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Dragon Ball Evolution Review

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Friday, April 10, 2009
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The Dragon Ball Evolution movie is out. Its a movie very much hated by fans just from viewing the trailers, but lets get some honest reviews.

So who's seen it?

**Write in the comments your review of the movie. I'm curious to what fans and maybe first time Dragon Ball fans thought after actually seeing the movie.**

(I'll add my review here once I see it myself..not sure if I want to support FOX so much but I am an anime blog and anime store owner so its kind of a duty ^^;)



Update:
Well, I'm probably going to wait to buy the DVD at wholesale through my store but looking through the blogosphere...DBE tanked in the fans eyes and in general. Anime New Network went as far as saying "The fans were right!"
I see some reviews below Keep on adding them, would love to hear your opinions on the move.

I just hope FOX and Hollywood get the picture that they need to try even harder with anime and game movies. Us anime fans know that there is more depth and more soul to our manga, games and anime than say..yes..an X-Men or Superman comic. American comics are naturally bland and lack story/character depth and thus Hollywood can orchestrate a wonderful blockbuster movie since they have a very simple story to build and add upon. The Wolverine movie for example looks simply stunning....yet not even half the effort seems to be put into play for our beloved series...and much much more is needed to create a live action anime film that actually reflects or enhances the soul of its original creation.

So Hollywood, FOX... please get the picture. To come up with something at least half way decent and for the fans you have to go down the Harry Potter route both in quality and in budget in making anything from video games or anime. This is just embarrassing. FOX should be more embarrassed than Warner Bros. was back in the 1980's when they took over Atari and speed marketed E.T. leading to thousands of games to be thrown in the desert. (do your video game history on that one) I'm not going to get into the figures for the movie...if you need to have your eyes bleed..look at this.

Dragon Ball Evolution Review

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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The Dragon Ball Evolution movie is out. Its a movie very much hated by fans just from viewing the trailers, but lets get some honest reviews.

So who's seen it?

**Write in the comments your review of the movie. I'm curious to what fans and maybe first time Dragon Ball fans thought after actually seeing the movie.**

(I'll add my review here once I see it myself..not sure if I want to support FOX so much but I am an anime blog and anime store owner so its kind of a duty ^^;)



Update:
Well, I'm probably going to wait to buy the DVD at wholesale through my store but looking through the blogosphere...DBE tanked in the fans eyes and in general. Anime New Network went as far as saying "The fans were right!"
I see some reviews below Keep on adding them, would love to hear your opinions on the move.

I just hope FOX and Hollywood get the picture that they need to try even harder with anime and game movies. Us anime fans know that there is more depth and more soul to our manga, games and anime than say..yes..an X-Men or Superman comic. American comics are naturally bland and lack story/character depth and thus Hollywood can orchestrate a wonderful blockbuster movie since they have a very simple story to build and add upon. The Wolverine movie for example looks simply stunning....yet not even half the effort seems to be put into play for our beloved series...and much much more is needed to create a live action anime film that actually reflects or enhances the soul of its original creation.

So Hollywood, FOX... please get the picture. To come up with something at least half way decent and for the fans you have to go down the Harry Potter route both in quality and in budget in making anything from video games or anime. This is just embarrassing. FOX should be more embarrassed than Warner Bros. was back in the 1980's when they took over Atari and speed marketed E.T. leading to thousands of games to be thrown in the desert. (do your video game history on that one) I'm not going to get into the figures for the movie...if you need to have your eyes bleed..look at this.

Let the Dragon Ball Evolution Bashing....Begin

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Well...more like continue and go into a fervor. The movie is about a week from release and already some people have seen it, including famous anime & DBZ fan dubber Lanipator. His review of what he saw says it all. I'm sorry guys, any hope of this being somewhat of a film us fans maybe, maybe wanted is practically up in smoke. The trailers show much of what we fear but I'm a cup-half-full kind of guy. Sadly, even with my optimism...there's not much hope here for a person who looks like and personifies himself with DBZ's Trunks (yeah, yeah I'm a bit of a DBZ nerd :-/). I can't give a real opinion with out actually seeing it....but that would give money to the evil organization that makes the Red Ribbon Army look tame...20th Century Fox. Rumors have it that there is already a sequel in the mix.

Dragon Ball Evolution looks to be the biggest insult to fans and FOX's most distasteful April Fools joke. -_-

Here's a quick glimpse across the blogosphere:

Via Anime Vice: Bulma Actress Emmy Rossum pleads for fans to watch movie.
Via YouTube: Hitler Learns of Dragon Ball Live Action Movie
Via Lanipator: Lanipator's Impression of the DBE Movie


well..at least Piccolo was made back to green -_-


The pain us anime fans will probably feel isn't over. Movies are set for the following anime/game series:

Tekken
Cowboy Bebop
Akira

links thanks to Dannychoo.com and firstshowing.net

::Face-palm:: >_<

(Update)
This is not an April Fools joke. Ayumi Hamazaki's new single, "Rule" is going to be the single for the movie.

Don't believe me? Here's the latest and probably the final trailer:



Wow...us anime fans are being simply smacked across the face :-(

Let the Dragon Ball Evolution Bashing....Begin

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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Well...more like continue and go into a fervor. The movie is about a week from release and already some people have seen it, including famous anime & DBZ fan dubber Lanipator. His review of what he saw says it all. I'm sorry guys, any hope of this being somewhat of a film us fans maybe, maybe wanted is practically up in smoke. The trailers show much of what we fear but I'm a cup-half-full kind of guy. Sadly, even with my optimism...there's not much hope here for a person who looks like and personifies himself with DBZ's Trunks (yeah, yeah I'm a bit of a DBZ nerd :-/). I can't give a real opinion with out actually seeing it....but that would give money to the evil organization that makes the Red Ribbon Army look tame...20th Century Fox. Rumors have it that there is already a sequel in the mix.

Dragon Ball Evolution looks to be the biggest insult to fans and FOX's most distasteful April Fools joke. -_-

Here's a quick glimpse across the blogosphere:

Via Anime Vice: Bulma Actress Emmy Rossum pleads for fans to watch movie.
Via YouTube: Hitler Learns of Dragon Ball Live Action Movie
Via Lanipator: Lanipator's Impression of the DBE Movie


well..at least Piccolo was made back to green -_-


The pain us anime fans will probably feel isn't over. Movies are set for the following anime/game series:

Tekken
Cowboy Bebop
Akira

links thanks to Dannychoo.com and firstshowing.net

::Face-palm:: >_<

(Update)
This is not an April Fools joke. Ayumi Hamazaki's new single, "Rule" is going to be the single for the movie.

Don't believe me? Here's the latest and probably the final trailer:



Wow...us anime fans are being simply smacked across the face :-(

Dragon Ball Evolution Trailer

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Thursday, December 11, 2008
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Here it is, the second teaser trailer to what is now called Dragon Ball Evolution. Now, if I never ever heard of or saw Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z or GT... I'd look at this trailer and say, "Sick, this looks like a great movie!" Yet, as you guys have seen from my blog posts, the site and my user name across the internet, I'm a big DBZ fan. I just can't imagine what Akira Toriyama is thinking when he sees this. The parts picked look actually ok. Piccolo looks to be greener now but why oh why did they butcher the story? I can understand making a live action version would be tough if you went with the exact story, but even Dragon Ball has its own full length movies that are off the story arch. This isn't even in the same universe as Dragon Ball. Some body please, take the writing staff of this movie and sit them through the DVD box sets of DB, DBZ and GT and make sure they sit there like the chicken has to in Robot Chicken because they need to be taught a hard lesson in Dragon Ball 101.
Thanks to DannyChoo for posting it before me ^^


Dragon Ball Evolution Trailer

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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Here it is, the second teaser trailer to what is now called Dragon Ball Evolution. Now, if I never ever heard of or saw Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z or GT... I'd look at this trailer and say, "Sick, this looks like a great movie!" Yet, as you guys have seen from my blog posts, the site and my user name across the internet, I'm a big DBZ fan. I just can't imagine what Akira Toriyama is thinking when he sees this. The parts picked look actually ok. Piccolo looks to be greener now but why oh why did they butcher the story? I can understand making a live action version would be tough if you went with the exact story, but even Dragon Ball has its own full length movies that are off the story arch. This isn't even in the same universe as Dragon Ball. Some body please, take the writing staff of this movie and sit them through the DVD box sets of DB, DBZ and GT and make sure they sit there like the chicken has to in Robot Chicken because they need to be taught a hard lesson in Dragon Ball 101.
Thanks to DannyChoo for posting it before me ^^


Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments #2: White Piccolo

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Friday, November 14, 2008
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 Not exactly a new WTF moment but this one of course had to be on the list.  These images caused many otaku to leave a palm print on their foreheads.  James Marshers was a great choice for Piccolo but it seems like the production crew will be recycling his old Buffy costumes and they must be out of green paint ~_~

Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments #2: White Piccolo

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 Not exactly a new WTF moment but this one of course had to be on the list.  These images caused many otaku to leave a palm print on their foreheads.  James Marshers was a great choice for Piccolo but it seems like the production crew will be recycling his old Buffy costumes and they must be out of green paint ~_~

Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments #1: Goku's Transformation

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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You know, I was at one point looking forward to the Dragon Ball Movie.  The concept of a Dragon Ball live action with the financial backing of Hollywood could have been such a good thing if done right.  The cast that was set up seemed not too bad of choices in my opinion...lacking a more realistic, more Asian cast, but still sounding well. After this image surfaced and the other aspects of the upcoming movie,  I had to start this new segment aptly called Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments.  Leave it to Fox to mess things up ~_~

This first image is actually the newest WTF moment.  What you are seeing is not some sort of weird Photoshop prank by somebody, but instead real footage from the movie.  This my friends is what Fox's equivalent to Goku's Oozaro transformation looks like.  Rumor has it that the CG needed to create the real Goku oozaro transformation was too much for them.  I understand it takes lots of work to make good CG, but we are in 2008 not 1998. How that can be confused with this below can only be rationally explained if we think that possibly the group of people who first took (and butchered) DBZ are in charge of this one.  

Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments #1: Goku's Transformation

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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You know, I was at one point looking forward to the Dragon Ball Movie.  The concept of a Dragon Ball live action with the financial backing of Hollywood could have been such a good thing if done right.  The cast that was set up seemed not too bad of choices in my opinion...lacking a more realistic, more Asian cast, but still sounding well. After this image surfaced and the other aspects of the upcoming movie,  I had to start this new segment aptly called Dragon Ball Movie WTF?! Moments.  Leave it to Fox to mess things up ~_~

This first image is actually the newest WTF moment.  What you are seeing is not some sort of weird Photoshop prank by somebody, but instead real footage from the movie.  This my friends is what Fox's equivalent to Goku's Oozaro transformation looks like.  Rumor has it that the CG needed to create the real Goku oozaro transformation was too much for them.  I understand it takes lots of work to make good CG, but we are in 2008 not 1998. How that can be confused with this below can only be rationally explained if we think that possibly the group of people who first took (and butchered) DBZ are in charge of this one.  

Dragon Ball Movie Trailer

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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I was a bit late in posting this but here it is with audio, the Dragon Ball Movie Trailer.  If I never saw Dragon Ball I would think this is cool but for many of us otaku, this is going to be a movie to watch for laughs on how bad Fox messes it up.  Director James Wong states he wants this to be a "family film" so expect even more bastardization of the Dragon Ball saga than the horrible first english dub was ~_~  Chances are, I will still see it but I'll have to watch it with the thought that is not a Dragon Ball movie and has nothing to do with the anime.

Dragon Ball Movie Trailer

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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I was a bit late in posting this but here it is with audio, the Dragon Ball Movie Trailer.  If I never saw Dragon Ball I would think this is cool but for many of us otaku, this is going to be a movie to watch for laughs on how bad Fox messes it up.  Director James Wong states he wants this to be a "family film" so expect even more bastardization of the Dragon Ball saga than the horrible first english dub was ~_~  Chances are, I will still see it but I'll have to watch it with the thought that is not a Dragon Ball movie and has nothing to do with the anime.

Dragon Ball Movie Trailer Surfaces

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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Get ready to have your palm in your face...below is clip from a con goer in Europe viewing the Dragon Ball trailer. One big thing to take note is the quick clip of Goku making out with Bulma......The otaku world is going to flip its lid on this one!

Thanks to Theanimeblog.com for the footage.


Dragon Ball Movie Trailer Surfaces

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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Get ready to have your palm in your face...below is clip from a con goer in Europe viewing the Dragon Ball trailer. One big thing to take note is the quick clip of Goku making out with Bulma......The otaku world is going to flip its lid on this one!

Thanks to Theanimeblog.com for the footage.


Dragon Ball Movie Trailer Screen Shots

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Thanks to dragonballmovieblog I was able to get some screen shots of the upcoming Dragon Ball Movie trailer. You finally get to see what Piccolo looks like and basically....well you be the judge. To me it looks like Piccolo was recycled from James Marshers old Buffy make-up and costumes. It's also starting to make otaku across the web wonder if anyone making or staring in the movie even seen an episode of Dragon Ball, or Dragon Ball Z. For the good chunk of you that probably have a palm mark across your forehead after seeing this...I got great, great Dragon Ball Z news that I'll share in the next few days. Some of you might already know what i'm talking about but at least in November you will be able to feel alot better if think this movie will leave a bad taste in your mouth.



Dragon Ball Movie Trailer Screen Shots

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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Thanks to dragonballmovieblog I was able to get some screen shots of the upcoming Dragon Ball Movie trailer. You finally get to see what Piccolo looks like and basically....well you be the judge. To me it looks like Piccolo was recycled from James Marshers old Buffy make-up and costumes. It's also starting to make otaku across the web wonder if anyone making or staring in the movie even seen an episode of Dragon Ball, or Dragon Ball Z. For the good chunk of you that probably have a palm mark across your forehead after seeing this...I got great, great Dragon Ball Z news that I'll share in the next few days. Some of you might already know what i'm talking about but at least in November you will be able to feel alot better if think this movie will leave a bad taste in your mouth.



Another Dragon Ball Movie Banner

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Friday, July 11, 2008
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I was about to end my day online but I just had to show you all this. I know, many of us otaku are very scared about the Dragon Ball movie and we are all pondering how bad Hollywood will screw it up. Lets just hope for the best though... right ^^?


Anyways, in the picture you can see Bulma (top left), Goku (front and center), Chi Chi (Goku's right)..who BTW we haven't seen before this and is the better of the actor choices, I feel; Master Roshi...Chow Yun Fat, Mai(top right, also first time seen). Also if you look at the very top you will see the eyes of Piccolo for the first time also who we all know is being played by James Marsters aka Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Another Dragon Ball Movie Banner

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on
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I was about to end my day online but I just had to show you all this. I know, many of us otaku are very scared about the Dragon Ball movie and we are all pondering how bad Hollywood will screw it up. Lets just hope for the best though... right ^^?


Anyways, in the picture you can see Bulma (top left), Goku (front and center), Chi Chi (Goku's right)..who BTW we haven't seen before this and is the better of the actor choices, I feel; Master Roshi...Chow Yun Fat, Mai(top right, also first time seen). Also if you look at the very top you will see the eyes of Piccolo for the first time also who we all know is being played by James Marsters aka Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

First Picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku

Posted by Chuck's Anime Shrine on Monday, May 12, 2008
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Well, here it is..the first picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku. I don't know what to say about the Live action DBZ movie in the works... I really hope it doesn't suck.

Thanks to Anime News Network.

First Picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku

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Well, here it is..the first picture of Justin Chatwin as Goku. I don't know what to say about the Live action DBZ movie in the works... I really hope it doesn't suck.

Thanks to Anime News Network.


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