‘Dragonball: Evolution’ Looks Awesome For A Movie Made Ten Years Ago

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 10, 2008

The new Japanese trailer for the eagerly awaited Dragonball movie has arrived, and it looks amazing… had it come out in the mid to late nineties.  It’s quite possible I may have missed it somehow, and maybe the movie has in fact been sitting on a studio shelf somewhere for the past ten years, but I doubt it.  The movie comes out next year, and the visual effects are already a decade old.  On the bright side, Jamie Chung shows some cleavage.  Here’s the trailer.

Am I being too harsh?  Do the effects actually look good to you?  That fight scene on the wire looks incredibly bad, as does the pocket motorcycle transformer.

Dragonball: Evolution tells the story of Goku, a moussed-up teenager on a quest to find Master Roshi and the seven Dragonballs.  The evil Lord Ricola Piccolo is also after the valuable lizard gnads which he hopes to use to conquer the world!  Who will find the testicles first?  Can Goku save the world and bed Chi Chi?  What happened to the eighth Dragonball (because they come in pairs right?)

Find out April 8th, 2009 when Dragonball: Evolution hits theaters!

In case it wasn’t obvious, many of you are substantially more familiar with the Dragonball universe than I… so what do you think of the trailer?


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  • the effects do look fairly dated.
    but that being said, I don't think anything in this day and age that has live humans shooting shit out of their hands and doing weird ninja flips that are impossible can be taken seriously. look at the Covenant. who did that film do? what was it mostly composed of? weird projectiles and ridicules acrobatics.

    there's your answer.
    dragonball was destined to fail from the moment they decided to make it live action. learn from Voltron and Power Rangers...
  • I would say this is better than having Voltron as live action that, my friend will do suck if they do it in live action.
  • D Train
    Good god that looked awful.
  • Chigger
    Well, this movie could have been really cool, but the creators were too impatient to hold out and find a good company to make it. It looks horrible and too kiddish. I grew up watching DragonBall and always wanted a live action movie, but this just looks stupid.
    Besides, Goku wasn't some stupid white boy who didn't want to fulfill his destiny, he was an alien called a Saiyan who came to Earth and ended up fighting for it instead of taking it over. He loved fighting and never once complained and wussied out.
  • That Bulma chick is hot.
  • You know that Emmy Rosum of Phantom of the Opera (with Gerard Butler) and Day After Tomorrow (With Jake Gyllenhaal).
  • Two movies I couldn't manage to sit through, but maybe I'll glance at them again for her parts.
  • it certainly doesn't make me want to go see it. But don't forget all the Dragonball Z fanatics that will want to see the cartoon come to life.
  • I'm a Dragonball, Dragonball Z, and Dragonball GT fanatic and I still want to see the movie. I sort of those follow the suit of the anime based on the trailer it does show the futuristic city and Goku's grandpa house and other locations they've shown but the matrix fighting style and the defying of gravity does make this movie a little bit 1999-2000 movie.
  • AkiraO
    GOKU EMO!!!! I HATE YOU!!!!
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