This one moves. Slug hits different from the movies before it because the fight doesn't stop to explain itself, it just escalates. Goku transforms twice in one battle. The pacing is relentless in a way that feels less like a feature and more like someone took the best 45 minutes of a saga and cut everything else. A Super Namekian isn't just a stronger Namek. Slug is built to be the answer to "what if we made someone Kami-level angry." The movie knows it doesn't have time to make you care about the plot. It spends that time on the fight instead.

Gohan and Piccolo are enjoying a quiet moment when they sense something powerful heading toward Earth: a small planet on course to collide with it. Goku and Kuririn try to deflect it with a Kamehameha and fail, but the object turns aside on its own and bursts open to reveal a castle. An army pours out and claims Earth for Slug, a Super Namekian who calls himself king of the universe. During the fighting Gohan loses his Dragon Ball, and Slug reads Bulma's mind, takes her Dragon Radar and sends his soldiers after the rest. Once he holds them all, he wishes for his youth back and sets out to rule the world, leaving the Z Warriors to stop him in this action-packed science fiction film.