Dragonball Z Movie 10: Dangerous Partners: Super Warriors Never Rest!

SUMMARY: This movie starts out with a view of a Saiyan Space-Pod flying towards Earth. Next, you see what seems to be an injured Brolly. The movie doesn't explain how he escaped from Movie #8 or how he found a Saiyan Space-Pod to fly in. But let's move on, shall we? Next is the opening song "We Gotta Power", and then it shows Trunks Videl, and Goten all chasing around Dragonballs. They collect all but four of them. Goten and Trunks get hungry so they go to the nearby village. There is a Mountain Priest, hollering over and over, "Oh Holy Mountain God! Save this village and all our souls!" Videl asks him what the matter is. An old man (whom I think resembles Hoi, from movie #13) stumbles on over and explains to her about a monster who has plagued their town. Videl, Trunks and Goten volunteer to kill the beast in exchange for some food and the Mountain Priest's necklace. They offer some food to bribe the monster. He appears to be a giant dinosaur. Trunks defeats him with one punch to the nose. Not too long afterwards, Videl comes across Brolly on a patch of ice. He beats the crap out of her, when Goten and Trunks come to the rescue. Brolly looks at Goten and says, "Kakarotto," because he thinks Goten is Goku. Goten says, "Kakarotto? I've never heard of that kind of food." They all get into an amazing fight; Gohan, Piccolo and Kuririn show up, even though they don't help much. In the end Goku comes down from the Heavens and helps his sons take out Brolly with a joint Kamehameha Blast.

ACTION: I think this movie delivered the goods, action wise, but in a way not seen in many other Dragonball movies. I liked the way it combined gut-wrenching action with slapstick comedy. This sometimes gets annoying, because when you get caught up in a brutal battle between Gohan and Brolly, the scene changes to Goten urinating. I mean, why do we need to see that? It has nothing to do with the story, and as soon as he gets his little willy back into his pants, the scene changes back to the Gohan fight again. The way you saw Brolly die was pretty neat. His body sort of dissolved, the way Kid Buu did at the end of the series.

MUSIC: The music in Movie #10 was awesome. Though it wasn't much different from the other movies, it seemed to fit the scenes better, making every punch seem more vicious than the last. The ending song was great. It was sort of like the music that plays at the ending of "Fooly Cooly", sort of a funky hard-rock sound.

OVERALL: Overall, this movie was average. It had an average Dragonball plot outline: while looking for the balls, they find a village in distress. An old villain shows up, and then they beat him once more. It had an average amount of action, and a little too much unneeded comedy. If you have KaZaA, or Morpheus, I'd suggest downloading it. No rush, though, since there are a lot of unreleased DBZ movies that are better than this. If you have a comic store that sells fansubs, make sure it's of good quality before buying. You might just want to wait until FUNimation releases it next August.

Reviewed by: Tapion