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Peace on Earth is disrupted when a giant tree emerges, threatening to absorb the planet. Goku faces the sinister Saiyan pirate Turles, the mastermind behind this menace.Peace on Earth is disrupted when a giant tree emerges, threatening to absorb the planet. Goku faces the sinister Saiyan pirate Turles, the mastermind behind this menace.Peace on Earth is disrupted when a giant tree emerges, threatening to absorb the planet. Goku faces the sinister Saiyan pirate Turles, the mastermind behind this menace.
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- TriviaThis is available on FUNimation's Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon Collector's Edition DVD box set released on August 13, 2013.
- Crazy creditsThe movie has a custom made title card instead of the original Japanese version.
- Alternate versionsThe film was split up into three parts and aired on November 15, 1997 November 22, 1997 as the three part version and was aired on January 29, 1999 as a 'movie' version. The version that is included on the FUNImation 'Rock the Dragon' Collector's DVD Box set is the movie version.
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Composed by Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahehi.
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Dragon Ball Z's third film, "The Tree of Might", has had a long history in terms of English dubs. The first dub, produced by FUNimation, split the movie into three television episodes of DBZ. These episodes were distributed by Saban and featured the Canadian Ocean voices. A year later after Saban ditched the show, FUNi and Ocean redid things with Pioneer and the outcome was a more accurate uncut dub. Two other (bad) English dubs were subsequently made in France and Malaysia, before FUNi finally redubbed the film in 2006 with the current American cast.
The main reason i prefer this version is because of it's musical score. The "Shuki Levy score" (which was supposedly composed by Ron Wasserman) is far more suspenseful and exciting than any other DBZ soundtrack. Shunsuke Kikuchi's original Japanese soundtrack for this film has way too much silence, which gives the film a very mundane feel, and the music itself is boring and unfitting. Nathan M. Johnson's electro-orchestral score from the 2006 redub was just totally forgettable.
The script used isn't perfect (quite a few cringy one liners) but the awesome Ocean cast make up for it. Ian James Corlett in particular did much better here as Goku than Peter Kelamis or Sean Schemmel.
You can find this dub on FUNimation's 2013 "Rock the Dragon Edition" set, where it's packaged as a full-length movie instead of three individual episodes.
The main reason i prefer this version is because of it's musical score. The "Shuki Levy score" (which was supposedly composed by Ron Wasserman) is far more suspenseful and exciting than any other DBZ soundtrack. Shunsuke Kikuchi's original Japanese soundtrack for this film has way too much silence, which gives the film a very mundane feel, and the music itself is boring and unfitting. Nathan M. Johnson's electro-orchestral score from the 2006 redub was just totally forgettable.
The script used isn't perfect (quite a few cringy one liners) but the awesome Ocean cast make up for it. Ian James Corlett in particular did much better here as Goku than Peter Kelamis or Sean Schemmel.
You can find this dub on FUNimation's 2013 "Rock the Dragon Edition" set, where it's packaged as a full-length movie instead of three individual episodes.
- CrazedFanboy
- Feb 18, 2016
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By what name was Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1997) officially released in India in English?
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