The hits just keep on coming as we’re now fully into the ‘DBZ Movies are good now!’ era of the franchise. Our 7th entry in the series plays as an alternate reality ‘What If?’ type scenario…and its ‘What if, in the original ‘Android Saga’ timeline, Androids 17 and 18 had been destroyed by Goku, who took the medicine Trunks gave him ahead of time. Rather than him taking it later, nearly dying and the androids bringing the ‘Cell Saga’ into fruition?’

Well; the answer is they never activated Android 16, they both got massacred and their destruction triggered a secret underground robot computer of Dr. Gero to activate 3 more androids, Androids 13,14 and 15. They’re mission, unsurprisingly…is to kill Goku.

Well, Gokus out shopping with Chi chi and the majority of the rest of the gang are hanging out for a beauty contest (because of course they are…) When androids 14 and 15 start blowing up parts of the city, leading to a fight with Goku that takes the team out to the glacial field where they meet Android 13 and the revelation of the even deadlier ‘Super Android 13’ leading the whole team to pitch together to take this new deadly threat down!

Much like ‘Return of Cooler’ I feel like they’ve kind of nailed the formula here, this could have easily been a 15-25 episode arc of the series, but its just condensed down to a much more digestable format. Honestly my thoughts on this one are pretty much identical to ‘Return of Cooler’ its decently enough paced, has some nice lighter moments contrasting some genuinely graphic and darker tones. The art direction is rock solid, the dialogue is a bit more humourous and intentionally littered with Jokes.

The Androids arnt exactly the most original ideas in the world (they feel almost like a soft launch of the concepts that would go on to fuel the Cell saga arc) but Super Android 13 is an interesting transformation and character design…and…Well the less said about Android 15 the better frankly *Nervous collar tug*

Much like ‘Return of Cooler’ I think the only issues I have with this one is its a little too condensed for its own good, and with another 10-15 minutes just to flesh out the androids backstory a bit more and to maybe give Super 13 a bit more to do, this could have been pretty close to perfect. As it stands the fact it feels almost like a twist on the existing lore and the speediness with which it skips through the plotting leaves it just a little bit rushed in my opinion.

STILL! with that being said, this is another one that I can wholeheartedly recommend checking out if you’ve only seen the DBZ anime, I had a really fun time with it, and Im really hoping this momentum keeps up!

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/dragon-ball-z-super-android-13/