People might throw stones at me but thats just fine. I love Dragon Ball as a franchise and I believe it to be a constantly evolving property full of passionate creators + a loyal audience. It’s no surprise that it is loved so much since Dragon Ball is a classic that shaped the path for other animes.
But it came to a stop at one point — And that was it. End of Z and GT, no more Goku. Until the coffin reopened, bringing a new flame to the franchise.. A live adaptation. The curse of live adaptation did not break with this one, in fact DB:Ev is one of the first hated adaptations.
Did you know that the creator, Toriyama, who had little involvement/no involvement at all with the film, hated it so much that he created Dragon Ball Super? And that the popular voice actor of Zamasu in English dub took his role for free to repay the Dragon Ball audience for his participation in the live adaptation? Yeah, he was Piccolo, who looked more like a skrull from the MCU.
Was this film actually that bad? Yes, no doubt about it. Master Roshi is a boomer living somewhere that definitely isn’t Kame house, he’s different and looks too young. Bulma is.. can’t even describe her — And Goku is a playboy who fights to impress Chichi at her birthday party. He asks his grandpa Gohan for advice on how to take her out. Seriously, its that bad. Oh and there are four elements, like from Avatar. Don’t question it..
Dragonball Evolution is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of a bad film. It’s not faithful to the source material, it’s poorly written, and it barely qualifies as Dragon Ball—yet somehow, I found genuine enjoyment in watching it. There’s something strangely captivating about how off it is, like a trainwreck you can’t look away from.
It’s utterly ridiculous but a cinematic disaster that I appreciate. To misunderstand Dragon Ball to this degree and turn it into something this stupid — Such a bad film, it just fills me with something I can’t describe.
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This isn’t an unpopular opinion. Why do you think TeamFourStar shit on it 16 years ago?
That’s more or less what most people have said about it. It’s terrible and how did it become so off base? It’s not even the first to do that. The Super Mario Bros movie starring Bob Hoskins in the early 90’s is more a cyberpunk dystopia in some human dinosaur hybrid parallel universe version of New York City and outside of character names has almost no recognition to the source material. However the super Mario bros movie has attained its own cult status while the dragon ball film is still rated among the worst movies of all time (at least considering the budget of 30 million or whatever it was)