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Dragon Ball Z - Lord Slug - Feature (Uncut) Director: Daisuke Nishio Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Animated Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Goldhil Home Media 2 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-08-07 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 60 Average rating: 3.5 "Another side episode you won't see on TV" This is another one of those mini movies that if they wanted to could expand into a movie or 2 part tv special but they won't. It is really entertaining but it doesn't tie in to the basic story line, so forget about it. The story once again takes place after they meet Trunks, but before they face the androids. This time it starts off with a giant ateroid shooting straight for Earth, and there is no way that the military can destroy it. In comes Goku adn Krillion who use their abilities to try and divert it, but end up destroying it. They now dissapear for the first half. In the mean time from the depths of Ateroid lands a space ship that belongs to Lord Slug. He is very old and close to death, until he discovers the Dragon Balls. So before he converts Earth into a barren wasteland that will be his ship he gathers the Dragon balls and makes his wish. During the intial attack however when they land there are only two people to oppose the troops. Gohan and in a surprising turn of events Chi-Chi. Eventually however Goku, Krillion, and Piccolo show up and the battles continue. Like I said this is another 45 minute short film that only die hard DBZ fans would enjoy. If you onlyu casually watch the series or don't like to spend the money than this might not be worth the time. It has as much action as the series but you just won't find this in any way connected to the main story line. This is basicaly for hard core DBZ fans. "not bad" It's not as bad as people say. thin plot but plenty of action. the music is good {depite the fact I couldn't understand a word of it} but is a little overdone. The transformation isn't that bad, in fact the only part I didn't like is how he reverted back to normal. some sites think that it's a stage bewteen normal saiyan and super saiyan, that happens when the saiyan lacks enough power and rage to completly transform, but you're probaly saying, "no it's a peice of [junk] plain and simple!" heh. My favorite part is when slug has beaten up goku and goku begs his friends to hang on. "Not the best DBZ movie, but still a lot of fun!" Okay, so Funimation seems to just grab people off the street to dub the voices for their English DBZ dubs, and they mess up the original plots and music. At least they've started giving us the option to view the movies in the original Japanese with directly translated subtitles! The plot finds Goku saving Earth from the evil alien Slug and his minions, who wish to envelop us in eternal night. The most annoying thing to me about Funimation's treatment of this film is their inexplicable changing of Gohan's cute little whistling song. Many of the Dragon Ball Z movies fall in a sort of "alternate timeline" from the comic and TV show...they could never have really taken place at the times that they do. For example, this movie has Goku and friends on Earth at the time when they were all either dead or on planet Namek. Goku is at the point developmentally where it is known that he is the Super Saiyan, but hasn't ever "gone blonde" yet. All of the DBZ movies have faster paced action and more exciting fights than the TV show, which are sometimes drawn out over several episodes. This is a worthwhile purchase for any DBZ fan, expecially because it includes the original Japanese version. "Not quite the best." This ucky film deserves 2 stars because it is bad bad bad. "An excellent addition to the DBZ family!" The 4th Dragon Ball Z film, "Lord Slug" was a great example of true DBZ. The music was great and went well with the movie. Also, as I usually mention, the animation is well-drawn, and this is the first English Dubbed DBZ film to have the cast from the series play the voices. Another thing, Goku is supposed to have gone Super Saiyan here but actually his hair just turned red and his pupils disappeared, that's it, but it was cool how Goku was trashin' Lord Slug. All in all, this is a DBZ film well worth seeing, so buy it now!