Probably the most drastic change to the "Dragon Ball" story, this takes a whopping 6 sagas and crams it into only 45 minutes. This would be rather impressive, if it was actually good, but it's not. At least, not good enough to justify replacing the episodes to watch this. I know "Dragon Ball" as a whole has quite a bit of filler, but I've never had a problem with it, compared to this, which has less than no filler, it's like watching the show in fast forward. This might sound good, but in doing so, they've forgotten the charm of "Dragon Ball" itself. All the major moments are here pretty much, but characters like General Blue and Emperor Pilaf are just afterthoughts here. It's alright for a 45 minute watch, but I just wish they stuck with the story and made just a few changes instead of changing almost everything. Or make 2 movies out of it, covering 3 sagas each, something other than this.

This Dragon Ball movie tells an alternate version of a era of Dragon Ball in which Goku enters a Martial Arts Tournament.This has been dubbed twice into English in North America and also there is a English dub that was done in France by AB Groupe and one in Malaysia.The movie is humorous and has a good story to it. It is in my opinion better then 'Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle'.I give Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure a 7/10.

This is the third and final Dragon Ball movie released during the series' run on Japanese TV. Like the first two Dragon Ball movies, this movie re-tells pivotal moments that took place during the TV series. This movie re-tells Goku and Krillin's first trip to the World Martial Arts Tournament. In the movie, however, Goku, Krillin, Master Roshi, Turtle, and Launch are off to a small country known as Mifan, where the tournament is held and the winner recieves not only prize money, but is granted an audience with Mifan's emperor, whom is Chiaotzu. However, the heroes discover that the Chiaotzu's right-hand men, Master Shen, General Tao, and Tien, are conspiring to get the Dragon Balls to abdicate Chiaotzu from the throne and rule the kingdom themselves. In this DB movie, the villains and much of the supporting characters are characters from the TV series rather than original one-shots. This DB movie is by far the most martial-arts oriented as the series was beginning to lean towards that more over adventure and comedy. But this DB movie has the best combination of martial arts and comedy and is always filled with high-energy fighting scenes and hilarious comedy re-created from pivotal moments in the TV series. This movie first appeared in the U.S. on syndicated TV in 1989 when it was combined with the first movie into a single TV-movie pilot, which was done by Harmony Gold (creators of Robotech) in the first of two attempts made to get the DB TV series released in America. In this Harmony Gold TV pilot version, the characters had radically different names. When the series finally became a success in the US when aired on Cartoon Network, FUNimation re-dubbed it, making it more faithful to the original Japanese counterpart.GRADE: 4 out of 5 stars

As a long time fan of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z I am excited to see this finally find release in the United States. This movie spins off of the early Dragon Ball Tournament Saga very smoothly with a short scenic summary of Goku and Krillin's (Kuririn) training under Master Roshi. There is a lot of good fun and some nice action sequences, including tournament fighting hosted by Chaozu. Familiar Dragon Ball characters are there, including Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha and Pu'ar, and some new characters are introduced, including Tien and the aforementioned Chaozu. Very funny and overall quite enjoyable, though uncut this may be a little too suggestive for many children. I highly recommend this to all Dragon Ball or DBZ fans as well as any fan of lighthearted anime; I actually enjoyed this movie more than many of the Dragon Ball Z movies that follow it.