Dragonball Z Movie 01 - The Dead Zone
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Misc Information: American Title: The Dead Zone American Release Date: December 9th, 1997 American Box Art: To the Left Japanese Title: Return my Gohan!! Japanese Release Date: July 15th, 1989 Japanese Intro Music: Chala Head Chala Japanese Ending Theme: Dete Koi Tobikiri ZENKAI Power Japanese Music By: Shunsuke Kikuchi Running Time: 45 Minutes 639 Screenshots for this Movie Back to Movie Guide Main? Onto the Next Movie --> Discuss on Our Forums? Buy online from Amazon.com  Power Levels for this Movie: N/A Overall Rating: 6/10 |
Brief Reviews:
1. Despite below-average music and parts of the story that just don't make sense (such as Garlic's men trying to kill Piccolo even though they wanted to collect the dragon balls), this movie was decent. There were humurous scenes and the fight sequences weren't that bad.
2. Although the plot is pretty basic, not as creative as some of the newer movies, it's an OK movie. Another issue is that the film is only about thirty-five minutes long and as such feels like an episode much more than the movie it is supposed to be. The music is your basic and typical DBZ score and probably the only redeeming part of the film. The replay value is extremely low. There is action in the film but nothing that you haven't seen in a regular episodes before - in fact the violence is even a bit toned down from the normal episodes.
3. The animation in this movie, while not as good as the actual regular DBZ episodes, was still outstanding. Their were some great animated scenes, one of my favorites was after Gohan ate the Hallucinogenic fruit, and started to see all those different creatures. That was pretty good the way that looked. The dialogue was pretty decent, although nowhere near as good as some of the worst DBZ TV episodes. There were just to many grunts and moans to make it all that good. The voices for Garlic Jr. and his henchmen were pretty good, but that was just about the only shining part of the entire dialogue. The Eternal Dragon's voice was as usual, excellent, but not as Good as other times he has been summoned. However, the music was great, a nice change from some other DBZ movies that I have watched. The music, was in fact, one of the best parts of the entire movie. It just went so great with the scenes, matching the intensity, the drama, and the happiness at each twist and turn in the movie.
4. This is probably the funniest Dragon Ball Z movie, I loved the part when Gohan ate that apple and started to see things and act funny. The voices soung a bit different but are still decent. The animation is very clear and well-drawn, too.
5. this is an awesome movie! The plot is very good and is sort of a prequel to the DBZ series itself. If you see this movie it will definetly make certain parts of the Dragonball Z easier to understand. It has a great musical score and great animation. I think this is my favorite movie so far...
