Best/Worst Dragonball Z Movies

I'm not a fan of the show "Dragonball Z", but I love the feature films. So, which are your favorite and least favorites of the franchise?

I'm not so good at this, so I decided to merely rate each film.

Dead Zone: The first Z movie, and one of the more intense ones. Great hand to hand fight scenes, but the villains aren't very impressive. Piccolo is always a treat as well. 4/5

The World's Strongest: I love this movie. Nothing but crazy fun. My only issue is the ending is a bit slow. But Dr. Wheelo is a great villain, and there's nothing but mind blasting fun here. 4.5/5

The Tree Of Might: One of the best films in the series. What seems like a crappy, unoriginal filler feature is actually one hell of an action flick. I'm amazed at how badass Turles is, not to mention how well formed the plot is. I'm impressed. 5/5

Bardock: The Father Of Goku: Hell to the yes. I loved the crap out of this. Violence, violence, and more violence, only to end in a tragic way. Very short, but only as long as it needed to be. Not much else can be said about this movie other than 'badass'. 4.5/5

Lord Slug: Another one of my personal favorites. I mean, from a planet almost hitting earth to a guy who makes King Piccolo look like a wuss. Nothing but pure insanity. And I love every minute of it. I'm fighting my rating for this one between 4.5 and 5(mostly because of some hokey parts), but I'll give in to my urge. 5/5

Cooler's Revenge: This was the series' winning streak. Cooler was an awesome baddie, there was great music in the back round, and the characters are at their best. 4.5/5

Return Of Cooler: Great sequel. Some good dialogue, action, and plot. I almost pissed myself after seeing the army of Meta Coolers, and it's always great to see a cool nemesis return(no pun intended). 4/5

Super Android 13!: Haven't seen it.

Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan: Broly is easily one of the most popular villains of the Dragonball franchise, and his first movie is one of the most well known. However, I was not impressed. As far as villains go, he was just ok. I mean, I understand that he was pure evil and all, but he didn't do anything we haven't seen before. I also felt like the animation went down a notch from "Return Of Cooler", as did the plot. Still, it wasn't bad, and I did get some good thrills out of it. Still, it's very overrated. I don't know, though. Maybe I should try watching it again and re-review it. One of my biggest problems with the movie is that it builds up an hour of mystery, and yet the answer is in the film's title. 2.5/5

Bojack Unbound: Never saw it.

Broly: The Second Coming: This is where the lack of quality in the DBZ movies can be perfectly seen. At least the first "Broly" movie tried. This one? Not only rushed, but it focuses on two of my least favorite characters - Goten and Trunks. I also lost that feeling of fear when Broly showed up. 2/5

Bio-Broly: This wasn't terrible like everyone says, but it wasn't good either. I was somewhat entertained, up until Broly appeared. And the climax felt so pointless after the twist. I mean, why go through all of the trouble then? And what was with the giant Broly? That was pretty lame. 2.5/5

Fusion Reborn: The worst one I've seen. There is absolutely no redeeming quality here. Period. Nothing was interesting, nothing was funny, and the entire plot was moronic. I never even want to be reminded of this movie ever again. 1/5

Wrath Of The Dragon: Not bad, but not great. It had its moments, and while the Hirudegarn looked cool, I didn't understand why he was so hard to beat. He was large. So? They've blown up planets! And besides the Trunk/Tapion relationship(not to mention the beautiful animation), I wasn't blown away. The sword nod at the end was really cool, though. 3/5

Worst: Dragonball: Evolution.

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Tree of might is the best

The first Broly movie and Wrath of the Dragon are pretty easily the best. They shared their only flaw in forcing Goku to deal the victory blow despite the movies clearly being more emphasized with a different Z fighter (i.e., Vegeta would've been a better plot-based choice to finish off Broly given how it was all built up, and Goku was an otherwise almost completely disregardable character in Wrath of the Dragon).

The first three or so DBZ movies were all pretty okay. But like my two favorites, they just went with the "Goku beating the villain" jazz (except for Dead Zone), though I will say that it felt much more justifiable because he was prett much the strongest one during these films.

-Fusion Reborn was pretty anti-climactic. The whole thing with warpiong the Otherworld made it look like some sort of stoner comedy mixed with a filler episode that you would think fit better with the Naruto Filler Arcs. With the only point in watching the flick being to witness Gogeta's birth, he was only there for two minutes. The best two minutes of the film, no less.

-Lord Slug was proper crap, and introduced a crappier weakness to an alien race whose only exception to their generally overall crap rule is Piccolo. It fit my category of the DBZ films' "I can't belive I thought this was cool the first time" flick. Making the main bad buy a Namekian was total throwaway excuse of an idea, and I felt the only admirable plot-point was utilizing the whole Namekian weakness to whistling that was shown earlier, but even then, it didn't last.

-Bio-Broly is pretty heavily agreed upon as being the worst, and I'm not about to defend it just because it involved Broly (or, rather, that tragically made horror-flick monster wannabe excuse for Broly).

-The Cooler movies were a decent attempt at broadening Freeza's family, but I felt the second one undermined the supporting cast.

-Broly: Second coming wasn't bad, I just think the first half had way too much emphasis on the kids and only picked up when Gohan arrived. I'd imagine it being stronger plotwise if Gohan were there from the start. I also like how they dealt with finishing Broly off; a good change of pace as opposed to just having Goku use the Spirit Bomb like he did with almost a fourth of the movies.

-Bojack Unbound, I happened to like. It was the DBZ movie which I wanted to see all the villains get slaughtered ruthlessly after riding their high-horses the whole time, and who better to do that than the no-bullsh*t SSJ2 Gohan? The way they had portrayed him in the series made it seem like he'd be able to take even the characters factually more powerful than him.

Granted though, the Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans OVA was better than all of them.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Worst: Dragonball: Evolution.

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This one cigar

As for the Best:

The First Broly, Tree of Might, History of Trunks.

Tree of Might, History of Trunks, Bojack Unbound, And the Bardock story, first broly

bardock was the best, it actually had a story

Originally posted by psycho gundam
bardock was the best, it actually had a story

Originally posted by psycho gundam
bardock was the best, it actually had a story

A few of the movies had good stories.

Saw "Super Android 13". Very mediocre. Didn't feel epic or original to me. Some of the action was good, but nothing new. 2/5

I think Bardock: Father of Goku was the best personally.

Bardock was the best because it was more than just fighting.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Bardock was the best because it was more than just fighting.

History of Trunks was more than just fighting. Plus the fights were better.

The Father of Goku still had the best story though, and Bardock had a lot more character in the end than whiny Trunks.

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Dead zone, World's Strongest, and Tree of Might are good.

Not a very big fan of Lord Slug.

Cooler's revenge really doesn't do anything much for me either, but Return of Cooler is decent.

Super Android 13 frankly bores me.

The first two Brolly movies are loads of fun, but their plots have more holes than swiss cheese.

Bojack is funny, mostly due to Mr. Satan's antics

Bio-Brolly sucks

Fusion Reborn and Wrath of the Dragon are good.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Bojack is funny, mostly due to Mr. Satan's antics

Originally posted by Quincy
History of Trunks was more than just fighting. Plus the fights were better.

Also in Bardock the characters were much more reasonably powered. Nobody cept Frieza could bust a planet yet.

Plus Bardock is a GAR god.

I don't really count the TV specials as movies. More like bonus episodes

I like both. Bardock is a badass.