Dragon Ball Z Movie 7 - Super Android 13
I like this one. Little to no plot, but the fights are amazing and the animation is top tier. Like, Movie 5 level. And holy shit Gero’s. Toei could’ve easily recycled the anime footage, but they actually bothered to redo the whole thing and it looks great.
I don’t really mind the Saiyans taking over half the movie to transform since that’s Toei’s trademark, and it makes sense for Goku and Vegeta to not go all out from the beginning as a warm up. I see no reason for Trunks to fight in base though, or for the Androids to hold back.
Talking about the Androids, they’re fairly one note. I find it fairly confusing for the lower number ones to come out after 16-20. Why were they even considered failures? Did the computer repair them before the fight?
As for the computer, I don’t find it’s existence that contrived. It’s clearly a different version of the one that created Cell, not yet another secret basement.
The ending is great. At first it looks like yet another boring use of the Genki-Dama, but then Goku absorbs it and the entire thing takes a turn. The whole sequence is very well animated, and 13’s hands disintegrating as he punches Goku is great. It also makes sense that a unmastered Super Saiyan doesn’t have the calm heart to use the Genki-Dama.
5/10 for this one. Y’all just boring.