Dragon Ball - Spezial: Hey! Son Goku und seine Freunde kehren zurück!!

The movie is set 2 years after the defeat of Majin Buu. Mr. Satan is planning a banquet for everyone who helped in the fight against Buu and he's also celebrating the opening of his new hotel. The banquet is suddenly interrupted by a strange person wearing a Saiyan armor. It turns out that this young man is actually Vegeta's little brother Tarble. When he was little, he was sent to a distant planet because he was too weak. He came to planet Earth seeking help from his brother Vegeta in order to defeat the evil duo Abo and Cado who are terrorizing his planet. But the evil duo followed him to Earth and a fight is inevitable!

I think the fans won't like this special like the rest of the series because Dragon Ball Z is the most famous part of DB, and the reason why it is so popular is mostly the fighting, which isn't the important thing in this special. Humor is. This movie does have a lot of fighting, and the fighting scenes are great, but there are also Roshi's perverted jokes, funny villains, great dialogues (especially when Goku an Vegeta are arguing) and much more. I for one, liked Dragon Ball more than Dragon Ball Z, and this special was just perfect for me. In the beginning, Dragon Ball was all about the humor, not fighting, and later it became a fighting manga/anime with almost no humor at all. I liked the combination of old-school animation with the latest 3D CG graphics and colouring techniques. And it is great that all the voice actors are present even after 12 years. But for some reason Tien is missing...

To sum it all up, this is a great movie that is definitely worth watching. More than once.

10/10

The key to Dragon Ball's success isn't the over the top fight sequences or the ki blasts or insane power levels. At its core what has made this series so beloved for generations, are the characters. And here in this movie we have our favorite heroes and anti-heroes just hanging out and having a good time. It is what later episodes of Dragon Ball Super would figure out, just having these characters living their life can lead to some fun storytelling possibilities. The whole universe doesn't always have to be at stake.

Of course, a villain to fight does pop up eventually. It is a pair of villains so weak compared to our heroes that the fighters draw lots to see who will get to fight them.

As of right now, to the best of my knowledge, the movie hasn't received a Funimation English dub. So, be prepared to read subtitles if you don't speak Japanese.

The story does introduce a few things into continuity that I am not a fan of. Once the fight begins the story does lose some of its initial charm. The new characters this movie introduces aren't all that interesting, and they take time away that could be spent on the characters we came to see. At the time this came out, the world was hungry for some DragonBall content. All we had at the time was a couple episodes of Dragon Ball Z Abridged.

If you are a big fan of these characters and are excited about the prospect of Goku and Vegeta arguing over who gets the last bit of sushi, then this is the film for you. If that sounds boring, then you can go ahead and skip this one.

Watched it because Dragonball and DBZ is my favorite anime but after watching this its just so lame, its cheap and Goten and Trunks only fight really, Goku just shoots one damn kamehameha and Vegeta doesn't get anything in there, the whole story was stupid about Vegetas brother and the fight scenes were crap, every random character that has ever been seen except for a lot of the fighters were there even showed some for a couple seconds which was stupid, basically just a very VERY bad filler episode like terrible, It was cool to see the old music used for this and actually at first I thought it was gonna be good all the Z warriors fight a nice big battle a huge boss or something but the bad guys were lame as hell and they sucked, and also other than that its just mr. Satans hotel and they eat in it and nothing else

Nearly a decade after the last Toei animated anime comes a new anime of the title "Yo. Son Goku and His Friends Return." A really mesmerizing concept in its own respect, the youngest of the DBZ movie lives up to its hype and expectations. Not an extremely serious kind of movie like others, it was rather on the merrier side.

Vegeta softened up beyond belief, the only villains in the movie not stronger than the kids Goten and Trunks, Vegeta's brother visits earth out of nowhere and King Kai visiting earth for the first time are some of the highlights of this movie.

This movie is possibly one of those which concludes an immensely huge series with the title "And they happily lived ever after."

I had been looking forward for watching this since it was announced,i was amused and surprised when i heard that a new ova was going to go out after 11 years of dragon ball lack,well i can say after watching this that this special didn't disappointed me.It was interesting watching the great old dragon ball with new animation techniques,brighter colors and higher detailed scenarios.

The plot isn't too deep or original,but dragon ball had never been too deep,so i had no problem with that.A bunch of characters from the series appear and there are new ones,that i liked a lot.

The only complaint i have is the duration,i felt it was too short,but i hope this isn't the last dragon ball material we see.

in conclusion if you're a dragon ball fan you should watch this,you won't be disappointed.