The FIRST review of Dragonball Evolution - Real or Fake?

The FIRST review of Dragonball Evolution - Real or Fake?

The first review of dragon ball evolution real or fake???

Review Opinion
By AVEN - Mar 06, 2009 08:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Dragonball Evolution

Dragonball Evolution Review
By Sebastian Loh, on 06-03-2009 15:09

Dragonball Evolution is what you get when you try to forcefully crossbreed Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, The Karate Kid, and The Lord of the Rings. Predictably, the resulting offspring of this supremely unholy union would either have to avoid mirrors for the rest of their lives or gouge out their own eyes. Fireballs coalesce through hand movements and then fly across the screen, check! The central villain is a campy green and his Asian American henchwoman is always dressed in a sort of catsuit, check! Asian American old man tutors his young, neophyte white grandson about believing in himself and fanciful notions of "ki", check! And the main protagonist experiences relevationary visions whenever he fondles the main plot device and must prevent it from falling into the hands of an apocalypse-bringing villain, check! The point is we've seen all this before and we (at least those among us with thinking heads) weren't particularly impressed the first time (the exception being that bit from The Lord of the Rings, of course).

What's baffling is that Dragonball Evolution insists on regurgitating all of that on us along with with criminally amateurish acting. Performances swing from wooden to campy and back, perhaps indicative that the actors too are clueless about the plot material. Based on the exceedingly popular manga series of the same name, the film is set in... well honestly, I don't have a freaking clue. It was never explained. Goku's high school is typically American in the present day; indeed most of the film's characters have American accents. But then he (Goku) and his group of adventurers travel by motorcycle to nearby locations (the film appears to cover the timespan of a few days) with decidedly Oriental names.

Ultimately, the plot is wildly implausible, confused and vague. Having not read the original manga series, I can only hope (for the sake of its readers) that the film is an abberant deviation. If you want to catch a quality comic book film, I'd suggest you pick Watchmen (read our review here). If you've already watched it, 10 bucks spent on Dragonball Evolution is still far better spent watching Watchmen again (no pun intended). Then again, it might be worth it (if you want a good laugh) to see Chow Yun-Fat (who plays Goku's teacher, Master Roshi) say, "Believe it, you punk! You are getting your clock cleaned!"

Rating: 1/5 stars

Original link: http://voize.my/index.php?option=com...552&Itemid=108

Fake or real???, what dou you think???
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Talontd
Talontd - 3/6/2009, 9:36 PM
I think this guy saw the latest trailers and was as dissapointed as I was.
AVEN
AVEN - 3/6/2009, 10:32 PM
yeah is a big possibility
Betty
Betty - 3/6/2009, 10:44 PM
real
Doritos
Doritos - 3/7/2009, 5:31 AM
The 1st PRE screening will start on 10th march, but of course any hater will do their best, they are immature, and in case you dont believe me, visite this site and see it for youself, http://db-lam-protest.forumotion.com/ , see how they say "dont forget to 1/5 stars on X video", or "dont forget to spread the bad word", even if the scene/movie itself is not THAT bad as anyone is saying, they'll bash it, like NOOBmike,grif, etc, so yeah, watch the damn thing, by paying or bootleg i dont care, but dont change ur mind over random opinions, make ur own.
spanky
spanky - 3/7/2009, 7:23 AM
some people don't like to hear the truth at all.
take for what's its worth, and move on.
db is not ever going to live up to the anime series
not even del torro can make this movie what it should heck not even, ang lee. lol
spanky
spanky - 3/7/2009, 7:23 AM
some people don't like to hear the truth at all.
take for what's its worth, and move on.
db is not ever going to live up to the anime series
not even del torro can make this movie what it should heck not even, ang lee. lol
OriginalPhysco
OriginalPhysco - 3/7/2009, 9:44 AM
You SHITY [frick]BACKERS, haters
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/7/2009, 11:34 AM
Sounds about how it looks to me..but whatever
crappybumbum
crappybumbum - 3/7/2009, 1:00 PM
heh
if this is real or fake, Idt another director would be able to bring this movie as much justice as this movie did. Idt no one can do it better than this movie, whether it turns out good or bad...
Betty
Betty - 3/7/2009, 3:42 PM
what is [frick]BACKERS?
CrookedJaw
CrookedJaw - 3/7/2009, 4:23 PM
not suprised...this movie looks pretty terrible
imandrew
imandrew - 3/7/2009, 4:32 PM
I have to say that I agree that this looks like another Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter. But you know what, cheesy and stupid as those movies are, I own them both and I enjoy watching them. This movie will probably suck butt because they are trying to do too much with too little, but it will have a big release and probably have pretty good holiday sales due to the title alone. I don't expect much but knowing me I will probably still have a place for it somewhere in my DVD collection.
SoulAllFlush
SoulAllFlush - 3/7/2009, 4:35 PM
I like how some people are calling others 'haters' for prematurely judging this film with cynicism and pessimism. It would take a blinding level of optimism to think this film will be any good.

saying that, some people even now still defend the film Eragon. Strangeness.
JINXS5150
JINXS5150 - 3/7/2009, 6:07 PM
I belive it's a real review but then again whats real.. but HEY HAS ANYONE HEARD ABOUT THE PROTEST MOVEMENT ON THIS MOVIE THEY GOT GOING ON IN(((YOUTUBE.COM))))
OriginalPhysco
OriginalPhysco - 3/7/2009, 6:32 PM
@Betty, [frick]BAKERS Its discusting and illegal
Supermike
Supermike - 3/7/2009, 7:54 PM
See this is why the movie should of been done in Cartoon from
TheMyth
TheMyth - 3/8/2009, 1:34 AM
This should have been done in a similar fashion to TMNT in quality... not character models.
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/8/2009, 11:19 AM
i doubt that is real. all he did was watch all the footage and the behind the scenes stuff that was put up here and dbthemovie.com and decided that is what the movie is about, the person didn't say nothing about the actual plot, didn't have any spoilers, and only talked about the dialouge from a scene thats already on the internet, WHOO HOO! good job kid. also it's dragonball, of course its like the karate kid and the lord of the rings. everything takes from each other and in the imortal words of the Barenaked Ladies "it's all been done". my personal opinion watch the movie before you try to slag on it.

Epic Fail!
mativ16
mativ16 - 3/8/2009, 11:46 AM
This movie is gonna suck!
Raphael193
Raphael193 - 3/8/2009, 2:49 PM
I saw a clip of Vegeta and Nappa at the end. Seems a sequel is already greenlighted!!
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 3/8/2009, 3:05 PM
CorneliusLow hit the nail on the head this is fake as hell. I especially like the part where he/she says its a mix of Power Rangers, LOTR, Karate Kid and Mortal kombat. That's how I would describe the anime yet they claim to have never seen it before.
Osiris
Osiris - 3/8/2009, 7:15 PM
this is prob fake the only quote used is from the recently released footage.

I never listen to reviews anyways because I'm not a sheep and follow the flock I have my own opinion on things and if i like it then i like it i don't care what anyone else thinks, which is why i kinda liked street fighter, a lot of ppl hated it but minus the back stories of Chun Li, Rose and Charlie being changed and Vega only getting 40sec of screen time it isn't that bad, hopefully if they attempt it again they will do better on the back stories cause i know tons of ppl will be furious if they mess up Ryu and Ken, Im a huge SF fan but as long as it is entertaining i wont care, and the same goes for DB i have been a fan since b4 Fanimation took over for the anime and as long as this movie is entertaining then i will like it.

btw from most of the post i have read on this site show a lot of you are sheep, not as bad as superherohype.com or comingsoon.net but i have noticed barley any of you have your own opinion you just go off of what everyone else says and pretend that is what you think.
JeremyBentham
JeremyBentham - 3/8/2009, 9:16 PM
it doesn't really take an authentic review to know that the film will be as bad as this guy writes
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2009, 6:33 AM
Or maybe Osiris..just maybe...they actually think similarly! I mean i never read any reviews before watching Street Fighter but low and behold most of them agree with me that it was a steaming pile of horse shit! I guess they were just copying from me and "pretending" its what they though huh?
Shaman
Shaman - 3/9/2009, 6:56 AM
Osiris, by labeling everybody "sheep", you're making a sheep of yourself by following anybody else with the same opinion as yours. Why is it so difficult to accept that great minds do think alike. Because they have a different opinion than yours? Making your own opinion differ from the majority's despite common sense and logic is even more pathetic than to be labeled sheep. Now I, on the other hand, don't think that of you personaly and i accept your opinion even though it differs from mine or everybody else's. Is that to big of a feat for you to accomplish?

As for the reason why there are so many haters of DBE, it is the very same reason why there are so many haters of SF: legend of Chun-Li. If you take the upcoming Star Trek movie and the Watchmen's movie, why do you logically think more people are willing to back these movies than the previous two i mentioned? There are only two possible reasons behind it. 1- DBE sucks and the producers have nothing to work with to make this movie appealing. 2- The producers suck and couldn't sell cake to sally sthruthers if they're very lives depended on it. Either way, we haven't SEEN anything yet to make us remotely "psyched" about DBE or SF which goes against the very concept of "ads". Watchmen succeeded to sell they're movie and Star Trek are succeeding as we speak so why the hell wouldn't DBE be able to??? I mean, what is the majority (you know, the people you call "sheep") left to think of this movie when all we're given as "samples" of this movie are little pieces of shit with a toothpic stuck in them??? LOGICALLY, outcome #1 comes to mind on it's own. We don't need anyone else's thoughts on the matter to figure that one out. Beh-eh-eh-eh-eh!!!!!

And before you think i'm a sheep following Roarschach01, i wrote my post before his appeared on the page... beh-eh-eh!
Osiris
Osiris - 3/9/2009, 11:39 AM
i said a lot of ppl not everyone, Ror and Shaman you two are not counted in, from all the posts i have read of yours and the discussions i have had w/ you two i can tell you don't just follow everyone else, also by responding to what i said without raging at it indicates that you are intelligent enough not to follow the flock and you have your own train of thought(anger and rage reduce brain function, making you dumber, proven fact)
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/9/2009, 11:49 AM
how do you even know that DBE is going to suck? because that is your opinion and we all respect that but to shoot down a movie because 1. you don't like the anime or 2. the movie is different from the anime then you really have no clue what you're talking about. I've been a dragonball fan since the manga and let me tell you something everytime i play a new video game or something it ends up being the same exact story that I've witnessed over the past 20 years dragonball has been out. When i bought budokai i was excited for a dragonball game. Then budokai 2 came out and wait... i still have to fight raditz at the begining? umm... ok atleast the inproved the graphics and gameplay. Then Budokai 3 came and i was like nice 30 new characters and new story... um no i was wrong it was the same shit in a different package. Do you get what i'm saying. Would you really wanna watch a half assed sayin saga again and again and again? or do you really wanna see an 8 year old goku flippin his dick out at bulma for the 1005877372 time? no you dont. So you think you know all about what makes a good movie good. I think the amount of liberty that they took for DBE is a good step because i'm tierd of the cartoon movies where everything is the same style they are using old animation cells to save a buck and all the god damn 40 minute scream fests! This movie boasts more action and more story in the 1:30 minutes than three episodes of DBZ ever could. and the reason why the new SF movie sucked is because no one cares for chun li. the actress looks nothing like chun li and it should've revolved around Ryu and should have been titled. Street Fighter: Legend of the Hadou.

Anyway back to my point if you dont like this anime or film then all the people that do like it don't want to hear you nit pick everything that you don't like, cause all you're going to do is waste your breath and die tierd


Epic Win for me
Shaman
Shaman - 3/9/2009, 12:33 PM
Good point Osiris.

CorneliusLow- Where you get your ideas that we hate the anime is honestly beyond me. I loved the animes, i loved the Video Games especially "Dragonball Z Sagas" for PS2 and i "would've" loved for them to make a good looking movie adaptation out of this. But that's clearly not the case. We're not saying that the movie WILL suck, where saying that what has been shown of it to this date does. When you make a fantasy/martial arts movie based on character driven concepts already established but you make the effects look fake, the fighting look even more fake and that the actors know jack shit and don't give a damn about the roles that they play, you get something like Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li. And honestly, so far, DBE doesn't look any better. If you take the new Star Trek movie for example, that concept is totally over the hill and has even more chances of failing than DBE... but why does it look better??? Obviously because they were able to make a decent movie out of it and have that shown in the trailers unlike DBE. Both movies here had the potential to be campy teen crap but Star Trek did a great production job where as DBE failled... so far. If DBE blew our minds from the beginning with stunning trailers and tv spots, we would be on the same page but the reality is that they are trying to sell us crap and it's just not working. So stop being angry at us for having a different opinion than yours and get angry at Fox for giving us nothing but shit.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 3/9/2009, 12:33 PM
CorneliusLow for President!!!
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/9/2009, 12:51 PM
why are you even talking about star trek! Star Trek sucks and the movie will suck and i'm boycotting it! STAR WARS for life! i never said that you hated anime it was a generalization about those who dont understand why they made the changes they did? And why would you say that it's campy teen shit? because Goku goes to high school? Thats like saying that the spider-man movies are on the same lines a 90210! And no the movie doesn't look campy. you want to see campy watch batman with adam west or watch friday the 13th 5, now that is some campy shit. and so what if they took liberties with the way the fighting looks and the energy blasts look? atleast they are making an effort and in my opinion it don't look half bad. So just becuase you think the movie will suck then it automatically means that it will? i doubt that. I'm going opening day, and then if it sucks i'll come on this page and personally say you were right, but as of right now stop comparing something as awesome a dragonball to Star Trek.

Goku > Cpt. Kirk

epic win for me
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/9/2009, 12:54 PM
besides the actors know more about the shit than you prolly do. Producers make them learn about all they need to know about the subject. thats what they did for michael bay and transformers kicked ass! its what they do so dont make assumptions about stuff you dont know about. it makes you look silly, You're basically saying that Hugh Jackman knew everything about wolverine when he got cast in X-Men.

you lose.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2009, 1:21 PM
CorneliusLow please stop with the epic win/fail shite, it makes you seem about 12 years old. Unless of course you are 12 then carry on! Im obviously not down with the yoof talk

Anyway, Chun Li movie sucked because it was crap..the acting was crap, the script was crap, the story was crap, the direction was crap, the fight scenes were crap..you get the gist. It could have been half decent if they got a cast and a director worth 2 shits..even though i agree a Ryu movie would have been a better starting point, with the that crowd of monkeys at the helm it would have turned out just as bad regardless.

As far as Dragonball goes, im not a fan of the Anime at all but from an outsiders perspective it just does not look very good. Its that simple. Regardless of the changes it made, what color Piccolos penis is! It doesnt look like its a very well made movie. That being said you cant judge (too much) from a trailer so i hope im wrong

And why cant you like Star trek and Wars? i do!..aside from the horrific prequels
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2009, 1:22 PM
Oh and Osiris, my bad i thought you were talking about moi!
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/9/2009, 1:40 PM
no not twelve i'm twenty-three and i'm sure that i can talk better than half the people that signed up to this site. i choose not to cause who am i trying to impress? not you Rorshach... oh yeah btw nice original screen name man. and for the star trek comment, you can but star trek sucks if you like looking at William Shatner in a tight foam body suit than thats your prerogative. I don't believe in the prequels they were horrific

back to the point. Who am I trying to impress with what I say? Nobody, just wanted to let you know that and whats with the joker make up? are you 12?

get my point when you make comments like that you look like an ass. hope we can be friends
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2009, 1:58 PM
Lol, i knew that screen name would come back to haunt me when the movie came out! Iv been using it for years but what can ye do.

As for my Joker make up..well i was at a fancy dress party..its called having fun..i didnt realize you had to be 12 to do that but ill take it under advisement.

And i never suggested you were trying to impress anyone, merely making a statement but its yours to take or leave.

EPIC WIN!!!!;)
Shaman
Shaman - 3/9/2009, 1:58 PM
Dude, that was exactly my point! Star Trek sucks and yet THEY were able to make something that actually looks good from it. Where as DBE took something that looked good from the beginning and made crap with it. In my book, that's a valid comparisson!!! And yes Spider-man is campy, he should be an adult by now. He's Peter Parker but he acts like [frick]in' Peter Pan!!! After watching Spiderman3 you don't think it looked like 90210??? I sure felt it did.

As for actors "knowing" of they're characters, learning about the character half an hour before the shoot doesn't make you an expert. Not everybody is as professionnal as Hugh Jackman and goes the extra mile in "living" they're role. Aside from costumes, none of the characters we've seen, bear a single similarity with the original character traits.

And as for the effects, you feel that "at least they made an effort"??? With our technology, there shouldn't be a need for "effort"! We've passed the "trial and error" stage, the very fact that they're effects suck in our day and age makes it even more pathetic. It's like having sex, it's not something you get "worse" at. I don't give a shit about liberties but at least make it look decent! Look at all the liberties they took with Wolverine's movie, at the very least it looks great!!!

I mean, what precicely makes you feel that it looks like a good movie right now? Is it just because it's "Dragonball"??? Would you just go see ANYTHING labeled "dragonball"??? I mean i'm a big THUNDERCATS fan but i'll be man enough to admit it if the trailer sucks ass!!!
CorneliusLow
CorneliusLow - 3/9/2009, 2:15 PM
@ Rorschach01

the make up is groovy man i was just making a point and i'm glad that you are mature enough to see that and not blow it up and create some gay internet drama. Dude the whole Epic win thing is my personal catch phrase as well as Groovy. but yeah man just wanted to get a point across

@ Shaman

i understand that but you can't ask much from the opening movie you just take it for what it's worth and enjoy the ride. If they decided not to make a DB movie people would complain and say why aren't they making this awesome creation into a movie? But they did and now even more are complaining and it is personally annoying me. i was one of the people saying why isn't this a movie? and now they made it and i'm glad. but it's still the first of the series and it can only get better.

look at Spidey - it was cool but something didn't fit (the green power ranger on his glider that wasn't ever shaped like a bat)

X-men - The characters were cool but the story was lacking a little (and no gambit?)

F4 - not good in the slightest (why was Jessica Alba Sue Storm? she's not even a blonde and dying her hair blonde only worsened the situation.

but the sequels built on what they already had and all the inroductions for the characters were set so they were able to get into the action faster. In DBE they are introducing all the main characters they are going to be using for multiple movies at once so of course it's all gonna look weird from the trailers you saw and they are trying to make it so every kind of audience can understand. that's the main point. And i already told you why i think that the movie is good. they good rid of a lot of silly shit. no more talking animals, no more 5 episode scream fests, no bald midgets pussing out every 10 minutes, and it's a completely brand new story. it could have been called "Wish Spheres" and i still would go see it. because it looks entertaining and it's people like you that make it hard for new fresh ideas to come to life because all you do is bitch if one thing is different. if you dont like it then you say "i dont like it". you don't continue an argument that you are never going to win because in the long run all the points you are making are weak, and no i wouldn't see a thundercats movie either because it's going to be 7 dudes jumping around in their tight ass underwear. Shit was homo enough when it was a cartoon.
NoobMike
NoobMike - 3/9/2009, 7:32 PM
Sorry guys, work has been hectic.. haven't had time to post, let alone write my watchmen review.... but I just read this and had to post.

@CorneliusLow... you said

"Anyway, Chun Li movie sucked because it was crap..the acting was crap, the script was crap, the story was crap, the direction was crap, the fight scenes were crap..you get the gist. It could have been half decent if they got a cast and a director worth 2 shits..even though i agree a Ryu movie would have been a better starting point, with the that crowd of monkeys at the helm it would have turned out just as bad regardless."

Well... the director for DBE, is not particularly good I mean he made a fight with Jet Li look boring in The One, and Final destination 3 is just horrible, Final destination 1 is passable and I haven't seen the other movie he made, so that's more misses than hits. The actors... sad to say, but SF:LoCL had more professional actors, DBe has a Korean pop singer and a reality TV show "star", and out of all of them only Chow Yun Fat has any fighting ability, so......strike 2.....Add that it's produced by 20th century fox, the studio known to butcher and destroy any comic/game franchise to cross their path... well, needless to say the team behind it doesn't look good (I'm not even mentioning the writer who has just written one previous script, and nothing remotely entertaining). And enough with the "I want a new story" crap, you wont.. you'll get the nerdy kid in high school who loves the popular girl, she doesn't really want to be popular but she's sort of forced into it. The nerdy kid has someone close die, or gets a revelation (usually from an artifact or a dying relative) and he embarks on a journey to save the world (his family or his town), kill the bad guy and get the girl.... how many times have we seen it? I'm not complaining, I have loved some of those movies, but YOU ARE NOT SEEING A NEW STORY, the problem is... this time it's made of uncloged toilets and feeces diluted in them.

As for the production, I seriosuly don't see where the hell they spent the alleged 100 million dollar budget, no big name stars, no expensive locations, the production design looks cheap (look at some 2008 30 million dollar budget films and you'll see the exact same effects, if you look at 50 million they have better effects), the extras they are using are mexicans (they should be cheaper) and they aren't using that many. Seriously look at the trailers and the stuff released for X-men origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2, Star Trek, etc. Seems as though comparing robocop (yes the 80s one) to LOTR doesn't it?.

They used Stephen Chow as just a name to slap there (I think Akira toriyama too, but then there's the whole "Dragonball of a different dimension" that all the DBe fanboys think, means that he really wants to see it... he said he hopes it's good), he has said he had no say on anything done, and that's the reason he's not promoting it.

Add the fact of zero promoting it, that they are releasing it first in Malaysia, Thailand and China (the home of 80% of movie piracy), they haven't done prescreenings (always a sign that the studio is not confident with the product)... this movie has humongous flop splattered all over it, and I don't care how rabid the DBE fanboys are, that is just the truth.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/9/2009, 7:47 PM
noob, i hope this doesnt make your point any less valid or anything but it was me that said the stuff about Chun Li movie! lol

Now what did you think of Watchmen? And it better be that it was Frakkin Awesome!!
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 3/9/2009, 9:00 PM
Noobmike,
Those are moot points. Who paid any attention to Brian Singer before X-Men, or the Wachowski's before the Matrix? Yea they had movies before, but they weren't box office draws. I can't wait to see this movie because im a Dragonball fan, and it honestly doesn't look like the trainwreck you guys are making out to be. Really, judging just buy just what I've seen so far, this movie looks like its gonna be at least as good as the first X-Men film. I know thats not saying much because that movie came out 9 years ago, but I don't see anyone saying that movie sucked. I didn't know until you said that its the same director as The One, that actually gives me more hope for this movie.

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