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Dragonball Evolution Details

2009 Certificate PG
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A young boy named Goku seeks out upon his grandfather's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. Read more

Starring Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung
Director James Wong
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Dragonball Evolution

A young boy named Goku seeks out upon his grandfather's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world.

Starring Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Yun-Fat Chow, Joon Park, Randall Duk Kim, Eriko Tamura, Ernie Hudson, Texas Battle, Chow Yun-Fat
Director James Wong
Studio 20th Century Fox
Run time DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 23 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: 31 Aug 2009
Blu-ray: 31 Aug 2009
Production year: 2009
Format DVD
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  • 1 stars out of

    Live-action caper based on the original manga cartoon strip that started in the 1980s, Luke Perry... read more on Time Out

    • David Jenkins, 
    • Time Out
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  • 20 out of 20 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    A major disappoinement

    Ok being a Dragonball fan myself I've been waiting for a live action movie for years, and now that it's finally here I wish they didn't bother, there are so many plot holes(the film is 70 minutes so it doesn't cover them or explain anything) has missing vital characters, the CGI energy attacks look more like a Gas rather than a solid (which they should be) the acting is below average all you have to do is watch the trailer to see this (See when Goku says 'Cool') the characters have no development through the entire film and are unbelievable, there are only 2 or 3 second moments that you could see in Dragonball but the rest of this film feels nothing like it.

    Theres no reason HollyWood can make a sequel as this is so bad so will the rest. T'would have been better if it was just an animated movie, like the Anime.

      • RichC from London
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Better than you'd expect

    Turn your brain right down to 1 before you watch this and you may just find that this is very enjoyable hokum. Absolute nonsense with no pretensions to being anything else. Ludicrous but well done fight scenes, dumb story that doesn't take a second of itself seriously and actors who are clearly having a grand time with the silliness of the whole thing. A perfectly acceptable way to while away an hour and a half or so.

      • William Brown from Edinburgh
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2,144 Member ratings
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  • 90
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  • 60
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  • 50
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  • 40
315
  • 30
83
  • 20
178
  • 10
68

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