History YMMV / DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler

** Goku and Vegeta managing to overload the Big Gete Star, while they were barely stronger ''together'' than a single Meta-Cooler. It stands to reason that they shouldn't have enough power to overload it when it could produce thousands of copies with the same power.

** Vegeta finding and crushing the original computer chip of the Big Gete Star. The last time we see him, he crashes onto New Namek after the Big Gete Star blows up. There is no hint of him looking for the chip, nor is there an indication that he actually knows what it looks like.

** Cooler's resurrection in the first place, he claims a small part of him survived his defeat to fuse with the Big Gete Star, the problem being that Goku blasted him into the freaking Sun. Not even Frieza showed that much resilience.

* {{Narm}}: The OffModel animation leads to a lot of instances of Goku having a very tiny face, which naturally creates a lot of giggles.

* SignatureScene: The Meta-Cooler Army's introduction is considered the film's one redeeming factor. For context, Goku and Vegeta work together for the first time and barely scrape a win against Meta-Cooler, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill but only after blasting his circuits into atoms.]] After slumping back into their base forms from exhaustion, Goku then sees the entire nearby cliffside covered in Meta-Coolers, each exactly as strong as the one they barely defeated. Rarely have the Saiyans looked so utterly screwed by the odds. The scene was iconic enough to be referenced in the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' manga by Toyotaro, in which the Fusion Zamasu hoard surround the battered Goku and Vegeta in a similar fashion.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Cooler fuses with a MechanicalAbomination and essentially becomes a PlanetEater himself, giving him an identity completely separate from Frieza. So he immediately goes to New Namek to essentially redo the Namek saga with less happening.
* {{Woolseyism}}: The Funimation dub adds in a few neat lines that weren't in the original Japanese dub.

* AssPull: Goku and Vegeta managing to overload the Big Gete Star, while they were barely stronger ''together'' than a single Meta-Cooler. It stands to reason that they shouldn't have enough power to overload it when it could produce thousands of copies with the same power.
** Cooler's resurrection in the first place, he claims a small part of him survived his defeat to fuse with the Big Gete Star, the problem is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill GOKU BLASTED HIM INTO THE SUN]]!!!

* SignatureScene: The Meta-Cooler Army's introduction is considered the film's one redeeming factor. For context, Goku and Vegeta work together for the first time and barely scrape a win against Meta-Cooler, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill but only after blasting his circuits into atoms.]] After slumping back into their base forms from exhaustion, Goku then sees the entire nearby cliffside covered in Meta-Coolers, each exactly as strong as the one they barely defeated. Rarely have the Saiyans looked so utterly screwed by the odds.
** The scene was iconic enough to be referenced in the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' manga by Toyotaro, in which the Fusion Zamasu hoard surround the battered Goku and Vegeta in a similar fashion.

* AssPull: Goku and Vegeta managing to overload the Big Gete Star, while they were barely stronger ''together'' than a single Meta-Cooler. It stands to reason that they shouldn't have enough power to overload it when it could produce thousands of copies with the same power. It's even acknowledged in the abridged version of the movie.

* HilariousInHindsight: Cooler’s poorly explained and retcon filled return brings to mind the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] “[[Memes/TheRiseOfSkywalker Somehow, Palpatine returned]].” line from ''Film/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker''.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Cooler fuses with a MechanicalAbomination and essentially becomes a PlanetEater himself, giving him an identity completely separate from Frieza. So he immediately goes to New Namek to essentially redo the Namek saga with less happening.

* HilariousInHindsight: Cooler’s poorly explained and retcon filled return brings to mind the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] “[[Memes/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker Somehow, Palpatine returned]].” line from ''Film/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker''.

* NightmareFuel: The Big Gete Star is an incredibly frightening planet destroyer, and the fact that someone as vile as Cooler is in charge of such a monstrosity makes it an incredibly intimidating force of science gone wrong.
* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Return of Cooler'' is considered to be a much weaker follow-up to ''Cooler's Revenge''. It is usually seen as one of the worst ''DBZ'' films, due to poor animation, a weak plot, and tossing Cooler the VillainBall. Meta-Cooler is also considered one of the lazier villain designs, especially after the great design of Cooler's fifth form - which Meta-Cooler inexplicably never uses, and might not have access to - was what earned him a ton of popularity.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Cooler fuses with a MechanicalAbomination and essentially becomes a PlanetEater himself, giving him an identity completely seperate from Frieza. So he immediately goes to New Namek to essentially redo the Namek saga with less happening.

* {{Narm}}: Goku's face shrinking when his power grows can come off as this.

* ContestedSequel: ''Cooler's Revenge'' is one of the more popular DBZ films, so it was an inevitability that ''Return Of Cooler'' had a lot to live up to. While it is widely agreed that [[{{Sequelitis}} it doesn't live up]] to the previous film for various reasons, it's seen as a decent film on its own right.

* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Return of Cooler'' is considered to be a much weaker follow-up to ''Cooler's Revenge''. It is usually seen as one of the worst ''DBZ'' films, due to poor animation, a weak plot, and tossing Cooler the VillainBall. Meta-Cooler is also considered one of the lazier villain designs, especially after the great design of Cooler's fifth form - which Meta-Cooler inexplicably never uses, and might not have access to - was what earned him a ton of popularity.

* Narm: Goku's face shrinking when his power grows can come off as this.