Doragon bôru Z: Sûpâ saiyajin da Son Gokû
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: It's not that bad.
This is one of the worst DB Z movies but non of them sucked so this is a pretty good movie.
I liked the storyline , a namek (like Picolo)wants to turn Earth in a spaceship and he starts by clouding the sky.
After the intro they start fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting and when they finish fighting they fight some more.
What sucked in this movie was the final battle.
That was the most boring part of the movie.
Goku fights the namek, who is not a namek but a super namek which means that he's as big as the statue of liberty, turns into a Super Sayan beats the crap out of the huge super namek and clears the sky.
Thats about it.
If it wasn't for that ending the movie would have got a 8.5 but because of the huge super namek sh*t i say 7.7.
Just alright.
As a huge "Dragonball Z" fan, I thought this wasn't that good.
It was just typical of the movies.
It did seem like just a long episode of the show, albeit not that long.
I'll never understand how these movies got released in theaters with such short running times.
Anyway, this movie features a villain named Lord Slug coming to Earth and...that's about it.
It's not bad.It's just that there's nothing unique about it.
Villains like Cooler and Broly were much more interesting.
Cooler was uh, cooler, hee hee.
Still, there are some twists and storytelling and it's a completely harmless movie.
If you want a better DBZ movie, you probably are better off watching the other films.
Of course, it's no "Dragonball: Evolution"...
Enjoy this more than DBZ Kai. I actually like this more than the recently Remake of the series (Kai) which released on the channel "Kix", so anyways this film was what I always wanted, my favourite rock band "Disturbed" composed some songs in it and the voice cast from Kai in it (except for Gohan and Bulma I think), don't know why people don't like the English ver, I just think that the rock music fits in with all the action and I couldn't be bothered watching it in Japanese because I couldn't understand it, I can't be bothered reading the subtitles, Goku has a stupid chipmunk voice and the cr*p music.
It's just my opinion so if you want to watch it in Japanese thats fine, but the English offers more if your into rock and anime..
Fast paced DBZ adventure..
I enjoyed this Dragonball Z film, it did not have quite the story or length as the first film featuring Broly, but it makes up for this fact by being fast paced.
It is especially fast paced when compared to "The World's Strongest" and "Tree of Might".
The English version I got of this one also did a pretty good job of syncing a rather good rock soundtrack to this one.
The film has a mysterious alien force has descended upon Earth.
Its goal, to turn the Earth into a spaceship, the villain a being known as Lord Slug.
Enough with the introductions let the fighting begin.
There are your typical fights with characters such as Krillin and Gohan.
Piccolo also shows up to lend a hand.
Still, most of the others do not do so well and then Goku shows and proceeds to wipe the floor with all the baddies.
That is until he faces Lord Slug who gives him one heck of a nice fight.
I am guessing this took place right before Goku turned Super Saiyan for the first time in the series as they sort of have a brief transformation of Goku to a state that is not quite Super Saiyan.
All in all it is a rather good movie, the action is fast and the rock music soundtrack in the English version is just so perfect for this one.
They would try again to do that in the Cooler movie, but it doesn't quite work in that one..
Pretty nice, but the dubbed version sucks!.
I watched the dubbed version of this movie first, so I'll begin with it.
First of all I would like to state that the music in the American version was simply atrocious and even a bit insulting for DBZ.
The dub voices are slightly better than the ones from Ocean Group but still aren't very good.
At least none of them are as annoying as most of the Ocean voices were.The thing I most liked about the original version was the music.
Superb, as always.
The Japanese voices are really cool (also as always), although Goku's voice is quite annoying and too feminine.
I think they should have replaced Masako Nozawa with a male actor for DBZ.Anyway, on to the plot - certainly not as nice as the ones of the previous movies, but still better than the plots of most animes and since it's DBZ it's pretty good.
But they used an almost totally different definition for the term "Super Namekian" than they did in the series.I recommend the previous three movies more than this one - not only because they have better plots, also because the dubbed versions have the original music score in them, because of which I'm willing to put up with the annoying voices..
Not very good.
Well, this is the fourth of the DragonBall Z movies, and its a stinker.
The fight scenes are great, and the new music used in the US release adds an edge, but overall, the plot is childish.
I mean, look at it: The indestructible Namekian is brought down by one boys ability to whistle.
What the heck?!
You want something good, go see Coolers Revenge..
Arguably one of the worst Dragon Ball Z movies ever made.
This is the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie released during the series Japanese TV run.
A planetoid is averted by Goku and Krillin and later explodes and descending upon it is a band of sun-sensitive alien nomads led by an aging Super Namek named Slug, who uses the Dragon Balls to regain his youth and plans to terrafreeze Earth into a starship.
Defending the planet are Goku, Krillin, Piccolo, and Gohan.
This movie suffers from an extremely shallow and ill-conceived plot.
It seems that this movie's screenwriter did this movie's story in a very hurried and half-hearted effort (which made a lot of sense, considering that by this point, Toei Animation called for 2 Dragon Ball Z movies to be released annually in March and July to be screened at Toei's annual anime fairs and in theaters).
Nearly ever aspect of this movie looked like it was put together without much thought, including the villains, the plot, the animation (from time to time), and in many of the scenes such as how Slug is stopped.
The plot often repeats elements found in the previous DBZ movie, Earth's Ultimate Deciding Battle a.k.a. The Tree Of Might.
This DBZ movie, purely seen as a regular movie, is one of the worst.
If you are a hardcore Dragon Ball Z fan, I'm sure you will find it at least watchable.GRADE: 1 out of 5 stars.
The subtitled version is the best.
I have watched the kiddy American version of Dbz and I have to say that the original Japanese versions are much better (of course the Japanese created Dbz).Not only that, the one American writer should have pointed out that the dubbed version of Dbz and their movies cut out several scenes, and insert their own corny and kiddy dialouge instead of the original Japanese language.Goku, Kuririn , Mr. Piccolo are at the super best when you watch them subtitled.The movie rocks.Oh yeah, I have all dbz from 1-13 all uncut.
Eat your heart out all English dbz fans, because Cartoon Network has still showed the same mediocre English for 5 years now..
Mediocre but highly entertaining DBZ flick..
While meditating near a waterfall, Piccolo senses great danger coming to Earth.
And that's another alien invasion lead by Lord Slug.
The last decedent of the extinct Super Nameks.
A more powerful type of Nameks that were once living on Planet Namek.
Lord Slug intends to collect the Dragon Balls to gain eternal youth and freeze the entire planet to claim his own after being exiled for so long from his old planet.
The Z Warriors try with all their might, but all hope seems lost after seeing what a Super Namek can do.
But that's not the case when Goku finds a way to defeat this green menace.The story is average and with the movie only being 46 minutes long.
It could of been awesome if it were longer than that.
If that happened then it would include a whole lot more to the story.
But instead it feels like watching a episode like the previous few movies of DBZ.It's another alternate storyline of the TV series, and it mostly takes place after the "Tree of Might film" cause this one doesn't fit anywhere in the any of the TV series sagas.Overrall it's a good flick, but not the best Dragon Ball movie compared to the others.
Only recommended to the fans only while it'll be turn done by the non-fans..
Highly Underrated.
I really don't see why people don't like this movie.
I did like it and it was finally a Dragon Ball Z movie that I liked every aspect of.
Lord Slug was a pretty cool villain and beat Goku pretty bad.
Actually I liked the beating.
My favorite part was when Goku became a sort of Super Sayian.
I call it that cause all that happened was his hair went up like a SS and his eye color left, almost Kaioken, not the blonde hair like the regular one.
The animation was cool, going into the much better animation that came into the show at the time of this movie.
The voices were great too.
These were the voices that made the characters who they are.
Goku and Gohan especially..
The best one yet.
Out of all the DBZ movies I've seen so far, this has the best balance.
A great balance of humor, heart, and action that the show always had.
Even though Lord Slug has no real introduction, he still comes off as a major threat, and I liked how Goku had to go False Super Saiyan to really put a dent in him.
It even works in some references to the Saiyan and King Piccolo Sagas, which is fun.
A great all-around DBZ movie, and the best one I've seen yet..
DBZ Movie 4: King Picc...I mean, "Lord Slug"....
Where the first three DBZ movies gave fans a lot of what they wanted (including the mind-blowing action sequences that were used in the opening credits for the show, "Rock the Dragon!"), the fourth movie, "Lord Slug," is a major step down, especially considering that they should be a lot more powerful by now.The plot is as follows: A killer comet or some such space rock is headed for Earth, somehow causing a bunch of natural disasters in the process.
Just when it seems that all hope is lost, though, the meteor is diverted...only for a new threat to descend on Earth from the asteroid.Enter Lord Slug, the enigmatic tyrant from beyond the stars who has come to claim the Dragon Balls and turn Earth into his new frozen, barren homeworld.
It's up to Goku and co.
to stop him!
I remember getting this on VHS when Mom and I were at Target (I don't remember which one of us actually paid for it though lol).
It was this one and "Big Daddy," and unfortunately the tape has since been eaten by my cheap VCR so I can no longer watch it.
It's decent for an action film (though nowhere near the first 3 movies), and the fight sequences, while lacking the intensity of its predecessors, are at least memorable.
This so-so direct-to-video movie is somewhat redeemed by a heavy metal-type soundtrack including Disturbed and what's-their-faces.
(Of course, the version which aired on Toonami had a different soundtrack, which made it feel kinda like a let-down.) This movie tends to suffer from what I call "GT Syndrome." The fights are okay, but the animation and frankly the movie as a whole is bland and kind of rushed, even compared to other movies in the series.
Its place in the main timeline is also a question for the fans, although there is the possibility that it takes place after Goku arrives back from space and he simply hasn't learned to control his SS powers yet.
The overall plot is okay and even the threat to the planet seems halfway plausible (the aliens in space-suits, their takeover of the planet), but the end seems kind of tacky (think "Tree of Might," only instead the tree is a mass of clouds).
Even the main villain isn't that original...Highlight: Goku transforming into something that King Kai abruptly calls a "Super Saiyan," but it doesn't look like a Super Saiyan, act like a Super Saiyan, or seem half as strong as a Super Saiyan.
Wikipedia calls it an "Enraged Super Saiyan," or "1/2 Super Saiyan," an SS transformation driven by pure rage which pushes him about halfway into it.Final ruling: Basically sets the bar even lower for DBZ movies.
It doesn't fit in the timeline, the animation is so-so, and it's not even as fun to watch as most of the other movies.
Basically, only for those who have the money to waste and/or are hardcore fans.
(Why release 2 movies a year if this is the end result?).
The Best at the Point.
This was the best DBZ movie that was ever made at the time of it's release.
While the first three weren't that great and the fourth was the in my opinion the awakening of the films, the fifth was when the movies came into their own.
Cooler is a really cool villain and much better then Frieza in a lot of ways, (1 way is he doesn't sound like an old woman who smoke for 50 years)Cooler is also the first really awesome villain in the films.
Probably one of the best in the whole DB franchise.
He's everything that Frieza should have been.
Also I like how Goku still couldn't go Super Sayian whenever he pleased and still needed anger to do it.
All in all I really enjoyed this movie and recommend it..
My first review..
SPOILERS AHOY, MATEYS!
Welcome to my first review.
Well, let's cut to the chase.
I am a Dragonball/Z/Gt fan.
I was skeptic about buying this on DVD, when I was told it was a sucky movie.
I decided to buy the uncut version on DVD, and I'm glad I did!
It is about when an asteroid is about to strike earth.
No problemo, Goku can just blast it to bits, right?
WRONG!!!!
It is inhabited with life forms, and Goku doesn't want to hurt the extraterrestrials, yet if he doesn't, everyone on earth will die.
Rather thorny situation.....
Until the rock changes course, and explodes, but not before a spaceship speeds out of it.
Then emerges LORD SLUG and his minions!
He is the ultimate enemy, and is tearing Goku and hes friends apart!
Will earth fall at the hands of this villian?
Not before slug and Goku turnb to their uuber-cool super forms for one final deathmatch in the ruined city!
Don't miss this one if you're a DBZ fan!
If you buy it, be sure you get the uncut PG-13 version, the edited for tv one is just plain sorry.10/10.
10 stars.
(Warning Spoilers)this a great dragon ball z movie, lord slug comes to terra freeze earth and make it a satilite, this is an awesome movie and i recommend it for true dragon ball z fansstars(1-10)**********.
Great Hidden Dragonball Gem not yet seen by US DBZ Viewers.
I am very surprised that none of the so-called Dragonballz experts have commented on this movie.This is the 4th Dragonballz movie after the Tree Of Might in 1990.
A great new DBZ movie focusing on a Namek Alien called Lord Slug who wants the 7 dragonballs for everlasting youth, so he will never die and cannot die.The DBZ Anime has incredible effects that would make US Animators fall flat on their behinds.
I like the way they made a big Getta Star Spaceship descend on the earth, illuminating the threat that has struck the earth.Gohan, Oolong, and Bulma head off to see this new ship and are shocked to see that the Space Men by Lord Slugh have captured many people on Earth and made their slaves.Gohan still maturing after his battle with Vegita in the Dragonballz series and Raddittsu, tries to interfere from the Space Men conquering the earth, and even manages to catch the eye of Lord Slug who is watching everything from his hologramic computer.Goku, Piccolo, Kuririn, are all in this movies and it has many great battle scenes.One of them is when a henchman who is part leech tries to kill Goku and Piccollo but is defeated.The great effects are when Lord Slug becomes 50 feet tall and tries to kill Goku.I am such a fan of Dragonballz that I have uploaded a site reviewing all the episodes and movies including the originall Dragonball series.10 stars,way better than American depictions of Dragonballz.