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Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

Action · Animation · Science Fiction · 1992

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

Movie details

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

“The odds are 10 billion to 2.”

1992 Action · Animation · Science Fiction 46m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Daisuke Nishio

Written by

Takao Koyama

Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

Son Gokû / Son Gohan (voice)

Toshio Furukawa

Toshio Furukawa

Piccolo (voice)

Mayumi Tanaka

Mayumi Tanaka

Kuririn / Yajirobe (voice)

Ryo Horikawa

Ryo Horikawa

Vegeta (voice)

Kohei Miyauchi

Kohei Miyauchi

Kame-sen'nin (voice)

Naoki Tatsuta

Naoki Tatsuta

Oolong (voice)

Tomiko Suzuki

Tomiko Suzuki

Dende (voice)

Court is in session

Put Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.