Dragon Ball Live Action

--spoiler alert-- .... --not that I will be the one spoiling this film for you, it does it itself quite nicely--

I just watched the film. No, it's not out in the UK, i watched it on TV links.

I really don't know where to start. It was terrible. I mean, there's nothing about it that i can say i actually liked. Seriously.

It really is the worst movie i've ever seen.

The worst.

I grew up in my teenage years reading Dragon Ball and this movie is supposed to be just that, a movie version of Dragon Ball.
It is rushed, it is stupid, it pays tiny amounts of HOMAGE to Dragon Ball but at no point does it set out to do what it was meant to do and what it was supposed to do was tell the storyline regarding Dragon Balls and Piccolo.
Piccolo is hardly in it. He fights at the end. He looks more at home in a Star Wars film. All of sudden, he's using 'The Force' and kills Grandpa Gohan. Any friggin' minute now i was expecting him to invite everybody over to the Dark Side. Darth Piccolo. I swear down, this movie is a pile of sh!t.

Here's just a few things that they messed with.

- Goku goes to school, he rides a bike, is picked on by bullies and fancies girls. NONE of this was anything even remotely characteristic of Goku from Dragon Ball.
- Piccolo turns up out of nowhere blowing up a city, it never explains how he escaped or what he's going to wish for once he gets the Dragon Balls. He just says he wants to get his 'revenge' on the humans.
- Roshi's Master is seen for a short while and he looks like Jay Z in another 30 years. No lie.
- Yamcha is a f*!*ing useless prick. In Dragon Ball he was a bandit with martial arts skills. In this, he's a friggin "cool dude" and knows nothing about fighting, he is not shy of Bulma and they almost kiss at one point. The Yamcha everybody knows would have run 100 miles by that point because he's so shy of women. In this he's like some bad boy playa, swagger sh!t. The character got fucked. It's not Yamcha, it's just some bandit. There's nothing about him that makes me think of Yamcha.
- Master Roshi lives in the City, what looks like a futuristic London's Docklands area to be honest. No desert island hide away place. No KameHouse. No turtles. Nothing. Just an old guy living in the city.
- The KameHameHa. Goku's 'encouragement' and 'motivation' for mastering the KameHameHa is down to the fact that ChiChi came in and offered him a kiss if he could light all the candles in the room with KameHameHa's, thus mastering his control over his spiritual energy. .... wtf? Once again, Goku has no interest in girls during Dragon Ball so this scene was SO out of character it was suicidal. Oh, and he does manage to light those candles too. Goku and ChiChi get a little smooching going on. Well done, perfectly captured Goku's character right there.
- Goku looks at the full moon several times and never transforms into his Ape form. Reason being? It's not tied to the Saiyan storyline. He doesn't have a tail so he can go ahead and look at the full moon as much as he likes and sh!t won't happen.
- The Ape does make an appearance but for the sheer fact that the ape was Piccolo's ally back when Piccolo first attacked the human world before being sealed away. When the Ape frees itself within Goku it is because of an ECLIPSE and then we learn something along the lines of that the Ape was sealed away in Goku or the Ape was changed INTO Goku or something. I didn't understand that part since the story development in this movie is beyond retarded. Things don't make sense, plot points jump out of nowhere. This Ape thing was so stupid and ruined the original story as to why Goku would turn into an Ape anyway.

It was rushed. It was SO rushed, you wouldn't believe it. I've never seen such a rushed movie in my entire life. The Street Fighter movie with Van Damme had better pacing than this and i WISH i was joking but i'm not.

Yamcha turns up for 5 minutes and Goku talks about him being part of the group like he's been there for years. Everything is so squashed together, you wonder why they bothered making this film as it doesn't convince you for one minute that the characters have bonded.
Dragon Ball, you could see how characters bonded with eachother. In this movie....it's beyond wasted, it doesn't deliver at all.

The special effects were not up to par. At points i kept thinking i was watching Power Rangers. There's a scene where they're fighting on a Volcano with Piccolo's henchmen (who i'm thinking were supposed to be Tamborine and co) and it looks TERRIBLE. Then Goku uses their corpses to CROSS AND HOP ALONG LAVA. Like the bodies wouldn't have melted. f*** that, like Goku's feet wouldn't have melted. Hopping across a lava filled Volcano. sh!t.

I swear, this movie fails EPICLY.
I actually prefer the Street Fighter movie with Van Damme in it when i'm comparing it to Dragon Ball Evolution. It IS that bad.
It's not Goku, it doesn't feel like Goku. Piccolo has a total of maybe near on 15 minutes screen time, MAX.

It is the worst film i have ever seen. Absolute worst. They ruined Dragon Ball and i feel really sorry for Akira Toriyama, seeing his creation getting beyond butchered like this.
People might say Dragon Ball GT ruined what Akira Toriyama had created but no, at least that kept some story intact and tried to keep things on a flow.
Dragon Ball Evolution has savagely raped the storyline beyond words.

Boycot this sh!t and don't see the film in cinema's.

Seriously...I haven't seen it...and I agree with you DiGi.

Its one thing to go ahead and change all the story...in some cases it can be forgiven slightly (though I stress VERY RARELY) in order to make it more realistic to fit in with being shown in a realistic light....but changing the attitude and motivations of every major character is unforgivable.

This doesn't sound like Dragonball, it sounds like someone had a story about fighting but couldn't think of any names for his characters....or didn't think it was going to be any good...so got a license to use the Dragonball name on it to attract all of their fans and changed some details to fit.



I think I'll probably watch it, but I'll do so in the same style you did....and when I'm very bored and not busy doodling until my eyeballs fall out.

Oh man it's terrible.... It makes Archie NiGHTS look like Oscar material. I'm not even a big fan and i know it's awful.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
God hearing Digi's "speech" cracked me up
I've always hated DBZ (as I've been mentioning) but in all honesty was there anything to look forward to when screens broke out? even for the hardcore DB fans?
But then again they're also making a Cowboy Beebop movie... and that one will most likely blow and tick me off... I love Cowboy Beebop...
If they make a Tenchi Muyo or Black Lagoon movie I swear I will KILL SOMEONE!!!
and not in a pretty way either...

Digi's rant more or less summed it up.

Parts of me DIED when i watched this.

Like James Marsters is an awesome actor, but this movie savagley raped his career imo. He had a whole like, 5 solid lines?

"Dragonballs not here" "easier to find without water" "gokue yur a monkey" pretty much it.

Justin Chatwin, well, if u seen War of the Worlds hes still that stupid.

The only character i REMOTELY liked was bulma, keep in mind she was NOTHING like the DB bulma. I dunno why, maybe her gun totting intrigued me...

Yamcha....he appears, then stays, and doesnt do anything. Except own a flying jeep

Shenron, WASNT THERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE OFFICIAL VOICE PLAYING HIM!!!! Instead, we have a WHITE cgi dragon, says nothing, and makes a cameo for a whole 30 secs to finish a very anticlimactic story.

I might go and see this just to see how hollywood fucked it up so badly.

BTW what was that weird grey-white-mask wearing looking guy in the picture on page 2 of this thread?

BTW what was that weird grey-white-mask wearing looking guy in the picture on page 2 of this thread?

You know, i have no idea. It never turns up in the film....unless it was an underlay make up for when they applied the Monkey mask to his face but i'm not sure on that either.

You know, i have no idea. It never turns up in the film....unless it was an underlay make up for when they applied the Monkey mask to his face but i'm not sure on that either.

I forgot about that 'leaked' image. I dont think it was an underlay...i think it was what they 1st intended to use as the Oozaru but changed it after people bitched about that image. Same with Piccolo's skin colour.

NOW I know why I hate Dragon Ball. Because of sh!t like this. People suck, man. People suck. I hate Hollywood sometimes. Except Repo!: The Genetic Opera. That rocks. Otherwise, die Hollywood die.

ya know, from the very first time I watched the trailer, it freaked me so much to the point I though it was just a HORRIBLE joke...then I realized it was for real

seriously I mean what? just watching the trailers makes me know that this movie has nothing to do with the original Dragon Ball, my mom was all like "OOOOOH PRETTY EFFECTS, WE SHOULD WATCH THAT MOVIE" I answered "NO WAI, JUST LOOK! THAT'S NOT GOKU, THAT'S NOT ROSHI, AND DEFINITELY SHE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE BULMA! I SAY. THIS THING IS GONNA BE CRAP" but she was so charmed, she ALMOST convinced me to watch it too...just for the pretty sci-fi effects...

but just reading DiGi's spech made me die from the inside, IM NOT WATCHING THIS MOVIE...for the sake of my poor DB fanness... x_x that's all...

Wow... This definitely sounds like a waste of time.

Bad, but in a boring way. You can't even watch it for laughs like the Van Damme Street Fighter movie.

Fails massively at everything. It's a bad adaptation, a bad movie, and a bad movie adaptation.

I am not that much of a Dragonball fan, but I had a little bit of interest in the movie, until I found out that it's really that awful.

"I sure like a man who can open many lockers at once."

The locker part of the previews really stick in my mind. Who was that who was impressed by Goku's locker opening? Chichi? Bulma?

That would be ChiChi who saw him open the lockers. And good god, what an awkward scene it was too. XD;;