What "Super Android 13" does best is how it utilizes all its best characters at a time period where they were all close to the same power level. We have Goku, Vegeta and Trunks all at super saiyan and Piccolo. Sure we are missing Tien, but still got Gohan and Krillin. The Android saga is an exciting time in the DBZ time-line.
This does raise the question of how Dr. Gero's androids seem to be getting weaker with every successive number. The design of Android 13, in all forms, is nothing special.
The busy town setting and the ice glacier setting help make this one stand out from the other DBZ movies. Problem is the villains here are not nearly as memorable as any of the androids in the series proper. Why the saiyans wait so long to go super saiyan? I guess they wanted it to be a better fight. But as soon as they go super, the fight is basically over. And the way the finale goes is once again pretty anticlimactic. It is one of the 3 basic ways these movies end.
In the end, it's not bad. But feels very robotic, like it was a Dragon Ball movie made by an A. I. Maybe Dr. Gero himself made the movie.
This does raise the question of how Dr. Gero's androids seem to be getting weaker with every successive number. The design of Android 13, in all forms, is nothing special.
The busy town setting and the ice glacier setting help make this one stand out from the other DBZ movies. Problem is the villains here are not nearly as memorable as any of the androids in the series proper. Why the saiyans wait so long to go super saiyan? I guess they wanted it to be a better fight. But as soon as they go super, the fight is basically over. And the way the finale goes is once again pretty anticlimactic. It is one of the 3 basic ways these movies end.
In the end, it's not bad. But feels very robotic, like it was a Dragon Ball movie made by an A. I. Maybe Dr. Gero himself made the movie.