Watching Dragon Ball Battle of Gods for the first time in almost 10 years is kind of weird, I remember being so hyped up for the movie and remember being so let down by it, but watching it again, it was...alright. In some ways it's the best DB movie ever made by that point.
Beerus did have more character than most DB movie villains who most of them just wanted to rule the world or kill Goku because reasons, and they did do a decent job at building him up as a threat in typical DB fashion of excessively using the worf effect but that's what defined the series so I am fine with it. It is rather amusing how much they played on the whole, "DB villain blowing up the planet when they are pissed" by having the literal God of Destruction get angry over not eating pudding. It was dumb to me years back but now I find it hilarious.
Vegeta's portrayal which is the most infamous aspect of the movie I found to be kind of interesting, it's basically Vegeta trying to quell Beerus by not resorting to force because he knew couldn't do it after remember his father and beating Goku. That and he didn't want to turn his wife's birthday party into a battleground fighting someone he knows he can't beat. Him being stronger than Goku after hitting Bulma was strange but it's not too out of place in the series.
The weird part of it all is, once Goku comes back to earth, the movie actually goes downhill. Goku just randomly comes up with a plan to ask Shenron about the Super Saiyan God form yet I don't even recall Shenron ever knowing much about Saiyans at all, and this is the biggest problem with the movie, Goku's whole disappointment of obtaining power not because of his determinating, interesting idea on paper, but it's so awkwardly executed because it gets mentioned right when he becomes the SSG, I would've given him a subplot where during the party Goku just has to accept he can't just use his own power to beat Beerus, he also just popped up on earth out of nowhere after being MIA for so long. That and the movie was basically an overly expensive TV pilot than actually feeling like a standalone movie but overall, it was alright.
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