Dragon Ball Z Movie 05: Tobikkiri no Saikyou tai Saikyou

WATCH THE DUB.
Or a version of the sub that uses the dubs soundtrack. Seriously, you're watching the wrong version if not!
Dragon Ball Z: Coolers Revenge doesn't differentiate from the other movies in any serious way, apart from being executed much much better. It is still a copy of the original series, and follows a similar plot structure with Gohan and Krillin biding time for an injured Goku, until he shows up to save the day. Cooler has a much more interesting design than any of the previous villains and drops some pretty generic 'cold' one-liners about DESTROYING EVERYTHING. He comes to avenge his fallen brother, ... Frieza (unknowing that it was his own decision which allowed Goku to survive, resulting in all this happening in the first place.)

The way Goku got taken out of the movie for the first half felt so stupid, he literally gets hit by one ki beam and is sent to his deathbed. He can't even recognize the Senzu bean in front of his face Gohan hands him before he gets healed-- But, everybody got some pretty sick fights. What magnifies them is the fucking metal ass soundtrack. Huge names like Deftones, Linkin Park, with the menacing buildup and loud clashing guitars- it fits so fucking well.

Overall super badass and definently the best execution of a familiar formula. Reccomended!

DBZ Movie 5: Revenge of Cooler is about Cooler, Frieza's brother, who's come to the earth to have his revenge against Goku for killing his brother, but more importantly, to restore his family pride. This movie is non-canon, meaning it's anime original, and Cooler doesn't appear in DB manga.

Let's get into the review.

My Positives:
1, DBZ art style and music coat.
2, Good fighting sequences
3, Goku's and Cooler fight is good

My Negatives:
1, Being a brother of the arguably best villain in the DB universe gives quite the anticipation. Cooler doesn't live up to it. He's a more composed and calculated version of Frieza, but in every ... other aspect, he falls below his brother. 48-minute movie cannot possibly create a villain that would rival Frieza. He's there only to give Goku a good fight and to give us some Frieza vibes.
2, Gohan: His purpose in Revenge of Cooler is to act stupid, so Goku gets wounded to prolong this movie length.

In my opinion, Revenge of Cooler has really good fighting scenes (mainly, because the majority of them were used in DBZ), but its story and characters entertainment are mediocre.

I give it 6/10. I don't dislike this Revenge of Cooler, I think it's a mediocre movie. I can recommend you to try this movie at least once, but I cannot tell that you'll like Revenge of Cooler.

Ahhhh and it's back to lame again. Cooler and his gang are just a copypaste version of Frieza and his gang, and the entire story plays out as a low-stakes remake in a way... but with none of the tension because there's not much going on except for this purple dude who wants to beat up some monkey dudes.

This is sad, too, because this is technically the first Dragon Ball Z movie that could feasibly fit into a part of the timeline-- it works neatly as a side story in that three-year time gap where everyone's training and not much exciting happens. The story is ... wrapped around so tightly that it has zero ramifications for any other part of the story, so it actually works. Why only technically? Because for some reason, the entire cast is like 10% as powerful as they normally are; even in Super Sayian form, Goku is noticeably not as "blow up some mountains and then decimate the planet" as normal, and everyone takes Cooler as a huge threat but he appears to be significantly weaker than Frieza.

But... I'm probably judging it too harshly because I'm still desperately waiting for another enjoyable Dead Zone movie and none of these are stacking up. I thought Cooler would be... cool...