Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen

A mysterious device crashes on planet Earth, causing a wildfire near where Gohan Son, Kuririn, Bulma, and Oolong are camping. Unable to fully save the forest, they decide to use the Dragon Balls to restore it to its previous condition. A few days later, a group of unknown warriors plant a seed where the mysterious device had crashed, sprouting a colossal tree that destroys the forest and neighboring cities in the process.

North Kaio contacts Gokuu Son and tells him that this tree is the "Shinseiju"—a tree that absorbs all the nutrients in the planet and leaves it a barren wasteland, all the while growing a mighty fruit capable of providing incredible power to anyone who eats it. After learning of this, Gokuu and his friends try destroying the tree before it is too late, but that may prove to be more difficult than they had previously imagined.

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Son, Gokuu Main

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Son, Gohan Main

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Turles Main

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Piccolo Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio Japanese

Bulma Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi Japanese

Muten-Roushi Supporting

Miyauchi, Kouhei Japanese

Kuririn Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi Japanese

Yamcha Supporting

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Tenshinhan Supporting

Suzuoki, Hirotaka Japanese

Chiaotzu Supporting

Emori, Hiroko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Nishio, Daisuke Director

Vale, Eric Script

Koyama, Takao Script

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Sep 24, 2024

AppleDragon91

Recommended

great movie. turles besides being the idea of an evil goku is a very interesting vilian, he has a personality. hes not just a one dimentional bad guy.

the animation of this movie is superb. the fight scenes are great. all the OG roster is fighting. tienshenhan,yamcha even chiatzu are there too.

the cinematography was superb. alot of great shots that reminds of tenstion you see in westrens. the idea of the tree of might that was a cool sci fi subplot but also served as a great plot device to power turles who suppose to be low class sayian warrior and thus making him a ... threat.

i would rank it in my top 5 DBZ movies. just because its so different from the rest. its a little bit longer and have better pacing, its not too rushed and also not so long that you will get bored of it.

people may complain that the dbz movies are vilian of the day type of movies but this is their exact magick. you need to love dragon ball to really enjoy them. i get that people who hate dragon ball would bash it. for me its the simplicity of turning off my mind and enjoying an hour of great animation,great fight scenes and a great vilian and i'm happy. not every movie needs to be dune.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 8, 2010

kekekeKaj

Mixed Feelings

Another Dragon Ball Z movie, another improvement on the ones I've watched before. This makes 4 in a row!!! This one is especially surprisingly - it turned out to be quite a good action anime overall, and not just compared to the other movies of the franchise. As far as fighting anime go, it's certainly not quite as the same level as the Street Fighter 2 animated movie, but still it's pretty good.

The action is quite absorbing for once, consisting of more than just ultra fast punching sequences, and the story is actually slightly more sophisticated than the usual "here's a new boss, now ... go get him, Goku" format that I've come to expect from the Dragon Ball Z movies. Unfortunately, given the incompetence of the story board of the franchise, it also means there are more plot holes - you would think it's impossible to have plot holes in a plot that's as thin as this, but they somehow managed it. The ease with which the Eternal Dragon is summoned seems like a bit of a cheat - if they can summon him that easily and get it to grant any wish, surely they can just used it to solve any problem? It's funny how they used it to solve one small problem in their path rather than the root of their problems. Also, the ending... it's kinda hard to be any more specific since it would count as a spoiler, so lets just say the way it ends is pretty ridiculous.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 6, 2020

Thedude3445

Not Recommended

Dude this one sucks so much, where did all the fun in the last two movies go? Once again, they essentially just redid the plot of Dead Zone and pasted in some new villains, but this time, the fighting is really boring (despite the entire Z Warrior cast helping out) and the villain is just an OC recolor of Goku. Maybe if they played around with some duality stuff or whatever it might be vaguely exciting, but this is just plain dumb.

The cute dragon and Gohan being adorable as usual nearly saves the movie, but sadly when half of each of these movies is ... a fight scene, the fights gotta be good.

Speaking of the cute dragon, the dragon is important enough that it appears again prominently in a few later Dragon Ball Z stories, and I believe it's even mentioned briefly in a later Dragon Ball Kai episode (the one where Great Sayiaman has to beat up a circus owner who stole a dinosaur, I think). ONCE AGAIN despite this, the movie is completely counter to continuity and fits nowhere in the timeline. It's even more baffling this time because of how much emphasis is put on it later on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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