Ignoring that, the Dragon Ball Z movie The Tree Of Might is secretly about Kid Gohan secretly befriending a dinosaur in the woods, striking on some of the same magic that made the Gohan Piccolo ‘filler’ work so well in Z.
Turles is a Saiyan who looks a lot like another Saiyan named Bardock who looks a lot like another Saiyan named Goku. Not too good, but this one has cool Toriyama robots, at least! 3. With how high power levels sky-rocket later on in the series, we do find it hard to believe the second Dragon Ball Z movie contains ‘The World’s Strongest’, which is canonically just God now we suppose. Dragon Ball Z: The World’s Strongest (1990) who returns for a not too great filler arc in the series. The very first Dragon Ball Z Movie, so you have to watch it for its historic value alone! It also introduces a green shrimp man named Garlic Jr. The films aren’t exactly Toriyama canonical, but the more hardcore Dragon Ball Z fans will find some of them appreciatable. The 90s Dragon Ball Z MoviesĬoming out every March and July for half a decade during the height of the show’s popularity, these roughly hour-long Dragon Ball Z movies were a chance for creators to morph the story into different shapes and sizes for a guaranteed audience. Maybe you saw a couple air on Toonami as a kid, and you never went back to see the rest.Įither way, here is our Dragon Ball Z Movie Guide to get you up to speed for 2022. In desperately googling for any info you can about the film, you might come across the old 90s Dragon Ball Z movies that don’t get revisited enough anymore. Folks, we have to assume some super dedicated fan used their pandemic downtime to gather the seven legendary Dragon Balls, because millions of fans’ wishes have finally been answered: 2022 will see the release of a brand spanking new Dragon Ball Super movie! One with heavy involvement from series creator Akira Toriyama himself that promises to push the animation envelope into uncharted territories.