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Tarfumes.com - Dragon Ball Z - Broly Double Feature [Blu-ray]
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List Price: $34.98
Our Price: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Funimation Prod
Starring: Masako Nozawa, Sean Schemmel, Christopher Sabat, Stephanie Nadolny, Iemasa Kayumi
Directed By: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: FUNIMATION PRODUCTIONS, LTD
EAN: 0704400038617
Label: Funimation Prod
Manufacturer: Funimation Prod
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Funimation Prod
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-11-13
Running Time: 120
Studio: Funimation Prod
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Editorial Reviews:
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Broly Goes Blu ray!Contains two Dragon Ball Z Movies on one Blu ray disc: Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan and Broly:Second ComingBroly: The Legendary Super SaiyanA Saiyan warrior has arrived on Earth and his plea for assistance has ignited a clash between Goku and Vegeta. Sparks will fly as the two battle to be the one to confront the galaxy's new menace. Yet the true menace lies closer...The volatile Broly has his own agenda and his target is the most powerful Saiyan in the Universe! But will it be Goku or Vegeta?Broly: Second Coming Defeated but far from dead the Legendary Super Saiyan Broly has retruned and he's got a fierce thirst or revenge. Not only will he threaten Goku but his rage will imperil every innocent soul on the peaceful planet. All Earth's heroes must unite and join this terrifying battle an undertaiking which could prove their last!This Blu ray disc is a must have for Dragon Ball Z collectors:Widescreen transfer from the original 35 mm Japanese filmRemastered in High Definition and Digitally RestoredEnglish 5.1 SurroundEnglish StereoOriginal Japanese audioSystem Requirements:Run Time: 120 minutes Genre:Â ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Artist:Â DRAGON BALL Z UPC:Â 704400038617
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Doesn't make good enough use of Blu-Ray's capabilities
Comment: Broly: Blu-Ray Double Feature
INTRODUCTION:
The Dragon Ball Z series is one of the finest animes out there, as any fan of Japanese animation will tell you. The series has a "love it or hate it" reputation, but those fans who get into the series are totally immersed by it for a number of reasons. Young people love the series for the fast-paced action and adventure, while older fans enjoy it for the sheer number of characters, and the way they are developed and evolve over the course of time. It's no wonder the series is considered Akira Toriyama's magnum opus, and by far the best of the three Dragon Ball series. When Toei animation made Dragon Ball into an anime, they didn't copy Toriyama's mangas verbatim. They added in many sagas and plot elements not in the manga, often as a result so that the manga and anime were released at the same pace. Toei also created movies based on the series. There were thirteen movies, two television specials, and one OVA/OAV. While not usually canon to the storyline, they are an undeniable part of the Dragon Ball Z franchise that can't be ignored.
FUNimation is in the midst of remastering and reissuing DBZ, uncut and in its entirety - movies included.
This Blu-Ray Double Feature features two movies - Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan, and Broly: Second Coming. Curiously, the third Broly movie, Bio-Broly, is not included.
THE MOVIES:
-Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
During a peaceful picnic in a park on Earth, Vegeta is approached by an unexpected visitor from outer space. This visitor invites him to come with him to visit a new planet Vegeta he has created, which he could rule over. However, it's all a trick to get revenge against the son of the Saiyan king - who betrayed him and his son just prior to the world being destroyed. His son turns out to be someone who has attained the state of Legendary Super Saiyan - What started as an invitation for Vegeta to rule a new world soon turns into a fight for their lives.
This is the best of the three Broly movies, and even it's not that great compared to a lot of the other movies. This is due in no small part to the fact that Broly just isn't that interesting a character. He's a mindless brute that pretty much creates the negative stereotype people have about DBZ. And if this movie was supposed to revolve around the history of the Saiyan race and Broly's backstory, why make Goku the main good guy instead of Vegeta? This could have been a better movie if they'd focused more of the villains' backstories, and made Vegeta the keeper of justice. Instead, the Saiyan prince whines like a baby about his opponent being too strong.... Despite these flaws it's still a good movie.
-Broly - Second Coming
Broly narrowly escaped his previous fight with the Z Warriors. After arriving on Earth, tracking them in his crippled pod, he landed in a lake. The water froze and preserved him. During a Dragon Ball recovering adventure with Goten, Trunks, and Videl, Goten starts to cry. His crying sounds just like baby Goku's crying that drove Broly insane, and it awakens him. Now awakened, the new generation of Z Warriors finds themselves up against a threat none of them hoped they'd ever face again.
This movie is a serious step down from the previous Broly movie, which wasn't even that great to begin with. Broly didn't need a sequel, period. The movie focuses on Goten and Trunks, and as such, is a lot less serious than the previous Broly film. Most of the film is just the Z Fighters getting their butts kicked by Broly. The end of the movie is great, but as a whole, this one falls short. Still worth watching at least once though.
THE PRESENTATION:
This is the first Dragon Ball Z release on Blu-Ray. The image is quite sharp throughout, but truth be told, Dragon Ball Z is NOT a series that benefits enormously from Blu-Ray. The quality isn't a whole lot better than if you upscaled your old Broly DVDs using a Blu-Ray player. And considering the storage space of Blu-Ray discs, there is no excuse for the following:
A) Failing to include the third Broly movie, Bio-Broly.
B) Not remastering the Japanese audio.
C) Not including the option for English voices and Japanese music (all subsequent movie releases of the series have included this.)
D) Not including any sort of bonus material. All we get on here are glorified commercials.
E) Not including pop-up menus.
However, the films ARE presented in their proper Japanese theatrical aspect ratio. Anyone who says this is NOT the proper aspect ratio is incorrect - the movies were made with the intention of being cropped for Japanese cinema screens. The way you see the movie here is the way Toei intended it to be seen.
OVERALL:
This was a good idea, but considering most DBZ fans already have these movies on DVD, there's really no point in upgrading. The picture quality isn't a leaps-and-bounds improvement over older releases of these films. When FUNimation learns how to do Blu-Ray releases of DBZ right, I'll be first in line to pick them up. But this ain't the way.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WEAK!! WEEEEEeeeAK!!!!!!
Comment: Yes the picture is good enough for the film being shown. Japanese anime movies reach this amount of clarity back in the '90s and back. But the supplements were horrid -Being that there's sqwat!- and the menu was rather lacking. I love the old DVD menus that don't give you a long turgid animated ride before actually showing the menu (I'm looking at you, mr. bond!) but this one screamed CHEEP! Oh, yes. If you like Dragon Ball, this is for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This *IS* the original aspect ratio...but there are other problems
Comment: This Blu-Ray is actually a double-feature, containing the first two movies of the popular anime series DRAGON BALL Z that involve Broly (there is a third one not featured in this Blu-Ray).
This release is unprecedented in the history of anime as it is one of the first anime titles to be released in a high-definition format, in this case Blu-Ray. As such, you're going to get the best out of this purchase if you own both a Blu-Ray player (such as the Playstation 3) as well as a high-definition TV.
This release is also part of FUNimation's continued effort to put DRAGON BALL Z through a remastering process. This process, which was undertaken by using the original Japanese film negatives, involves removal of old scratches and grain, restoration of the original colors, and a crisp, clear digital restoration of the voices and sound effects for 5.1 surround sound (although 2.0 stereo is available for those without surround sound). The result is an absolutley beautiful 1080p picture and some wonderful sound that quickly warrant a 5/5 review from me.
Having said that, you undoubtedly have read complaints involving the remastering process (which infuriatingly insist on putting the word "remaster" in quotation marks, as if to indicate that the process was a careless, reckless, and efortless attempt). The most frequent of these complaints is the complaint of the original aspect ratio of the picture. Approximatley 20% of the original 4:3 picture (consisting of both the top and bottom portions combined) was eliminated in order to produce the 16:9 widescreen format that this Blu-Ray plays the film in. As a compensation, 10% of the footage that appears on the left and right side, normally absent from 4:3 presentations, appears here. However, many fans have still taken issue with this, arguing that since the picture was originally presented in 4:3, it should also be presented in 4:3 on the Blu-Ray. This arguement deserves some consideration when referring to the remastered DVD season box sets of DRAGON BALL Z by FUNimation (the first parts of the DRAGON BALL Z franchise to be remastered), which were originally presented in 4:3 and, prior to FUNimations' remastering, were never presented in 16:9.
However, the movies are a different story. They actually were originally presented in 16:9, as their first release was in Japanese movie theaters. As such, 16:9 actually *is* the original aspect ratio for the movies, just not for the TV episodes. Just like here, 20% of the vertical image was eliminated. The difference here, though, is that unlike the TV season box sets which also eliminated 20% of the vertical image, the original animators of the DRAGON BALL Z movies knew ahead of time that the movies were going to be presented in 16:9 (because it was in movie theaters), and kept this in mind while animating so that no details of any importance would be lost.
In reality, the only time the movies have seen a 4:3 release are in the first English DVD copies released by FUNimation (these movies have been released before, but without the remastering process). As such, Japan has never seen any kind of release, DVD or otherwise, of the movies in 4:3. So to say that this release is not the original aspect ratio is completley incorrect.
Having said that, I'm not completley satisfied with this release for two reasons. Firstly, the remastering process for the TV season box sets has included an option that allows for the english voices to be heard alongside the original Japanese music in 5.1 surround sound. No such option exists here. The only options are to hear the dub music/English voice combo in either 5.1 surround sound or 2.0 stereo. Considering the storage space offered on Blu-Ray, this is rather baffling.
The second major complaint is that, while the original Japanese voice/Japanese music combo are available (with expertly-translated subtitles by Steve Simmons), they are only available in 1.0 Mono. This is understandable for the DVD releases due to the limited storage space, but Blu-Ray has a whopping 50 GB of storage. There's absolutley no excuse for not remastering the Japanese voices.
Otherwise, though, this release is absolutley incredible. The visual quality of the picture thanks to the remastering process is absolutley incredible, having restored the animation to its original pristine condition, if not better. The acting is also very well-done from both the Japanese and the English voice cast, and many DRAGON BALL Z fans have noted that the English script for this movie, as written by Christopher R. Sabat (the voice of Vegeta and Piccolo) is the most faithful translation FUNimation has ever given a DRAGON BALL Z release. The dub music, while not as good as the original Japanese music, still manages to be lively enough in its own right.
I would absolutley reccomend this purchase, it's worth every dollar and then some.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the $15... but still felt a bit disappointed.
Comment: I'm not sure what i was thinking.. but i was expecting this Blu-ray transfer to look AWESOME!!!!!!
BUT...
it looked mediocre... it looked ok... it look... well.. it looked like a standard dvd that found a way to fit a widescreen HDTV.
A good buy for DBZ fanatics...
Customer Rating:
Summary: DBZ Never Looked So Good
Comment: I love DBZ and the Broly movies are great. Picture looks amazing but it definitely shows its age. Widescreen is nice. Would have gave it five stars but the picture isn't consistant throughout.
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