Dragon Ball - Z Movie Pack Collection One (Movies 1 to 5)

All works just fine early arrival, very convenient, good condition, great price, highly recommend to all dbz fans.

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Got this for my spouse. He's fond.

Brings me back to little me, All 5 movies where present and all played amazingly and I never watched dead zone, worlds strongest, and lord slug so ye worth it ;)

Received in well packaging. Nicely wrapped and sealed.

Reviewing a Dragon Ball Z product is weird...Basically, here's what you're looking at:1. The original content itself.2. The quality of the voice acting.3. The quality of the overall content.4. The fact you're writing to other Dragon Ball Z fans.5. The fact you're writing to people who really don't like Anime but like DBZ.Its not like reviewing, say, The Simpsons. Its because you know that the voice actors did this with the original crew and that you, the viewer, also understand the cultural content. So, because of that, if you're like me and don't really watch that much Anime, you're not going to get certain things.I was a big fan of the Original Dragon Ball series, and I always kinda hated Dragon Ball Z. I love DBZ at first, but the series seemed to quickly devolve into a "ooh, look at how powerful I am!" contest while the original Dragon Ball was always about amazing stories and fun and the battles were just a part of that. I always wanted the DBZ series to do more of that. Growing up, I had watched "Tree of Might", and the only thing I remembered was that it wasn't that good, but I decided to get this set since I was curious.THIS is everything I wish Dragon Ball Z was!Its about fun and adventure and going on crazy adventures while having meaningful battles! "Dead Zone" was an awesome prequel to the DBZ universe, and "Tree of Might".... holy crap, that was insanely awesome! A tree planted on earth that saps the planet, but the pacing, the fights... just great!Overall, the thing that's great about all of these movies are the pacing and fights! They're not trying to rush through a story, and they're also not trying to rush fights. Instead you have amazing stories that are able to breath with amazing battles mixed in. The American Voice Actors did an amazing job, and I had a good chuckle hearing the voice actor for Goku as a child from the original Dragon Ball series voice Gohun in a few of these movies.Honestly, you'll feel great seeing these!

This is the first of three Dragon Ball Z movie packs that are released. In it contains the first five movie that were released in accordance to the show. As with most of the Dragon Ball Z movies, it's a little difficult to place them in the actual timeline of the show as there are many strange inaccuracies, such as characters are supposed to be dead are alive or some characters aren't even around when apparently they just became part of the main cast (I'm looking at you Vegeta).Nether the less, I'll go over the details of what movies your getting:Dead Zone: This first film see's the introduction of Garlic Jr. who is one of the only characters to get an entire saga in the actual series. Garlic Jr. is looking for the seven dragon balls to take over the world. And it's up to Goku to take him down and rescue his son.The World's Strongest: The Evil Dr. Wheelo is resurrected in android form with the dragon balls. But if he really wants to rule the world, he must seek out the word's strongest warrior to house his brain. Of course, Goku is what Wheelo has in mind.The Tree of Might: One of my personal favorites in this set, a group of Saiyans and Goku look alike, Turles, arrive on earth to plant the tree of might so that it may bear fruit that would bestow them incredible powers. Expect a lot of fighting in this one and some really good animation.Lord Slug: Evil Leader Lord Slug crash lands on earth with the intent on terra freezing it to make it more comfortable for themselves, but miserable for everyone else, and then moving on to the next planet. Lord Slug learns about the dragon balls and since he's now hundreds of years old, he plans on wishing for his youth back. Not the most memorable movie, but it's still good nonetheless.Coolers Revenge: Following the events of Namek's destruction and Freiza's death, Frieza's brother Cooler has intent to destroy Goku and all of his friends. Cooler is twice as strong as Freiza, so it's once again up to Goku to rid the planet of this menace.Each of these come in 16:9 aspect ratio and will run in total about 4 and a half hours. It contains both funimation english and japanese dialogue. The music is in 5.1 surround sound. The original japanese dialogue is in mono. Also there is included english subtitles.There aren't really any special features to speak of except for a commentary on Dead Zone with Chuck Huber (Garlic Jr., Emperor Pilaf) and Chris Sabat, who was the ADR director at the time and who would later voice memorable character Vegeta and others. It's very entertaining hearing these two rip into the characters and story (because, really, it's not a story you can take seriously. Certainly not in the DBZ universe) and makes for a good listen.The packaging comes in 3 slip cases, two disks in two cases with one housed in it's one case. It's a pretty standard outer shell, nothing too interesting or special like the yellow dragon box's.Overall, this is a pretty bare bones package and was simple transfer into standard dvd format. They did a good job with the remastering, but I really don't like the packaging. The fact that on the back they have at the very top, "Five thrilling flicks at one amazing price!" comes off as really lame and stupid. Besides the packaging, this is still a good set and is very worthy of being part of your Dragon Ball Z collection, though I absolutely recommend watching the actual series before these if you haven't already.

It's gonna be fun introducing my grandsons to one my most favorite animes.