Super Saiyan said:
Is the 97 anime worth watching?
As long as you don't compare it to the far superior manga and look at it purely through it's own merits, then it still stands up as a very good anime, aside from it's cliffhanger ending during the Eclipse. It's still the best dark fantasy anime out there, though that's not saying much with a lack of quality competition. It's still has a lot more worth watching than the Golden Age movie trilogy.
I'd also advise watching the dub for this one, since the main cast did an excellent job here, plus the english voices fit the setting a lot more. The only gripe I had with the dub was that nearly every fodder soldier in the Midland Army was voiced by Sean Schemmel doing his Goku voice rather than having a varied cast, but that's a minor flaw compared to it's benefits.