage to Cooler's henchman.
By giving Cooler minions, it sets him up as a bigger villain.
I can see why this guy had another movie based on him.
The action is nice and epic and has most of what made the classic show so great.
Great samurai-like battle sequences, interesting villain, more focus on the other heroes.
This is the fifth Dragon Ball Z movie to be released during the series' Japanese TV run.
When Cooler finds out that his brother Frieza was defeated by a Saiyan, he and his three henchmen go to Earth to seek revenge and destroy the planet as Piccolo, Gohan, and Krillin attempt to help an injured Goku get his strength back and defend the Earth.
This movie was an improvement over the lasr DBZ movie as the plot centered around a villain closely related to a major villain in the DBZ TV series.
This DBZ movie attempts to try some new things, such as putting more of a focus on Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan in the battles and spicing the battle sequences with samurai-film-like elements.
As DBZ fans will enjoy the battles and the villain, this DBZ movie's plot suffers from being a bit shallow as it only focuses on the villain's plan to destroy Earth.
Also, DBZ fans may be a bit disappointed by the movie's short running time of 47 minutes.GRADE: 2.5 out of 5.
Well Done DBZ movie.
One of my all-time favorite DBZ films, telling the tale of Cooler, Frieze's older brother.
Apparently he gets news of his sibling's demise at the hands of all people a Saiyan and he sets out to avenge him.
I enjoy the humor very much and this must be the final film to feature Gohan's pet dragon, Icarus.
Gotta love that cute little thing (lol).
Sean Schemmel voices Son Goku while Andrew Chandler is Cooler, fine performances.The transformations in this movie are incredibly sick, like Cooler reaching his fourth form and this film also features the debut of Super Saiyan Goku.
That scene alone is my favorite among the whole film, the music blending perfectly.
In fact, there's goes another reason to love this addition: the hard-core rock serving as its score.
Featuring songs by Drowning Pool, Breaking Point, and American Pearl, among others.
My favorite songs would most likely be "Change" by Deftones and "Revelation" by American Pearl.
The action is non-stop and it amazes me how the tide of the battle switches around so much.
First Goku's anger seems to give Cooler trouble, who can barely counter his moves.
Whether he is in fact taking it seriously or not, good old Goku appears to be in control of the battle.
But then Cooler transforms and begins to tear our hero apart with considerable ease.
It can be assumed Goku was using the 20X Kaioken, seeing as that's how far he'd advanced up to that point in season three (Episode 92), and yet Cooler flies straight through his Kamehame-Ha beam as if it were a mist.
Even Frieza struggled to hold this attack back, leaving his hand burned.
But then it appears Goku's Super Saiyan power level has risen since Namek because he defeats Cooler in three blows.
In fact, Cooler can't even keep up with his movements at all.Just something inquisitive fans might ponder.
Oh yeah, Piccolo is a bad-ass in the movie!!
That's the thing that annoys me about the last two films.
Yes, the saiyans are the sh*t but you can't leave out principle characters!!.
After defeating the evil planet conquer Freiza, Goku decide to go on vacation.
But he meets another evil planet conquer, Cooler, Freiza's older brother!.
I'm a big fan of dragonball and dragonball Z and this is the 5th of 12 DBZ movie spin-offs.
And it's also one of the best!
This and any DBZ movie is strictly for fans.
All the dbz movies are very similar, a powerful villain and his henchmen, the villain's super transformation, and their all about 45minutes long.
Also the confusing continuity that's in the dbz movies.
It's hard to say if this movie is cannon to the TV series, the continuity between the movies and TV series is very confusing, because in some ways the continuity fits, other ways not.
Well in this story Freiza was killed on Namek, he was not yet or never was brought back to life by his dad,King Cold.
Goku came back to earth soon after wards, before the arrival of Garlic Jr. and the androids.
But what makes this movie better then other dbz movies is that it has a great villain, Cooler.
The plot is simple and predictable but it was a good idea by dbz creator Akyria Toiyami of making Freiza have a brother and making him a cool(pun intended) character.
First I like his name, Cooler aka Coola.
I like his look, he looks like both Freiza and his dad but he's kind of handsome in a alien kind of way.
His English voice is perfect with his look.
I like his personality, he's evil and arrogant like his dad & brother but he seems to have a more no nonsense attitude while Freiza prolonged a lot stuff.
Also Cooler seems to be more hands on while Freiza let his henchman do his work.
But I think it dosen't make sense that Cooler has only three henchmen while Freiza had an entire army but it's possible he has an army we don't see and they only briefly explain his role in the evil family business, apparently Cooler & Freiza have their own domains in the galaxy, made clear by Cooler saying "Freiza's the one in charge of this quadrant" & "I got seven planets to destroy by the end of the day" but since he's only in this one movie they don't explain him more then they need to.
Cooler's special forces, Armored Squardan, are pretty cool.
I like the leader Saiza.
I like Cooler's relationship with Freiza, the two were rivals and Cooler's so cold hearted he dosen't even care about his brother's death just how it disgraced his family name.
The fights in this movie are really good.
Cooler's 4th transformation is great, he looks like a football player from hell and Goku's transformation to super saiyan works well into the story.
How Goku defeats Cooler is great.
My favorite part is the opening,where Cooler makes a pit stop to see Freiza destroy planet Vegeta, great way to introduce him and it comes full circle at the end.
The English dubbed version might be better then the original Japanese version with better dialog and I love the heavy metal music that plays through out the story.
Cooler is my favorite dbz movie villain and I'm glad they brought him back for a sequel.
A dbz classic!.
Could've been it's own saga.
A little short, but man did they do a lot with the time they had.
With more of a focus on action and suspense than comedy, "Cooler's Revenge" can honestly hold it's own against the entire Frieza Saga.
Sure their characters might be exact clones of each other, but this does a great job of building off of what happened on Namek.
The action's great, and there's no filler at all, everything works here.
Two fantastic DBZ movies in a row, hopefully there's more to come from these.