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BookPrices.net - Dragon Ball Z - The Movie - Tree of Might
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $4.99
Your Save: $ 4.99 ( 50% )
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Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Starring: Masako Nozawa, Don Brown, Ted Cole, Paul Dobson, Hiroko Emori
Directed By: Daisuke Nishio
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304863893
Format: Animated
ISBN: 6304863896
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Release Date: 1998-03-17
Running Time: 60
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
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Summary: A series of Dragon Ball Z on video.
Comment: I am a huge fan of the Dragon Ball Z show, these videos are a must for anyone who likes a little extra action and can't get enough of the total non-stop adventure from Goku and friends.
I loved the video, it is compared to the most creative cartoons around.
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Summary: mother nature can get nasty
Comment: A bunch of space pirates have can to planet earth and plant a seed that grows the beautiful on the outside but deadly the environment in the inside I'm talking about the Tree of Might, it has the power to devour all living light forms of the planet and into the fruit that grows on the Tree of Might when it is finishing devouring it leaves the planet with nothing but dusk no living creatures what so ever also when the saiyan Turles "that looks like Goku" who eats the fruit off of the tree gives him super strength.
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Summary: A Clinic in Animation
Comment: Love, love, love this movie. Blows me away almost every time I see it. Obviously the title of this review refers to its visual superiority, and that's exactly what it has, in almost every facet. It's puzzling why some people allude to this film as having mediocre animation, because frankly, I think it dazzles in that department. It's on par with any other DBZ movie visually, and that includes "The Return of Cooler," which I believe to be the best of the DBZ movies animation-wise. Maybe I just have awful taste in what looks good, or perhaps I just have no grasp on what good, clean, crisp animation looks like. Who knows really? All I know is that my eyes love what they see when I pop this in the DVD player.
The fight scenes are a little sparse and take some time to get to (I happen to like that, but not a lot of people do), but they're more than worth the wait. There's about a 15 second sequence after Turles takes a bite out of a piece of fruit from the Tree of Might that's about one of the sweetest animated action scenes I've ever seen in my life.
Although I love the way it looks, the sound is pretty delightful in its own right. Pioneer does a good job with dubbing. They leave it relatively untouched and close to its original form, and I like the Pioneer voices a lot better than FUNimation's, especially Piccolo's and Vegeta's.
The sound effects are nice and crystal clear, and I happen to prefer the original score for all DBZ films and episodes, though some of it gets repetitive. I don't really take to a lot of the music that some of these western companies have added, though mainly it's because there's just too damn much of it! I love how in the original form of this anime, there are many points of pure silence, accompanied by only wind whirling in the background or the sounds of the inside of a spaceship. Also, FUNimation and Pioneer (mostly FUNimation) just can't seem to appreciate a scene where no one's supposed to be talking. In the Japanese versions, there are many scenes in which they'll be showing the back of someone's head or their eyes or something and they're completely silent, but FUNimation/Pioneer feels it's incumbent upon them to throw in some voice and it ends up sounding really forced and generic. You never know what type of ambiance silence can create until you watch one of these FUNimation produced movies/episodes in which they just bombard you with music and dialogue non-stop.
Anyway, apart from the impressive visuals and good sound, the story's pretty average, but that's expected since none of the DBZ movies are meant to be linear with the actual plot of the series, rather just side projects done for fun and entertainment purposes. This is why I don't judge these by their storylines/plots, mainly just animation, presentation and general badassedness. This movie excels in all three, so buy it!
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Summary: All the others are WRONG! a review by CYD
Comment: This movie was excellent! What people fail to understand is that DBZ was produced by 2 different companies: Pioneer (Eps 1-50, Movies 1-3) and FUNimation (the rest of it). FUNimation produces about 15 different anime, and Pioneer does about 200. You can see why the music and SFX are just like the original; low budget, not too much time. But don't let this get ya down. This movie had tons of fighting, and if you watch it in subtitles, a lot of cursing! Whether it's in stock or not, Amazon has good used prices for this DVD. (...). Pretty good deal, huh?
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Summary: DISSAPOINTING STUFF
Comment: I was very dissapointed in this DBZ movie.All the things i love about the tv series were missing.I love the long drawn out grueling battles in the series but here they are all over in seconds.The dialogue was pretty poor and the story line very thin,explaining nothing about Turless or his origins.I also hated Gokus voice in this movie.And why oh Why is this movie so short?If even an extra half an hour on were added onto it to beef out the story line and add some much needed action and fight scenes it could have been so much better.
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A seed of the Tree of Might has been planted on Earth by a group of space pirates. Once rooted, the Tree of Might will devour all life energy, leaving the planet a deserted land where no living thing can survive. Goku and his friends try to destroy the tree but find their power is not enough. Suddenly, they are attacked by the evil space pirates, and Gohan is captured by Turles, the evil leader of the group and a Saiyan! Turles powers up by eating a fruit of the tree and challenges Goku. Can Goku save Gohan and the planet Earth from Turles!?
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