5/5 Nice Double Feature
  by Joshua Landeros (Perris, CA USA)
The last two Dragonball Z films unfortunately but two very remarkable ones none the less. I consider "Wrath of the Dragon" to be the better of the two with its emotional storyline and great new character, Taipon. "Fusion: Reborn" is more comical but no less great in my opinion. Vegeta makes his usual sudden appearence but gets an emotional tid bit of his own in "Fusion: Reborn" and Gogeta's short screen time is by far my favorite scene in either film. The villains are fantastic and the remastered look of the films are incredible.

5/5 One of the best
  by AKJ (Maryland, USA)
These two movies rule, Wrath of the Dragon (Super Dragon Fist Explosion) actually fits into the DBZ timeline which most of them don't logically (though it's not considered canon). Fusion Reborn is comical and also quite intense.

5/5 THIS DVD WROTH TO OWN
  by K. maddox (moblie alabama)
THE DVD IS THE BEST EVER IS WROTH SOME TIME AND MONEY TO OWN

4/5 Great double feature - worth buying if you missed these movies the first time around
  by A Customer
In recent years, FUNimation, who has begun to release countless anime titles spanning various genres, has gone back to the franchise that made them big - Dragon Ball Z. They have gone back and begun releasing the series and the films in inexpensive season sets and double features.

This feature combines the twelfth and thirteenth movies of the Z series - Fusion Reborn and Wrath of the Dragon.

Fusion Reborn is set in a time period in which Goku is dead and Vegeta has apparently also died. An accident in Otherworld results in one of the ogre employees being transformed into a mindless, destructive being. The afterlife is distorted, and the dead begin roaming the Earth. While the still-living Z-Fighters set out to deal with zombified villains, Goku and Vegeta (who has gotten his body back due to the strange circumstances in the afterlife) join forces to deal with one of their toughest and strangest foes yet - and Fusion may be the only way to win.

Wrath of the Dragon is the thirteenth and final Dragon Ball Z film. The Z-Fighters are tricked by an evil wizard into freeing an ancient hero from inprisonment - and unknowingly unleashing an evil monster on the city. It's up to the Z-Fighters to join forces with the ancient hero and put an end to a strange new threat.

Of all the DBZ Double Features of the theatrical films, this one is by far the best. Every one of these features has two entertaining films, but these are easily two of the best. Fusion Reborn is the one DBZ movie that manages to combine fast-paced action and humor alike. You'll love it for the battles, and the more comical scenes will have you in stitches. Wrath of the Dragon is a more serious affair, and it has some classic moments as well - the scenes with Trunks and Tapion, the legendary hero, are great. They must be seen to be appreciated.

I want to clear something up for some of the confused fans - while these "Double Features" crop the movies, this was always the intention. These movies were made with cropping in mind, so as to fit them on Japanese cinema screens. So you're actually seeing the movies in the aspect ratio Toei intended (this does NOT apply to the cropped Trunks/Bardock set from last year back, though - those were made for TV, and were indeed cropped without it being the intention.)

Also, for anyone who cares, like the recent series season sets, here you can watch the English dialogue with the Japanese background music. Of course the dub is still hit and miss in places (though these revised dubs are better than what FUNimation has done in the past), so do yourself a favor and stick with the original Japanese. I only wish They had remastered the Japanese audio.

And now for the all-important question - should you get this set if you already own FUNimation's older DVDs of the movies? My answer is no, there just isn't reason enough to replace your older DVDs with this set. Additionally, you can get the older versions of the movie (which have more of the picture on them, as opposed to the Jap theatrical aspect ratio) for VERY cheap from Amazon's independent sellers. But if you can't find the older, cheaper issues, this makes for a fine alternative. You DO get 2 good movies for a good price.

Final verdict? Get it if you're a DBZ fan, but not if you already have older DVDs of the movies.

3/5 Double Feature = Better Value
  by ONENEO (Buffalo, NY)
Dragon Ball Z fans have a lot to be exited about in the month of May as Funimation is releasing the complete 9th season of the television series and a double feature movie pack (reviewed here) on the same day (May 19th). As has been the case with the past few Dragon Ball Z feature films, Funimation is re-releasing a pair of movies and packaging them together in an ultra-cool steel book set.

In this case, the two films contained are Fusion Reborn and Wrath of the Dragon. Coming at a total runtime of a 105 minutes (52.5 minutes x 2), the steel book contains a pair of discs wearing a TV PG rating (due presumably to the cartoony violence and slightly adult (morality/ mortality) themes).

Language options include an English vocal track with the original Japanese music (5.1 Surround sound), English voices with US music score (5.1 Surround), and Japanese voice work with original music (stereo) with English subtitles as an option over any of them.

Interestingly enough these movies are the twelfth and thirteenth animated films of the Dragon Ball Z franchise respectively. I personally found the second movie (Wrath of the Dragon) to be the superior of the two, but that isn't to say fans of the show won't enjoy the other just as much.

Fusion Reborn was originally broadcast in Japan in March of 1995 and actually enjoyed a limited theatrical release here in the US in 2006. The story goes something like this:

Goku happens to be partaking in an Other World Tournament (against Pikkon) during the Buu saga while a teenage ogre happens to get distracted from his duty of manning an evil-purification machine thanks to his music-wailing headphones (yes kids, this was pre iPod). Long story short, the machine overloads and explodes, releasing evil energy across the universe (who knew that a single machine being watched by a goofy kid could be so critical?)

Earth floods with zombies, the Other World has been transformed into a colorful psychedelic drug trip (complete with what can only be described as floating gumballs), King Yemma has become imprisoned in a barrier, and the teenager who caused all this trouble has been mutated by the energy overload into a big ugly monster that's equal parts Genie from the Lamp and Pikachu named Janemba.

Wrath of the Dragon hit Japanese airwaves a little later that same year (July of 1995) and unlike Fusion Reborn, never benefited by a US theatrical release. The story with this one focuses more heavily on Trunks and his relationship with Tapion.

Tapion's tale of the destruction taking place begins thousands of years earlier on a planet called Konack where a group of evil magicians (the Kash-phar) cast a spell on a statue to bring the monster it represented to life (probably not a good idea, looking back). The monster, (named Hirudegarn) clearly upset with being given life, goes on a rampage and destroys everyone and anyone who tries to get in its way. Naturally it isn't long before the entire planet is devastated.

Two young heroes, Tapion and his brother Minosha, manage to freeze the monster in his tracks by playing their divine ocarinas, which distracted the creature long enough to be sliced. The catch is that Hirudegarn can't be killed by such means so instead his upper-half becomes sealed in Tapion and the other half in Minosha. However, fearing that the monster might reappear someday, the brothers are separated and each is sealed in a music box then fired off into opposite ends of the galaxy. The music box holding Tapion lands, you guessed it, on Earth, which is a good thing since Hoy (one of the Kash-phar) is doing all he can to resurrect the Hirudegarn here.

In all the pair of movies are entertaining in the quirky, often-humorous means as only Dragon Ball Z could attempt. The video, as was the case with the movies, offers up smoother animation than the television series and a slightly richer color pallet. Like the series, however, the movies benefit from remastering in High Definition and digital restoration processes.

Where this package really shines though is in the presentation department as Funimation's fantastic steel-book sets are a handsome addition to just about any DVD shelf.