Dragon Ball Movie: Boxed Set - 2-4
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Three incredible Dragon Ball Features including Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle - available for the first time on DVD! In a collector art box - a must for Dragon Ball fans!
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TheDragon Ball featuresSleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (Majinjou no Nemuri Hime, 1987),Mystical Adventure (Maka Fushigi Daiboken, 1988), andThe Path to Power (Saikyou e no Michi, 1996), also known as "The Way to Become the Strongest," were follow-ups toCurse of the Blood Rubies in 1986. WhenDevil's Castle opens, Goku is a just a boy. He meets an equally young Krillin, who unfortunately looks like a character fromSouth Park. Both of them want to train with Master Roshi, who insists he can only afford to support one student. Roshi sends them to capture the Sleeping Princess from the castle of vampire-demon Count Lucifer, a mission that pits the two boys against each other. Their adventure doesn't quite unfold the way it was supposed to, as young heroes run into Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha, and Pwar. InMystical Adventure, young Goku and Krillin have just completed their training with Master Roshi. The old lecher decides to test his student's skills at a prestigious martial-arts tournament held by the Emperor Chaozu. The Emperor's lieutenant, Master Shen, has gathered six of the Dragon Balls to use in his plot to usurp throne. However, Bulma, Oolong and company are also after the Dragon Balls so Bulma can once again wish for a boyfriend.
The Path to Power re-introduces the regular cast: Bulma, the first girl Goku has ever seen, recruits him to help her find the Dragon Balls. With some help from their usual allies, they battle the Red Ribbon Army at the Muscle Tower. Goku makes a new friend: the misprogrammed android, Eighter. LikeMystical Adventure,Path to Power consists of recut footage from the TV series. In all three films, the stories are just set-ups for the familiar mixture of martial-arts mayhem and slapstick comedy. Goku beats his enemies to a pulp after hard battles; Bulma fusses; Master Roshi leers at every female who crosses his path: All ends happily, with Goku victorious. In short, the films provide exactly whatDragon Ball fans love and expect. (Rated TV PG: violence, ethnic stereotypes, nudity, risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use)--Charles Solomon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
- Director : Daisuke Nishio, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
- Media Format : Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 3 hours and 5 minutes
- Release date : December 6, 2005
- Actors : Daisuke Gôri, Hiromi Tsuru, Masako Nozawa, Naoki Tatsuta, Naoko Watanabe
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Funimation
- ASIN : B000BKDNRQ
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #328,479 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #8,105 inAnime (Movies & TV)
- #25,172 inAction & Adventure DVDs
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2014purchased for my husband and kids they just love watching these...cant beat the hours of entertainment for the price will definitely be getting more of this stuff
- Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2012Excellent item! This is really an amazing item that anybody could buy for their very own personal time and pleasure.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2006This box includes mvoies 2, 3, 4. Why not 1? Because Kidmark sold the rights to Dragonball and lost all records of their license. Anyway all of these movies are retellings of different sagas.
So anyway,
Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle
STORY: B-
The story is plain terrible, Son Goku and Kuririn are instructed by the perverted Muten Roshi to save a sleeping princess from the Devil's Hand. As Son and Kuririn fight each other until they both realize the only way to survive is to fight together. After Son Goku shows Kuririn mercy and compassion by saving his life, he agrees. Then Bulma and the gang get into the adventure as soon as they ask Muten Roshi were Goku is. Bulma gets kidnapped by Lucifer. Lunch also joins the battle as she tries to get the sleeping princess. When Son Goku finally finds Bulma and the gang is reunited, they realize what they may be looking for, may end up killing them. Yeah, then you're classic Shonen anime ending.
Art: A (for 1989 the art is pretty clean)
I'm sure some might be saying that the art for this movie sucks, but think, this movie is from the late 80s. Compared to most anime and cartoons of this time, this art is beautiful. Although to the eye of a modern fan, this art is grainy and really icky.
Dubbing: C+
The story is intact, the puns and jokes that were changed were based on 80s and Japanese culture so that was necessary, the voices are so-so. The incredibly catchy first 13 episode theme song for the English version was used, but that kind of bugs me, they kept everything except the theme song. Lucifer's voice isn't as Dracula like as I thought FUNImation would make it. That's good. Bulma sounds a lot like a snob, Son Goku sounds pretty childish and not that confident at all, everyone else is prety good. Muten Roshi's voice actor doesn't sound that strong as it is in the next movie.
Subbing: A-
The subs for the Japanese version are excellent. Yamucha, Kuririn, Lunch, Old Man Roshi, ect. were used for names except for one name. For some reason, Steven J. Simmons always translates Son-kun to Goku, and Son Goku to Goku, completly ignoring Goku's last name.
Overall: B, Son Goku and Kuririn's original adventure to become Roshi's students was hardly any better than this one anyway.
Dragon Ball: Mystic Adventure
This is combining Tournament, Lietenuant Blue, Tienshinhan, Red Ribbon Army sagas.
Story: A
Son Goku and Kuririn have finally completed their training and get to fight in the championships hosted by Emperor Chaozu. Around the same time, Pilaf has finally completed his Dragon Radar. Shen and Tao steal the device and hide away Chaozu's wife so Chaozu thinks that he can bring his wife back by gathering the Dragon Balls. Chaozu has no idea what he is putting himself into. All of Chaozu's men plan on using the Dragon balls to take his kingdom over. Bulma, Yamucha, Puar, and Oolong are also searching for the Dragon Balls and wind up at the Championships to get the Dragon Balls from Chaozu. Upa and Bora also join the tournament because it was the only to avoid death. Son Goku, Kuririn, and Muten Roshi try to help Bora win the tournament so Chaozu can learn the truth about what his soldiers are doing. As soon as Tao gets into the tournament, Bora is knocked into a statue and is dead. Son Goku became so mad that he charged Tao just to have all of his attacks be blocked, including the Kamehameha. Tao knocks Goku using the Dodonpa. As he searches Bora for the Dragon Ball, he realizes Goku had it and tracks him down. Clearly outmatched, Son Goku is assisted suddenly by the robot girl Arale and he 'father' Senbei. By combining their strange powers, they defeat Tao. Son Goku flies back to the Tournament just in time to watch Upa being strangled to death. Son Goku kicks the giant robot in the gut. Shen is now cornered by Tien and Chaozu, but Chaozu has lost all hope of living and Tien is confused should he keep loyalty to his master, or his king and best friend? Tienshinnhan uses his new attack against Shen and the gang has all the Dragon Balls, Upa and Goku smile.
Art: A
*same reasons as above*
Dubbing: B-
The voice actors finally have a hang of things, and Bulma has a new voice actor. But, a lot of dialouge has been changed. The story remains intact anyhow.
Subbing: A
Steven J. Simmons is perfect, he uses Son Goku and Son-kun now. The incredibly strange repeated words, well to English speakers anyhow, are ignored. Otherwise the subs are perfect.
Overall: A=
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (The Road to Ultimate Strength)
This movie takes The Saga of Goku/Emperor Pilaf, Red Ribbon, and General Red seasons and puts them into one 82 minute movie. This movie was made in 1996 in Japan to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dragon Ball. In America, it has no such connection.
Story: A+
Emperor Pilaf always was a dull enemy compared to the Red Ribbon Army. Son Goku is an orphan with incredible strength, ect. we know the story, which is why this deserves an A+.
Art: A
The art is as good as art gets. The animation is solid, the characters are shaded, and all of that other stuff that Toei usually misses weren't present. This would've been perfect if Son Goku wasn't constantly changing his outfit between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT every other frame! It seems that for most of the action sceens and sceens before fights break out, Goku is in his Dragon Ball GT outfit. This outfit was used for this movie as a type of advertisment for the piece of crap Toei was to release one year later.
Dubbing: A
The dubbing is excellent. The original audio track was used, including the excellent song My Heart is Charmed Everytime I See that Glowing Smile (translated, it is so much shorter in Japanese). Most of the lines are the same, but for some reason, FUNImation doesn't use the more kid friendly lines for many Bulma sceens in this movie, guess it was because they seemed so 90s. Unigame lines were changed to tortise jokes, Son Goku doesn't know his grandfather is dead. That's pretty much it.
Subbing: A+
Ha-chan, Son-kun, Yamucha, Pue-ru, Nyoibu, Kinto Un, ect. and other names/namepuns were used in the subtitles. Most repeated words were repeated, it's all there. It seems that the 10th anniversary of a phenomenon is what makes people work their hardest.
Overall: A - Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2008Just like what it said in the title. It comes with 3 dvd in seperet dvd cases and in a nice little box and for those wordering yes all 3 movies are uncut.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2007if you are a fan of the dragonball z series then you will love these movies dragonball where it all begain.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2005This box set contain's three of the Dragon Ball movies: (Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle: the task that Krillin and Goku had to capture a princess and bring her to Master Roshi, Mystical Adventure: which Goku is fighting the Red Ribon Army, The Path of Power: Goku and Krillin are fighting in the marial arts tournament).
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- P. MarckReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2014
4.0 out of 5 starsIncludes Dragon Ball films 2, 3 & 4
Film #1:Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Film #2: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle (1987) - Included!
Film #3: Mystical Adventure (1988) - Included!
Film #4: The Path to Power (1996) - Included!
In terms of picture quality it's not exactly great, just about decent more or less but what's so good about this release is that this is the old FUNimation DVDs which were not remastered meaning the detail is kept and it isn't zoomed in as the Digitally Remastered ones were.
This release includes Japanese credits for all three films in this box and is Region 2 compatible (plays on any UK DVD Player), but do note, this does not come bundled with the first film as I have stated above (I left a link for it though).
