Dragon Ball Z: The World’s Strongest Review

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The second DBZ movie, titled “The World’s Strongest Guy” in Japan and just “The World’s Strongest” in English speaking markets (one of the least edited titles of the bunch!) sees Goku and co. take on Dr. Wheelo, a scientist who has put his large brain in an equally large mech and wishes to transplant it into the world’s strongest body… for some reason. I mean, if he’s a scientist rather than a fighter I don’t really get the appeal, but whatever! It gives us Goku, Piccolo, Gohan and Krillin at their Saiyan Arc levels of power and throws in some love for Master Roshi while it’s at it, so it can’t be all bad. Let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: The Last Queen of the Nile Review

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“The Last Queen of the Nile” is the titular story for this final box of this year’s Fourth Doctor Adventures and really goes out on a high. A “pure historical” (in other words our time travelling heroes and their timeship are the only sci-fi elements) which is rare for any non-Hartnell Doctor but even rarer four Mr. Baker, but it really succeeds in its goal of showing the “Whoniverse’s” version of Anthony and Cleopatra with real dramatic gravitas, while also not forgetting to have a bit of fun here and there. Let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon Review

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We take yet another trip to Peladon as our look at Third Doctor TV stories ends for now. The Monster of Peladon sees Jon Pertwee’s Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at the Citadel for more political satire / on-the-nose analogies, Ice Warriors and everyone’s favourite talking green penis Alpha Centauri. What’s that? You’re bored of the Alpha Centauri / penis gag?! Well, too bad, it’s impossible to resist, especially at six visual episodes…

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Marvel Zombies – Season 1 Review

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After the fun but very tame and green-blood-filled Zombies episode of “What If…?” I wasn’t super-excited about a whole series spun off from it, but you know what? It was really fun actually, mostly because they went for the higher TV rating / Age rating and therefore upped the gore (with red blood!) and even some casual swearing but still kept things light and comic-booky. It’s an odd mix, but one that really worked, so let’s take a look at what I assume is “Season 1” given it ends on a cliffhanger…

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Doctor Who: Conspiracy of Silence Review

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“Conspiracy of Silence” is the first part of the “Last Queen of the Nile” box, a two-parter compared to the titular story’s four, and honestly it does feel like they were worried a historical themed boxset wouldn’t sell so added this in so they could stick a recognisable monster on the front. That being said though this is actually quite a fun story, the first part shows us the story from the perspective of our main cast complete with Silence memory wipes, and then the second part is the same story again but fast-forwarding through repeated scenes while showing all scenes with the Silence in, completing the picture. It’s a fun idea, so let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon Review

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Normally I don’t do two very similar stories together like I’m going to here with the two Peladon stories, but when choosing the Third Doctor TV serials for this mini-marathon the Peladon stories were the ones I’d watched the least in their respective seasons, so… why not? “The Curse of Peladon” is a rare off-Earth story for the Third Doctor and Jo and also a rather unsubtle look at Britain entering the European Union, which was all the talk at the time (… That ended well…) but all that being said, is it still entertaining?! Let’s have a look…

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (PS2) Review

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So kicking off the gaming side of the DBZ movie/game marathon-thingy is the game that feels like it kicked off Dragon Ball games, as it was the first released here in the west that was any good (for context: you can find my reviews of “Ultimate Battle 22” and “Final Bout” by clicking on them here…) Admittedly as with most things that are the start of a series with multiple sequels this game is quite lacking in polish and modes it still created a solid framework to build on, and has a few unique gameplay ideas that I hadn’t experienced before or really since beyond its sequels. Sadly it looks like crap (even at the time I thought it looked off) but hey-ho. Let’s take a look!

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Dragon Ball Z – Dead Zone Review

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Time to kick off the “reviewing films/specials alongside a game after reviewing a chunk of the Z series” thing with the first movie… of fifteen, by my count (even if that last two are more well known as DB Super story arcs at this point…) which sounds crazy until you remember the first thirteen run under an hour and were just shown at summer festivals in Japan, rather than an actual big cinematic thing. Still though, they often offer fun mini-stories with good animation and some fun villains, so I’ve enjoyed them as the side-dish that they are. “Return my Gohan!”, or “Dead Zone” as it’s known in English speaking markets, is a fun one to start with as the characters are set at a pre-Z but post-Original DB state, making this rather unique. Let’s take a look!

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Thunderbolts* Review

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Thunderbolts, or “Thunderbolts*  *The New Avengers” was probably one of the most uninteresting MCU films announced in recent memory, but I don’t know whether it was because of extremely low expectations or if it is just that good, but I really enjoyed it! The cast was fun, the lead “villain” was a good adaptation of a particular favourite obscure comic character of mine and generally it was a good time. Was it perfect? Well no, for example the ending felt a tad anticlimactic, but it was at least a whole film that didn’t feel like it was coming apart at the seams like some recent efforts… Let’s take a look!

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