Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

2013 [JAPANESE]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 31608 31.6K

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Director

Masahiro Hosoda Photo
Masahiro Hosoda

Top cast

Aya Hirano Photo
Aya Hirano as Dende
Kôichi Yamadera Photo
Kôichi Yamadera as Birusu
Mayumi Tanaka Photo
Mayumi Tanaka as Kuririn
Ryô Horikawa Photo
Ryô Horikawa as Vegeta
720p.BLU
967.62 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Abir-Xtreme 8 / 10

The Spirit of the original Dragon Ball lives on, A great mix of classic elements

Well before starting this review i would like to say that there are some technical aspects that i am going to intentionally avoid, you may ask why and the answer to that is simple. The Dragonball Series has been a part of my childhood , it made me love anime's and if it wasn't for this i would have never watched other amazing anime's such Death Note, Code Geass, Naruto, Bleach etc. Simply put Dragonball is the series that made me understand anime in general and judging it from a technical view point is simply not fair, So when i first received the news that a new DragonballZ movie is going to be released and is actually going to be canon , my excitement went through the roof. I did not want to lose the chance of seeing the premier and was willing to go to any logical limits for it and let me tell you it was worth it. The movie is everything a classic Dragon Ball fan like myself wanted, the classic planet destructing battles, overpowered villains with ridiculously edgy personality and Goku once again doing whatever it takes to beat the stronger opponent. The animation and visuals are as good as ever and the voice acting is also very consistent with the original ones, the sound was used very cleverly and suits the whole Japanese classic theme very well. The story is also very intriguing and oozes a certain sense of adrenaline throughout the whole movie and the ending was something i didn't expect(at least from a Dragonball movie), I was like wait that can't be right and It took me a while to understand why the ending is being played out the way it was , until i heard some of the last lines/dialogs. Those last few lines made me realize that this ending just opened up a ton of new possibilities for future Dragonball series and movies, i can only hope that this movie succeeds worldwide and that success will provide enough motivation for Akira Toriyoma to get going again, so we can all enjoy another era of Dragonball !
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Reviewed by jonahcoleman23 6 / 10

Dissatisfied

As a lifetime DBZ fan, I enjoyed the movie. It was cool to see a new movie with the same old characters. That being said I had plenty of issues with the movie.

1. Voices. I understand that you might not be able to get the same old voice actors but aren't we at a point where you can synthesize a voice? Hearing the old same voices in characters like Goku, Krillin, and Gohan was gratifying and reminded me of the original DBZ episodes that I loved. However some of the voices like Bulma for instance were just so different it didn't feel like the same character.

2. Fighting. The fights were done in a completely different style than the previous movies and shows. It felt less fluid and less reminiscent of classic DBZ.

There are other small issues I had but overall those two are my main complaints.

Overall I did enjoy the movie, but it could have been far better.

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