As with all of the DBZ movies, you have to forget what you know of the main series. If you try to figure out when this takes place (roughly after the end of Dragon Ball and before the beginning of DBZ) you are gonna be scratching your head at all of the inconsistencies (e.g. Krillin doesn't know Goku has a kid when he visits Roshi's island in episode 1 of DBZ, but he clearly meets Gohan in this movie before that episode supposedly takes place). Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Anyways, Piccolo is "killed" right off the bat by Garlic Jrs' henchmen because he knows that if he kills Piccolo it will kill Kame as well leaving Kame's lookout and throne free for the taking. However, Mr. Garlic's big plan is to gather the dragonballs and wish for immortality. He is clearly an idiot because if he had successfully killed off Piccolo and Kame this would have destroyed the dragonballs before he even had a chance to make his wish. This movie has plot holes and nonsense all throughout it and that shouldn't surprise anyone who has seen a DBZ movie before.
Just some other notable highlights; Gohan eats a fermented/alcohols filled apple (or similar-looking fruit) and gets drunk off his gourd causing him to hallucinate and have a full-on song and dance sequence (which the singing is oddly cut out in the English version, just another reason to prefer the original Japanese). Gohan takes a pee on Krillin's head and Krillin just seems to accept his fate of being proverbially peed on this entire series. Garlic Junior is a short boy but in a flashback, when Kame is having his exposition dump because nobody else is explaining what's going on, his father is seen to be a normal height. In one of the fights, a tip of Goku's hair is sliced off by one of the henchmen's hands but in the very next frame, his hair has magically grown back (why have this happen if you aren't even going to attempt to have any continuation?).
All-in-all this movie has messy storytelling and animation that falls desperately short of film quality. Gratefully, at 41 minutes long this movie moves pretty quickly. I love DBZ and the movies are always nostalgic to rewatch, but man are they bad.
Anyways, Piccolo is "killed" right off the bat by Garlic Jrs' henchmen because he knows that if he kills Piccolo it will kill Kame as well leaving Kame's lookout and throne free for the taking. However, Mr. Garlic's big plan is to gather the dragonballs and wish for immortality. He is clearly an idiot because if he had successfully killed off Piccolo and Kame this would have destroyed the dragonballs before he even had a chance to make his wish. This movie has plot holes and nonsense all throughout it and that shouldn't surprise anyone who has seen a DBZ movie before.
Just some other notable highlights; Gohan eats a fermented/alcohols filled apple (or similar-looking fruit) and gets drunk off his gourd causing him to hallucinate and have a full-on song and dance sequence (which the singing is oddly cut out in the English version, just another reason to prefer the original Japanese). Gohan takes a pee on Krillin's head and Krillin just seems to accept his fate of being proverbially peed on this entire series. Garlic Junior is a short boy but in a flashback, when Kame is having his exposition dump because nobody else is explaining what's going on, his father is seen to be a normal height. In one of the fights, a tip of Goku's hair is sliced off by one of the henchmen's hands but in the very next frame, his hair has magically grown back (why have this happen if you aren't even going to attempt to have any continuation?).
All-in-all this movie has messy storytelling and animation that falls desperately short of film quality. Gratefully, at 41 minutes long this movie moves pretty quickly. I love DBZ and the movies are always nostalgic to rewatch, but man are they bad.