Comments on: Dragonball: Evolution – What Did You Think?

By: shenlong

shenlong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:39:02 +0000

look i think this movie rocked granted it had much more potential but for what it was i loved it if they do another one heres a suggestion MORE AND LONGER FIGHTS that was my ONLY issue

By: SuperTunks

SuperTunks — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:36:44 +0000

honest thought.
it SUCKED !!!!
i was disappointed completely with the way it turned out, as some others said in their responses, its just another american kung fu wanna be gone all wrong!
Goku’s character didnt fit into the anime personality at all, but i have to say master roshi was my favorite through out the movie, but i dont see why goku didn’t have his tail??
or why if it is suppose to hold the name “DRAGONBALL”. why is goku a teen? he should be at the age of a toddler.

well anyways, the movie writer or whoever, should have done more research on this anime.

lets hope if they do plan on coming out with part 2, they get it right, and better. if not, they should consider leaving good animes alone

By: Brolly

Brolly — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:55:55 +0000

I have seen the anime more than 8times…all of it db,dbz,and dbgt…I dont blame them the did a cheap job….well there were changes for example the Eternal dragon made by the guardian of the earth kami…Dragonball’s are made from the namek’s..ozaru is a monster that each saiyan can transform to if he has a tail and the pluswaves from the moon or from artificial ways like Vegeta did to the fight with goku….Eternal dragon wasnt like the anime at all…it wasnt a giant green dragon with the endless tail..and ozaru was more like king kong,at anime ozaru was way bigger that this one…anyway…When i saw that the movie will be rebooted i was happy but not for long..the think i realised was that they didnt respected dragonball by making such a short and senseless movie… the movie was like it was incomplete…Dont mention the KI waves…the kamehameha wasnt nothing like the anime..anyway…For me the best of all was Master roshi, pervented as always.Goku at anime never tried to impress someone..The only thing he was interested with was with food and fighting…

By: Hana

Hana — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:43:22 +0000

Honestly even thou I haven’t watched or read the entire series yet,I can say this much about it.Not original at all,just looks like a typical american-like action,kung-fu movie gone wrong.

The fun and freshness of the characters dissapeared only leaving things like: Muten Roshi; weak looking perverted old man in casual clothing with massive power and fighting knowledge, turned into a clichÃ© wise looking martial-arts master. Son Goku; naÃ¯ve peace-making,food loving monkey boy who looks harmless but is one heck of fighter turned boring unpopular teenager who becomes a super-hero a la Spider Man. Bulma; a fiery arrogant smart and skilled technology expert turned into a pretty girl with brains,a tad boring I suppose. Chichi; a complaining house-wife who cares for her son a bit more than for her carefree husband (haha it just seems like that)with her fighting skills replaced for cooking and cleaning turned into a hot kung-fu babe. Yamcha a rough looking bandit who for me has a funny side as well and is a pretty relaxed dude,turned into a handsome muscled gangster looking type who looks more serious than the actual character. Not to mention that Akira Toriyama’s original work has more creativity and thought to it.

Such a shameless poor attempt of a movie which only goal was to perhaps make more money out of an already hugely popular anime. It looks more like a parody than an actual effort of spicing up the good ol’ anime series and bringing it to modern times.

No offense to the people who already watched it and liked it.

By: Hana

Hana — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:01:39 +0000

Okay I know I haven’t seen every episode of Dragon Ball yet and I don’t every have every manga but I do know this from looking at the information giving on this site that this is a movie I won’t like at all. I’m not a big fan of all the fancy stuff put into this movie. And how the characters are presented I don’t like much either. Okay maybe they wanted to spice up the good ol’ anime but please not some american made action movie,this series is much more than that. It doesn’t look original at all. And where’s the humor all the characters look so serious. My thought about the cast: Roshi-sama looks like the typical martial arts master and Goku like your average unpopular teenager turned into super-hero (reminds me way too much of superman or spiderman). Sure Bulma doesn’t look like arrogant spoiled brat and Chichi like a nagging woman,still I kinda liked them that way. Akira Toriyama made a great series which I thought was very creative but to see it turned into this disaster,oh my. Just failed

By: lozers_101

lozers_101 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:01:35 +0000

OKay, first off I havent seen it.. just seen a few clips..
I understand that everyone who hates this movie mainly hates it because its not entirely true to the show, but you have to look at it this way. They have to make it modern, and thats a hard thing to do. You want to be able to reach out to the non DB fans also. I hope they make a sequel just for the sake of knowing what it would be like to have the whole series looked at as a live action movie. Everyone loves a Batman movie right? But then again.. some arent so great. Theirs so many of them now you can choose which one you like best.. I say let them make as many movies as they want of dragonball.. that just gives someone else a platform to make one even better. So yes I would love for them to make as many movies as they want. Even though I havent seen this movie yet.. when I do i’ll know that its not the same as my fav. child hood show… but I know they made it for the fans and thats what counts… I hope to see multiple movies put out for this franchise. It just makes it stronger

By: Per (from denmark)

Per (from denmark) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:14:52 +0000

i loved the movie, hopeing you make a dragonball Z soon make the raditz or nappa and vegeta fight, that would be something everyone would want to see, i was surprised by some things in this movie there were alot more KI then i expected cause i know about the budget, but one thing i hated was the way goku made a Kamehameha wave your actor needs to see a lillte more dbz he should learn the fulle move and say it right, that would blow heads of, and you could have cut oozaru our cause you didn’t make him very good and he wasn’t that big like in the normal dragon ball,, but despite that great movie and it suprised me.

thumps up from me (:

By: Ange

Ange — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:26:06 +0000

…I just watched it.
It’s HORRIBLE.
Everything is just… not right. What the hell is with Goku and all this angst, all this EMO-iness? Goku was happy-go-lucky all the time. I can’t recognise Goku in him AT ALL.
Bulma was too sexy in my opinion. Of course, Bulma is sexy, ok, it’s fine she is sexy. But she was also a very immature girl. And all we have here is sex sex sex. And Yamcha? My god, he didn’t fight at all. And I loved his Roga Fu Fu Ken in anime. What a let down.
The only good character here was Piccolo. Really. And maybe Goku’s grandpa, Gohan. Roshi had his moments but…
…yes, the whole movie just sucked. Why? Because it was TOO SERIOUS. It was full of teen drama, endoftheworld drama and so on. And Dragon Ball, if anything, is COMEDY. I laughed maybe once there. And all this ‘meeting Gohan on the other side’ and Chatwin who smiled like Goku TWO TIMES (I don’t count these ‘almostsmiles’ who are just to reassure but cange quickly into a sad face, which seem to be a trademark smile of Chatwin) was just… too much. And all this Oozaru being a servant of Piccolo… what the hell.
Graphic was not really good but I wouldn’t complain if the movie had a good story. But it hadn’t and it only adds to my dissappointment. Sincerely, I wish they’d change all actors beside Roshi and Piccolo and make it a happy-go-lucky comedy, even if the Saiyan Saga lacks a bit of a DB feeling of it somewhat. Kuririn, I miss you so much.
I don’t dare to think what would they do of Raditz or Vegeta. I just… don’t.
And really, in all this seriousness, I wish the director watched DBZ Abridged. Maybe he would get that it’s not some epic drama like ‘Ghost in The Shell’.
I’m so dissappointed. 1/5.

By: uub

uub — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:57:46 +0000

uub here, despite no power pole extending & magical cloud flying, I loved the movie. It didn’t meet all of my expectations, but I had to remember this was an anime adaption, this is an older version of DB, but it was cool.

I loved it when Goku forcefully broke out of his oozaru ape state, it’s like when goku returned he became more like in the anime of DB & DBZ, including his hair, his kahmehameha wavewas phenomenal.

I know DBZ is only going to get better from here. Also, I hope they get Tom Welling to play Raditz, think about there bothe tall, strong, & have a good resembelance. & Goku’s ssj 3 hair was originally based on Raditz hair, without all the major detail of the blond look, check in the manga/anime. Oh, about Vegeta Your guess is as good as mine. I rated this movie a 9/10. thanks much your friend uub.

By: kookookakate

kookookakate — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:45 +0000

I thought it was brilliant ;)
It wasnt as good as the series, and i think it kinda enhanced the plot when you knew what was going on from the anime but still, my friend had never even heard of it before i took her to see it and she LOVED it.. honestly, loved it. I loved it too but i am a die hard fannnn. So her loving it means more than me cause i would love it whatever it was likeeee. But yeah anyway, even though it was pretty cheesy, the casting was okayy the end song was the shizzzzzz
Good film i say.