Dragon Ball Super: Broly

 With the sad passing of professor Toriyama this week, the creator of Dragon Ball, it seemed only fitting to watch one of the movies I still have to of the franchise.

So I sat down and put on Dragon Ball Super Broly, the movie from 2018 that was a big cinema hit.

 

The movie starts 41 years in the past, with King Cold and his son Frieza approaching the planet Vegeta.  King Vegeta meets them at the courtyard, but Cold ignores him, introducing his son to the Saiyans.  He has come to announce that his son will take his throne, and they bring them Scouter devices, demonstrating the use of them by taking out four snipers in the castle.

 

Later in the nursery, King Vegeta visits his son and his potential, and sees another child there, Broly, son of Paragus.  He notices the immense potential of Broly, and decides to send him to a far off world to train, actually wanting to get him out of the way so his son might be the strongest saiyan alive.  He has send him away already, and Paragus steals a vessel to go look for his son, retrieving him on the barren planet Vampa where he starts training him.  

 

A few years later, Bardock is returning from battle to planet Vegeta, sensing something wrong as Frieza's fleet is in orbit.  He and his wife Gine send of their son, Kakarot, in a pod to a planet called Earth, where he might live unnoticed to Frieza.  His hunch was right, as soon after the planet is obliterated by Frieza.  Vegeta, Raditz and Nappa have survived though, as they where still on a mission far away from the planet.

 

 

In present day, Goku and Vegeta are training on an uninhabited planet, both for their own motivations after the Tournament of Power.  Goku because he met some awesomely strong people there, Vegeta because Frieza is back.  They receive a call from Trunks, telling them the Dragon Balls have been stolen from the laboratory, and using the Dragon Radar set out for the last Dragin Ball before the thieves arrive.  

 

Two operatives of the Frieza Force, Cheelai and Lemo, are searching spqace for strong people to recruit, when they come to the planet Vampa.  Here they find Paragus, but also his incredibly powerfull son, whose level is off the readings of the scouter device.  They bring them back before Frieza, where Paragus explains he had to remove Broly's tail, and he made a collar to control him if he goes out of control.  Paragus is driven by vengeance on Prince Vegeta, as a descendant from his father that banished him, and they join the plan of Frieza.

 

 

Arriving at the Artic just after Goku and Vegeta have, and they immediatly sense the power emanating from Broly.  He straight charges Vegeta, and while never having fought a saiyan opponent, quickly adapts to the fighting style.  Vegeta is amazed by the raw power of Broly, and even in Super Saiyan form he is hard pressed by Broly, frocing him to channel his Ki and transform into his Super Saiyan God form.  He seems to beat Broly at last, but this causes Broly to awaken his Wrathful form, turning him into a powered up berserker, as he now contains the power of the Great Ape in human form.

 

Goku steps in, fighting rather defensively to try and talk sense to him.  But Broly keeps raging, and keeps blocking ans topping Goku's hits.  Telepathically connecting to Piccolo, they realize he is up against someone formidable, and transforms into his Super Saiyan Blue form.  Yet Broly still manages to hold his own, but Goku starts gaining the upper hand.  This causes Frieza to kill Paragus, and in fake distress he calls out to Broly.  Seeing his father dead, he transforms for the first time into a Super Saiyan and batters Goku.  Knowing he can't face him alone anymore, and Vegeta joins in the fight.  They teleport to Piccolo and they try the Fusion technique, and while Frieza changes into his Golden form as Goku and Vegeta fuse into Gogeta.

 

 

Engaging Broly again, they now battle through the cracks of reality due to the power coming from both of them, and Broly changes into... the Legendary Super Saiyan, as he was the one prophetised all those years ago.  But Gogeta overcomes him, and just as he sees to finish him, Broly is whisked away back to Vampa by Cheelai and Lemo using the Dragon Balls and saving him.  Gogeta stops Frieza from killing them, and they acknowledge they will meet and fight each other in the future.

 

Back on Vampa, Goku visits the three and grants them a house and supplies made by Bulma, asking in return only that he can come over and train with Broly in the future...

 

So okay, this was allright I guess.  It is of course Dragon Ball, so it is a long fight with power up after power up, but to say this was more then a visual spectacle is perhaps a bit to much.  But, it was a fun 1hr40 ride for that matter.

 

Rest in peace, sensei Toriyama.