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Since 2002, me and many other Dragonball fans around the world have feverishly anticipated the release of a live action adaptation of one of the most beloved anime franchises the world over. Sadly, Dragonball Evolution is perhaps one of the worst movies I have ever laid my eyes on. Not only is this movie a wretched failure from a "fan" point of view since I am a fan of the material, but also as someone who loves and watches movies, and pays attention to Hollywood. Within the last two years, we have seen some truely great films including. The Dark Knight, Iron Man, No Country for Old Men, Transformers, There Will Be Blood, Slumdog Millionaire, and many many more that would take up too much of this review. With Dragonball Evolution, it takes all of the high calbur oscar-worthy/winning acting, and high grade special effects and production values, and pretty much takes it out with one destructive "air-bending" Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Ha(a little inside joke on the movie). The movie is so out of touch with its source material, this movie can hardly be called "Dragonball". Outside of name-sake(or Marque value) such as Dragonballs, Goku, Bulma, Yamcha, Shenlong, Ma-fu-ba(sealing technique for Piccolo), Piccolo, Grampa Gohan, Mai, Chi Chi, Master Roshi, Oozaru, and the Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Ha. This movie has next to nothing to do with the original story and characters. Even if I was not a fan of the Dragoball series, and did'nt know what it was, I still would have found this movie attrociously bad. The movie has so many problems, it's hard to list them all, because some just don't make any sense, or they are so confusing, it's really hard to put any of the movie into a coherent perspective. I'll start with the performances of the actors. Simply put, Abysmal. They deliver pointless dialogue, have pointless scenes, no chemistry outside of boy-like-girl love interest, and lets you know you're watching a bad movie and nothing else. The actors are either un-interesting, extremely campy, or the dialogue is so horrendous you just cringe at it. You would think with an actor like Chow Yun Fat on board, this movie would have some deceny to it. But sadly no, his performance may be one of the worst of his career. Goku(Justin Chatwin) is beyond un-compelling. He's just anger inducing to see him portray Goku in such poor character. Lusting after girls affections, wanting popularity, picked on by bullies for no reasonable explanation. Gag me with a spoon. The story makes little sense. 2,000 years ago, Piccolo with his disciple the "Oozaru"(that's right, not even calling him a "Saiyan") tried to destroy/take over the world but was thwarted by monks and Piccolo was sealed away. Without any explanation, Piccolo is free from his prison, has Mai(his hench-woman) at his side(who by the way has no back story to explain how/why she's with him), he's in an air-ship. And we are given no explanation throughout the film on his full intentions, or anything else relating to his character. Also, he has the shortest amount of screentime of the movie, totaling 5 scenes. Meanwhile Goku is turing 18, gets a dragonball from Gohan, and Goku is somehow involved this cliched prophecy with an eclipse that relates to Piccolo wanting to destroy/take over the world for no reason what so ever. Later on with the final battle of the film is where the continuity of the film throws its hands in the air and walks away from the movie. Piccolo is somehow able to control the "Oozaru" side of Goku, and that Goku is the "Oozaru" from 2,000 years ago who served Piccolo. There's absolutely no explanation at all as to how Piccolo is manipulating Gokus transformation, or how he even knows that he's a Sayain. Or if Goku is the Oozaru, then what the heck is going on? And if Goku is 18, then how was he alive 2000 years ago serving Piccolo? It's a total mind meltdown. The movie is just full of continuity problems that plague the film from the main plot, to the character sub-plots that amount to absolutely nothing and have no sort of resolution. The special effects are horridly done, there's so much wire work you could swear they worked in a circus. And it's just a completely un-interesting film. The acting is laughable and completely unbelieveable in any sense, the fighting and special effects are poorly done and look unconvincing, and overall boring. The story and plots are poorly written, confusing, and even leave a fan of the series like myself, completely lost in the continuity issues that plague this film. This is easily one of the worst films FOX Studios has ever produced based on a major worldwide franchise. Do not buy this movie, it is a waste of time, and a complete disgrace to the series many fans know and love. But this is also an insult to people wanting to see a good movie, you're going to have to look elsewhere because this movie has no entertainment value to speak of. Overall, this movie is about as cliche as you can possibly get by ripping off of better movies like Spiderman and the Matrix, but also being totally un-original, and just making no sense what so ever with its story, characters, and relating to the Dragonball series.

This movie is as horrible as any movie can get. Being a fan of the Dragonball source material, this movie dissapointed me and many others, and even left those who were unfamiliar with the Dragonball story with a feeling of "Huh?". The major problem of the movie is how convoluted and incosistent the story is that leaves no explanation on what happened in critical parts. There is no explanation for how Piccolo returned after he was imprisoned 2,000 years earlier, what happened to Piccolo's servant "Oozaru", why Goku is inherently the "Oozaru" from 2,000 years ago yet is 18 at the movie's start, and why Goku is being bullied at school with the bullies calling him "Gecko". "Huh?" Exactly. The movie is heavily cliche'd at every single corner the story turns. FOX basically took the "High School Drama" element from Transformers and tried to mash it up with a very low budget Kung-Fu movie mixed in with a bit of uninspired storytelling. Overall, if you're familiar with the Dragonball anime or manga, this movie isn't for you. If you're unfamiliar with Dragonball period and are just looking for a good, fun, entertaining movie, this isn't for you either. The director and story writer absolutely did not know who to aim this movie for and fails on both counts.

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 by adding "Z Edition" to make it seem like the DVD has more to offer than the movie. What a rip off! I wouldn't even pick this DVD up in the $1 bin at the local mart.

ohh my god please the only thing you would do if you buy this movie is loose your money and lose an hour and a half of your life this movie is horrible