Before Broly?there was Dead Zone! Gohan has been kidnapped! To make matters worse, the evil Garlic Jr. is gathering the Dragonballs to wish for immortality. Only then will Garlic Jr. be able to take over the Earth in or... more »der to gain revenge for the death of his father. Goku rushes to save Gohan, but arrives at the fortress just as Garlic Jr. summons the Eternal Dragon! Krillin and Piccolo try to help Goku, but their combined powers are no match for Garlic Jr., who creates a "Dead Zone" to suck the heroes into oblivion! Suddenly, Goku begins to show his hidden power, but will it be enough?! Uncut ? Special Edition ? The Way It Was Meant to Be Seen! Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound Director Commentary 50 minutes« less
"I bought the Pioneer version of this a few months before this one came out. The movie was very good, but I didn't like the voices at all and the picture quality was simply awful. But, with this version of it, they use the FUNimation voices, with new music and a new script, which I like better than the Pioneer script. (Which was actually the Japanese script.)
Many people like the Pioneer version over this one becquse they used the Japenese music and dialouge. However, if you want that, just watch the Japenese version of it, on this DVD. (Pioneer always had poor subtitles on their DVD's, but FUnimation always gets the subtitles right.) Also, this is the digitally remastered version, and it looks very, very good.
I'm so glad they're finally releasing the Ultimate Uncut editions. Pioneer took and butchered a great series, cutting the climactic Goku Vegeta battle into utter crap, and ruined the great Namek saga. Finally, we'll see these episodes, (and movies-World's Strongest and Tree of Might are also being re-released) the way they were meant to be seen."
Can Hardly Wait
04/23/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I can hardly wait for the new Dead Zone redub by FUNImation. It should be cooler to hear the FUNI actors provide the voices, as I personally think they did better at the voices than the original Ocean Group actors.
Besides, it will be great to collectors such as myself. Along with the eventual re-releases of "The World's Strongest" and "Tree of Might", it will finally have some continuation of voices. I always hated it when they replace actors on cartoons, as it throws off the whole state of mind that was previously established. Smart move to FUNImation for redoing the first three movies along with the first two sagas! It's gonna rule!"
The Dead Zone
Richard Coons Jr. | Albany, NY USA | 03/04/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"this is the first Dragonball-Z movie Dead Zone.not the best movie but still pretty good. Funimation has now re-dubbed it, digitally remastered and restored the scenes edited by pioneer. hopefully movies 2 and 3 will follow along with the saiyan and namek sagas which are now being re-released without all the editing that pioneer originally did and with the funimation voice cast voicing the characters."
Great dbz movie
BIG T | Louisville,kentucky | 11/14/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This movie is great. I love it. I have the real version on dvd, but this is still a great movie. My favorite part was when gohan unleashed his hidden power and sent garlic jr. in to the dead zone. That sucks that this movie is the new version, but i suggest this movie to your collection."
New Edition of Deadzone
BIG T | 04/21/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love how FUNImation is re-releasing the first three movies to go along with the new Saiyan/Vegeta and Namek sagas. I can hardly wait for Dead Zone to come out. It is a good movie and is the only movie to have some continuity with the series.
Yes, FUNI might replace the music with their own. My question is...so what? The movie will have a different soundtrack, big deal! I love the English dub better than the subtitled version anyway. I watched a couple of my DVDs in Japanese and it just got irritating for me after a couple of episodes. And from the original English version, the only voices I like out of them was Piccolo (voiced by Scott McNeill) and Vegeta (voiced be Brian Drummond). And still, I like Chris Sabat's interpretation better than them!
If you want to buy it when it comes out, then buy it. If you don't, then don't. But me, when it comes out, I'm buying it."