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| Dragonball Evolution Year of Release: 2009 Director: James Wong |
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What it’s about: Goku is not your average high school student, he has for years been trained by his grandfather in the ways of martial arts. When his grandfather is killed by the evil Piccolo, he sets out to find all seven dragon balls in order to stop Piccolo from attaining them first and taking over the world. The Verdict: Well...what can I say about this film? To begin with, I know it differs quite a lot from its source material – but for this review I wish to judge it on how well it told the story it wanted to rather than how closely it stuck to the manga and anime. Yeah, it doesn’t do it very well. Watching it, you can see it wants to be a big movie – Like blockbuster big – but overall it is just quite crappy, and smallish. It's action scenes provide no large scope and instead are just mildly amusing at best, it also seems to not be able to decide how cartoony it wants to be. Its colourful like a cartoon, sometimes characters do cartoony things (such as Master Roshi’s weird humour, and Goku’s random comic slide into a watermelon or something near the beginning), but at the same time it’s like it doesn’t want to be cartoony. The characters of Goku and Chi Chi are young and in love – but man those scenes with them are so damn awkward, and not just because Goku is supposedly awkward around girls, their dialogue is cringe worthy and just awkward, you feel like you’ve accidentally walked in on something you shouldn’t have – and you can’t leave. A line which is said a couple of times in this film really bothers me – “The first rule is, there are no rules” – Does no one else really hate how by saying “The first rule is” it completely screws over the fact you’re trying to say there are no rules, because you clearly just said a rule. Despite a very short running time, most of the film feels like it doesn’t really have enough happening to sustain it, but at least the end fight is somewhat entertaining.  (2 and a 1/2 Craptastic Stars)Golden Craptastic moment: The final fight wins the craptastic moment for this one. Mostly because it is the most entertaining bit of the film, but it does have a fairly bad looking giant ape at this point too. |
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