Review: Dragon Ball Z Abridged ” Cooler 2: The Return of Cooler’s Revenge The Reckoning”

Oh man, Cooler has a new coat of paint for his trip to Namek!

Spoilers Below

So, if you have seen Cooler’s Revenge, you know what is going on. The jokes, on the other hand, make this an infinitely better version of what was a terrible movie. A lot of the garbage was cut, like Piccolo flying through a Tron-like corridor, and Roshi trying to fight the robots. Also, The Big Gete Star was referenced as planet cancer. Holy shit, this was classic.

The cut was really well done. The meat of the story was kept in tact, especially the fight with Cooler and Goku / Vegeta. There was minimal time to watch Yajirobe, Krillin, and Roshi. I actually loved it when Yajirobe asked Roshi if he had it, and he goes, “I have many things. A best friend who’s a turtle, an island, chlamydia, but this? This is not one of them.” Then they get carted off to the Big Gete Star.

The thing that Team Four Star did with this, that should have been done from the get go, was get the bullshit characters in and out within a couple minutes, then just give us about 15 minutes of fighting and jokes. Why the hell would we even bother with the stupid shit from Roshi and the like? No one watches the show for the banter between a useless pig, and the now underpowered Master Roshi and his obsession with the female form. The same goes for Puar, Launch,  Yajirobe, and Oolong. The only thing Yajirobe is good for is the really friendly (read: gay) relationship  with Korin.

One thing of interest was where Vegeta goes in for his opening attack, and gets kicked away. Then they make it into a .gif, where he just repeatedly goes in. And every time he goes in for an attack, it turns into a kick to his dick. Then, when the army of Coolers come at them, Vegeta gets kicked in the dick by every single Cooler.

This was one of the better DBZ movies that Team Four Star put out, only because the base material was utter garbage. Most of them were, actually, which makes their work even harder. The writing killed it, and made the movie enjoyable. The dick kicking jokes were a funny change, as well as Goku’s increased stupidity. If they’re taking it this route, it’s really enjoyable to make Goku more retarded as he gets stronger.

Let’s wrap this up. You aren’t going to watch this for new and exciting experiences. You’ve seen this, probably more than once. This is just an alternate take in what should be an upgraded writing and editing solution. Check it out below!

Watch the latest episode of Dragon Ball Z Abridged here