The Official Rate and Review Thread

[CyclopsSummers]

I don't know who Justin Chatwin was playing, but that certainly wasn't Goku.

Thats correct
In movie we dont say hes a saiyan, Piccolo isnt from Namek
so m*****f***

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

From Topless Robot

Although they apparently only have seven days to stop Piccolo, Roshi waits until after nightfall to jump out of the hole. The first thing he does is says "We don't have time for this," although he apparently had 8 hours to chill in the hole since he clearly could have left at any time. Then he asks Yamcha to help them find the dragonballs, and Yamcha agrees... ALTHOUGH THIS NEGOTIATION COULD HAVE EASILY TAKEN PLACE 8 HOURS AGO WHEN THEY FIRST LANDED IN THE HOLE. It is only after that occurs that Bulma checks her dragonball radar and discovers the dragonball is buried nearby and accessible only by the very hole they're in. If that coincidence wasn't enough, Yamcha just happens to have drilling equipment.

I'd say Piccolo does nothing, but instead he watches an incredibly nonsensical series of special effects. Although no one has said anything about needing to use the dragonballs in a special location, Piccolo has found some rocky crag with seven indents for the balls. When he puts the balls on the rock, the rock rises from the ground into this huge stone building, much like the thing Dr. Manhattan built on Mars, because why the **** not. Assemble the seven dragonballs, get a free rock sculpture. This takes forever, and the dragonballs do some spinning around while Piccolo refuses to make his wish.

Goku decides not to be Oozaru any more. Seriously. That's it. There's something about having "faith" in one's self, but I have no idea how it applies here. Is Goku supposed to have faith he's not a weird were-monkey? Because he is. We just saw it.

And, despite everyone insisting that only a wish from the dragonballs could defeat Piccolo, Goku defeats Piccolo with a kamehameha.

 

[Sarg92]

One thing I couldn't understand was if Piccolo is meant to be this big powerful villain who will destroy Earth, why didn't he feel like a threat?

Not once did I think that Earth was in danger.

And Goku cheating when trying to light the candles with the Kamehameha. That is not Goku, Goku would never cheat! He would keep on trying and trying until he mastered the attack. But in the film why is it when Chi Chi appears Goku can perform the Kamehameha all of a sudden without any problems?!

I knew this film wasn't going to be good but I thought that there may have been some parts which would be enjoyable. There could be some great fight scenes and money shots but I was wrong. This film failed on everything!

I am still hoping that there will be an actual faithful live action film of Dragonball which has a dedicated director, cast, writer and studio behind it.

 

[Silver Knight]

I have yet to see this and I doubt I will.

 

[Kaizer104]

I recently saw this movie and buried my childhood.

There are about 5 minutes of this film which were actually good. HOWEVER, I do think that this film is good when you're hanging out with your friends and verbally destroying it. I have never done that in a theater before but this time...I had to. I was compelled.

 

[Nirvana]

I saw this earlier today. Oh man, am I glad I didn't pay to see this (my friend works at the theater). This movie sucked.

 

[The Kid]

i guess it's safe to say this movie is the new He-man. Years from now some little brat will see it on tv and think it was the greatest thing evar! JUST LIKE ME!

 

[dark_b]

And Goku cheating when trying to light the candles with the Kamehameha. That is not Goku, Goku would never cheat! He would keep on trying and trying until he mastered the attack. But in the film why is it when Chi Chi appears Goku can perform the Kamehameha all of a sudden without any problems?!
.

didnt you see how goku was presented in the movie? he is a kid who goes to school. and because he has a little moto-bike every 30 year old teenager(yeah the guy is 30 years old for christ sake) wants to kick hes ass. he is geeko. like a geek get it? because goku looks and acts like a geek.

of course it was completely out of character that he cheated. but the kid was desperate. he was very emotional. get it? because hes grandfather died. because if he cheates it will be so easier to defeat piccolo.

 

[dark_b]

ohhhh and the best part. in the school the teaher days 14 days . so from the beginning of the movie to the end it was 14 days. in the beginning he couldnt defeat Gohan.Roshi moved him with hes head. hes f... head. one days before the final fight he didnt know the kamehameha. ''he was not ready''.
but wooooooooooooow in the fight with piccolo he was strong like piccolo.WOOOOOOOOOW.

the worst part is that it was not goku who was strong. it was piccolo who was weak. piccolo used 10 ki blasts and punched goku 3 or 4 times. this is piccolo?


and i told you all that this will happen. because a PG FOX movie will nto have good fights. it can not have it. it is what it is.

 

[Darkness Falls]

I thought i'd share my review

Spoilers/rant ahead

So my friend mitchell and i decieded to check out the Dragonball evolution last week, being to young teenage guys who grew up on the anime of the same name on channel ten before school
We though what the hell it *could* be great so without question we paid for the tickets... little did we know how bad the movie would be......
Note. spoilers ahead, sorry if the descriptions make little to no sense, i type it like i saw it

Firstly, what the hell is up with piccolo, they never explain how he escapes his containment and all of the sudden he has a shapeshifting side chick and is commanding a ship and destroying a small villiage (no casualties though)

We meet geeku, i mean goku, who is a bit of a geek really, bully magnet, one funny moment is he's going to chi chi's party, so he gels his hair back, and ogles himself, then his hair springs into the anime style, cheesey but it was funny
he arrives at the party beats up his bullies and chills with chi chi, meanwhile piccolo simply walks into goku's house, harrasses his grandfather then in a random psycho act, piccolo brings down the house litterally.

Goku immediatley realises somethings wrong and runs home just in time to throw rubble off his granfather and here the stereotypical lines of a martial arts movie "remember to always to belive in yourself goku, and to defeat your enemy you must become one with your enemy.
he mentions something about the dragonballs aswell
goku gazes into a treasure chest which contains his trademark gear from the anime, it gives off a orange light but where's the light coming from ? clearly not a fabric suit.......

We then meet bulma breifs (yes i said breifs) who is kind of like a bounty hunter i guess (no blue hair only a strand) complete with guns and a transformer bike... and a dbe (dragonball energy reader) her goal is to create an unlimited source of energy from said balls. it must be known that every ball goku touches gives him a lord of the rings style flash of the future kinda like with sauron's i see you things

Next up is master roshi, who provides as mentor to goku, bit of a pervert, collects swimsuit magazines lol and grabs bulma's behind to which she replies "take it off or i blow it off"
as they travel they fall into a big hole, and are bugged by yum-cha, i'll just skip yum-cha, people who know me know how i feel about characters who talk street.... moving on

*from here onwards the movie kicks into WTF mode*
Piccolo straps himself into a chair and donates blood for some reason, i don't believe it was for red cross meanwhile the gang cuts through the ground (as it just so happens one of the dragonballs is underground) but here's the twist, the ball is on the other side of a lord of the rings styled lava world type place...
then out of nowhere these orcs come out and attack them, roshi says to goku "we must throw them into the lava to defeat them..." no **** roshi, goku grabs a sword and hacks them up... why ? to make a bridge of course......he grabs the ball then has a random fight with piccolo's assistant.. she runs away, and to the audience's amazement (goku seems not shocked by it) the rest of the crew are on the same part as goku, how did they make it across with out the orc bridge ?

They travel back to the HQ, where goku is trained by chi chi (yes its true) then an unintentional humorus scene where all the main characters are wandering around after bed time.... the unnamed shapeshifter woman, assumes the role of chi chi and attempts to make off with the balls, the real chi chi stops her with the line "who the hell are you" well obviously she is u atm girlfriend......

so a fight breaks out, goku gets more than he bargins for when he knocks out the good one, gets shot by the bad one, oh sh... says goku, we then see goku's near death expirience where he sees his grandfather standing on water... instead of saying remotely interesting he says in the most whinny voice possible "Granfather......I'm sooooo HAPPY to see youuuu" meanwhile master roshi fires a Kamehami ha (fireball) into goku's chest and brings him back to life... hurmm i'll have to remember that one, maybe i can save a life with a fireball

here we reach the chilling conclusion to the film, hold on to your hats....

so we find out that piccolo now has all 7* balls..(collect all 7 and recieve one good wish from a dragon, hence the name dragonball) yumcha and friends drive off a cliff then hummer flies.... (A-team eat your heart out) piccolo and his STILL unnamed sidekick rise a castle like cavern out of the ground and put the balls in place, cue crazy ol' roshi shooting kami blasts while hanging out of the hummer, upon seeing this piccolo rips his cape off in dramatic fashion and fires a red blast at the hummer
the hummer crashes and roshi falls to his death *cue nelson muntz* and in all this chaos, goku has just enough time to change wardrobe....what the hell

loved the dialogue between goku and piccolo
Piccolo: U will fail
Goku: I will defeat oozaru, then i will destroy U

As Goku combats Piccolo he basically learns from the warlord that he was sent to Earth as an infant to destroy the planet when he came of age, (turned 18) and as the solar eclipse finally begins,
goku looks up and bam full mooon,
nooooooooooooo he shouts but alas it is no use

now fans of the anime would know that oozaru goku is a monkey/ape, fox says screw that, make goku a drooling werewolf, where's hugh jackman or kate beckinsale when you need them right?

So the movie shifts pace as the good guys are being chased by were-goku there is a little fight between Mai ( how sad i actually had to google her name after the movie) and miss briefs, she throws her transformers bike at her, only to have yum cha shoot a energy blast at mai knocking her out... it is unknown whether she survives but who cares anyway..

Roshi is killed in the ensuing battle, before Goku returns to his senses and reverts to normal. in such a cool way aswell
"IIIIIIAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM GGGOOOOKKKUUUU
Iiiiiii aaaammmmm ooooozzzaaarrruuuu
i am at one with my enemyyyyy"

As a furious Piccolo watches on and shouts "IMPOSSIBLE" he creates a gigantic Ki ball with which he intends to destroy the planet with, Goku retaliates by performing a new and improved Kamehameha which he can fly with and defeat piccolo

but what about the wish you might ask.....Goku wishes to ressurect master roshi.. surprise surprise the dragon balls are sccatered and they have to find them again, goku says i'll be right back, he then apologises for hitting chi chi, they form a relationship and settle the thing by fighting each.....other ?

credits.......

now that i've described the movie my thoughts.....

i give it 3/10 it deserves a one really but the fact that i was laughing and having a fun time, gives it some extra points

do i reccomend it? no i don't, maybe if you need a good laugh

does it prove my theory that current fox pres tom rothman needs the boot.... AWWW HEELLLLL YEA

does it deserve sequal..... no, not really

 

[Kirmit]

Ok just seen the movie, hmmm, well certainly not the dragonball I remember, but not all totally bad.

I'll start with the good points. Yamcha, chi chi and Roshi were good imo, with roshi just needing a bit more visual similarities to his animated counterpart. piccolo was well portrayed by masters, he just needed more screentime and better development, like others have said, the threat just wasn't there. the visuals, the ki all looked good, kamehameha looked good, just didn't last long enough, the settings were good, I particularly liked the setting for the final battle. The story actually wasn't that bad, it was just too rushed, without time for development.

Ok here we go with the bad and I'm going to have to start with very worst which would be chatwin. The guy was totally wrong for the part and to be perfectly honest his acting was just plain bad, very wooden and unrelatable. I did not see goku in him at any point, not in his personality nor visually, I honestly can not see why he was cast. The same goes for bulma, again bad acting and totally wrong casting, I don't think even all blue hair would've helped t:. The dialogue, man whoever wrote the dialogue did a bad job, so much came off as cheesy and cringe worthy, especially the 'I am goku, I am oozaru' speech. Which nicely brings me onto Oozaru, visually it was hard to go wrong, big monkey, nothing difficult about that yet imo they still got it wrong. I understand they didn't want a 50ft monkey but they could've atleast of made him hulk sized or abomination size, he wasn't intimidating at all. My other irk with oozaru was how underused he was, he was there, then he was gone and did nothing that showed me the great destroyer. Lastly, though there are many other things that were bad, is shenron, again visually I didn't mind him and I wasn't even bothered by how little we saw of him, it was just I was expecting him to say something. I would've been happy with a 'wish granted' but we got nothing at all, very disappointing.

Overall, very disappointed, I do hope we get a sequel however, only so the characters can get more depth and certain unnamed actors get an opportunity to redeem themselves.

 

[The Overlord]

i guess it's safe to say this movie is the new He-man. Years from now some little brat will see it on tv and think it was the greatest thing evar! JUST LIKE ME!

And someone like the Nostalgia Critic will rip into it a few years later.

 

[SKSpawn]

For me, the film was a LOT like Bulletproof Monk. It was an enjoyable, somewha cheesy, American martial arts-orientated fantasy film that knew it had a convoluted plot but tried it's best to kind of...ignore that plot, or dumb it down a bit.

Goku developed a lot of the characteristics he should have had from the beginning (self-faith, ability, all that) but in a way that makes some sense: the general audience, who know nothing of Goku, can learn along with him then. I liked that he had a taste for food and was a quirky geek at times, but disliked his desire to get the girl (I would've liked to see him be a dunce around Chi-Chi a bit more).

I beieved the best thing about the film would be Piccolo and, technically this is true, but he is hardly in it at all...which is really weird. It isn't explicitly stated how he broke free, his power and screentime and exposition are very limited and his assistant (I think it's Mai but she's never named) gets more to do than him...Also, I laughed how his minions were created by his blood and so easily dispatched. I turned to my friend and said "if they're so weak then what does that say about Piccolo?" However, I'm glad he survived and was green, and his Frieza-inspired Death Ball was interesting.

My biggest complain was the handling of Oozaru and the Dragonball backstory. They repeated it quite often, but each time it made very little sense: if Oozaru defeated Piccolo 2000 years ago then where did it go, what happened to it? It can't have been Goku because he's just a kid, so what was it? And Goku constantly looking at the full moon, only transforming when he eclipse happened, was a bit annoying, as was Piccolo bossing around the Oozaru (again, how was this possible?) I would've liked to see Goku sprout a tail during his transformation (or better yet have one the whole film, I don't care how "unrealistic" that would be, and one of his friends could have cut it off to end his transformation), though didn't mind the "werewolf" aspect of Oozaru because it made him more agile and capable to be smaller.

I'm a big Dragonball Z fan and was happy with some parts of the film (Goku meeting Bulma, meeting Yamchu and certain of Goku's characteristics were very close to the original depictions) and changes were inevitable from the start....I did enjoy it, but I had to disregard all my love for these characters and embrace this totally new vision to do so, which was a bit annoying; they could have catered to the fans of the original material a lot better, instead, like I said, it becomes more like Bulletproof Monk, whereas I would've preferred it to maybe be more like Kung-Fu Hustle (with a darker sequel maybe more like Ong-Bak but that might be pushing it).

I could see a sequel, after all Fantastic Four got one an that under-performed, as did AVP, but if they make more than two movies I will be surprised. I could see the sequel being a rematch with Piccolo, then him joining forces with them to fight the Saiyans, and maybe leave itopen-ended but, like I said, I wouldn't hold my breath for more than one more movie.

Ironically, a Japanese anime feature film of Dragonball Z was recently made around about the same time Evolution came out to celebrate the anniversary of Dragonball Z. You'd think that, by comparison, the new anime feature would be better but it wasn't that great either...

Gotta say though, while I'm not a "GOKU IS ASIAN!" guy, Chatwin sucks as Goku...he doesn't look like he trains, fights or works out at all, all I kept thinking was "stunt double, stunt double, stunt double" which was a bit istracting from his performance.

 

[Corpus Luteum]

Man, that is an all-time low. To have a Korean critic bomb another Korean. What is this? The Forgotten War? Who wrote the dam script for this movie?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Man, that is an all-time low. To have a Korean critic bomb another Korean. What is this? The Forgotten War? Who wrote the dam script for this movie?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0708870/
Ben "Killa" Ramsey

 

[Milu]

So, which is worst, this or Legend of Chun Li?

 

[Nathan]

This, easily.

 

[StylishHokie21]

They're bothy ******, but I think this one tops Chun Li. Oh wait...I forgot. I don't know what I'm talking about apparently.

 

[StylishHokie21]

The reasons Chun Li is slightly better:

1. Better actors
2. Coherent plot
3. Better fight choreography

That's three things I can list off the top of my head. That's not saying much though.

 

[LightningFlash]

I'm not a big Dragonball fan, but I thought this movie was easily enjoyable.

Dragonball was created in Japan, or whatever(I don't know, and I could care less if I did), and the acting was just like in the cartoons: over-acting and also underwhelming.

It was, easily, just seeing a cartoon as a movie. That's why it was enjoyable.

And much like Transformers, it was a fun ride. Both movies had plots that could give you a headache, but still. Fun to watch.

I give it a 7/10.

 

[Lobo]

I'm glad you enjoyed it

 

[Antrax255]

The reasons Chun Li is slightly better:

1. Better actors
2. Coherent plot
3. Better fight choreography

That's three things I can list off the top of my head. That's not saying much though.

1. Chun li is the girl equivalent to Dragonball

 

[Ipodman]

i'll watch Chun li on dvd again.. but i dont think i wanna see another DB movie from the same cast/director.. Yikes!

 

[Godman]

One thing I couldn't understand was if Piccolo is meant to be this big powerful villain who will destroy Earth, why didn't he feel like a threat?

Not once did I think that Earth was in danger.

And Goku cheating when trying to light the candles with the Kamehameha. That is not Goku, Goku would never cheat! He would keep on trying and trying until he mastered the attack. But in the film why is it when Chi Chi appears Goku can perform the Kamehameha all of a sudden without any problems?!

I knew this film wasn't going to be good but I thought that there may have been some parts which would be enjoyable. There could be some great fight scenes and money shots but I was wrong. This film failed on everything!

I am still hoping that there will be an actual faithful live action film of Dragonball which has a dedicated director, cast, writer and studio behind it.

I second that...Wachowskis maybe?

 

[Godman]

I'm not a big Dragonball fan, but I thought this movie was easily enjoyable.

Dragonball was created in Japan, or whatever(I don't know, and I could care less if I did), and the acting was just like in the cartoons: over-acting and also underwhelming.

It was, easily, just seeing a cartoon as a movie. That's why it was enjoyable.

And much like Transformers, it was a fun ride. Both movies had plots that could give you a headache, but still. Fun to watch.

I give it a 7/10.

no matter how much u may or may not have enjoyed Transformers...It is by FAR not in the same league as DBE. Transformers was a MASTERPIECE compared to this...lol. This is by far one of the worst adaptations I have ever watched in my life. And I have watched Batman and Robin, but THIS????? YUK!!!!!