‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ Movie Review: It’s Piccolo Time
Nobody has really bothered with it for several years dragon ball franchise for the story. From the climax of the Frieza saga to the end Dragon Ball Z All those years ago, the franchise was more comfortable with cool fights than anything else. the latest anime movie, Dragon Ball Super: Superhero successfully mixes the formula. Despite the initially repulsive visuals, the film offers an up-to-date story with satisfying character development. Originally delayed because of the Toei animation hack, this movie is well worth the wait.
The story of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero draws attention to often ignored characters
The basic requirement of Dragon Ball Super: Superhero is that the Red Ribbon Army is back to take revenge on the Z Fighters (namely Goku) and claim world domination. The descendant of Commander Red from the original series (Magenta) seeks the services of Dr. Gero’s grandson Dr. Hedo to build a pair of super androids to rival our protagonists’ non-Goku and Vegeta divisions.
Without delving too much into spoilers, this is a movie to remind you that there are characters besides Goku and Vegeta. The trailers and promotional materials make this a Gohan-centric story, but this is as much a story for Piccolo as it is for Gohan. As the threats in the series kept getting bigger over time Z and Dragon Ball great, Piccolo’s role as one of the mightiest warriors on the planet diminished significantly. This film is a return to form for him.
Audiences can actually spend time with Piccolo and other characters and learn things about them that make them more developed and well-rounded personalities. Instead of skipping from fight to fight or sitting through gloriously animated 20-minute fight sequences, as we’ve seen Dragon Ball Super: Brolywe finally find out how Piccolo is holding his phone while face-timing Bulma.
And you know what? It’s actually refreshing to watch.
Another exciting development – Goten and Trunks have actually grown up. The film even offers an in-universe reason why they looked like toddlers the longest before they suddenly became teenagers.
While the story is more central Dragon Ball Super: Superhero, the visuals are not missing. They are only . . . different.
To be honest, it takes a while to get used to the 3D computer-generated character models and environments in the film. It’s a shame because almost everything else in this film is pretty funny, but the visuals are certainly distracting. The film opens with a stunning montage of Goku’s exploits in the original dragon ball reanimated in modern 2D animation. In fact, all Flashback scenes are traditionally animated. It really makes you wonder, “Why couldn’t the whole movie look like this?”
Fans might be disappointed with the art direction Dragon Ball Super: Superherobut overall it doesn’t detract from the experience.
That being said, the change in art and animation style also has a positive – the combat animation is smoother and more explosive without requiring animators to hand-draw frames. The fight choreography doesn’t hit quite as hard as the best parts of Dragon Ball Super: Brolybut it does a very good job of providing consistently beautiful and engrossing action.
After a long exposure dump at the beginning of the film, your eyes quickly adjust to the updated visuals. This makes it a minor complaint.
Voice acting and scripting return to a winning formula
at its core, dragon ball originally started out as an action comedy before world-destroying aliens jumped onto the scene. That latter element is still there, but comedy hasn’t been a big focus for the franchise for many years. Especially the scripting of the original Dragon Ball Z The English dub stands out as being much more humorous than the last few Kai and great scripts. If you’re a viewer who prefers the Japanese cast, you’ll find the usual excellence of series veterans like Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa and Mayumi Tanaka, according to IMDb.
Dragon Ball Super: Superhero‘s English scripting and performances are reminiscent of the good old days. There are some genuine laugh eliciting moments which helps make this movie a good time.
The outstanding soundtrack adds to the experience. The film’s main theme grows and flourishes in battle scenes, evoking memories of some of the best and most hopeful themes in superhero films of the past decade. The superhero theme is prevalent in the film’s themes and the soundtrack does a fantastic job of emphasizing it.
Expect a good time from ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’
This is not dragon ball Film that will redefine storytelling, but is also a lot of fun. The fights are cool, the characters evolve, there is one ton of one-liners and nods that would make the most die-hard fanservice aficionado blush, and there are even some extremely self-centered jokes that will at least make you laugh.
Characters of all kinds experience growth and, dare I say, display traits that go beyond mere will to fight. We learn a decent amount about the likes of Broly, Beerus, Pan, Dende, Lemo, and more. Even Krillin gets something to do! At its core, however, this is a film for Piccolo and Gohan.
If you’re a longtime Piccolo or Gohan fan, start looking Dragon Ball Super: Superhero Showtimes near you. It has already done well at the box office in Japan and is likely to rake in numbers in the US. It hits theaters August 19 in both sub and dub formats. One piece movie red faces a lot of competition as the best anime film of the year.
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