Dragon Ball Z Movie 02: Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu

In his laboratory, biotechnology expert Dr. Kochin gathers the dragon balls intending to free his master Dr. Uirou, a mad scientist hellbent on ruling the world, forever frozen in the never-melting ice of the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains. Attempting to locate the dragon balls, Gohan Son and Oolong arrive at the scene and are ambushed by several creatures known as "Bio-Men." Training nearby, Piccolo attempts to save them but is then attacked by three mysterious warriors. When the ice beneath them breaks, it cuts their altercation short, burying Gohan and Oolong within.

After regaining consciousness, they return home to Kame House only to encounter Bio-Men, demanding Muten-Roushi to follow them. Refusing, he easily defeats the creatures, piquing Dr. Kochin's interest. Under the impression of Muten-Roushi being the strongest man in the world, Dr. Kochin takes Bulma hostage, forcing Roushi's agreement to accompany him in mysterious plans involving his master. Who are Dr. Kochin and Dr. Uirou? What even is their purpose?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Characters & Voice Actors

Son, Gokuu

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Son, Gohan

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Piccolo

Main

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Bulma

Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi
Japanese

Muten-Roushi

Supporting

Miyauchi, Kouhei
Japanese

Kuririn

Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi
Japanese

Chi-Chi

Supporting

Shou, Mayumi
Japanese

Oolong

Supporting

Tatsuta, Naoki
Japanese

Shen Long

Supporting

Utsumi, Kenji
Japanese

Umigame

Supporting

Gouri, Daisuke
Japanese

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Staff

Cook, Justin

Producer

Watson, Barry

Producer

Nishio, Daisuke

Director

Vale, Eric

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Opening Theme

"CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" by Hironobu Kageyama

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Ending Theme

"I・KU・SA (戦)" by Hironobu Kageyama

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Episode 1

Reviews

May 27, 2010

lolicontim666

Recommended

This movie was better than the last movie. First off, the fights where more epic than the last, and they featured more characters in this one. What i really like is this pretty much the last time Master Roshi is seen fighting. This movie takes place somewhere between the Saiyan saga, and Frieza saga. Like all the DBZ movies, it contains plot inconsitencies. Like how piccolo is some how alive even though he was killed by Nappa. All and all this was a pretty good movie. What I really enjoyed was when Master Roshi, Krillin, and Goku used a Kamehameha wave all at the same ...

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May 6, 2020

Thedude3445

Mixed Feelings

OK, so this one is almost a scene-for-scene rehash of the previous Dragon Ball Z movie, but with a fancier sci-fi gloss and a more interesting setup. Sadly, when I mentioned in my last review that the 40 minute first movie was the perfect length? It still applies, and World's Strongest feels a good ten or fifteen minutes longer than it needed to be. The Genki Dama stuff is always kind of a bore in this series, but here in a movie it was especially so.

Still, some of the fights are really good, where Goku wasn't able to instantly overpower his foes and got beaten ...

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Sep 8, 2015

YoungVagabond

Not Recommended

I remember this being one of the better DBZ movies when I was a dumbass 14 year-old who liked the franchise, half a lifetime ago. I particularly recall enjoying the biomechanical monsters the Z warriors fought. Needless to write, nostalgia clouded my judgment.

As with any property related to DBZ, the plot is insipid. A mad scientist, Dr. Kochin, is able to easily gather all 7 Dragonballs before Goku and company even figure out what is going on. Some defenders of Earth they are! What is the point of even having a radar if they are going to ignore ... it? It's not like Goku has a day job.

After summoning the Eternal Dragon, instead of wishing for ultimate power to easily defeat anyone in the universe, Dr. Kochin wishes for a few piddly glaciers to melt. This frees up the main mad scientist, Dr. Wheelo, who has been trapped there for 50 years.

Magically, despite being there all that time and unable to escape, he has a fully functioning laboratory, a power supply, and numerous minions when the glaciers are broken! Frankly, I was disappointed he didn't have a French restaurant with waiters, too.

Instead of getting straight to the fights, there is an interlude during which Gohan is back home and studying. It is boring and worthless. As usual with DBZ, there is entirely too much talking in this movie, and of the most moronic variety. "I'll make you pay!" "Silence, you fool!" "(Insert character name, yelled loudly)" "You can't win!" "My boy is growing up!"

Considering how mediocre and low-effort the fight scenes are to begin with, did the animators really have to take a break to insert dialogue worse than a 13 year-old's fan fiction?

Okay okay, but what about the actual enemies and fights themselves? While better than some of the DBZ movie sequels, they weren't as cool as I remembered them. Dr. Wheelo's biomechanical creations fight and function very similarly to the standard alien antagonists of the Z universe. Hell, they even look like aliens. One has a stretchy stomach, another ice breath, and a third tentacles of electricity. That's about it for the "creativity".

Also, any final fight that ends with a spirit bomb is disappointing and anticlimactic.

I can't imagine anything more boring (Goku stands there, with his hands raised, doing nothing) or more deus ex machina. (An easy get out of jail card when Goku is weaker than his nemesis but needs to defeat him in the last few minutes of the film)

In conclusion, this is lousy, although admittedly not as wretched as some of the mass-produced DBZ movies that followed.