Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Toei Company | Release Date: January 16, 2019
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greenisgoodFeb 18, 2019
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TL;DR A good portion of this movie was much appreciated, back stories and beginnings are always rewarding especially if they are for characters you really like watching. But Even though I did not like the few CGI inserts in Battle of the Gods, the fight choreography animation in it is far superior than this movie. Sadly a one and done watch if you are a DB fan, but also will be disappointing if you are a long time DB fan considering the legendary level of fight animation we have associated DB for over two decades.

I kept finding myself wanting to watch the Old Broly vs Goku fight to satisfy my itch of a good DB. The first half of the movie was fantastic and the character writing for Broly was much appreciated, but as soon as Goku went SS Blue the fight just dropped off the radar for me.

Dragon Ball was always a good martial arts mixed with Ki powers to the N'th degree and it was exactly that for Vegeta's part of the fight as well as the first half of Goku's fight, but once he activates SS Blue the fight just became a complete seizure inducing debacle. It felt like DB trying to encroach on 'Fate/Stay' Territory of mind numbing action, only difference 'Fate/Stay' series has multiple unique characters so it is not hard to understand who is doing what when the attacks and abilities land.
The Gogeta fight was an absolute cluster **** as the both opposing characters design and fight animations just melded into each other and I could not tell who was doing what save for the end moment when Gogeta fires his final, it was quite a bit disappointing.

The ending was acceptable as I would like to see Broly in a more prominent role in the series.... But I hope the fights are given more attention to detail like the glorious DB always has been, this seems like a rushed job as the animators wanted to just finish the movie rather than give us a good throw down.… Expand
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BuffMovieguyJan 18, 2019
The best part of the movie was undoubtedly the first half, which shows the origins of Goku, Vegeta nd Broly as well as the demise of the Saiyan race. It gave a long awaited to look into the Saiyan race and the origins of our 3 protagonists.The best part of the movie was undoubtedly the first half, which shows the origins of Goku, Vegeta nd Broly as well as the demise of the Saiyan race. It gave a long awaited to look into the Saiyan race and the origins of our 3 protagonists. But personally the fight scenes of the old movie was better. The fight scenes in this movie are just to crazy and to difficult to follow, most of the time i was just wondering who was hitting who lol. I also prefer the look of the old Broly but Overall this was a good movie.… Expand
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YakusokuNoJiApr 30, 2019
Read this comment if you are interested in Broly:

This movie is not a successful reboot from an intentional perspective but only financially. The movie is supposed to bring in a fictional character, so a collective of ideas because thoseRead this comment if you are interested in Broly:

This movie is not a successful reboot from an intentional perspective but only financially.
The movie is supposed to bring in a fictional character, so a collective of ideas because those ideas are beloved. To make it part of the continuity it is supposed to be re-imagined via rebooting. What is the problem here? The problem is the reboot is so over-exaggerated that it gets rid of almost everything that is beloved about Broly rendering the meaning of bringing him into the continuity completely void. It does not matter that the fans who hated Broly first now like him because this character was supposed to be re-introduced because of those who loved him originally. "Broly has no personality, Broly has no personality". Yes, yes, he did. Broly had a personality. A person cannot have no personality. Old Broly showed signs of being a reserved normal person even without circlet (see the scene where he woke up). When he was driven by anger he was sadistic, blood-lusted, arrogant and vindictive. He already was a tragic character, because a) he was stabbed as an infant, b) he was too strong for his own good so he would always fall victim to his own power. Very few bits of that were brought back for this reboot. There is no magic to his new LSSJ form because they got rid of him being THE Legend himself and only hinted the Legend in a flashback. When Gogeta was brought in the battle was over. It was all flash and no substance. Is that a wonder for Dragon Ball? No. But the finale should at least be a solid one for Broly and not an embarassment to the form that made him popular in the first place. You cannot act like being a one-dimensional cardboard cutout which is a bit more coloured on that one side which he was in this movie is better than a two-dimensional cardboard cutout that is only sparsely coloured on both sides because both are not the creme de la creme of narration and just for the sake of following a hype acting like Broly was just all mad, had no personality and screamed only Kakarott which is not even the case in his original movie, is not gonna help the argument of the opposing side. The Dragon Ball Minus part and the first battles with Broly were all fine but when the whole point of the movie is destroyed by the creator misunderstanding what made Broly popular in the first place just so the OG Broly haters can say "OMG new Broly is so much better, he is now Tarzan, what a brilliantly written character!" then I cannot help but feel disappointed about the idea of a character that I originally liked so much. The movie overall as a movie was not too bad. At least for a Dragon Ball movie. It is not even that I dislike this interpretation of Broly completely, it just misses the point. You could have easily had both: An innocent Tarzan copy and then become the blood-lusted, arrogant, psychhopath as a LSSJ (or "Full Power" as they want to call it); it would even fit the Saiyajin lore. Who cares if Broly normally does not want to fight? It would even put more emphasis on his ultimate form. And it would have been absolutely great if that would happened during the Freeza fight portion but none of it happened. I hope there will be an anime adaption with at least some sort of character adjustment because this would be very easy to fix.

Overall the movie is a lot worse than the original Broly movie. The original Broly and his movie were so popular because it very simply gave his fans what they wanted. And there was a lot more to the movie and character, no matter what his haters say - just because he is no Shakespearean character does not make him a no-character.… Expand
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JLuis_001Feb 2, 2019
Yes it's a huge fan service, I'm not going to deny that but it's also the best Dragon Ball film in all its history.

Akira Toriyama manages to intertwine the past of his franchise with its future, establishing a more coordinated story and inYes it's a huge fan service, I'm not going to deny that but it's also the best Dragon Ball film in all its history.

Akira Toriyama manages to intertwine the past of his franchise with its future, establishing a more coordinated story and in the meantime providing it a certainly known but now new and more powerful character to the canon of the saga.

The animation is excellent. Maybe that's how everyone wanted the anime to look like but obviously the budget here is only reduced to 100 minutes of work.

I had fun as I always had fun with Dragon Ball in all its facets and that was more than enough for me.
It's clear that for a franchise like this one with more than 30 years only the fans will be present. If you're not, there's no point at all for you to even try.

And yeah, Gogeta is worth it.… Expand
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RdgmonsterFeb 18, 2019
historia cliche sin sentido, no fue agradable la mezcla de 2D con batallas 3D, decepcionante historia, mal, estuvo mejor la primera película de broy.
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bataguilaJul 8, 2019
Normalita, el mismo nivel de Dragon Ball super, osea muy X, no ofrece nada nuevo
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ARGzelderJan 21, 2019
La primer película de "Dragon Ball Super" cumple en entretener y dar un gran espectáculo cuando inicia la acción. Esta incursión de Broly supera a la anterior en cuanto al guión, pero toma libertades creativas que pueden o no gustar.
LaLa primer película de "Dragon Ball Super" cumple en entretener y dar un gran espectáculo cuando inicia la acción. Esta incursión de Broly supera a la anterior en cuanto al guión, pero toma libertades creativas que pueden o no gustar.
La historia inicia con un gran prólogo donde se puede entender la rivalidad que tendrán Broly y su padre contra Vegeta, además de dar una nueva perspectiva de Freezer como villano.
El arco narrativo que inicia el conflicto es más interesante que lo brindado en la aparición no canon de Broly, aunque se desvía en temas innecesarios. La animación durante el inicio del combate es otro punto destacable, Vegeta vs. Broly se ve increíble en la pantalla. Los puntos desfavorables pasan por la misma animación que al ser hecha por diferentes artistas se ve inconsistente en cuanto a calidad. Además el climax pierde motivación sobre el final.
"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" es recomendable para fans de la saga, sobretodo por las primeras escenas de pelea, están bien orquestadas, se ven muy bien y en general la película logra entretener hasta el final si no se la toma muy en serio.… Expand
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KhanSirJan 23, 2019
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie is great, honestly. From beginning to right before the end, I was hooked. Seeing Planet Vegeta was amazing. Seeing the characters, both new and old, interact was even better. Gogeta... Meh. Remember how in Fusion Reborn he comes out, beats the **** out of Janemba and then finishes him off with Soul Punisher? That. Was. Perfect. Gogeta doesn't get a moment like that here. No. Instead Mr "I am the one who is going to defeat you" gets his kill stolen by Broly's girlfriend. The moment they're finally about to beat Broly he's teleported off of Earth. Talk about a tease. The ending ruins the movie, and that's such a shame because the rest of it is great. Maybe my mind will change when I watch it a second time. But for now, I'm left with nothing but disappointment. Broly has four movies and not a single one is good.… Expand
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skinnydeepFeb 1, 2019
made by a broly fanboy with too much sugar in his blood who seems to like vegeta a tiny bit more than the usual writers for some reason ,Dragon Ball Super as a whole has been an abomination there was no way for this Broly movie to fall farmade by a broly fanboy with too much sugar in his blood who seems to like vegeta a tiny bit more than the usual writers for some reason ,Dragon Ball Super as a whole has been an abomination there was no way for this Broly movie to fall far from the tree,it's an animé that doesn't make any sense even by anime standards,too much humor + Beerus & Whis undermining the whole series there's no sense of dread & hopelessness like when Goku fell ill & Vegeta wasn't up to snuff in the android saga, DBS is wackier than Maruko with silly writting & power levels straight out of a bunch of 6 yo DB fanboys's minds from reddit… Expand
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BS117Mar 10, 2019
Dragonball Super:Broly is a movie with a ton of flaws in it's pacing and plot alike. This new Broly is definitely a more sympathetic character than his non-canonical counterpart, but doesn't really have anything else going for him. In theDragonball Super:Broly is a movie with a ton of flaws in it's pacing and plot alike. This new Broly is definitely a more sympathetic character than his non-canonical counterpart, but doesn't really have anything else going for him. In the entire movie, he has about 5 lines of dialogue followed by mindless screaming for about an hour. Contrary to popular belief the original Broly had a lot of sinister dialogue in his original movie past screaming "Kakkarot". While I'll admit the original Broly's motivations were terrible, this new Broly literally doesn't have any real motivation. You could argue that he was following his dad's orders but it's unclear as to why he would do that given he saw the remote of his electrical collar had been destroyed. His dad couldn't hurt him anymore and he had no real beef with the Goku or Vegeta, they just for fought for the sake of the plot. This movie lacks organic storytelling, and instead just feels like one big forced death match between powerful characters. Like most of Dragonball Super the power scaling in this movie is very poor, and makes me question what these god forms actually do for Goku and Vegeta. They're supposed to be the pinnacle of power for these characters, yet don't display that at all. When god ki was introduced into the series it was stated to raise it's users power exponentially, to the point that non-god ki users couldn't lay a finger on their god ki using counterparts. This, however, has been completely disregarded throughout Dragonball Super which takes away from basic storytelling and confuses audiences. I don't really know what separates these god forms from the basic super sayian forms. It also just sort of invalidates everything the main cast has gone through when someone "who has never been in a real fight before" reaches the same level of power Goku and Vegeta took decades to reach in the span of 2 hours. The animation is pretty good (although I would have enjoyed less CGI) but the story is just flat out horrible. This resurgence of Dragonball in the last 7 years has seemingly only been able to produce illogical, fan-service that survives solely because it has the Dragonball name slapped onto it.… Expand
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MovieRiffingJul 15, 2019
One would hope that on the second attempt of telling Broly's origin story all of the kinks would be ironed out. Unfortunately, this new entry brings issues of its own. Instead of silly (but somewhat charming) narrative devices bogging downOne would hope that on the second attempt of telling Broly's origin story all of the kinks would be ironed out. Unfortunately, this new entry brings issues of its own. Instead of silly (but somewhat charming) narrative devices bogging down the story, this time truly dreadful CGI ruins the final showdown. Interrupting beautiful 2D animation with underfunded 3D efforts has become commonplace in modern anime, and Dragon Ball Super: Broly got hit square in the face.… Expand
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PlatnumBreakerJul 24, 2020
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not amazing but not bad. It's better than most of DBS but it's not worth the high praise imo the 1st half is fantastic & the animation is superb but the fight scenes are mediocre even in dragon ball standards. The 3 fights in the movie are just used for shock value (Vegeta turning SSG), Goku using a new technique, & Gogeta's use of signature moves. Broly isn't bad but he feels more generic than the orginal did. I just felt like I was watching a watered down version of the 3 specials they tried to adapt.… Expand
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JK65Sep 20, 2020
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This 'New Broly' has got to be one of the most tryhard, overhyped characters I've seen in recent years. Everything about him, from his retconned backstory to the incredibly lame attempt at delivering a sympathetic, 'anti-hero' figure for the target audience is incredibly poor.

But above all the negatives is the ridiculous (even by shonen standards) excuse of power-scaling.

New Broly comes across as a creator's pet even more so than Goku, although we've watched Goku et al train hard over the years at least. The Old Broly was a poorly-written character and smashed the power-scaling as well, but he was ultimately beaten down by some form of ordinary, Super-Saiyan-level powers and with varied assistance.

Fast forward to 2018, and we have some character befitting that of a poorly-written fanfic coming out of nowhere, and beating down not one but two God-level characters, not to mention tanking a God-level fusion.

It's ridiculous, and insulting.

I'm going to be frank here when I say that even by Dragonball's standards, New Broly truly does feel like a blatant, entitled power fantasy that's spilled on to the big screen. Some may point fingers at the other Saiyans as well, not to mention the villains, but here's the thing: they either trained hard or were from a different kind of species (i.e. Freeza, Jiren, etc.). But to have a Saiyan, irrespective of being a one-of-a-kind mutant or not, suddenly being able to tank God levels with hardly any previous extensive-training is an even worse problem than the power-scaling issue that DBGT was bashed for. The Saiyans by their very nature were shown to be weak, with Goku and Vegeta (and to some extent, Gohan) being the exceptions following years of hard work and all sorts of struggles. That is the kind of message that should be shown to the audience, especially the youth, that improvement only comes through hard work and dedication.

New Broly takes all that and throws it in the bin, and thus embodies the aspect of being an entitled power-fantasy with all sorts of convenient powers — one of which comes across as being an incredibly lazy way of replacing the Oozaru/Great Ape on-screen.

What's the point of having watched Goku and Vegeta work so hard over the years if some random Saiyan just pops up out of nowhere and surpasses GOD LEVELS just like that? That's not quality and promise. That's absolutely poor writing. I know that Dragonball has always had a typical, shonen-style issue of power-scaling ever since the King Piccolo saga, but it's always been at a relatively believable and salvageable level over the years.

But now? What's next? No matter what new threat may come, the writers can always turn to this overdone Broly and turn him into a Deus Ex Machina even worse than anything we've seen before in this franchise. Golden Freeza took a lot of flak for his sudden boost up to God level, but New Broly takes that to even more senseless heights. He truly does come across like a self-insert for a certain type of viewer which I won't mention — for the sake of keeping things polite in this review.

New Broly is a clear sign of the Dragonball franchise not taking steps forward but rather digging into the bin and canonising — and adding more convenient powers onto — an already poorly-written character from back in the day. Yes, he's a different character from the old one, but there's nothing 'improved' about him other than his ridiculous level of power. No, New Broly hasn't got any promising 'personality' as is often stated by fans. No, he's not better than the old, "KAKAROOOOOTT!" one from back in the day, because they are both bland characters in the end. But at least the narrative had the sense to recognise it with the Old Broly and finish him off, not to mention leaving him in the non-canon zone.

This New Broly is a pathetic walking-trope that's falsely presented as having the potential to turn into a great character. And let's not forget how Freeza has been turned into an absolute joke in the process of this poor excuse of storytelling.

Dragonball has always been about Goku, Vegeta, and to some extent, Gohan over the years — since the Saiyans came out in the plot, so it seems as if this New Broly is a tryhard attempt at adding another one to the list. Even some fanworks did a better job over the years.

Well, New Broly is just a bland, tryhard package of power fantasy — and nothing more. Put aside the fancy colours, improved animation, and tempting online-boasting about Broly's 'character' and 'potential', and you'll see that instead of focusing on moving ahead with the series, the writers have gone and brought out the worst of the past again. A bland attempt at pandering to nostalgics and power-junkies alike.

Final verdict: 4/10. Plus points for improved animations and fight scenes — but minus for everything else, especially character and storytelling related.… Expand
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