A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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.

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

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.

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.