The released of DB Evolution movie has been postponed by two days, so it will be released on April 10, 2009.

Here two new DB movie clips:

Not really a good Kamehameha for the buck…
;-P

Some more preview clips of the upcoming DB Evolution movie have been spotted online:

More DB preview clips: Continue Reading »

Not sure I should show this A UK TV spot of Dragonball: I’ve seen the movie and it’s such a let down… One may think that the movie will be good from watching this well cut TV spot of DB Evolution, but the truth is: Dragonball Evolution just s**ks!

Anyway, this spot is still worth a look:

Dragonball TV Spot

Nothing much in DB Evolution, here a summary (spoiler!):

Training – Goku and Chichi flirting – Gran Pa is killed – Goku Meets Bulma and Roshi then Yamcha – Goku and Chichi flirting – Piccolo is defeated by Goku in just a very short scene…

A crappy movie that feels low-cost (how can it feel low cost with so much CGI by the way? how is such a feat possible?), with a really superficial plot that’s far far away from the original manga…

Believe me: keep your bucks for an other movie, wait for this one to air on cable if you’re still curious about it. What a let down!
:-{

I may have compared the upcoming DB Evolution movie to Smallville, even talking about a “smallvillesque” that would have cursed the movie from the start… Well that was not fair for Smallville: I should compare this Dragonball movie to the Power Rangers too!

Just check those disappointing preview clips of Dragonball the movie:

Dragonball Preview

Let’s try to be positive though: I’m definitely a fan of Eriko Tamura who plays teh role of Mai ( who is a chief enforcer of Piccolo’s and a shapeshifter) from now on! Can’t believe I didn’t notice that she is so gorgeous till now!

Here a promotional picture featuring Mai and Piccolo (who went green at long last):
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I’m fan of Eriko Tamura but even her can’t save this soulless adaptation of the manga Dragonball! So it’s a relief that the movie won’t be much longer than 80 minutes.
:-P

Two new posters for the movie DB Evolution:

Yamcha, played by Joon Park, looks like the character from the Dragonball movie the most faithful to the original manga.

Bu Yamcha won’t compensate for the ugly thing I heard about this DB movie: Master Roshi’s personality has been tamed down… I don’t want Master Roshi to be politically correct: I want him to be a lustful old man hunting pretty young women! For God’s sake this was a major characteristic of Roshi! Fox transformed Roshi into karate Kid’s master… And they’re already thinking about Dragonball 2… Please at least give us a real Roshi in this damn DB Evolution movie!
:)

Master Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) was missing on earlier version of the group poster of the upcoming DB movie. Well, thanks to photoshop, that’s been fixed on an international Dragonball movie poster:

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You may compare with this earlier Dragonball Evolution poster:

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Do you think that Roshi from the movie will be a funny pervert as in the original manga? Such a detail could save this DB movie from Smallvillesque lameness!
:)

20th Century Fox’s has finally released online the full new trailer Dragonball Evolution, the upcoming movie adaptation of the famous manga created by Akira Toriyama:

The music isn’t too bad. I find hard to get enthusiast about this adaptation though: I don’t recognize the spirit of the manga in this, it kinda looks like some cheap colorful fireworks… I won’t boycott the movie at the end, but I’m sad when I think how much better this adaptation could have been if it was more faithful to the original material…

Dragonball Evolution is written and directed by James Wong and is starring Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park and Chow Yun-Fat. It will be released in April 2008.
:)

Fox isn’t that deaf after all. The latest Dragonball TV spot that premiered in Japan shows they’ve been working hard to save their investment from an epic fail: some of the details that fans pointed out in the past have been fixed. Example: Piccolo is definitely green by now.

Watch below the latest Dragonball TV spot:

Dragonball Clip

This new clip looks much better than what we’ve been served before. But there is still a feel of cheapness and a smallvillesque impression that hinder me from accepting this film as the movie adaptation of Dragonball….

I don’t deny it will be entertaining, but it won’t be much more… A real Dragonball movie would have blown us alll away! But I bet a reboot will be done in the next five or ten years. Hope keeps alive, doesn’t it?
:-)

Instead of trying to steal the work of others like they’re trying with the movie Watchmen 20th Century Fox should better try to fix Dragonball Evolution… Here below some more cheesy pictures from this upcoming cheesy live-action movie adaptation of the famous manga:

Dragonball Evolution Movie

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Yeap that’s Goku (Justin Chatwin) at school! Let’s try to be positive: at least the girls look good, don’t they?
:_{

We get a batch of posters of Dragonball Evolution thanks to IGN :

Dragonball Evolution

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I’m really enthusiast for this movie. One thing could help to watch it though: Master Roshy (Chow Yun-Fat) being as naughty in the movie as he is in the manga! But that’s probably not the case…

Let’s look how great Master Roshi was in the animated Dragonball series: Continue Reading »

Watch below the bootleg Japanese movie trailer of Dragonball Evolution that just leaked online:

Dragonball Evolution Movie Trailer

Too bad that changing the name of the movie does not make it any better… Can brings your toddlers watch the movie: it’s flashy and colorful… But nothing much to expect from the movie. And their last reshoots won’t save it at all… I mean that’s not Dragonball, it’s not faithful at all to the original manga.

I suggest a soap brand to sponsor the movie, they have nothing to lose from it now.

How sad… Let’s hope that a new Christoper Nolan will reboot Dragonball in the next few years…
:-(

Fox has been facing the uproar of disappointed Dragonball fans regarding its upcoming movie adaptation of the famous manga. Reshoot are under works, and now it may also have been decided to change the title of the movie. Initially simply titled the movie is said to be retitled Dragonball Evolution according to Coming Soon.

Dragonball Movie

Such a move would not be pointless: hardcore Dragonball may forgive the liberal and unholy take on the manga if it is marketed as a reimagining and not as a real adaptation of Dragonball like previously done.
:)

The movie Dragonball was promoted at the last Licensing Asia 2008 in Tokyo. Here below the promo poster that was seen:

Dragonball Movie

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The role of Goku is played by Justin Chatwin. But don’t expect the Goku from the manga: Justin Chatwin’s Goku is more likely to be a tamed version. If I was bold enough I’d even say smallvillesque… A stark example of this movie being a let down is Goku being described as a young teenager going to high school, yeap that’s the Smallville effect in action!
:)