Wondering which deleted scenes will be included in the upcoming DVD & Blu-Ray release? Well, ponder no further, as the BBFC has revealed the titles and length of each of the 8 scenes.
00:01:19:06 GOKU LEARNS ABOUT KI (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:22:05 GOKU LIFTS CAR (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:16:03 GOKU MEETS BULMA (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:31:14 GOKU SEES HIS BIRTHDAY CAKE (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:55:14 EXTENDED MONTAGE TO STONE TEMPLE/STONE TEMPLE SNACK BAR (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:42:11 EXTENDED FULUMS (DELETED SCENE)
00:02:00:03 EXTENDED SIFU NORRIS/ROSHI (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:49:22 MAI DIES BY STABBING (DELETED SCENE)
That’s under 11 minutes of additional footage. But one has to wonder why they weren’t just included in the actual movie, it’s not as if it’s 3 hours.
Amazon.com is now listing the release date of the U.S. DVD & Blu-Ray as July 28th. If you’d like to, click here to pre-order the DVD, or click here to pre-order the Blu-Ray.
Details of the upcoming Japanese DVD/Blu-Ray release of Dragonball: Evolution have been posted on AV Watch. A Japanese reader of the site was kind enough to translate this information for us, but please keep in mind the U.S. version of the Blu-Ray/DVD may differ.
Runtime: 86 minutes
Audio:
1. English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 ch
2. Japanese (DTS 5.1 ch)
3. Japanese (audio commentary)
Bonus features:
* Deleted Scenes (8)
* Goku’s Work Out Video
* Music Video “Worked UP!” by Brian Anthony
* Gag Reel
* Behind The Scenes: The Two Chi-Chi’s
* Justin Chatwin Interview
* Game: Dragonball Quest (Blu-Ray only)
* Audio Commentary with Satoshi Inoue*
* Satoshi Inoue is a Japanese comedian, a Dragonball fan, and was the MC of the Japanese premiere.
TheFanboyReview.com is reporting that one of the home video releases of Dragonball: Evolution will be coming out with the title “Z-Edition” tacked on. What this means is anyone’s guess, but extended and deleted scenes are likely. The DVD and Blu-Ray are expected to drop in the summer.
A fan recorded and uploaded part of a Q&A session with James Marsters (Piccolo) on April 25th when he was in the Netherlands last month. He speaks, off the cuff, about Dragonball: Evolution, and gives his thoughts on the movie as a whole.
He’s right about one thing. The suits at Fox don’t care, and never cared, about this movie. And that wouldn’t have mattered so much if they had stayed away from the production and let the crew do their job, but Fox is unlike any other movie studio. It’s almost as if they want to piss their workers off and create horrible movies. It’s not that the other major studios like Warner Bros. and Paramount are perfect, but they at least seem to care about quality.
Anyway, it seems like a lot of people want to know my opinion on Dragonball: Evolution, and because I haven’t had the time to write a full review, I’m just going to give you my quick thoughts here.
I enjoyed it. It was fun, cheesy, and forgettable entertainment. But probably not in the way the filmmakers intended, because it was also cheap, poorly made, uninspired and bland. And I really want to stress bland. The movie is supposed to take place in a futuristic, fantasy world but it looks exactly like any city in America (if cities in America had cheap green screen effects) and Mexico. It’s the opposite of the world that Akira Toriyama created.
But the biggest problem was the script. It sucked Dragon Balls. The plot made absolutely no sense and no one seemed to care, the dialogue sounded like it was written by a 10 year old (that was a fan of Pokemon and not Dragonball), and the cliffhanger during the credits was by far the worst cliffhanger I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t blame Ben Ramsey for all this though, because it’s obvious Fox had their greedy little hands on the thing since day one (Goku in high school? I doubt anyone but a out of touch Hollywood executive could think up something as stupid as that), but I don’t think he was the man for the job regardless.
Still, I’m not angry. Like I said before, I did enjoy it. But I am disappointed. I just wish that Stephen Chow was given a $30 million budget to direct Dragonball at a different studio, and was allowed complete creative control. It certainly would’ve been better than this Foxed up movie.
Alex Tuis, a concept artist for Dragonball: Evolution, recently posted some of his artwork for the film on his official website. With not much else to report, it’s definitely worth a look if you’re interested in what could have been if they had chosen his designs. Click here to see his concept art for Piccolo and Oozaru.
The idea was to make something original and a little bit different from the Manga or the animated tv show. At this stage, I did not know who will play Lord Piccolo.I worked only four days on this movie. I hope to be on the next one, with more time.
Nov. 10th: Dragonball Season Two DVD set, Dragonball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (Nintendo DS), Dragonball: Raging Blast (PS3/360). Dec. 15th: Dragon Box One DVD set. All dates are for this year, in North America.
Alex Tuis, a concept artist for Dragonball: Evolution, recently posted some of his artwork for the film on his official website. With not much else to report, it’s definitely worth a look if you’re interested in what could have been if they had chosen his designs. 
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