Dragonball Movie

The new Dragonball: Evolution film is a case of directors and writers not knowing where their movie is based on. The story is quite far from what the anime originally is. The actors' portrayal of different characters is way way different from how these characters are written in the original story. This movie is marketed more for the special effects than the story. People might watch this simply for the curiousity in the title. I'm guessing all the fans and followers of this classic anime would be very much dissappointed like me. Dragonball started in me the love for japanese animation. Not Astroboy, not Voltes V, not Daimos. Don't get me wrong, Daimos and Voltes V are good. But Dragonball makes one want to watch the episode because the story is based on arcs, unlike Daimos and Voltes V where episodes are practically "stand-alone" except for the beginning and final episodes. I'm guessing a number of people would still go watch this. I imagine two people coming out from cinemas: (1) people disgusted (people who actually know the story) (2) amazed at the effect (people who haven't watched a single episode of DB).

Some people might say that, like Transformers, this movie is just an adaptation. Well I say this, at least the Transformer movie still followed some of the original transformer facts. And also at least the robots look similar to the original bots and created nostalgia among fans. This movie however would say, "wow, is that the monkeyboy Gokou?"

The cast suggestion below would have been better... I love the choice for Chao Zhu.