Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
A Super Namekian named Slug comes to invade Earth. But the Z Warriors do their best to stop Slug and his gang.
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- Cast:
- Toshio Furukawa , Kenji Utsumi , Masako Nozawa , Mayumi Tanaka , Joji Yanami , Naoko Watanabe , Hiromi Tsuru
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
This is one of those DBZ Movies that can be good or bad depending on which dub you watch, and I choose it as a whole, the FUNimaton dub is quite poor but the Big Green dub is funny to listen too and the FUNimation version has cool rock music. So it's not a total waste. I give Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug a 7/10.
While meditating near a waterfall, Piccolo senses great danger coming to Earth. And that's another alien invasion lead by Lord Slug. The last decedent of the extinct Super Nameks. A more powerful type of Nameks that were once living on Planet Namek. Lord Slug intends to collect the Dragon Balls to gain eternal youth and freeze the entire planet to claim his own after being exiled for so long from his old planet. The Z Warriors try with all their might, but all hope seems lost after seeing what a Super Namek can do. But that's not the case when Goku finds a way to defeat this green menace.The story is average and with the movie only being 46 minutes long. It could of been awesome if it were longer than that. If that happened then it would include a whole lot more to the story. But instead it feels like watching a episode like the previous few movies of DBZ.It's another alternate storyline of the TV series, and it mostly takes place after the "Tree of Might film" cause this one doesn't fit anywhere in the any of the TV series sagas.Overrall it's a good flick, but not the best Dragon Ball movie compared to the others. Only recommended to the fans only while it'll be turn done by the non-fans.
I watched the dubbed version of this movie first, so I'll begin with it. First of all I would like to state that the music in the American version was simply atrocious and even a bit insulting for DBZ. The dub voices are slightly better than the ones from Ocean Group but still aren't very good. At least none of them are as annoying as most of the Ocean voices were.The thing I most liked about the original version was the music. Superb, as always. The Japanese voices are really cool (also as always), although Goku's voice is quite annoying and too feminine. I think they should have replaced Masako Nozawa with a male actor for DBZ.Anyway, on to the plot - certainly not as nice as the ones of the previous movies, but still better than the plots of most animes and since it's DBZ it's pretty good. But they used an almost totally different definition for the term "Super Namekian" than they did in the series.I recommend the previous three movies more than this one - not only because they have better plots, also because the dubbed versions have the original music score in them, because of which I'm willing to put up with the annoying voices.
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.