Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

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Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
Japanese box art
Directed byMitsuo Hashimoto
Written byTakao Koyama
Based onDragon Ball
by Akira Toriyama
Produced byChiaki Imada
Rikizō Kayano
StarringSee below
CinematographyMasatoshi Fukui
Edited byShin'ichi Fukumitsu
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • July 20, 1991 (1991-07-20) (Japan)
Running time
47 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥2.38 billion (Japan)[1]

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, also known by its Japanese title Dragon Ball Z: The Incredible Mightiest vs. Mightiest (Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ とびっきりの最強対最強, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto: Tobikkiri no Saikyō tai Saikyō), or by Toei's own English title Dragon Ball Z: The Strongest Rivals, is a 1991 Japanese anime science fiction martial arts film and the fifth Dragon Ball Z animated feature movie, originally released in Japan on July 20 at the Toei Anime Fair.

Plot

In the film, Frieza's older brother Cooler is introduced. It begins with a flashback to when Frieza destroyed the Saiyan home world, Planet Vegeta. Cooler's ship soon picks up a Saiyan space pod on the radar. The pod, carrying a baby Saiyan named Kakarot, is shown to be heading towards Earth, but Cooler's henchmen believe it is an escape. Cooler lets the ship go, accounting that it's Frieza's naïveté, and responsibility. More than twenty years later, Kakarot, eventually renamed Goku because of his adoptive new life on Earth, transforms into a Super Saiyan and defeats Frieza on Planet Namek. Despite showing no compassion towards his brother, Cooler takes his Armored Squadron - Doore, Neiz, and Salza to Earth with the intention of killing Goku in order to reclaim his family's honor. His forces ambush Goku and his friends on a camping trip, and Goku is wounded when he takes a blast from Cooler that was intended for Gohan (who has his regrown Saiyan tail).

After Krillin and Oolong sets up a shelter in a cave with Goku, Gohan flies off on his dragon friend Icarus to obtain Senzu Beans from Korin. After obtaining the beans, Gohan restores the now-exhausted Icarus by feeding him one bean, and they both fly in high speed. But then, they are ambushed by Cooler's henchmen who blast down Icarus and give Gohan a beating. Just as Gohan about to be killed by Doore, the monkey-tailed boy is saved by Piccolo, the Namekian of Earth, and Gohan's mentor. Piccolo dispatches Doore and Neiz, and takes on Salza, easily gaining the upper hand. During the battle, Cooler arrives and catches Piccolo off-guard with a Death Beam, which impales him through the chest but does not kill him. Cooler then sends Salza after Gohan as he continues to blast Piccolo. Gohan gets to the cave with the Senzu Beans, but they are destroyed by Salza. However, he heals Goku with a spare bean that Yajirobe gave him earlier. After Krillin and Gohan are beaten down by Salza, Goku appears fully healed. Cooler shows up, holding onto an unconscious Piccolo. He then blasts Piccolo's body with an unexpected attack as Goku watches in horror. Now angered, Goku blasts Salza into the distance, and begins to fight Cooler.

After Goku proves to be a worthy opponent, Cooler and tells of his bleak history with Frieza. He then reveals his final transformation, one that Frieza never showed or achieved, and this one is far more powerful than Frieza's final form. Now at full power, Cooler pummels Goku around effortlessly, despite Goku using the Kaioken attack numerous times. Cooler then proceeds to destroy the landscape. However, after seeing a bird die from wounds inflicted by damage caused during the struggle, Goku thinks back on his friends and family, and how they all will be killed if Cooler wins. He then picks up the dead bird and lets out a yell so powerful it cracks solid stone and draws Cooler's attention, transforming into his Super Saiyan form and giving enough of his energy to revive the bird. Cooler then finds himself, like Frieza was, grossly outclassed by Goku's amazing new powers. After attempting to punch and blast the Super Saiyan with no effect, Cooler summons a trump card when he powers up an enormous ball of energy. Cooler launches the attack with hopes to destroy Goku and the Earth along with him. After a stint of struggling, Goku eventually manages to send it back with the Kamehameha wave, forcing Cooler off the Earth into space and towards the sun. As he hits the sun's surface, Cooler realises that Goku was the same Saiyan infant he spared decades ago. Cooler then laments his own lost opportunity to shoot Goku's escape pod down when he was a baby, and concedes that he was too soft for his own good as well. Cooler's body is then seemingly disintegrated by the sun and his own energy blast.

Goku, drained after his battle, is found by Krillin, Gohan, Oolong and Icarus. They are looking for Piccolo when Salza reappears and prepares to kill them all. However, before he can attack, Salza, the last of Cooler's Armored Squadron, is killed by Piccolo's "Special Beam Cannon" from a distance. Gohan looks around for Piccolo, and the movie ends with Piccolo, having recovered, gazing skyward after drinking some water.

New characters

Cooler

Cooler (クウラ, Kūra) is the brother of Frieza who travels to Earth to seek revenge against Goku for Frieza's death, not to avenge his brother, but for vengeance for the slight against his family. Despite transforming into his final form, he is defeated by Super Saiyan Goku. He returns in the sequel, The Return of Cooler, his remains having fused with a sentient computer chip to form the Big Gete Star. He invades New Namek to fuel himself, but is foiled once again and destroyed once and for all by Goku and Vegeta. He returns briefly in Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans as a ghost warrior created by Dr. Lychee, and makes cameo appearances in Dragon Ball GT and Fusion Reborn. He was also reappeared in Super Dragon Ball Heroes anime and manga as Goku and Vegeta quickly recognizes him that he was destroyed in the second movie. He is voiced by Ryūsei Nakao (who also voiced Frieza) in Japanese, and by Andrew Chandler in the English dub.

Cooler's Armored Squadron

Like the mercenary Ginyu Force (right down to the posing) called upon by Frieza on Planet Namek, Cooler's Armored Squadron (クウラ機甲戦隊, Kūra Kikō Sentai) composes the elder brother's own special fighting team. These three warriors serve as Cooler's subordinates throughout the course of the film. Their dress is the customary garb of soldiers in Frieza's military; an extended length of armor juts from their left shoulder, while the uniforms themselves are in Cooler's primary colors of purple and white, they are shown to have a habit of blocking or reflecting Ki Blasts rather than dodging them. The team is made up of Cooler's right-hand man Sauzer (サウザー, Sauzā, known as Salza in Funimation's English dub), a blue skinned "pretty-boy" commander with blonde hair and a French accent, who is able to slice through objects using a blade of ki formed in his right hand and very similar to Zarbon in appearance; Naise (ネイズ, Neizu, known as Neiz in Funimation's English dub), an amphibian-like tall, brown reptilian creature who can retract the whole of his head into his body, who can fire an electrical attack that can immobilize his opponents; and Doore (ドーレ, Dōre), who is large, green-skinned and long-haired, never seen without his helmet. The henchmen's names are derived from puns; in this case, it is condiments and salad dressings. All three are killed by Piccolo, who obliterates Doore with a Ki blast, burns Neiz alive with his own attack, and impales Salza with the Special Beam Cannon. Salza and Doore cameo in Fusion Reborn.

Cast

Character name Japanese voice actor English voice actor
(Creative Products Corp., c. 1995)[2][3] 		English voice actor
(Funimation, 2002) 		English voice actor
(AB Group, c. 2003)[4]
Goku Masako Nozawa Nesty Ramirez Sean Schemmel David Gasman
Gohan E.J. Galang Stephanie Nadolny Jodi Forrest
Cooler Ryūsei Nakao Apollo Abraham Andrew Chandler Doug Rand
Piccolo Toshio Furukawa Raymond Buyco Christopher Sabat Paul Bandey as Big Green
Krillin Mayumi Tanaka Apollo Abraham as Kurin Sonny Strait Sharon Mann as Clearin
Korin Ichirō Nagai Raymond Buyco Mark Britten Paul Bandey
Yajirobe Mayumi Tanaka Ethel Lizano Mike McFarland Ed Marcus
Master Roshi Kōhei Miyauchi Nesty Ramirez as Master Muten
Salza Shō Hayami R.J. Celdran Michael Marco David Gasman
Neizu Masato Hirano David Soon Bill Townsley Paul Bandey
Doore Masaharu Satō Mano Abello as Barky Mike McFarland Ed Marcus
Hire Dragon Naoki Tatsuta Ethel Lizano as Baby Camilla Chris Sabat Jodi Forrest
Oolong Apollo Abraham Bradford Jackson David Gasman
Chi-Chi Naoko Watanabe Mitch Frankenberger Cynthia Cranz Sharon Mann
Frieza Ryūsei Nakao Apollo Abraham Linda Young Paul Bandey
Bardock Masako Nozawa Nesty Ramirez Sonny Strait Doug Rand
Narrator Jōji Yanami Bob Karry Kyle Hebert Ed Marcus

A fourth English version released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast.

Music

English dub soundtrack

The following songs were present in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge.

  1. Drowning Pool - Reminded
  2. Dust for Life - Poison
  3. American Pearl - Seven Years
  4. Breaking Point - Under
  5. Finger Eleven - Stay and Drown
  6. Breaking Point - Falling Down
  7. Drowning Pool - Mute
  8. Disturbed - The Game
  9. Drowning Pool - Told You So
  10. Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
  11. American Pearl - Revelation
  12. Breaking Point - Phoenix

On the Cooler Double Feature, there is an alternate audio track containing the English dialogue and Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi that is selected by default. To hear these songs, the original music must be selected from a disk sub-menu.

The dub made in the Philippines contained English versions of the Japanese opening and ending theme songs.[5]

Releases

In 1996, Creative Products Corporation made an English dub for the Philippines with the title Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Strongest.

It was released on DVD and VHS in North America on January 22, 2002. It was later digitally remastered and released in a Double Feature set with The Return of Cooler on Blu-ray and DVD on November 11, 2008. The film was re-released to DVD on November 1, 2011 in a remastered box set containing the first five Dragon Ball Z movies.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Komatsu, Mikikazu (January 29, 2019). "Japan Box Office: Dragon Ball Super: Broly Becomes Top-Grossing Film in The Franchise". Crunchyroll. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  2. ^ https://vimeo.com/23613741
  3. ^ http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/forums/showthread.php?p=117871
  4. ^ http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15614
  5. ^ End credits
  6. ^ Dragon Ball Z: Movie Pack Collection One, Funimation Prod, 2011-11-01, retrieved 2016-07-04
  7. ^ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HVWW3K

External links

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