This, and the overuse of CGI, shitty sound effects and wire work. I'm not really a fan of any anime but when I heard this movie was coming out I decided to look up some info so I would know what the fuck this is supposed to be and from my little understanding.. Didn't some guy like Piccolo make the Dragonballs not monks at a temple? And did he always have an airship, I thought Goku could fly and stuff?

At least it has some a couple of good looking woman in it.

It was Piccolo/Kami who made the dragonballs I'm pretty sure, but in a one shot movie like this, I can understand why they changed it, because it's a little too overcomplicated of a story to say that Piccolo made the dragonballs, split in two and then had a kid or however that goes.

Honestly there are so many things done very poorly that I don't think there is anyone happy with it. The people who enjoy Dragonball will probably not enjoy this, and the people who enjoy this probably wouldn't enjoy the real Dragonball. It kind of depresses me really.


They changed the name to Dragon Ball: Evoltion, if nobody had heard. I think it's a last ditch attempt to apologize for being completely unfaithful.

If you visit ANY site dedicated to this movie you will find that we are REALLY FUCKING EXCITED. There's a bunch of tiny shit that I'm not going to bother explaining, but one way or the other, for the most part, it is staying true to the general idea behind the story. But, being honest, you'd have to be a pretty hard fan to know how it correlates.

Oh my god, that trailer was embarrassing.

I would've preferred if they had done this in the 80's and Schwarzenegger would have played Goku and Stallone would have played Vegeta.

You guys do realise that they have a Dragonball Z sequel planned, right?

I so hope they do the Over 9000 in the sequel, that would be hilarious.

You guys do realise that they have a Dragonball Z sequel planned, right?

I so hope they do the Over 9000 in the sequel, that would be hilarious.

I don't think this is true, do you have a src?


If it IS true, then boy are they in for a surprise when budgeting comes around!

Well, it WAS true.

I was on wikipedia when I posted that, on Justin Chatwins page, and it had his upcoming movie or something as

Dragonball: Evolution  (2009)
Dragonball Z (2011)

but for some reason it's been changed.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure that's where I saw it.

Wikipedia isn't the most trustworthy source out there.

Movies will always be geared towards the youth - and since the youth has no super strong attachment to the series, they'll take liberties. Sticking the franchise name on it was simply to build hype.

It'll probably be okay, something to see once and get pumped for all the action. It's just silly to pick it apart and see how badly it violates cannon.

Wikipedia isn't the most trustworthy source out there.

Ya, I know that. I'm just saying, that it was up there. Also, Tau just confirmed that Chatwin signed for two sequels so who knows?

I honestly don't think the trailer looks bad. It does look like a generic summer movie, but it's not the WORST LOOKING MOVIE EVER that some of you are making it seem. It's clear some money was put into the project, the CGI scenes look great to me.

My shitty taste in movies aside.....this movie is based off of a stupid, over the top, ridiculous Japanese anime, and Dragon Ball no less, the poster child for stupid, ridiculous, over the top Japanese anime. What were you expecting? The trailer would look MUCH WORSE if it was 100% faithful to the anime, which, from my memory, was largely pretty bad (endless series of episodes with absolutely nothing happening).

The movie definitely looks like Transformers mixed with random kung fu, but other than that, I don't see what the outrage is about.

I honestly don't think the trailer looks bad. It does look like a generic summer movie, but it's not the WORST LOOKING MOVIE EVER that some of you are making it seem. It's clear some money was put into the project, the CGI scenes look great to me.

My shitty taste in movies aside.....this movie is based off of a stupid, over the top, ridiculous Japanese anime, and Dragon Ball no less, the poster child for stupid, ridiculous, over the top Japanese anime. What were you expecting? The trailer would look MUCH WORSE if it was 100% faithful to the anime, which, from my memory, was largely pretty bad (endless series of episodes with absolutely nothing happening).

The movie definitely looks like Transformers mixed with random kung fu, but other than that, I don't see what the outrage is about.

I disagree! I don't see any reason they couldn't have cast a younger actor, and given it the playful feel the original Dragonball. IMO, the problem here is that the American audience saw Dragonball Z before Dragonball, and a lot of the people who watched Dragonball Z still don't know about Dragonball!
This movie obviously caters more to Dragonball Z fans, and in an attempt to target a larger audience, they had to mix and match parts of both. Speed Racer is good example of how this could be done a lot better, not that Speed Racer was so great. It was family friendly, and had violence, and adult/child humor.
Really, nobody can say much since it's not out, but things that have already been announced, like Master Roshi's character, could've been done perfectly well without alteration.

man I'm pretty sure this enitre topic is people saying this movie is shit and then getting off topic entirely because this movie isn't worth a shit to even talk about.

*lets argue about arguing about dragon ball because its too fucking dumb to talk about directly

Is this a joke? Cause I think Steel and Esh had an argument about this like halfway up the page.