Took my rare trip to the movie theater and watched Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and had a blast with it. I may not be in love with Dragon Ball as much as I use to these days, I feel like Dragon Ball Super wore me down with being generally weak, but we've got some decent movies out of it with Battle of Gods, Broly, and now Super Hero. The biggest difference of Super Hero is it being mostly CG. They do regular hand drawn stuff in flashback stuff, but the main brunt of the movie is CG and it's great. The characters really match close to the classic art style, but with 3D, it lets them do more visually than they normally can with hand drawn. Some of the background stuff at times isn't the best, but that didn't bother me much really.
The story is kinda cliche Dragon Ball in a lot of parts, lots of convenient "forgetting" and mishaps that you kinda just let slide because it's Dragon Ball , but this movie is about showing love to classic Dragon Ball and the side characters. This movie is primarily a Piccolo film, I never expected that to happen, but he's awesome, we get some adorable stuff with Pan, Gohan is nice to see back and getting a push, and I ended up enjoying the villains, particularly Gamma 1 and 2 who are fun characters. The final fight does fall into that same sorta weak writing that Dragon Ball is known for, which is just bring back a classic villain, because it's all they can think of doing, but I think it works enough in this story they want to tell.
Overall I had a great time with it. It could be my favorite Dragon Ball movie, passing Broly, because I like it more from beginning to end. Broly is a good movie, but it's mostly just all setup so that you can have a long ass fight against Broly and I never loved that they used three different animation styles in the actual fight, compared to Super Hero that is primarily all CG and it looks awesome.
I saw this last Friday. It was a fun Dragon Ball movie. Not too serious, but still had some very cool moments. At first it was a little too cheesy, IMO, when the android superheroes show up. Especially the Batman '66 style sound-effects onscreen (which Picollo poked fun at, lol). But it definitely got better.
I hope this means we get more DB Super on T.V. soon. I really liked it. The future saga and return of Frieza especially.