Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of Gods Reviews

Initial Thought: I grew up watching Dragon Ball Z. It was always one of my favorite anime. It was crazy, intense, and just had some awesome characters. I never got around to watching many of the movies though. My brother has been hounding me about watching this one though. So I decided to finally give it a look see and find out what all the fuss is about.

Characters/Acting: Do I even need to go there with the characters here? If you are reading this review and you don't know the characters then you need some kind of help. Nah I joke, but you do need to watch some DBZ! They have Beerus's cat personality so dead on. There are so many damn recognizable characters throughout the whole thing from various movies and parts of the television series. I thought it was rather awesome seeing them all in one spot. Beerus is such a badass. Makes you kind of nervous what his full power is if he was only almost at 70%. I think everyone was awesome as usual. Too bad not everyone I liked got a lot of stuff to do.

Story: So the God of destruction known as Birus wants to take on Goku after learning of Freeza's defeat by his hands. There is a good amount of the usual humor while still have a badass atmosphere. I also enjoyed the fourth wall moments scattered about. It's quite a bit cheesy, but only once in awhile these stories are actual intense. The fights of course are the brutal parts of the show not matter the reason that causes them. The summoning requirements are a bit convenient for the Super Saiyan God. It was a cool idea anyways. The ending was awesome.

Directing/Writing: This is obviously based off of the manga by Akira Toriyama. The creator of all things Dragon Ball Z. He is the penultimate God of DBZ. This is the only work of Yusuke Watanabe that I have seen. It's also the only time he has worked on a DBZ film. The same goes for director Masahiro Hosoda who has only done one other film along with television shows.

Final Thought: This is definitely a must watch for the Dragon Ball Z fanboys. It was good to see all the awesome childhood DBZ characters again. The fighting was excellent as usual. This series never failed at producing great fights. Anyways it may not be for the casual viewer or you might get confused. It sure is for fans of the series. So for them I recommend definitely seeing this one.

We watched the BluRay today, and its little to say that we were disappointed. We were all expecting so much from that movie, waited for so long to enjoy a bit more of our childhood heroes. But that movie is just a waste of time, 1h25 of non-sense, the script and dialogs are so poor that it might get my 10 years old brother approval but no one else...