Every Dragon Ball Movie Ranked
17. Cooler’s Revenge
The second coming of Cooler wasn’t a terrible movie by any means, but it offered very little to build on the antagonist or the Z Fighters in general.
The plot is a pretty blatant rip-off of the Namek Saga in a number of ways with Cooler invading New Namek alongside a force of disposal minions.
Likewise, most of the fights’ tension boils down to hitting the enemy harder than they first thought they should and the animation can be highly inconsistent with character models varying from highly detailed to wonky and misshapen.
On the plus-side though, the film’s design aesthetic is ripe with homages to Sci Fi classics and the film marks the first instance of Goku and Vegeta teaming up to take on a bigger threat.
It’s a stylish stepping stone to bigger and better films, and even if it may not be the best film, it’s far from the worst the Dragon Ball films have to offer.
