A young warrior named Goku must set out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful warlord Piccolo, to collect seven dragon balls that will grant unlimited power.
Review:
There is really nothing to say about this film besides that it's utter garbage. I am one who used to watch Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network as a child. Ever since then, I have been waiting for a live-action DBZ movie to be made. They did, and I must say they completely butchered it. As a brainless cheese fest, it's okay, but as a Dragonball movie, it's awful. This film has "Dragonball" in the title purely for money.
The story is very poorly constructed and way too fast paced. Even for a film based on a world building franchise, nothing in it makes any sense whatsoever. It's like Piccolo had a servant named "Ozaru" who has been imprisoned for years. Piccolo wants to destroy the word for whatever reason, so he plots to gather seven dragon balls so that he can wish for the world to end. Pretty much the whole movie is just action scenes that go nowhere and Goku and the gang gathering dragon balls for no apparent reason. The action scenes are terrible and pointless. For instance, there is this one scene where Goku is at a party and he gets bullied. He and the bullies get in a fight. Instead of fighting back, Goku just avoid the bullies' attacks causing them to beat each other up. towards the end, we find out that Ozaru was trapped in Goku's body the whole time and unleashes transforming Goku into some monster. I am not making this up.
They pretty much messed up the characters and made them very paper thin. Goku is played by an American, Chi Chi and Bulma are very one-dimensional, and Master Roshi and Piccolo look nothing like their counterparts. Master Roshi is in his mid 40's when he's supposed to be an old man in his 70's or 80's or so. Piccolo looks absolutely horrendous. It's like they used the most generic looking alien design that they can possibly find and call it "Piccolo". One thing that I must give them credit for is that they had the Piccolo character be an actor in make-up as opposed to being a CGI character.
The special effects are very poor and quite laughable. Not to mention that the CGI looks like a Sony PS1 game. Also, when they summon the wish granting dragon, it's too bright to see him.
You want to know what the worst part is? It's only 75 minutes long. 75 minutes is too short to tell a story like this. It could have been 2 and a half hours and had character development and a well constructed plot. This film is rushed beyond belief. What was their hurry? It takes time to make a good movie.
Overall, I found Dragonball Evolution to be an awful film and a disgrace to the franchise and I absolutely hated every insulting moment of the film. Even as a stand alone film, it's awful, because it's poorly written, horribly acted, and not even remotely well directed. I do not recommend it. Even a 1 out of 10 would be far too generous. Someone should "kamehameha" every copy of this film.
Personally speaking, I think this film should be shown in every film school as an example of how not to make a movie, let alone a Dragonball movie.
Max Scale:
0/10
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