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Archive Project - August 5, 2014 - DBZ Battle of Gods Review

DragonBall Z: Battle of Gods, 2014. Akira Toriyama 85 Minutes Watch the Teaser Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJHZekAz3Q&list=FLTPp050rjx1yapFW2pko3pQ&index=27 Tonight marks the opening of the limited one week run of long awaited return of DragonBall Z in it's first major motion picture for nearly twenty years! I'm going to review the movie but first I need to do something of a short retrospective on the series as a whole for either of my readers that hasn't seen nor heard of DragonBall before. Beginning life in the 1980s as a Japanese Comic book, DragonBall was born into the world into that moment when Martial Arts was the coolest thing ever. The story centers around a strange young boy named Goku, a naive little boy that lives in the woods who strangely enough has a monkey tale. After being discovered by Bulma, a budding young scientist who is on a quest for a series of magical artifacts known as the Dragon Balls, Goku begins a journey around the world to become a martial arts master. On his journey he meets many friends such as a desert bandit named Yamcha, a monk named Krillin and a rival martial artist named Tien. He also faces many enemies who seek the same artifacts sought by Bulma such as the idiotic Emperor Pelof and the Demon King Piccolo. After the series concluded a sequel series titled DragonBall Z was created to continue the series after Goku has grown up into an adult, gotten married and raised a young child named Gohan. DragonBall Z is by far the more fondly remembered of the three series (a subsequent third series called DragonBall GT was created but isn't commonly well thought of). DBZ was brought to the West as part of Cartoon Network's famed Toonami programming block in the late 90s/early 2000s. Its reputation skyrocketed amongst young people as part of the first wave of mainstream western anime fandom. DragonBall unfortunately never quite got the coverage as DBZ. In many aspects however the original DB had advantages over the subsequent series. Not to degrade how good DBZ is but DB had significantly better writing cops on hand. DBZ took a greater focus on action, with simplified storytelling and character motivations. It also dropped a lot of the more childish absurdist-fantasy elements of the original series in favor of a more focused cast of characters. Thats not a complaint really, it does work to make a compelling story, but on an intellectual level DBZ isn't as fascinating. It is however ridiculously awesome and fun to watch. DragonBall Z remains to this day a stable of the genre that most fans have a special place in their hearts for. Heck as i'm writing this now i've got my Season 2 Blu-ray playing on my Playstation right now! As most ultra-successful animes do, DBZ inspired a number of feature films promote the show. I've yet to see all of them, but in my personal opinion the best of them work at their best when they are doing world building and/or present genuinely compelling drama. Fusion Reborn, Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan and the first Cooler movie are among my favorites while Tree of Might and Lord Slug don't do much for me… With that out of the way, DragonBall Z: Battle of Gods holds significance as the first movie conceived by the show's creator Akira Toriayama since he left after the compilation of DBZ, just before DBGT. There have been some works in the DragonBall universe to come out in the last several years such as DragonBall Z Kai, a full series reedit that cuts out all of the annoying filler that fanboys love for some reason, as well as a couple decent specials. BoG however is a return to form of the series. A deliberate homage to the original series with nods to the best of DB and DBZ from the mind of it's original creator. As a movie, its pretty dang good! One part light hearted comedy, one part doomsday scenario, all anime! Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the events of the series finale story-arc, a powerful Deity known as the God of Destruction or Beerus has sought out Goku believing his power to be that equaling a fellow Deity's. When it turns out he is not, Beerus travels to Earth to find Goku's allies in an attempt to find the one with Godlike power. On a pure comedic and action-packed level, the movie works really well! Its not quite Oscar material but its directly paying homage to itself in a really entertaining way. If anything, BoG has some of the best writing chops that the series has brought to the table since the end of DragonBall. I was actually pretty surprised by how the movie chose to play out it's story arc with the villain. Its was fascinating and caught me off guard. The action of course.. well its a DBZ movie! Its exciting, colorful, ridiculous and fun to watch! Everything I wanted from it! The only major flaw I found was that of a tonal issue around the middle of the movie. The first half is a lot of comedy and character interaction but when the movie switches from party at Bulma's to Doomsday Martial arts fight, it does so rather swiftly and in a way that detracts from the tension of the fight. Granted within ten minutes you won't care because the fight does pick up. It just bothered me that for the first few minutes of the doomsday brawl I wasn't all that invested. Overall though if you like me are a longtime fan of the DragonBall franchise you will love the heck out of Battle of Gods! Definitely set aside time this week and check it out before it leaves theaters! If you've never checked out the series before i'd definitely recommend you to it! There are plenty of free anime sights across the Web like AnimeFreak or dbz.tv where you can watch it for free but if you wanna see it on the big screen you can buy the first season of DragonBall Z on DVD/Bluray at Best Buy for about $20.00. Definitely check it out! Its a whole lot of ridiculous, absurd fun! Thank you for reading! Live long and prosper!