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Dragonball: Evolution [Blu-ray]

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

Everything in this movie is RUSHED RUSHED RUSHED!!!

All the characters are REDUCED to stereotyical americanized cliches!
Goku is a emo whiner and trade the Ki blast of light energy for airbending puffs of smoke.
Bulma is a gung-ho type that screams Lara Croft.
Roshi turned less of his usual perverted self into more bashful.
Yamcha is a surfer dude like moron.
And Piccolo is a Star wars Sith!
Oozaru is 8ft instead of 80ft!! (I walked out of the theater angry because of that)
And all the actors reek!

The fighting is sloppy. The writing is garbage. The Directing is beyond terrible.
There are many rip-offs (Spiderman,Star Wars,Avatar TLA,Matrix)
This has the name Dragonball on it but don't expect anything of the sort! It's a DISCRACE!!! Who ever gives 5 stars likes cheesy crappy movies.

AVOID THIS FILM at all costs it's a big waste of money!!!!!

Well, to put it lightly, don't let the title (or rating) fool you, because this is not at all like the series it's based on. To be blunt, the only thing it has in common is the names. The spirit of the series, the morals it taught have been sacrificed in favor of a much more generalized and sexed-up Hollywood message.

The character personalities have all been altered to the point that they are barely, if at all, recognizable. In fact, if you didn't hear the characters names, even WITH familiarity of the series, you wouldn't know who half of them are supposed to be. Goku has gone from a carefree, pure-hearted, happy-go-lucky guy to a brooding teen that only cares about fitting in and getting lucky with the ladies, as well as sometimes wanting to hurt those who scorn him. Bulma has gone from the rich girl heiress with a genius IQ hunting Dragon Balls to wish for a boyfriend to a gun-toting Tomb Raider copycat who wants to harness the Dragon Balls' suspected energy to make money off of it. Chi-Chi has been changed into a shallow rich girl that completely ignores Goku until she sees he has special powers. Roshi's perverted personality has been toned down, and while that may be a sigh of relief for some parents, it's been toned down to such a ridiculous level that he seems more like a pubescent 13 year old than anything else, and he's been altered from the 200 year old master that witnessed Piccolo's destruction firsthand, as well as his master's sacrifice to seal him away to a middle-aged slacker that is a skeptic that Piccolo ever even existed. Yamcha has gone from a stealthy desert bandit and expert fighter to a fool with a small IQ who digs holes in the desert and waits for people to fall in so that he can pull them out... for a price, of course. Then there's Piccolo himself, who went from believing himself to be the King of Demons to being a Warlord on the planet Namek (that may not bother those not in the know so much, but it's a gross inaccuracy) and all menace that his character puts out was lost in this film.

Now other notable changes include: the need of a Dragon Temple to use the Dragon Balls, as well as a ritual dance to summon the Dragon, missing characters important to the story, such as Goku's best friend Krillin, who he grew up with (while training under Roshi, might I add), Korin, the master that gae Goku the strength to beat Piccolo, and Tien, Goku's former rival who joined him to get revenge for the death of his friend.

Now if that isn't enough to bother you, for a PG rating, the movie is anything but appropriate fare for children. Sexual imagery in some of Goku's fantasies about Chi-Chi, Bulma and Yamcha wink and make thinly veiled jokes when they believe Goku and Chi-Chi had sex, Goku and Chi-Chi are seen intensley making out more than once, and all ladies in this film, especially Piccolo's assassin, wear greatly clevage-bearing shirts/suits throughout the film.

All in all, this movie isn't really appropriate for kids on a theme level, it's too dull and disjointed for adults due to some HORRID acting and sloppy editing and directing, and it's CERTAINLY not aimed at fans, unless their goal was to offend them. My recommendation: save your money and wait for Season 1 of the original Dragon Ball to come out on DVD in September. Trust me, it's ten times as entertaning.

I would not buy this movie, even if you don't know much about Dragonball or Z. This movie is a very poor adaptation, FOX went with a low budget for the film, they changed Goku's behavior around 180 degrees. It is a bit entertaining but that surely dies out real fast. The special effects weren't very good either. Save your money for a better movie then this, you'd just be wasting it on this pitiful of an excuse so called Dragonball movie. Oh and don't be fooled by the added Z-Edition, it's nothing special.

I don't even understand how anyone could give this movie 5 stars...
The reviewers that give this movie 1 star hit the mark on this one.
If you were thinking about buying this.. save your money... I wouldn't even suggest renting this turd of a movie.

If You Had/Have Any Expectations For This Adaptation That I Think By Now Is A Few Years Too Late. Think Again...This Movie Will Most Certainly Leave A Very Very Very Awful Taste In Your Mouth. I Felt Like I Would Feel If I Licked Some Tar Off The Street Pavement, Just Awful.

The Story Is Very Disappointing, I Think A Kid Could Write Much Better Than This...The Characters Are Like Garbled-Up Garbage (nothing against the actors). Oh, and For Being Dragonball, The Special Effects Are Disastrous! Made Me Think I Was Watching Something From 1992. The Matrix (1) has Better Special Effects and That Came Out 10 Years Ago!!!

20th Century Fox Got What They Asked For, With A Movie That Needed To Be "Lord Of The Rings" Epic, Story/Character/Special Effects Wise. They Ended Up Making A Fools "Dragonball".

I Hope Another Company Picks Up The Rights Years From Now, and Does This Franchise The Justice It Deserves.

This Dragon Has Most Certainly Lost It's Balls...

Which is the worst movie you have ever seen? Think about it. Now multiply that times 10 and you have Dragonball: Evolution. This movie was so bad, that people around me at the theater were booing and some actually left! The only reason I stayed because my kids had been wanting to see it, but my youngest fell asleep midway and the other two told me afterwards that they thought the movie was dumb(yes, their words!) because it didn't make sense or even follow the cartoon. I have to say I hated this movie more than Catwoman or Battlefield Earth on my part. I don't doubt that this movie in the future will be in the catagory of worst movies ever made. For those who have not seen it, sorry, I'm not going to bother to even summarize the plot because it's just that ridiculous and full of the worst cliches possible.

What makes it worse is that makers of this movie have changed the title on the DVD/Blu-ray by adding "Z Edition" to make it seem like the it has more to offer than the movie. What a rip off! I wouldn't even pick this as a DVD up in the $1 bin at Wal-Mart.

You could tell this movie was doomed from the start. First lets compare this to Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. Now I am sure no one will mistake it for being great cinema as well, but at least Bay and Spielburg know the signifcance of the source material. If they did one thing right with the Transformers movies is at least they got the size, scale, movements, abilites,and personalities of the characters down. In DBZ you had characters that where lightning fast, superman strong, and let out energy (ki) blasts that could turn the rocky mountains into another grand canyon. The sad thing is lets face it, there are only so many Transformers, Batman, Spiderman, etc movies left. This would have been a golden opportunity for Fox to land that big next epic movie franchise. Epic is the key word because while you can point out some the same flaws in Transformer RotF as you can in Dragonball, like pacing, plot holes, not so great action, what seperates the two is when it got down the action Transformers was epic, Dragonball was not. Dragonball Evolution should have been the kind of movie that had teaser trailers dating back almost a year from release.It should have had a 200 million dollar budget, and for crying out loud, some kind of pre-release press, even if its just freakin G4. By the way does anyone know if the movie was advertised on Cartoon Network? In retospect I hope the answer was no. Afterall it was Cartoon Network that brought Dragonball DBZ an DBGT to the North American masses, why would they want all their hard work flushed down the toilet. It is sad that this franchise is now ruined, it could have been something special. Maybe someone can pull a Hulk/Batman style reboot and get start over again, but I highly doubt anyone will.

I'm sorry to say this, but Not even the awesome power of Blu-ray can help this picture, this movie is beyond terrible, you will not believe how bad this movie really is. I'm not reviewing the blu-ray features because, If a movie sucks so bad why the hell would you (or I) want to watch the special features?

First off, the Main Story is severely butchered to the point where everything unrecognizable to the original. The story is told very hasty and they don't bother to explain anything, and The've also rip off ideas from other great films... Dragon ball is known for great edge of your seat fighting Anime sequences, but in this movie There aren't any good fighting scenes AT ALL! None, Zero.

Second: There are absolutely NO character development in this movie at all, Bulma comes out of Nowhere holding a gun and says: they've stolen the dragonballs can you help? And Goku helps her, for no apparent reason. they team up and find master roshi, who likes to talk while he waves his hands, for no apparent reason!?.

Third: In the Anime and Manga, the main character Goku is supposed to be a happy, fun, cheerful, energetic character that only gets mad when bad people are doing bad things. In this movie goku is nothing but a stupid teenage kid who can't get a girlfriend, ride his bike to school and spends half of the movie feeling sorry for himself. (Lame!) And The DIALONG IN THIS FILM IS THE WORST I'VE EVER HEARD!

Fourth: For unknown reasons, one of the main character, Krillin does not appear in this movie (and I don't know why?). And for more unknown CRAPtacular reasons They used The Kamehame wave, (which is suppose to be a destructive beam technique) TO revive Goku as he lays on the ground because he's about to die, over a small idiotic gun shot wound. (I'm not even afraid to spill anything for you because your not gonna go see this)

Fifth: The ending battle between Goku and Picollo is SO retarded!, Goku throws a big Kamahame wave (which looks totally fake) and all you see is bright lights, They don't even show when piccolo gets hit!!! It's with out a doubt the Stupidest looking, CRAPtacular actions sequence I've ever seen in a action film!

Sixth: The only relation this movie has to the original dragon ball is the Dragonballs themselves THAT'S IT! this movie should have been called The Passion, because it was 90 minutes of pure torture. This is purely Hollywood's best at Film Raping.

Seventh: if you're a FAN of Dragonball, and even if you Not a fan of Dragonball, this movie is mediocre and disappointing from the beginning to end, It's Not entertaining, there's bad acting, the costumes in this movie looks like they found them laying around in back of a trashed Halloween store. I love the original Dragonball so, if you're a fan of the original you must stay away from this!..... This film easily makes my top ten list of the worst films I have ever seen... so, OVERALL! AVOID THIS FILM...PERIOD!

Thats pretty much what this garbadge is about: What if Goku was in High School and out of nowhere he just ohhh I don't know... wants to save the planet for no reason This movie should just be called Evolution because it has nothing to do with dragonball

This picture is lazy, cheap, rushed, and ridden with cliche
Its not even FUN-BAD...just BORING-BAD (What kept me from walking out from this godawful turd were my friends....WE HAD to make the film watchable by poking fun at the death of such a good franchise) The crew try to cram so much and do so many things that....it feels like nothing happens. You leave the theatre kinda thinking...wtf did i just see? What the hell happened?

This movie fails at giving the audience anything to care about. People just show up saying "Hey, i better help you out"

Action scenes are god awful. The most dissappointing thing abhout Nolan's batman movies are the poorly shot action sequences....but they made 100000x more sense than anything happening in this movie. When piccolo's henchmen arrive to fight Goku & co. the movie is soooo dark, you can't make out ANYTHING. Also, the oozaru....they purposely hid the oozaru in the dark because of the piss poor CGI. It was soooo damn obvious

The sad thing is....there was potential to fix these mistakes. An extra 75 million dollars for better CGI and action sequences and 35-50 minutes of extra runtime so things could have been EXPLAINED properly would have done WONDERS. But no....they had to cut around the lousy budget. Yes, the acting would not have improved too much--but this could have easily been a FUN summer popcorn flick.