Dragon Ball Z - Cast List

Hrm, it seems as though Stephen Chow is producing the movie. I loved Shaolin Soccer and Kung-fu Hustle...so perhaps this might not be -that- bad after all is said and done...hopes and dreams.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Slash

If I remember right...didn't Goku ALWAYS think he was ready? Even when he was laid out in the hospital.

Well from this take, this is supposed to be Dragon Ball, and not Dragon Ball Z.

But then again, I'm not sure they could cast an 8 year old and have him pull off everything the younger goku could.

I used to watch Dragonball and DBZ back in the days of me being a teen, and while I enjoyed the show for what it was (nothing but fighting and grunts), I don't think this movie will shine on the series in a negative way.

I mean, if you think DBZ was a massive spectacle of animation and storytelling, you need to get your head checked.

My only qualm (if you can even call it that) is that Roshi won't be perverted in anyway in this movie, and is Mr. Super Serious...but I could be pleasantly surprised...Chow Yun Fat hasn't failed me yet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, if they can make people look like hobbits, anything is possible.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, there we go. Chow Yun Fat doesn't fail me >.>.

I'll more than likely enjoy this movie due to the fact they did at least try to capture the spirit of the show, instead of making it a carbon copy. It's just going to be a light hearted martial arts movie, that's it.

Other than Chow Yun Fat, the woman who plays Bulma seems to portray her pretty well, although I can see at times she's -way- too serious about it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I have this awful genetic defect that handicaps me from ever really viewing a movie as a 'bad movie'. For the most part I always find some sort of redeeming factor in every single movie I watch, whether it's "Titanic" to "House of the Dead" to "The Wizard of Oz". The only two movies to that exception, that I flat out would never watch again with a gun to my head is "Disaster Movie" and "Alone in the Dark".

That being said, and after I finally sat down and watched the shitty quality, I didn't think that the movie was that bad in terms of what it actually is. If you look hard enough with what they changed from the manga/anime to fit a more 'widespread' audience, they still kept somewhat to the source material. Chi-chi's a rich daddy's girl who knows how to fight, Roshi still technically lives on an island surrounded by water, so forth and so on.

The dialogue/acting had it's hang-ups, but this movie suffers from every Live action adaptation of an anime or a game or whatever...and that it is too fast paced and tries to cram in too much.

Spoiler:

I will admit, however, that the last fight was pretty underwhelming, and when I was expecting a good 5 minute fight, it was more of a one minute special effects cannon. I was halfway expecting something along the lines of Roshi taking Goku into the time chamber (I know that was never in Dragonball, but it's a hell of a lot better than saying the monkey within gave him extra power).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

It's Piccolo in this movie. I guess Emperor Pilaf wouldn't have been cool enough.

They did take the whole 'late teens' Goku instead of the youngest of course.

Call me crazy, but I would have rather had that then trying to watch some 10 year old trying to fight big bad guys.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?