Over the four decades since its debut, Dragon Ball has had 24 movies released in theaters, one of the largest amounts by any anime franchise in history. During the airing of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z , the original manga series by Akira Toriyama was still being written, and original films and filler helped the anime not to catch up.

Some of those original films have introduced fan-favorite characters and stories, while others have faded into obscurity, and are better off there. Not every Dragon Ball movie is a masterpiece, but there a few every fan should watch, and others that should be skipped.

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