Dragonball Movie is … Awesome? Kinda, Says Anonymous Reviewer.
Dragonball: Evolution (2009) Movie — By Nix on October 27, 2008
I believe this is the first fan review for James Wong’s live-action “Dragonball” movie that I’ve seen online. It could be real, it could be fake, or it could be your grandma Rachel writing in pretending to a kid who uses the word “cool” like it’s going out of style. Whatever, take it for what you will. The review showed up on AICN and the boys over there don’t exactly list the reviewer’s credits, i.e. is he a good source or not?, so I’m assuming they’re doing the caveat emptor deal. In any case, if this guy is a fake reviewer, I really like how he calls everything Fox Studios has put up so far “nothing but shit”. Now that’s brass balls! (If he is a plant, he better hope his bosses aren’t checking up on his “work”…)
You can read the full review for yourself over at AICN. Meanwhile, here are the highlights and lowlights:
The good:
- A 13-15 minute final fight between Goku and Picollo, which the reviewer describes as “fucking awesome” and “lot of blowing shit up, super cool flying scenes, awesome ki blasts.” I think he really liked it.
- Picollo (James Marsters) turns green at the end of the movie. A sticking point among many Dragonball fans after those images from the trailer surfaced, it would appear.
- Justin Chatwin as Goku turns into a 8-9 feet tall giant baboon when he looks at the moon. Huh? You wacky Japanese animators.
The bad:
- Characters not in the movie: Krillin and Tien.
- 22-23 minutes of high school bullshit.
- Jamie Chung as Chi Chi makes Jessica Alba as Sue Storm look like an Oscar winning performance, apparently.
- Chow Yun Fat as an not perverted Master Roshi was a disappointment to the reviewer. Apparently the Roshi in the anime liked to grab asses and titties, and Chow Yun Fat doesn’t do that in the movie.
- Shenron the Dragon’s shadow is seen and his voice is heard, but not the whole dragon itself.
- Eriko Tamura as Mai had nice boobies (see below pic).
The reviewer gives the movie a 6.5 on the scale of 10. By his own admission, he deducted a whopping 2.5 points for the lack of a perverted Roshi and visible Shenron the Dragon.
Have at it, kiddos.
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This one is most probably fake.
Sounds fake, though it would be nice to see Goku turn into a giant ape to fight picollo.
Actually, some people have already pointed out that this review’s fake because a giant ape requires a tail, but James Wong cut out the tails in this movie.
Its hard to say..
I mean id believe most things he says
But it also sounds like a kid wrote this
Id believe all the bad..
But who can say… i think we should wait until the movie comes out and we judge it for ourselfs
From all i seen an herd it will suck and i feel they ruined dragonball
But im crossing my fingers.. and HOPEING its good
^_^
It’s spelled piccolo not picollo. The computer even marked it wrong. Hoping has no way e in it by the way. Where is the link to this video? Some of it seems true like the part abot Chow Yun Fat. I mean he’s not tha t kind of guy. The part about Krillin and Tien seems true too (unfortunately but the part about Shenron and the ape I’m not sure about.
The Shenron and the ape do sound like a lie
I mean i may not like it so far.. but im SURE they will not mess up shenron if they do show him
And goku doesent have a tail from what i have seen so the ape part seems very fake
Its sad though without Krillen and Tien (not so much Choutzu hahaha kidding)
Idk.. i just wish Puar, Oolong, Krillen, Tien and Choutzu could be in it
But i hear they are signed up for three movies so it is very possible they could be in it
Yeah they’ll probably introduce them in sequels.
I think Krillen Puar and Oolang will not be in any sequels.
Tien however i think would make a good ally or enemy in the movies (he was a villan at 1st)
But what im wondering now is..
What could the next sequals be???
Is this the Demon King Piccolo, or is this regular piccolo
Cuz if this is demon king piccolo then id assume the next villan wud be regular piccolo..
And there is also SOME room for the Fight with Vegeta and Nappa In a sequel
What do u think?
You’re probably right about regular piccolo but I don’t know about DBZ though.