Review of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022) by Niko433A — 18 Sep 2022

The intro is a lot of filler from Dragon Ball and DBZ regarding Dr. Gero, the Androids, Cell, and so on. So the first 3 to 5 minutes can be really dull if you know your dragon ball lore/events.

A really slow start to the movie with a few good scenes between Piccolo and Pan (Pan is just wholesome throughout this entire movie). Some filler stuff with Goku and Vegeta training together that didn't need to be in this movie, since we are mainly focusing on Piccolo, Gohan, and the Red Ribbon army.

Piccolo's screen time with his first transformation ever was a little short to my liking, since it's the first time he ever changes looks and I think they should've put more focus on him evolving rather than skipping through it (But that's definitely more of a problem with another character).

Orange Piccolo is kind of a weird/unoriginal name, but fits the character that he doesn't want to be much of a show of and just focuses on the fighting aspect.

As always in Shonen movies, the fight scenes are the best part with the environmental destruction and the color of the energy blasts is really nice to look at.

We kind of have a Wolverine: Origins moment where they literally take one of (if not the most) charismatic characters in Dragon Ball history and make him not speak. Cell Max just has a monkey brain through this entire movie and just yells and screams like he's just come from the insane asylum. Cell is definitely the most disappointing part of this movie.

And finally, we also have a moment that I thought would be cool, but just gets really lame. Gohan finally goes through a new transformation and he is in this transformation for ONLY 2 MINUTES. They literally had more screen time for Goku and Vegeta fighting than showing off Gohan finally using some of his hidden powers.