Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F (2015) **

Source: Imdb

After a marathon of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, which was great fun and showed me why I loved DBZ (Particularly Vegeta is a fascinating character.), but also demonstrated its flaws, "Resurrection F" came up on my Netflix. I’m quite sure I’ve seen this once before, years ago, but I could not remember anything beyond single flashes of pictures, so it was essentially a new movie for me. As Netflix only offered the Japanese or German dub, I chose German – and wow, what a ride! The dubbing was hilarious, almost as fun as DBZA. The constant use of expletives and colloquial language gave the thing a totally different tint. I’m quite sure DBZ was never like that, though I have not seen it in German in about 20 years. The story was the usual DBZ thing with a mighty villain and Goku obsessed with training. What I loved here, though, was the casual relationship with Vegeta, the rivalry, which was violent but friendly and heartfelt none the less. Also, the other Z fighters. Some beautiful friendships there.
Visually, this surprised me with how bearable the new, digital format is. The lines are too straight and clean, however. It kind of takes the romance away to see everything so sleek and polished, the characters positively gleaming. The computer animations did provide a few nice frames, though, and I liked the score, too. The whole experience was really satisfying, especially since it didn’t take about 10 years to defeat Freezer.
All in all, a good watch for nostalgic reasons. Objectively, this is probably a 2/5, but I’m going to give it 4/5 because I enjoyed myself so immensely. 

DBZ: Resurrection F on Imdb