DragonBall Z Evolution (review)

I know I am a year or so late from watching this movie but it largely due to what I have heard from people who have watched this: lets just say it wasn't pleasant. It took me many months to muster up courage and watch Hollywood's rendition of the cult classic manga DragonBall Z.

A little background info: I have always been a fan of Dragonball as long as I remember. I have collected ALL of the comics and wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Here I'd like to tell that my review of this movie would be honest because I know the comic like the back of my hand.

Now, I sat my with my mom last night and steeled myself to watch it.
For an excrutiating 2 hours or so.

The result is-wait for it- ABOMINATION. ABYSMAL. CATASTROPHE.

                               Pictured: A masterpiece of Epic Fail.

Can you rate a movie ZERO out of TEN? I sure want to.

I can write down a list of what was horribly wrong about this movie.

a) Goku was not an 18 year old teenager who goes to school. He was a 12 year old boy(at the beginning) who hunted for his meals in the wood, is an illiterate and didn't know the difference between a man and woman till much later. They made him too smart here. Goku was no smarter than a rock.

b) Chichi was not the popular girl in the school who hung out with the popular guy. She too, was around 12 years old when she met Goku and made him promise that he would come back to marry her. Goku never went after her like a sick puppy.

c) Bulma was not a multiple PHD holder. She was a 16 year old schoolgirl who happened to be a genius. She doesn't need all those degrees to prove she's smart. She did have a fleeting romance with Yamcha. With reminds me-

d) Yamcha was a street bandit(he is in the movie too). He was not, however, a blonde and he was not, ironically a 'ladies man'. Yamcha was scared to death of women till he met Bulma. And that too, took a while. Also, he did not meet Bulma in a hole in the middle of the road. She was hiding from a village mafia and happened to meet Yamcha in his trailer, with Goku of course.

e) Muten Roshi is a sleazy old man, perverted to the core. But HE DID NOT live in the big city slums with an underground apartment. He lived in a small island with a fucking turtle. He also did not behave as in if he was on acid 24-7.

f) Piccolo was not EVIL. He never was, just VERY misguided. His friendship with Goku had changed him into a better man. Also, he DID NOT wear a black cape black suit. He was wearing a white-purple combat suit! Goku was NEVER his reincarnated evil minion. The part of him changing into a were-gorilla was true but that was because he was a Saiyan not because he was a Namekian hitman.

g) Gohan, Goku's grandpa died of old age. No one killed him.

h) There were no Buddhist temple with Hindu incantations to trap Piccolo in. It was purely qi energy by those who have mastered the art of Ma Fu Ba.

h) Goku did not kill Picollo by toasting him with his qi energy. He used his head(literally) to headbutt directly to Piccolo's chest that caused his ribs to puncture his lungs. THAT'S how he died.

I) Goku took ONE FUCKING YEAR to learn Kame Hame Ha with KRILLIN in MASTER ROSHI'S HOUSE. Not in a Buddhist temple or in 7 days like the movie implied.

j) Now that I mentioned it: where the fuck is Krillin??? How did they leave out such an important character?

k) Akira Toriyama was the executive producer. A well-known eccentric: he prolly agreed to this film to see Hollywood getting Number 2 smeared on their faces. It must be on purpose. Why would he do this to his own comic? Stephen Chow have a lot answering to do.


This movie sucked ass. I am never watching it again. Torture, that's what it will be.
To make a Dragonball live-action movie was too ambitious. There was too much to consider: the costume being number one. How are they gonna handle the bizarre hairstyle of Goku?
Next, the character: who will they cast? Can you really find a living person that resembled the anime characters??? Watching the movie, the racial tension was to apparent.
They need to think about a lot character and the story sequence. There were many important part in the comics that were left out in the movie. It's was blasphemy. And from Book 1 to 10 alone there were already about 100 characters introduced: both major and monir alike. They left out so much of DBZ that this movie looked more like a SPOOF of DBZ.

Dont watch this movie of you're a DBZ fan, please. You will walk away, your soul polluted.

Spoiler:
Even if you did watch this movie, there's only one person worth giving credit too. It's the guy acting as Piccolo, James Marsters. Though his overall appearance could only sum up to 30 minutes he was still the best character.