Comic book movies either work well on screen or they turn out to be trash, like "Dragonball: Evolution". This is one of the worst movies of 2009, whoever came up with the idea to make this movie, should have just kept it to themselves. Since they didn't and someone thought thisidea would sell, we get this film that is smells worse than week old garbage.
The movie starts with the geek kid Goku (Justin Chatwin) going through his daily routine, being mainly ignored in school except by the bullies. Doing his martial arts training with his grandfather Gohan (Randall Duk Kim). One day in school he helps a girl that he has a crush on open her locker with some mystical force he can control, Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) knows how Goku opened the locker because she is also training in the same arts. She invites Goku to a party at her house. He goes and right away has the school bullies attacking him, using his ability to evade the bullies punches, Goku defeats them by letting them beat each other up. During the party, which happens to fall on Goku's eighteenth birthday, Lord Piccolo (James Marsters) who has escaped from his prison and is searching for the elusive dragonballs, there are seven of them hidden around the world, attacks grandpa Gohan's house. Aiding Picolo in his search is Mai (Eriko Tamura), the evil duo destroys the house and takes the dragonball, imploding the house after they leave, Lord Picolo thinks he has killed Gohan, back at the party Goku senses that grandpa is in trouble runs back to their house, seeing it is flattened, he calls out to his grandfather. Finding him near death Goku is told to find Master Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) to stop Picolo from getting the seven dragonballs.
To make matters worse a third person is looking for the dragonballs, Bulma (Emmy Rossum) not knowing if Goku is friendly or not just decides to fire on him. Goku convinces her that he is a friend joins her on the quest to find the dragonballs and stop Picolo. Making their way to where they think Master Roshi lives they find him and are attacked by him, neither knows who the other is, Roshi knows the fighting technique used by Goku and realizes who he is. Setting out to stop Picolo the three are soon trapped in a desert hole, offering to help them out is Yamcha (Joon Park) he wants a portion of their money. Bulma tells him that when she gets all seven dragonballs, she will create the worlds next best energy source and become rich, she offers him a split of the money, if he helps them find the dragonballs. The group, now four sets out to find Picolo. When they get to a place Roshi says is private, they run into a group of martial arts trainees practicing for an upcoming tournament.
OF course Goku runs into Chi Chi and she joins them on the quest. Picolo is grabbing the dragonballs one after the other, of course Goku and Picolo will meet and fight, the rest of the story makes as little sense as the beginning does, this movie is stupid and because it makes little sense, fans of the manga won't even enjoy this movie, Lord Picolo looks like someone that others would laugh at instead of fear, at least make the villain look evil.
I give Dragonball: Evolution a 0 and on my avoidance scale a great big 4, avoid this stupid childish movie at all cost, and as far as the title goes, they give us a twenty second explanation of the EVOLUTION of the dragonballs, then they jump right into this stupid movie.
Dragonball: Evolution is rated PG for Intense Sequences of Action/Violence and Brief Mild Language
Running time is 1 hr. 25 mins.
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