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  • Yamcha was introduced in this movie. But saying why vegeta buu cell and the rest of them are not here is because this is the Dragonball series this is the first of three I believe part 2 will be the Red Ribbon Army Attack and the final would be the World Martial Arts Tournament. Then we get Dragonball Z series probubly four to five movies long and last the Dragonball GT Series at least four movies.

  • Vegeta is my favorite character... MOVIE SUCKED!!!!!!

  • I didn't have to see the movie to know that it would be bad. Dragonball Z, with actual people??????

  • I'm sorry, moviepreviewcritic, but I have to disagree with you on this one. It's unworthy for anyone, even the fans. I can't see any fan of Dragonball wanting to see this piece of shit.

  • when u said bulma that pic was chi chi

  • @ainudoll9472

    No, in the movie, that was what they made Bulma look like. A real shame.

  • I have to agree with the idea that this movie is pretty much targeting the cool teen audience, mainly like the Harry Potter or Twilight adaptations. Most teens these days, seem to like things with a somewhat dark, and not all too innocent, which of course, does not fit the mold of the original show.

    However, one justification this has for making every character a teen is that its plotpoint seems focused around the King Piccolo and/or Piccolo Jr. Saga, where the characters were at that age.

  • dragon ball kai ?

  • ok dude no offense but this isnt that good a review. A review for this movie can only come from a tru DB fan. From wat uve said it sounds like u dnt giv a sh*t and ur gicing the wrong information. Plus, i think James Cameron would be the PERFECT director if they made a Dragon Ball Z movie about the Saiyan Saga. post if u agree

  • @LilDtherapper

    it was a good review since he based it on the preview and not the actual film, his briefing of the db past was a bit off, but what he said covered what happend in the movie, the movie was horrible, they tried to hard to make it modern, as well as making them older. Another cartoon series ruined, even if they based it on db / dbz just taking aspects of it, they didnt even do that well.

  • yea ur right but wat i was sayin was hes telling the wrong stuff and he tld the real stoory all wrong

  • what the fuck ix this guy talking about he knows nothing about dragon ball and no name what about chow yun phat. looks like he doesn't know anything about kungfu movies. reviewing previews is the stupidest idea i heard of......... evolution was a kick to the nuts to any dbz fan

  • that is a good point

    if it was a dbz movie that would be hard

    but a db movie puh pure easy

  • Well, I'm guessing they'll make a sequel based on that series at some point. And if they do, hopefully, they'll be DragonballZ enough to go somewhere outside the usual range of teenage entertainment that's become so mainstream lately.

  • lol dude the girl with the black hair and the bun is chi chi. Bulma is the chick with the blue hair.(though in this movie she only had a blue highlight and she had a pony tail lik how chi chi does in the series) i mean i kno u havnt watched dragon ball but if u watched DBZ like u said u should kinda kno that...

  • whoa that was CHI CHI not bulma LOL

  • this is nothing new, the movie industry is nothing more than a race of suits trying to rights cus theyre to lazy nowadays but good review, very well done analysis

  • you know what the should have done with the movie. with the title dragonball evolution, they should have done the in betweens, between each episodes. that way they could make up what ever they wanted. without hurting and damaging the fans.

  • you can clearly see this guy got is characthers wrong. master roshi > gohan and chichi ain't no bulma either. oh by the way son gohan was born before vegeta came into view. GOHAN, GOHAN, NOT MASTER ROSHI finds goku. hey 4.48 that is bulma not chichi next to goku. hang a sec vegeta isn't ment to show up on till after piccolo turns good. besides vegeta shows up in part 2 > dragonball z. to be honest i think if they are ever going to a triliogy it would be vegeta and frieza

  • that's sad if dragonball gets rated lower than the mortal kombat & power rangers movies.

  • true, but he still said the movie sucked so yeah

  • you've got the wrong picture of Bulma

  • Give TMPC a break, he already said he had no knowledge about DragonBall, hate you whiners who like to nag on every little detail thinking that what you love is so sacred.

  • Look. If he didn't know anything aout the series, then, WTF did he do this?!?!

  • Because it is a shitty movie?...I mean...yes it is...

  • Because *gasp*, he's a movie reviewer! It's his thought and opinion on the movie. I understand if it was the manga or the anime but the movie, no knowledge is needed. Plus, it was a PREVIEW review so this was nothing but some facts and mostly opinion

  • it is, besides the small mistakes i so agree with this guy

  • 2:08 bulma? dude you're not a decent critic person. WHY? because you don't even know what you're saying ... as soon as i noticed how wrong you were by saying that milk is bulma I said" WTF is he saying o.O"

  • moviepreviewcritic you are awesome, I agreed with everything you said. I always thought DBZ (cartoon) was really dam good, but this movie is god awefull

  • i've seen this movie and i've seen db and dbz. It was so horrible i laughed the whole way through it. They completely changed the story and the characters. It's is as he said "they only wanted the name" for a quick buck.

  • please do more research on DB

  • what!? he says that the 4th movie will be majin buu saga and the 5th the cell saga, if your going to do a review at least have some good background info on DBZ, the Cell saga was before the Buu saga.

  • I see why goku is a teenager in dragonball goku fought king picclo as a kid. THEN fought picclo jr. the picclo that appears in dragonbal Z as a teenager. in a pre-season of dragonball Z thus FOX using that season in the movie.

  • LOL you got all your predictions right, pretty good review you made , since you made it before DBE came out , you got it pretty accurate =)

  • I saw this movie in a plane...2/5 stars

  • wait a goddamn minute did he say cell buu part 4 cell part 5. . . tsk tsk

  • We know, he said from the start that he didnt know much about the series, but with that this is a good review.

  • and holy crap, 40 mil wasn't even close ! Try 8 mil

  • When you said he meets Bulma, you put Chi Chi's picture up haha

  • I think they should of animated it like the Final Fantasy movie, and they should of kept more to the original story.

  • omg u messed up big time

  • For many years i have known that nobody could make a good DBZ movie just because of the design the show had. Then i hear Dragonball, the earlier, toned down ver of DBZ will be a movie and i get a faint hope that maybe they might do it right. I KNOW this movie is made for a new audience. I KNOW it was made by FOX. And I KNOW that the old design wouldn't be popular with everyone. But that doesn't justify this THING that people call a movie. I say, no sequal and just let this movie die alone!!!!!!!

  • Master Roshi didn't find Goku, Grandpa Gohan did. Also, when you said Goku met Bulma, strangely you showed a picture of Chi Chi. Bulma had completely blue hair in the cartoon. Just wanted to point that out.

  • in my opinion they should made this movie like they did for final fantsasy and beowolf.

  • listen up all you yahoo whiners: This is an ADAPTATION AS WELL AS A STAND ALONE MOVIE. This movie is set IN THE PRESENT! Take it for what it is: a Movie that could get people INTERESTED IN DRAGON BALL. USUNKACHI.

  • master roshi doesnt find goku..

    lol

  • They said the 2nd movie was already written they just need to make the movie now.

  • Why dirty the name of dragon ball by putting it in that crappy ass movie ? NO

    using dragon ball evolution is a much better option because it uses the story a bit different from the original and because it really shouldnt fuck up the name dragon ball like that

  • evolution had to be the worst movie in history it sucked ass i'm not saying it wasn't entertaining but it ruined dragon ball for me they took goku's names and told gohan's story if they had use the name gohan and vedel and other names like that the movie would pass as decent but they just shot the movie to hell

  • thats chi chi

  • Lol "He meets bulma" *picture of chi chi"

  • Yeah the buu chronicles lasted like 20 episodes lol it was interesting though.

  • if theyre gunna make a movie out of a badass hit, take note of graphics and storyline, plus just giving them the look instead of bustin balls for fake hairdues >> we know its not gonna be perfect just make it as realistic as possible. why r they in highschool in db as said XD it wasnt in their days! it was prob when trunks was introduced but not during piccolo!

  • You know what would of been good for James Wong if he had a hand full of DragonBall fanatics as movie advisors....then, then maybe the movie wouldn't suck so much

  • yeah u mistaking chi chi for bulma XD but you don't care do you XD

  • please i like your videos but please dont make another dragonball video unless you watch and understand it more

  • it made 40 mil not in the u.s but world wide

  • thats not a lot if its world wide XD

  • the storyline, the character, the acting, the personalities of the character, every fucking thing in this movie is jacked up...

  • hollywood is crazy! they're like fuck the research, let's just add crap and put dragonball

  • ben ramsey is a fag

  • my favourite was the freeza fights that shit made me hard

  • they fucked this movie up

  • lol you got Bulma wrong, it was his mom in the picture u used

  • ur a dumb ass

  • how am i a dumbass?

  • That was goku's wife, not mom

  • If you like dbz you should really see dragon ball I think its much better

  • Dragon Ball was about who was better skill-wise and Dragon Ball Z was about who has a higher power level...(Also I won't criticize you, because you haven't seen the original Dragon Ball.)

  • you should check out dragonball kai and compare dragonball z to youself ^-^

  • dragon ball kai is the same as dbz

  • while dragonball Kai series speeds up the action sqennice so that way they don't talk along time.

  • There has already been a movie just called 'Dragon Ball'.

  • Sorry but any dragonball fans are really waiting for Fox to either do a revamp or a take a hike with this one. Dragonball is not supposed to be realistic, serious or even hip because the whole thing has that style. Even the origins of the dragonballs in this movie is bullshit let alone the fact that they have mixed up the villains. Mai is a ninja working for emperor Pilaf and Roshi lives on an island with a friggin talking turtle. They even talk about airbending. This is not Avatar!!!!

  • 2:06 That's Chi-Chi Mate...

  • 40$ million???

    NO

  • this movie should have been 3D rather then live action

  • the part about seven mystic is really cool actually

  • Awesome job MPC.

  • yeahyeahyeah... why make that chinees men his own Db or dbz story.. a perfect trilogy..  a mix .. xmen starwars , thats better then the first 14 episodes of db.

    no krillin, no gohan, no vegeta....

    the movie sucks

  • HE'S DOING LUK CAGE!??! NOOOO!!!!

  • hwood did ruin our childhoods.....

  • it only made like 8 million

  • You're usually uncanny, but I think you didn't arrive at the logical conclusion until the very end and maybe not even fully at that point. They gave whoever-it-is-who-wrote this three or four bullet points, a few names, and the title of the movie and let him have at it. The title, evolution, is to clue us into the fact that this is not going to be a traditional Dragonball...

    ..and honestly I didn't know this exist until you reviewed it. Not really a fan.

  • faggot don't make a review u know nothing about, it's like fucking a chick when ur obvioisly a fag

  • it's like trying be funny on youtube when you're an idiot.

  • Looks like u just exposed yourself then

  • the 2 street fighter movies hold on thers just 1 street fighter movie

  • He fights KING picollo in dragonball

  • that's not bulma that's chichi

  • As much as I liked Dragon Ball Z, this movie is something I rather would forget, even if it's timeline is a bit different (like most time inconsistent DBZ animated movies), way too drastic for fans who are very loyal to the Manga and Anime. Hell even the chinese movie take on the Dragon Ball saga was more faithful even though it was filmed either in the late 70s or early 80s, even though part of the set was going to be reused years later to do MK: Annihilation. Good Review 2 thumbs up MPC.

  • A couple years back (7years) when me and my friends were still in high school we were kinda talking about a if live action DBZ where to take place, were potential actors where extremely right at the time.

    Jet Li (Picollo - Hell the only DB villain we know that made Goku scream like a B-, in the 23rd Tournament), Jackie Chan and Shao Yun Fat (Master Roshi) and Chuck Norris (Hercule - He's gotta have a part or he'll round house kick you in the head) XD

  • at 4:57, CHI CHI IS NOT BULMA! The girl at the top is Chi Chi, Goku's wife. The girl at the bottom is Bulma, a friend of goku's, but definitely not his love interest. YOU GOT IT WRONG MOVIE PREVIEW CRITIC!! No offense.

  • sad thing... it failed as an adaptacion... and as a movie

  • Wow, usually you'r on the money MPC, btu you got so much stuff wrong in this preview.

  • the only movie i liked from the director of the dragonball evolution was the one with jet le, i never really liked luke cage from the comics, (because he had retarded ethics a hero for hire? the point of a hero is not to be a seeker of fame but doing it to protect and save people) kinda of the same way i feel about the fantastic four, for a black superhero movie i would rather see spawn (well hes more of an anti-hero), black panther, a storm spin off, or a war machine spin off.

  • there is a guy that basically tried to build up this movie with the dragonball updates, his name is deadlock04 or something like that..he is a total tool, trying to talk up that the movie made 55 million when its cost 50 million to make.

    its a fucking failure.

  • Your review is on da money 5/5

  • instead of making real life char they could of use the same technology the use to make the final fantasy 7 movie.

  • hhaha the movie only made about 5 million right??

  • In America, but it hit #1 in several countries in South East Asia.

  • a few mistakes but never mind in my opinion it even better when somebody impartial is stating the fact that the film is hopeless nobody now will say that this film is good since even people which don't know the DBZ DBGT DB state that a DBE film is a fucked up

  • To be honest, this is the best review so far on this so called Dragonball movie.

    Some of you are judging because the reviewer doesnt know anything about dragonball, I actually think its good because he can give is honest opinion about the "movie" and not on the entire background of dragonball and where they went wrong. (which we all know they did)

    But even so, he says its good and bad, and added his comments on the "movie".

    All and all, very good review...why u should/shouldnt watch it.

  • dude u have no right to talk about DB since u dont know anything about it!!

  • it's still a movie, and in the preview stages when this video was posted. and since he's the movie preview critic, he still has some say.

  • Just read what "Grizel29" said, if he wanted to say something he should have done some googling as it would only take less than 5min,

    IMO u dont have the right to criticize something u know nothing about!

  • hey mr. movie critic do you know what you are talking about some of the time, you got some things wrong..yeah you said you don't know much about dragonball but looking up a little more info would make you sound less of a idiot..im just saying

  • Even though you got a few things wrong, this review is proof that even the casual movie-goer would realize how much this movie sucks without even knowing the REAL story! You hit the nail right on the head, why make them all teenagers? Why did they create their own storyline for the movie when the series is so goddamn long that it has ENDLESS source material for plots? And what the hell was with the romance? The director and writer REALLY DID NOT GET this series AT ALL and it showed painfully.

  • dude it was a Saturday mooring cartoon

  • man stop saying how are you going to put DB into 90min movie? look at the pirate movies. theyre like 3 hours long, and they turned out to be awesome. they could have made this movie awesome if they wanted to. they chose not to. i hope the director dies a painful death.

  • lol boo series 4 and cell series 5 wtf????

    and bulma is chichi ???

    he has no idea what hes talking about

  • That, movie, sucked!!!!!! Big time!

  • You, sir, know little to nothing about Dragonball AND DRAGONBALL Z

    For example, Buu came AFTER Cell.

    You think Gohan reverses in age from about 20 to about 16?!

    You, sir, are an ignorant jackass.

    You're wrong about it sucking, as well.

    It actually blows...your fucking heart out!

    What a motion picture disappoiontment.

    Wait a minute . . . you think the 1st Power Rangers movie kept the tone & SPIRIT of the series?!

    The 1st power rangers movie was a terrible EXAGGERATION of the series!

  • What a dumbass ... Calling someone ignorant just because they don't know everything about some jap comic ...

  • haha, jap.

  • some of your facts are wrong sir. looks like u mistaken chichi for bulma.

  • During the end of Dragonball, Goku was a teenager

  • that picture of "Bulma" u shown was Chichi

  • lmao i was thinknig wtf

  • this is actually doing extremely miserable in the box office.

  • i agree with u! 100%

  • i know close to nothing about Dragonball too, but isnt bulma the girl with the blue-ish hair, and the one woth black hair is gokus wife who only come in later in the series?

  • Shakirr

    Kind of =P yea bulma is the Blue hair girl and chichi is the black hair But chichi was In DragonBall as well when he went to Fight the Ox King which is chichi's father.

    (side note)

    Chichi and goku only got married Because chichi asked him when he was a kid and he Thought it was Food =P

  • Hey DB fans. I just uploaded a DBE video review which also postulates why the movie tanked domestically and abroad. Enjoy!

  • very true you don't no anything about DB,DBZ or GT =P

    1. the USA version was more like a Saturday cartoon as from some Odd reason USA dubber Think thats what the USA ppl wanted.

    2. The Jap version Was more on the For real side Showing Blood and the Death of ppl etc etc But with that they Hade good time and comedy with in the Anime.

    3. it's not the cast that Make ppl Mad at the New Movie, It's Very Bad story line They Made up, which the real storyline or new storyline Come have been made

  • 4. What Should have Been Done Was make a Added Movie to the Storyline with in the storyline Kind of like What the Anime Movies Do, And/or Setup for more then 2-4 movies in all telling the story of the whole Dragon Ball/Z/GT Starting where Dragon ball and the Story of Kid Guko and How he Came to be etc etc And for the Fans of the Dragon Ball Anime they Could have Just Added in More to the Story Yet Not Kill the Story All together.

  • lol opening weekend for the us box office i thik was $4.12 million.

  • 3:42~3:58

    oh god i can't agree even more

  • btw

    the box office opening was a mere 4.3 million for the US of A

    worldwide so far it has made around 44 million

  • watched it

    it was pretty bad

    if i had the time, software, and a microphone, i would make a review

    but i don't

  • I think they are trying so hard to make this into a popular teen movie, by takinging it out of its origainal context andrepackaging into a hgh school love story (as seen in the comercials)

    Its almost like they are trying to make it seem like dragonball but add the stupid igh school musical virus into the storyline.

    so I think this movie is going to bomb

    also if they are going to make a Dragonball movie. at least do it with japanese actors like jet lee and dont doa high school love story

  • You don't know much like you said about DB lol, You need 2 change the pics 2 the right characters & finally the Cell saga comes be4 the Majin Buu saga not afterwards. ;)

  • LOL You really are telling the truth about knowing squat about Dragonball names and pics need to match up.Dragonball is the first half of the manga Dragonball Z is the second half but DRAGONBALL GT is not a part of the original manga I personally regect it as Dragonball.I think you are confused with the sequence of events, Cell is before Boo.

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  • Well, it's pretty obvious you don't know much about Dragon Ball, since you mixed up Bulma and Chichi (Bulma is the one with the blue hair and is the brains of the group, at best relying on a gun in a fight). The sad thing is, though, pretty much everything aside from the most basic elements (names and superpowers, mostly) are thrown out, so your assessment is still spot on. There is really nothing similar between Dragonball and Dragonball Evolution.

  • Love how he asks why goku isn't 12 in the movie... he really hasn't seen much of DB huh?

    The piccolo fight takes place just before the DBZ saga. Goku had grown up by then.

  • I think he meant that since the movie is called only Dragonball it should be like the Dragonball part of the series were Gokus is a kid.

    Not grown ups like in Dragonball Z.

  • Actually, Goku looked about like he did at the beginning of the series at the Piccolo fight. He was fifteen, but he didn't have any growth spurt until three years afterward when he fought Piccolo Jr.

  • I read the manga when I was a kid (never watched the anime) and this was a terrible, lazy adapation. It's the "Streetfighter movie" of our generation.

  • except the irony of that statement is that there was a streetfighter movie released this year.

  • You did an excellent job reviewing this.

  • i was a big fan of DBZ when i was a kid and knew the dragon ball story but when i saw this movie i was very dissapointed,i do not recommend this movie especally to the fans of DBZ. :(

  • LMAO ROFL!!! that is soo true the fight scenes take about 8 or 9 episodes lol!!!

  • Moviepreviewcritic i havn,t seen the movie yet but when you made the comment about the fight scenes i couldn,t help but laugh out loud because its soo true. In the series it takes about 3 episodes of powering up 2 more episodes of talking shit untill finally the fight episode happens than someone dies and has to be wished back with the dragonballs like krillin and the weaker characters plus they have meaningless character intermissions that are irritating as hell its hillarious really.

  • ok one thing with the name "dragon ball evolution" was actually a mistake if you read about it on wikipedia.the evolution was not supposed to be on there be they decided to keep it anyway.now bout the movie itself, if you remember goku had been a or maybe atleast an early adult before dbz and ive heard there is a 3 part series now my prediction is dbz next then GT and hopefully the actors will get better or get new ones.but ending this it did suck but you can agree there a few good parts.

  • JAJAJAJA

    You think Dragonball Z is slow when fighting? xDDD

    Try watching Naruto.

    Also... ...

    Don't.... make... a review like this one without really knowing about the original Dragon Ball

    3/5

    Sorry...

  • I have to agree with this guy. It's really not wise to comment on the story if you haven't read the manga or watched the original Dragonball series.

    As someone who knows the entire story of Dragonball, I have to say it's really horrible what they've done. The main thing that concerns me is how Piccolo's character is totally messed up. It's like they've tried to merge the characters of King Piccolo, Piccolo Jr. and Kami into one.

  • I'm a girl x)

  • Oops, my apologies.

  • It' ok xD

  • Pretty nice review but i don't know how you could do it with knowing nothing about DB

  • Dragon ball is more of a martial arts series then dbz.

  • vegeta was never introduced in Dragonball....he came in Dragonball Z after Goku defeated his brother in the beginning of the series. Goku, Chi Chi, Master Roshi, Bulma, Krillin, and Yamcha were the main characters in the TV series. Lord Piccalo was of course the villain.

  • don't judge a movie about dragonball if you don't know shit because you can't judge characters in the movie if you don't know the back story and please stop getting chi and bulma mixed up

  • get your info right

  • this is a GREAt MOVIE ever.... i hope it will have a part 2...

  • its not pronounced Maynga its pronounced [mahn-gah]!!! MANGA GET IT RIGHT!

  • stupid japanophile.  who cares

  • dude, you got roshi & grandpa gohan mixed up. & you got bulma & chichi mixed up -_-

  • i think you got chi chi and bulma mixed up sir

  • the cartoon looks less gay. i never thought id say that.

  • i hope the makers of the movie die. Please GOD. This movie was so Much SHIT....KAMI created the Dragonballs, not some old chinese fucking geezers GOD DAMNIT

    Good Review and btw...The Japs would have done a better job creating this movie i think :) they would have done it more in details, like bulmas hair and so on...GOD DAMNIT again

  • evolution because its an adaption making its own story from an original source with out being script to script making it a new series.

  • it made 4 million so even if i seen the movie and i spent 10 dollors for it its a 30% chance that they will make a second movie

  • this movie = phail

  • y do u use chi chi as bulma

  • cell is after majin buu tmpc

  • Emm... no.

  • its not big deal to make piccolo. they made him white

  • Wow...Power Rangers better than Dragonball...never saw that coming...

  • Good review... I agree that the Dragon Ball series was not suppose to be as dark as they portrayed it in the film. But my biggest problem with the movie was the fact that Goku played by Justin Chatwin turned into his ape form without the moon and by a solar eclipse. That basically rules out Dragonball GT from being accurate even if they do decide to go that far. I mean how often is a solar eclipse going to happen? It would also have been nice if they would have introduced Krillin and Tien.

  • 02:06 that not Bulma that's Chi Chi, but this like the only movie services to Otukus. ; but this movie is going be fail.

  • he should be playing ace ventura not goku ..........

  • the long fights were bad ass the was the shit but the movie not so great

  • and 2 years from now I better see some vegeta and broly on steroids!

  • well people are stupid, i would rather it be more directed to the fans than trying to bring in a new audience cause if all these stupid emo kids are looking for another twilight then they don't watch this movie, only the true fans would

  • but then again you did say this movie is str8 emo and it is teenage dumbass will eat this shit up

  • wow u need to pull this vid u dont know shit at all i was give the benifit but u should stop for i and MANY fanz bash this film it aint safe fucking with db

  • this film is proof whites are evil you know why goku white because whites take.....period, look at jesus!!!!hes really middle-eastern(dark) and a jew