Dragonball: Evolution

Director: James Wong
Starring: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis
James Wong adapts the rich mythos of the Dragonball series that grew from a manga into various popular animated series with this 20th Century Fox production starring Justin Chatwin. The plot revolves around Goku (Chatwin), Earth's greatest champion, who must defend the planet against an invading race of alien warriors hell-bent on dominating the universe.

Scott's Review
For all of you animaniacs (not yakko, wakko, and dot fans) you will be sorely disappointed. While the characters are familiar they quickly depart from what we expect. The storyline is soso taking place is a futuristic earth. The character Goku is reminiscent of a much earlier Goku (Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies era) not the teen aged Goku that is portrayed in the movie. Bulma and Yamcha made me want to hurl. Chi-Chi was kinda sweet but is not in the movie enough to make an honest judgment about. Master Roshi was far from the lecherous hermit that we all grew up with. Which brings us to our main villian, Piccolo. This is probably the one character in the entire movie that was done correctly (in my mind). His character is very much the King Piccolo that I expected. As far as the special effects, this movie had several good effects. Bulma's capsule vehicles were very well done. However, the Kamehameha was disappointing. Overall I would say don't waste your money seeing this, except at a discount theater or rent on DVD.

Scott's Rating