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Masako Nozawa, Michael Marco

This feature-length installment to the Dragonball Z series follows Goku and company through a weekend excursion gone horribly wrong. Far from being relaxing, Goku finds himself the target of Cooler, t... read more read more...he brother of the evil tyrant he had killed some time ago. Complications ensue when Goku is forced to take a major blow in order to save his son's life. With his father critically wounded, Gohan sets off to find the mysterious sensu beans required to restore Goku's health. Of course, he'll have to avoid Cooler's thugs along the way, which means no flying. Meanwhile, Cooler plots how to destroy the earth and the universe itself, making Goku's recovery and intervention all the more necessary. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

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Unrated, 30 min.

Directed by: Mitsuo Hashimoto

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  • December 27, 2007
    I love these movies, every once in a while you need pure unadulturated violence. The ending was spetacular and cool battle.
  • November 26, 2008
    Its one of the best for dragonball z movies. only the fight seen with the two fighters is way to short.
  • July 8, 2008
    Like all the Dragonball Z movies, You cannot place when they happened. Only guess. Somehow this is after namik exploded. but goku was not back on the earth. and when he did return Trunks killed both King cold and Freeza. and cooler only mentions freeza. When did it happen?
  • June 26, 2007
    DBZ was my first Anime(I was 6) and the 1 probably responsible for my constant violent actions... anyway I love these movies, every once in a while you need pure unadulturated violence
  • February 28, 2007
    Another movie i have in my Dragon Ball Z movie collection i have. This movie is also filled with butt kicking all the way as soon as you start watching it
  • September 1, 2006
    Better then a lot of mainstrem anime movies the do not keep their orgnil music. unlike the pokemon movies which have crappy pop music, the DBZ movies are driven by hard rock.

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