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I'm not the biggest Dragon Ball Z fan, but when my cousin wanted to watch "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" with me, I decided to give it a shot. And I'm glad I did. "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is packed with high-octane and colorful action, warmhearted humor, and even some emotion and heart. Don't believe me? Read on!
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" hooked me almost right off the bat. The animation was crisp, colorful, and clear, and the story was surprisingly gripping. In the first ten to fifteen minutes you're introduced to plot points including themes such as paranoia, planetary domination, and betrayal. And as if that wasn't enough to grip me, at a certain point I even found my eyes starting to swell up; my cousin looked over to me, asking, "Are you going to cry?" And I wiped my eyes and said, "I might."
So, "Broly" has high-quality animation, and a surprisingly well thought out plot - what else does it have going for it? For one, the soundtrack is, simply, epic. The music is big and brash and loud, and enhances the intensity of the action, as well as adds to the emotional beats.
Also, the movie has a really good sense of humor throughout that never seems overly ridiculous or cartoony; there are multiple subtle lines of dialogue or sly actions that the characters make that add a real personality to this movie, never contrasting negatively against the semi-dark plot. Sure, there is comedy, but it doesn't feel shoehorned for mass audience appeal - everything feels surprisingly natural.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is a genuinely good film. There's enough cinematic meat for you to chew on with its soundtrack and beautiful, fluid animation, and especially with its story - the movie takes its time setting up the main plot, introducing characters and storylines that you'll want to see through to completion, even if you're not a huge fan of DBZ.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" hooked me almost right off the bat. The animation was crisp, colorful, and clear, and the story was surprisingly gripping. In the first ten to fifteen minutes you're introduced to plot points including themes such as paranoia, planetary domination, and betrayal. And as if that wasn't enough to grip me, at a certain point I even found my eyes starting to swell up; my cousin looked over to me, asking, "Are you going to cry?" And I wiped my eyes and said, "I might."
So, "Broly" has high-quality animation, and a surprisingly well thought out plot - what else does it have going for it? For one, the soundtrack is, simply, epic. The music is big and brash and loud, and enhances the intensity of the action, as well as adds to the emotional beats.
Also, the movie has a really good sense of humor throughout that never seems overly ridiculous or cartoony; there are multiple subtle lines of dialogue or sly actions that the characters make that add a real personality to this movie, never contrasting negatively against the semi-dark plot. Sure, there is comedy, but it doesn't feel shoehorned for mass audience appeal - everything feels surprisingly natural.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is a genuinely good film. There's enough cinematic meat for you to chew on with its soundtrack and beautiful, fluid animation, and especially with its story - the movie takes its time setting up the main plot, introducing characters and storylines that you'll want to see through to completion, even if you're not a huge fan of DBZ.
- darkreignn
- Jan 17, 2021
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- sudharsan-sudha12
- Dec 13, 2018
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One of the best dragon ball movies i had the pleasure of seeing from the art atyle to the fighting it is breathtaking the story of planet vegetas downfall to the backstory of Broly which now makes sence it was amazing.
" THIS IS A NON SPOILER REVIEW"
Review:-
This is an absolute gem of a movie. Modern Dragon ball can't get any better than this. It was really phenomenol.
Here a few key features of the movie
(i) PLOT :
The movie is divided into 2 phases. The "Past&The Present". The start of the movie is all about the history of the saiyans. The movie does a half an hour long depiction of the history of the saiyans. The past is mostly based off "DB MINUS" with a few tid bits from the "Bardock: The Father of Goku".
The movie is more about broly. Broly was a saiyan with really high potential. King vegeta being jealous of broly's latent potential decided to send away baby broly to a far away planet "Vampa". Paragus(Father of broly) being betrayed by The King, vowed to find his son and one day get revenge on the king.
The movie explains about the ties of fate between Goku, Vegeta and Broly.
The present section of the movie takes place after "THE TOURNAMENT OF POWER". Its about the encounter of the 3 fated saiyans with each other.
Pretty simple plot not too complex or anythig but is really well written and executed pretty well!
(ii) ANIMATION: The animation of this movie is out of this world. Toriyama and Toei Animation decided to change the animation supervisor and character designer "Tadayoshi Yamamuro" to "Nahiro Shinatni". His animation is more fluid and gives a refreshing feel to the movie. There is a use of CG as well. In short this is the best anime movie of 2018 when it comes to animation. Having animators from My hero academia, one punch man etc working on it. Also got Toei's best staff with the likes of Naotoshi Shida, Yuya Takahashi, Naoki tate and other great animators. The movie is a one hour and fourty minutes of pure " SAGAKA".
(iii) MUSIC AND DIRECTION Movie director is "Nagamine" who produced one of the best episodes of super like episode 95 or the introduction of Ultra Instinct etc. The movie is directed really well by him. His story boards were really amazing. The music is composed by " Sumitomo" who had his fair share of criticism from the fans because of his music in the beginning of super. His music in battle of gods was pretty good but in this movie its so emotional and captivating. (iv) FIGHT SCENES:
Dragon Ball is known for producing some of the best fights in all of anime. And this movie is no exception. With the likes of takahashi and Naotoshi shida handling the main action parts of the film, the fight scenes are absolutely mind blowing. Especially the final section of the movie where Shida brings his A game to the movie, shida mixed with Shinatni sheets produced some of the best fights in all of anime.
(v) PROBLEMS: Nothing is perfect and Dragon ball Super broly also had some tiny problems as well. 1. RUSHING: Sometimes the movie felt a bit rushed. Mainly because the original script of the movie was actually 3hours long so they had to narrow it down to 1 hour 40 minutes.That is why some sections are abit rushed but its not that big of a deal. 2.Lack of Tension : THE movie lacked tension as compared to the days of dbz. But still its just a tiny problem not that big of deal to ruin a movie. 3.Retcons : There were a few retcons here and there. but i can ignore such retcons as they don't seem that big to me.
(VI) CONCLUSION: You should absolutely watch this movie. Not only its animated really well ,it show case some of the best fights of 2018, and it has great music too. Please go and watching this movie in the theatres. Its theatrical experience will blow your mind. Overall its a pretty solid movie. 9/10 for me !!!
(ii) ANIMATION: The animation of this movie is out of this world. Toriyama and Toei Animation decided to change the animation supervisor and character designer "Tadayoshi Yamamuro" to "Nahiro Shinatni". His animation is more fluid and gives a refreshing feel to the movie. There is a use of CG as well. In short this is the best anime movie of 2018 when it comes to animation. Having animators from My hero academia, one punch man etc working on it. Also got Toei's best staff with the likes of Naotoshi Shida, Yuya Takahashi, Naoki tate and other great animators. The movie is a one hour and fourty minutes of pure " SAGAKA".
(iii) MUSIC AND DIRECTION Movie director is "Nagamine" who produced one of the best episodes of super like episode 95 or the introduction of Ultra Instinct etc. The movie is directed really well by him. His story boards were really amazing. The music is composed by " Sumitomo" who had his fair share of criticism from the fans because of his music in the beginning of super. His music in battle of gods was pretty good but in this movie its so emotional and captivating. (iv) FIGHT SCENES:
Dragon Ball is known for producing some of the best fights in all of anime. And this movie is no exception. With the likes of takahashi and Naotoshi shida handling the main action parts of the film, the fight scenes are absolutely mind blowing. Especially the final section of the movie where Shida brings his A game to the movie, shida mixed with Shinatni sheets produced some of the best fights in all of anime.
(v) PROBLEMS: Nothing is perfect and Dragon ball Super broly also had some tiny problems as well. 1. RUSHING: Sometimes the movie felt a bit rushed. Mainly because the original script of the movie was actually 3hours long so they had to narrow it down to 1 hour 40 minutes.That is why some sections are abit rushed but its not that big of a deal. 2.Lack of Tension : THE movie lacked tension as compared to the days of dbz. But still its just a tiny problem not that big of deal to ruin a movie. 3.Retcons : There were a few retcons here and there. but i can ignore such retcons as they don't seem that big to me.
(VI) CONCLUSION: You should absolutely watch this movie. Not only its animated really well ,it show case some of the best fights of 2018, and it has great music too. Please go and watching this movie in the theatres. Its theatrical experience will blow your mind. Overall its a pretty solid movie. 9/10 for me !!!
- saimazaidi
- Dec 13, 2018
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One of the best dragon ball movie ever the animation effects fights are lit... Mindblowing Just Awesome
- lucasrabello
- Dec 14, 2018
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I should start this by saying this was my introduction to the Dragon Ball franchise, and as some other reviewers have noted this might not be the best jumping in point. That said, fresh impartial eyes can be useful for giving an objective review, and I am familiar with anime, as well as other Japanese cinema and culture.
There was definitely something to enjoy here; the animation was solid, the soundtrack and audio in general was good. BUT this film suffers from major structural issues.
The first half of the film is fairly rushed backstory, rushing you through some pretty complex and convoluted history without allowing any space in which a character (any character) can be written with even the slightest depth. The second half is a fight scene between a few of those characters. Really, the whole second half of the movie is one drawn out battle. It's an impressive battle, with some pretty great direction and engaging moments. It's not unenjoyable, but it lacks the depth required to care about the outcome.
Ultimately, this film doesn't really have a story. It has convoluted BACKstory and a fight. That's all.
As I left the cinema I overheard some die-hard fans say 'it felt like half a movie'. I agree. There's stuff to enjoy in that half a movie, but that's what it is.
- cookienocrazy
- Jan 25, 2019
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A masterpiece in terms of animation, storyline, old characters reintroduced, music. THIS MOVIE IS PHENOMENAL. Must watch!
Let me start by stating that I'm a HUGE Dragon Ball fan! So needless to say, I was very excited about this movie, but it absolutely did not live up to my expectations. The plot was definitely better and made more sense than the original and the action was INCREDIBLE, but outside of that, the movie was...... dumb. They had so many opportunities to make the movie interesting, but they chose to cut corners and go with the most stereotypical plots. And the music. My God, the music was hysterical. In a bad way. At first you don't notice it, but once you get into the real action it does this hilarious Deadpool 2 thing where they sing "Broly" in an epic manner, but the biggest difference between DP2 and Broly is that DP2 intentionally made it funny, but DBS tried to make it serious and it turned out to be one of the things I laughed at the loudest. And the end.... Let's just say, I see what they plan on doing, but it was the most cop out way to end it. All in all, the movie is not good. Go into it with low expectations and maybe you'll enjoy it, but the action scenes and animation were it's only saving grace.
- delusions_of_greed
- Jan 21, 2019
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Just simply awesome I watched the and it's such a great movie with good plot, great animation and a great way to fix Broly
- calebpackers
- Dec 14, 2018
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- elonmusk-is_a_moron
- Aug 12, 2022
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Dragon ball super broly is for me with battle of gods the best dragon ball film in history,there are some pretty awful ones but then there is some awesome ones like two mentioned above,lets just say that i am big fan of dragon ball ever since i watched it as kid and i had a lot of connection to franchise characters,and i must say that film gives them a lot of justice,animation is perhaps the best ever in this series and films and story is also as much intersting as fight and battle scenes that were awesome to watch,broly was improved compared to his previous version and he had a lot more personality and character in him, dragon ball super broly is a film that reminded me why i am fan of this franchise
- marmar-69780
- Mar 28, 2020
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- rishprakash
- Dec 14, 2018
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- contatoclima
- Dec 14, 2018
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- musamajidsoofi
- Dec 14, 2018
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- Saiyan_Prince_Vegeta
- Dec 20, 2018
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This move was more amazing than I expected it to be! The music, story, fights,etc! Definitely a movie worth the watch!
- rizwanhaiderhero
- Dec 14, 2018
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It was enjoyable as a fan as this delivered sooooo much fan service, but the script lacked a certain quality of execution and the editing & animation was a bit too pacey at times - probably to cover up a lack of quality control in some of the artwork.
- shawnbriggs
- Jan 23, 2019
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Unfortunately it deserves more than 10. The animation was very good even the soundtrack. Every body should watch it....
Rating 6.0/10
Maybe i'll get hated for the rest of my life for writing this . I really don't get what everyone is so excited about . I was not impressed !! Overall i'd say the story is worth , but actually whatching the show isn't worth it at all . For me , Dragon Ball still is number one anime in Malaysia !!
- whoopwhoopywhop
- Jan 19, 2019
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