Dragonball Evolution (2009)

A popular Japanese manga series gets a pleasing if paint-by-numbers live-action makeover in Dragonball Evolution, which half-heartedly tries to keep the faith for its pubescent male fanbase.

Director James Wong ("Final Destination") and writer Ben Ramsey are utterly blasé in their approach to the series' mythology and structure, cobbling together an 84-minute movie that seems to exist only to rile up fanboys. On that count -- and that count alone -- Dragonball Evolution triumphs.

May or may not appeal to fans of the Japanese fantasy franchise it is based on, but aficionados of apocalyptic teenybopper kung fu extravaganzas are in for a real treat.

Nearly all the actors seem to be having a good time, and the action moves so fast that you don't mind when something nuts happens.

Just know there's a whole lot more great stuff out there than just what Evolution has in store for you -- namely, the anime that it was based on.

Marvel at the fact that something this trippy made it to our local multiplex.

Bottom line: costumed Goku and Chi Chi cosplayers may argue the finer points of this adaptation, but it is fairly dazzling it its own overextended, futurist-teenpulp fashion, and Chow makes a vastly more entertaining Roshi than he did a King.

Far more entertaining than it deserves to be, unless you're a 10-year-old boy, in which case it's only the greatest movie ever made.

The film is crammed with treats for old-school "Dragonball" fans, from the inclusion of all these characters (who don't actually do much) to the moment when spiky-haired Goku dons his orange gi. For everyone else, this amounts to another seen-it-before, probably-willing-to-see-it-again distraction.

Completely lacking in visual, narrative or stylistic coherence, the film also suffers from cheap-looking visual effects and poorly staged and edited action sequences that will not exactly please the fanboys.

好莱坞翻拍日本动漫就是a piece of shit！

即便没看过原著，也能理解龙珠迷的愤怒。

彻底毁了，侮辱，脑残，噩梦，用什么也形容不了本片，以至于有人连一星也不想给

为毛要用美国人？

哈哈哈真傻x

Degeneration

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这就是个笑话

YY无极限

神片...

你能忍受乐平是个古惑仔，界王神是个黑人，龟仙人是周润发么？

我他妈一颗星星也不想给你

雷出一朵奇葩

噩梦，今年醒不过来的噩梦

简直就是胡闹

就这差片我也能看进去，我靠我太神了。

这部电影侮辱了我心中最神圣的漫画，侮辱了我心中最完美的主角以及一干配角，它还侮辱了一切看这部电影的人。

长途车上看的，囧死老百姓，好几次想跳车，这片子和《龙珠》有半毛钱关系么……

太他妈烂了

扯鸡巴蛋