Dragonball Evolution - Nostalgia Critic
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- Little Kuriboh and MasakoX join the fight against the worst anime adaptation of all time, Dragonball Evolution. It kicks you right in the Dragon Nards.
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Dragonball Evolution is a 2009 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow, Tim van Rellim and written by Ben Ramsey. The film is loosely based on the Japanese Dragon Ball manga created by Akira Toriyama, and stars Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-fat, Joon Park, and Eriko Tamura.
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FIRST JK
The Last Airbender. No exceptions.
I've waited literal years for this video to exist! Thank you all!
it's a tie between this movie and the Black Butler live action one. so much shit.
Channel Awesome Now do the Death Note movie.
Fun fact, Akira Toriyama was so horrified by this movie that he cited it as his motivation for creating Dragon Ball Super
Shit really?
@@lolno6015Apparently so.
Holy shit
Dude, seriously? 😮
@@wilsonjonah I mean, I'm just guessing. Might wanna take that with a grain of salt though.
"The biggest insult to Japanese culture since Hiroshima"
Nagasaki don't forget Nagasaki.
@@Heranara but this is worse than both simply because this is an assault on 2 countries
hiroshimas what fucked them up in the first place
Heranara This would have been concidered an act of terrorism if Japan won the war or if it was done in modern times. Instead America is seen in history books as the hero for killing tons of civilians instead of soldiers : go USA, USA.
@@Heroinedown libtard
"Goku, who hated fighting--" Let me interrupt you right there. Goku hated fighting NEEDLESSLY. He actually quite enjoyed fighting, but only once everyone involved agreed to do it.
I was just about to say that
He practiced consensual fighting!
To be fair, it's easy to confuse Goku with his son Gohan when watching this movie.
THAT QUTE MADE ME ANGRY FOR SOME REDON
I was just about to comment this
Fun fact: James Marsters aka the guy who played Piccolo in Evolution played Zamasu in the Dragon ball Super English dub. He did a fantastic job.
I also heard he did it for free
I didnt know that. Im already a fan of his from his reading of the Dresden Files
Another fun fact, during his first time getting into his full Piccolo outfit, he’s the only one who asked where Piccolo’s antennas were.
That is true, I think it was like an apology to the fans of Dragon Ball that he went on to voice Zamasu after being in this terrible film
Ironic
That low budget sketch WAS more faithful. A LOT MORE FAITHFUL!
And hilariously true. I think it's actually my favorite part of the review.
Tabula Rasa same
It was Leonardo Crocetta
@@lordgazimus5662 no
Because the jokes alone tell us "hey! *They bothered to watch an episode of the show!"* while the movie said, "They read a half-assed sparknotes summary of the original Dragonball's plot."
The creator of Dragon Ball actually said that this movie wasn’t Dragon Ball
PotatoMateYT !!! This movie actually inspired Super. As in it was so bad that Toriyama was like I need to continue making good shit, not Hollywood ruining my shit.
@@jcast39atmsn at least super is *DRAGON BALL*
@@RaikanGinro Shity Dragon Ball tho' *[imo.]*
@@sleipnirodin2881 can you agree that ultra instinct is cool
@@RaikanGinro hmmmm... I must admit it is more "imaginativ' " than just changing hair color,... And the animation step up sooo... Ya, kinda.
How sad is it that scott pilgrim had better dragonball fights than this movie
Scott Pilgrim is a masterpiece, both in graphic novel form and in Edgar Wright's fantastic movie 😁
Burn🔥
Man of Steel had better Dragonball fights too
@@intheclear3492 yeah, and that is saying a lot
@@intheclear3492 Man of Steel + Matrix Revolutions = The perfect DB movie.
...
...when it comes to the wanton destruction and fights, that is.
I’ve never even seen Dragon Ball Z and even I can tell that low budget skit was more faithful than the movie.
@Kryptoskillet Lmaooo
Nicolas Cage gets announced as Vegeta, then later that week is found beaten in an alley hogtied and hancuffed with a rubber ball gag in his mouth, placed there by enraged DBZ fans. Enough said.
@Kryptoskillet did not even get that right
@Kryptoskillet nah it's just a super hero movie called dragon ball
A movie sssooo bad, it forced Akira Toriyama out of a 10 year retirement and back into DBZ. Let that sink in...
And that's LITERALLY the only thing that came out of db evolution
anime king It was useful for something after all.
Jay Mike
Nope
It's still better than Dragon Ball Super.
sooooo........ it was for the better...
Not quite retirement, Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger anyone?
He also had students that drew the Spartan 1337 episode to one of the Halo movies.
Goku hated fighting is an overstatement. Goku hated meaningless violence, he f-in loved fighting...sanctioned fights.
And Food
Those worthy of fighting, specifically.
Goku is a blood knight. He loves fighting to push his own limits. It's why he wanted the Tournament of Power in the first place.
Only Hollywood can turn one of the most original manga and anime series into one of the least original movies.
Most original? The opening arc of Dragon Ball is just a retelling of Journey to the West.
Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z both have good ideas, both have very good aspects, but neither are particularly original.
@@geoffreysorkin5774 maybe but the fanbase is still HUGE
@@geoffreysorkin5774 As Shakespeare said: There is no original under the sun.
@@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec of course. As I made clear in my comment, I like both series, they are good, but not original
@@geoffreysorkin5774 a retelling? I don't remember journey to the west with a dragon that concedes wishes. For me it's just the names and that goku is part monkey.
The first few minuets of Nostalgia Critic's intro was more accurate to dragon ball then this entire movie.
Agreed and they weren't even trying
"Meanwhile, on Bowser's airship..."
I'm dead xD
15:47 and 16:02 I love how this movie decides to be THE MATRIX FOR A MINUTE!!!
Disclaimer: He writes this comment from the afterlife.
good.
Alucard J.B M.P HOLY SHIT! THIS MAN IS DEAD! SOMEBODY HELP!
WHY ARE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE MATRIX?!
A MAN IS DEAD!!
It called Doomship little kuriboh lol
I'm RIGHT THERE WITH YA MALCOLM! F*CK THIS ABOMINATION
JaxBlade Hey it's you!
I like your channel dude. That was easily the funniest part.
JaxBlade same now I'm plz he did my top most hated adaptations ever made Super Mario Bros., The Last freaking Airbender, and now Dragonball Evolution
THE RITUAL SHALL BEGIN!!!
JaxBlade hey how ya doin
Well, we should thank that the movie exist. If it wasn't for *Dragonball Evolution* , Toriyama would've not had come aboard for BOG, ROF, and basically revived the whole Dragon Ball series
Ah yes. What would we do without Ultra Ego, Ultra Instinct, Super Saiyan Rage (literally a name pulled from the ATARI game Legacy of Goku 2, for the at that time unnamed Super Saiyan 2), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Evolved, Final Gohan, Yellow Piccolo, Orange Piccolo, Cell Max...
Yes. Thank goodness BOG, ROF and DBS exists as a whole...........
@@macdaddymario Hey, man, I don't mind Final Gohan and Yellow/Orange Piccolo. At least they're trying make characters have their big moments beside Goku and Vegeta.
Fun Fact: James Marsters, who plays Piccolo in this movie and Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, became the voice of Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super.
From fraud to legit, honestly congrats to him
@@kannonball5789 He did what he could given the circumstances and redeemed himself
@@BlueBlazeKing his agent done him dirty with this movie. He looked like the ugly spawn of an Orion and Vulcan.
I just find it funny that in the TFS DBZ Halloween special, Piccolo was dressed as Spike.
Fun fact, he was literally the main reason Piccolo was GREEN.
Friend- "Want to watch the live action Dragon Ball movie?"
Me- "There is no live action Dragon Ball movie."
Friend- "Yes there is it is ri-"
Me- "I said there is no live action Dragon Ball movie."
That PS Gamer * friend lays dead on the ground with a broken neck.*
Technically there's 3 of them. 1 is surprisingly not bad actually
That PS Gamer i have a friend he want go to se with me thank god i have ecperience wirh him choising movi the two previous movie he dragme are hause of the dead and dogs vs cats
Really? What are they called?
That PS Gamer just like there's no batman movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.
Sad part is... They barely scratched the surface on how badly the movie didn't follow its source material. Tooooooo many to list
Kelly K yeah if they did we would be here for days
Kelly K To be fair they only had a half hour...
Kelly K needs a part 2
Sadder. The latin American dub had the voice actor of the real (real franchise) goku and pikoro (thats his name in latin american dub), voicing fake (dragon ball evoution) goku and picolo. and not even that could save it
Kelly K That's why I don't think he should've reviewed this movie, he doesn't give a shit about Dragon Ball.
Why Wouldn’t Goku’s Grampa Let Him Out of The House Just to go to a House Party?I Totally Thought His Gramps Would be Cooler Than That
Good question. The better question is why does Goku even care about a house party? He's never had any interest in social gatherings unless food/fighting is involved. Hell, at the time he was still living with Grandpa Gohan, they were living in the middle of the wilderness in a house the size of a shed, with Bulma hitting him with her car being his first instance of human contact outside his grandpa, so why should he care about parties?
Gohan would definitely have let him! This is the man that said he didn't want to be brought back because he found a girlfriend in the after life
Why Do You Write Like This
I don't think Goku even asked him.
@@adamsarufan2656 oh,Yeah,it is Polite to Ask 1st
13:07
Isn't that more of a Gohan thing?
"Hated fighting and only did it when he had to"
Hey all that weed really got too him
Don't think he knows himself.
@@kayzeaza and in all of the OG dragon ball, did Goku ever *hate* fighting? who's the one who enthusiastically wanted to fight the mummy dude and smiling throughout that? who's the one who agreed joyfully saying he was also just going to ask to train at Kami's after being offered the chance? what was the entire Roshi and Krillin training story before the tournament?
there's a difference between only having to fight when someone has to while being happy about it and only having to fight when someone has to and hating it, dear stranger who's acting like DBZ/S Goku ain't used to be DB Goku
Goku in DB was much less prone to fight for no reason, that was a DBZ thing Toriyama added along with the whole saiyan lore.
@@nothanks7063 that’s not true at all! Goku’s favorite activities from the very beginning are fighting and eating, in that order
*I think it's a given that virtually 99% of live action anime adaptations will suck*
Brandon Lyon
I belive I heard that the majority of Japan actually liked our American Ghost in the Shell. I haven't seen either of the versions so I wouldn't know if it was good.
The original live action Death Note was pretty good.
In America.
Mothra Leo the Divine Moth from what I undersyltan, US Ghost in The Shell is a decent action film.
Actually no. The reception for Japan was split.
*Goku:* "Teach me to be normal"
*Goko, ten minutes later:* * spouts some shit about an alien race that nearly destroyed Earth 2,000 years ago *
Well of course that happened, he STILL wasn't taught how to be normal.
Given how many relics we have found that are far older than 2,000. There should be at least some evidence that Goku's story is true.
Well, also, the teacher didn't contradict or make fun of him. So maybe in the film universe the legend is like our Atlantis.
Also, they couldn't even get the name right. Namek is the name of a planet. NAMEKIANS are the names of Piccolo's race.
Later...
Goku: Hi, how are ya?
When I see little Kuribo speaking, all I can hear is the pharaoh dissing on this movie
I was really hoping he'd break out his Frieza voice
27:42
I love how you can see everyone trying not to laugh their asses off when he starts screaming
One correction to the commentary: Goku only *killed* when he had to, fighting was usually his first reaction to meeting new people.
Yeah. That's what he did with Frieza.
@@darkmagician290 and he kept letting him go so he could be a better fight later
But only if he thinks they're strong. He doesn't like to *settle his differences* with violence. He punches the things he thinks can punch harder than he can, not always the people who're mean and are totally beneath him- except for Freeza's soldiers, for obvious reasons.
Yes and no. He always wanted to spar with everyone he met. Go figure, he's a martial arts nut and wants to test his skill wherever he goes. However, he never seeks out a fight. He could have gone full superman, picking off petty criminals day after day and getting constant fighting, but he didn't. There are only ever three places you see him; Fighting to save the planet/universe, training, and home.
I thought you were consumed by your species?? Have you been revived by the pecking order??
"Beware the Nemeks..."
You mean the N A M E K I A N S??
Surely you mean Namek-jin.
Yes...just anglicized.
I think that halfway through that sentence Justin just threw up in his mouth after realizing he's in DBE.
"Okay, Justin, you got this, every young man alive would kill to play Goku in your place, just stop farting and deliver the line for once... Beware the Namekians... Come on, it's just three words, you can do it..."
*"Beware the Nae BLOARGH! meks..."*
"What the fuck was that? Oh, God, I'm in Dragon Ball Evolution... Who the hell am I kidding here? It's awful, it's all fucking awful and my career is dead... Dead before it was ever even born... Maybe we can still reshoot that?"
*"Hey, director, can we reshoot that?"*
*"What the fuck do you think this is!? This is DRAGON BALL EVOLUTION, of course we won't reshoot that. Do you think we have the budget for that much tape? Did you see our CGI? Did you see Chow's cocaine bills? After we're done shooting you guys will still owe 20th Century Fox 20 000$ each, your salaries included"*
*"Oh, man... I am beginning to think this was a bad decision from my agent... I mean my mom's part..."*
In various English dubs of DBZ, they were referred to as "Nameks", so it's not entirely inaccurate.
EASTERN EUROPEAN ORPHAN It's sad, too. From what I heard, this guy did some research on this series. It may not be much but it's hell of a lot more than what the director did for research which was nothing.
The quote "WHO GIVES A SHIT?!?!" basically describes what the writers felt about the source material.
even the write hated the movie
@@Takato2527 that doesn't surprise me.
@@InkAndPoet if you wanna blame, blame Fox or the director (or both). Imagine hiring a director who hated DBZ just to cash in the popularity. Not to mention, even the director rejected Akira Toriyama's help.
@@Takato2527
who pushed the writer into typing the dialogue into this sh!tshow?!
The writer tried writing something more faithful but the studio wanted something more generic and marketable.
Goku was never a perv in the manga. He was basically asexual. He had never seen a girl before he met Bulma though, so was initially perplexed and curious to why she didn’t have any ”balls”.
He did the same thing to Chi-Chi when he first met her
@@MariOmor1 and an old lady, who seemed to find it funny, in a weird way.
His sexuality is fist
What's sad is that the parody they did WAS actually closer to the anime then the movie.
oh man anit that a kick in the head
@@robert23456789 yeah
I agree Ash Ketchum and I even only glanced at scenes of episodes here and there
It was a bit cringey.. but Looks? Accurate. Lip Lock? Funny parody of dubs with issues (not always the dubbers fault). THE KI ATTACKS ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE THEYRE SUPPOSED TO!!!
Even ERB did a better Goku than the live action adaptation.
Screw the rules, i'm Vegeta
Screw the rules, I have money!
How can you screw the rules when the are no rules, Koiba?
Screw the rules, i have spiky hair
@@legokiller3579 Now I want to see DBZ abridged Vegeta and Yuguioh Abridged Kaiba meet they are pretty similar.
Wait a minute, did you just make a bunch of Yugioh and Dragon Ball Z references in one turn??
Oddly enough Critic's rant at the end actually raises some questions, why does no one ever wish for the ability to raise the dead. It makes more sense than having to go to hell directly to keep bringing the character back. Seriously this is the fourth time Frieza's come back to life and he's the villain!
You just reminded me of the TFS version of worlds strongest
Giving someone the power is different than actually using it. It may be tougher than it looks since you’re violating the laws of physics
Exactly
The dragon can't grant a wish beyond the power of the person that created him. We hear this line a number of times later in the series. This means Kami could revive people and didn't (Krillin, Roshi, Chiaotzu in DB when they die fighting King Piccolo and their bodies remain on Earth), could grant immortality and didn't (at all, to any time, to any of the heroes of the series), could create planets, and didn't...
You're asking why no one wished for the ability, when half of the wishes in the series were unneeded to begin with?
He only died twice but I get what you're saying!
13:02 Honestly, let's just be glad Krillin was spared from this suck fest movie. With how bad it is, I could easily see them turning Krillin into the stupid geeky-best-friend-that-main-character-leaves-in-the-dust-to-look-cool trope rather than giving him the respect he deserves.
Movie Krillin Owned Count awaaaaayyy!!
That'd kind of whst happened to Krillen anyway lol
Well Krillin would've been the only thing faithful to the source material at least
Krillin wasn't in the Pilaf arc and was dead in the King Piccolo arc anyway which this movie adapts.
"Piccolo is dressed like a piccolo"
*shows a picture of a clarinet*
Yeah, I wonder if there is a meta joke there somewhere or somebody tricked them
Nostalgia Critic made the same mistake in his Gordy review where he called a pot a pan.
As a professional musician who doubles on clarinet and bass clarinetI found this incredibly offensive haha. Glad someone else noticed.
I'm sure you'll live.
Cue Big NO.
This intro was more true to the source material than the actual movie itself
They even joked about it.
Should've been made DB canon.
Duo Maxwell what
Xi1D Storm I'd rather see their spoof skit be made canon rather than Dragon Ball Evolution.
(My brain's getting worn out I can't think straight...)
It was hilariously true. I love the show, but everything they said was right.
bully: show me what you got
goku: no
bully: **throws his food in the bin**
later
news reporter: 34 million dead and the world governments are using all their warheads to get rid of this monster
Ok if that happened in the movie, I would have given it 11/100 instead of 8/100.
Someone needs to make a short parody of this. PLEASE
27:46 Look at Doug and MasakoX... they’re trying hard NOT to laugh. Wonder how many takes that took?
It's really sad when you realize that The Last Airbender movie, was more faithful to its source material than this one.
Alex Paulino The Last Airbender was still worse tho
Black Panther I think the "faithfulness" (in HUGE air quotes there) of the movie made it hurt more.
Oh gawd, your absolutely right!
Black Panther i disagree but you are entitled to your own opinion
At least in the last airbender they at least tried to base it in the show's universe, DBE is just... nothing.
You know that your movie sucks when a CZcams team up has better acting in it then a fully funded cinema release. Great work guys, I enjoyed this more then the actual movie you guys broke down.
13:09 "Hated fighting"
Goku now: *Sacrifices the safety of every universe just so he can throw hands in a tournament*
I have no idea why he said that. Since when does Goku hate fighting? He’s a full bred Saiyan , he lives for fighting
@@rundamic3373 i think Masako meant "hated killing"
Well, imagine some stupid teens trying to bully the real Goku. I doubt he'd even understand what they are doing, let alone fight them.
@@rundamic3373 I'm pretty sure what he meant was more along the lines of 'Hated HURTING PEOPLE'.
The fight with the Bullies in the movie wasn't the type of fight you would see Goku do. He'd fight actual fighters for sport or Cause they were doing evil stuff. rather then just some bullies for being a holes.
There's not enough weed in the universe to make this movie watchable.
There is but it’s way past the nonlethal limit
@@BlueBlazeKing there’s a lethal limit?
@@cyclops8238 There’s a lethal limit to anything from water, weed and even walnuts
There is only one thing that bothers me: "The original Goku who hated fighting and only did when he had to..." - WTF? The original Goku LOVES fighting, he even gives enemies the chance to heal themselves if that helps them to reach their full potential.
MrHerbsti they’re are talking about how “Goku” was in the beginning of the movie compared to how he was in that particular scene
MrHerbsti I reacted the same way.
What I think they meant is hated to hurt others.
MrHerbsti By "original", they probably meant the OG Funimation dub. You know, the whole "I am the hope of the universe" thing?
They obviously didn't watch DBZ Kai
Goku ONLY likes fighting strong enemies, he will give weak foes the option to not fight and give up
Malcolm's part....... too fucking true
The Driftersoul I didntt understand it
Victoria's Thoughts
He's a big fan
He needs a hug... poor guy...
TBH Malcolm's Reaction is *Actually* DBZ Fandom's Reaction when this Piece of Hot Garbage showed in Theaters everywhere
Lmao
Hearing the abridged voice of Freeza come out when LittleKuriboh gets really pissed and the voice of abridged Goku yell "CHRIST" really makes this video special.
Hello beautiful
Oh my gosh Kyle Herbert was the actual narrator of the english dub of Dragon Ball!? That's so cool. And even as someone who has never seen the show, this was painful.
"He's literally dressed like a piccolo" *shows image of a clarinet*
elizabel S H E B L O W S M Y D I C K L I K E A C E L L O.
Dang, film is so wrong it can’t even get him dressing like the right instrument.
*As a piccolo player, I am saddened...
I’m so glad I’m not the only one upset by that.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see this comment! Instantly irritated me too :p
This should be in his top 11 fuck ups...if he brings that back.
I laughed so hard when Malcom came in with a gun!
Same, I was a goner.
lol
I feel *SO* bad for him, especially when he was hitting that giant joint.
AudioCultSG Official in the show it’s called a “Dragon Radar” . Her calling it Dragon Ball Energy (DBE) is a meta joke because Dragon Ball Evolution abbreviated is DBE. It’s a shitty joke
lol
RIP Akira Toriyama :( he ain't involved in this atrocity but dragon ball will always be a shounen masterpiece... shout into the heavens for him.
Yeah I hope Dragon Ball Daima is good and delivers. Seriously I pray they know what they’re doing.
Getting Kyle Hebert on this made this _so_ much funnier!
If you listen closely enough, you can actually hear Chris Stuckmann screaming into the void at the mere mention of this movie.
So THAT is what that noise was outside my apartment...
Pretty sure that's just Vegeta.
I went deaf.
is it bad if you actually hear a real scream after saying it?
Volt Shock did it sound like someone yelling fuck for a long time
To those confused about MasakoX's comment about Goku hating fighting, I believe it was just worded poorly. Goku enjoys and excels at combat, but he hates confrontation. He doesn't like fighting in a negative connotation. The fights he enjoys the most are those that are done for sport, not out of aggression.
Yeah, that's what I think he meant. And everyone above us is chastising poor MasakoX for this and questioning how much of a "fan" he is (there are layers of fanship now? 404 sense not found).
I would like to give the benefit of the doubt, but that is some EXTREMELY poor wording.
@handsomebrick
It's mainly the fact that the word "Fight" can have several different definitions. It's like the difference between "getting into a fight" Which usually means somewhere between petty bickering and violent altercations and "To fight someone" which is more around the definition of combat in general. The former being something Goku dislikes and the latter being what he loves to do. Like I said, it was just poor wording.
+Remus Lupine Glad to see I'm not the only viewer baffled by these comments accusing MasakoX of being a "casual" fan. To me, it sounds like that pre-recorded line was taken out of context and edited in to the video at a poor moment. The only incarnation of Goku we know of that doesn't actually like to fight is the one from this film- perhaps MasakoX was referring to this?
It'd be funny to see these comments calling him a "casual" if I wasn't aware of how much work MasakoX puts into Dragon Ball related material. One glance at his channel makes it clear that if there was ever a "Goku expert", that's the guy. And most of these people saying this crap about him probably don't even know the origination of his alias "MasakoX"; for those ignorant, Masako Nozawa is the *actress* (yes, a female) who voices Goku/Gohan in the Japanese version. MasakoX voices Goku/Gohan in the parody series "Dragon Ball Abridged". The sheer number of hours MasakoX had to have spent just working on Abridged makes him more knowledgeable on this subject than all of these commenters put together.
I'm not even entirely sure I agree with that statement since he let Frieza power up to 100%, the fate of the world hinged on his fight with Cell and he treated that fight pretty casually and he enjoyed fighting Kid Buu despite the world ending with the "I hope you come back as someone good" line.
Watching Malcolm break down for once is probably my favorite part of the review.
"Ariel would be light years ahead of her time if she was named Bob." Why did this make me laugh so hard? 😂
One word: randomness
This makes the Attack on Titan live action movie look like Avengers: Infinity War
Captain Rupertikjakmos wait what
And also this Makes Fist of the North Star Live Action Movie look like a *Masterpiece*
@@TakumiTheFAUSTScientist It is a Masterpiece
@Captain Rupertikjakmos You're kidding, right? Infinity War is awansome
Same with the live action Diamond is Unbreakable
Chi chi says "nobody at home knows this. But i'm a fighter too!" Wtf is ox king in this movie? A rich non violent human right activist?
wtf was the point of the chi chi stuff besides the clone fight?..it just adds more questions then answers like whats her story....every time goku is near her bad stuff happens like his grandpa dying when hes at her party or when hes with her and mai and chooses the wrong one to hit and mai gets away with the balls..like hello geeko ..the movie would be so much better without that cringe romance subplot..it really would just become a bad action adventure comedy and you know what that's fine..adding romance to a film that didn't need it when they couldn't balance it must have sent it over the edge and made kids disinterested ..I know I was..i actually would of liked a quest for the balls..that was what the first arc of the show was about after all..seeing an adventure would of been nice..but nope...gotta make this about piccolo...and romance..smdh
Business man. Made a fortune off selling ox meat.
Dont ask Question you dont want to now the answer
Any one else here after the legendary creator Akira Toriyama passed away 😔
Yup
Somewhat.
The ending of where that woman brings the medicine to picolo was hilarious. Just their reactions alone.
I have an interesting story with this movie:
When it first came out in theaters, a friend of mine had a masochistic idea to go watch this film, So we decided to go and torture ourselves. Along with us was a female friend of ours and her 10-year old son, who was a relatively new fan of the series. Well We go into the theater, and aside from us, it was one other guy. So the movie starts, and within the first 10 minutes, our friend's son started yelling at the screen about how they got the lore wrong and spent the entire movie and what the actual lore was, and he CONTINUED to do this throughout the film's duration and to be brutally honest, it was more entertaining than the actual movie.
the fact a 10 year old kid can get the lore better than the movie makers made it more hilarious + entertaining to imagine
Oc Fandom oh ya who'd of thought a fan of the show could recount the story better than some studio execs who looked at a chart. Crazy, right?
what are you implying?
“Well the chart says...”
I did say the kid was a new fan, which meant at the time, he was recently introduced to the original series.
"He's literally dressed like a piccolo"
- proceeds to show a picture of a clarinet -
Uuuh....
Bailey Ray
I didn’t think many could tell the difference.
Kudos.
@@daelen.cclark played flute for 5 years and my fiance is a musician so I guess it's a bit easier for me
I played the clarinet so I also knew the difference
I think they put in as much effort in finding the proper instrument, as the film did finding source material.
So in that sense it kinda fits
Rewatching this review in memory of Akira Toriyama. R.I.P. to the legend. 😢
Same here
On the other hand, maybe it is okay that Krillin actually isn't in this film. Otherwise, he'd be ruined, too.
He'd die every 5 seconds...
@@cristhianmunoz7025 that's yamcha
@@poggersuni9637 yamcha only dies twice, krillin dies like 4 times
thank god for that, Krillin has gotten enough abuse from writers as is.
@@themacca277 four? let's see once via Piccolo's Henchman... two via Frieza... third was the Buu Saga... am i missing something?
Goku hated fighting? He's always enthusiast of fighting a strong opponent in the series.
I think hes reffering to the movie goku. The image is just misleading
He didn't like fighting that much in OGDB
I think he loved they idea of getting strong physically and testing your strength in combat but never actual fighting like school fights and stuff
He liked a challenge and competition. He loved seeing who was the best, even if it wasn't him, and working to overcome obstacles.
its like the only character trait he has left by the end as they make him dumber and dumber and less likeable while trying to make his sons the main characters...goku even was willing to risk the safety of earth vs piccolo just so he could win the tournament finally...its actually a pretty big arc where he lost the first 2 to 2 allies and wants to win legit with no help for once...out of the 5 canon tournaments he entered its still the only one he won..and no one was around but the people close to him to see it as it should be since they destroyed the area and people fled..only the old announcer stayed ...the same goku who saved them from piccolo and gave his son a bean to recover..gokus crazy man
We can all agree that the creator of this movie has never watch one single episode of DBZ at all
Austin Franklin yup that's the one thing we can all agree on.
Yeah it's not any where near to the anime this really shows no anime should be reality movie
He probably still hasn’t
Well obviously this is a movie about Dragon Ball
Austin Franklin yeah there just like *add random
personality to a character*
"Get put of here Yugi-blow, you're not even from the right anime."
As funny as this is, all jokes aside though, doesn't Littlekuriboh play Frieza in DBZA?
Yeah. He does.
I thought MasakoX did?
@@mdalsted no, MasakoX is Goku and Gohan
@@seansilv25
I know that part, but I thought Frieza might have been another role he played.
You know, now I just want the Pilaf arc with Peter Dinklage
What's Ironic though is that the actor who played Piccolo is a fan of Dragonball and would voice Zamasu in DBsuper.
Like Trunks, I have come from the future!
*FROM THE ASHES OF THIS SHITTY MOVIE, THE PURE AND ALMIGHTY ZAMASU HAS BEEN BORN UNTO THIS SINFUL WORLD!!*
So he became a real villian
Piccolo was in this? It dont look like him.
Huh... Ironic
*WHAT?!?*
"You're not happening, sequel."
"RIGHT? RIGHT?? That was SO......STUPID!!!!" XD
Hopefully
Most amusing thing was that the film actually made money, as part of the reason the effects were seemingly unfinished or just plain bad was constant budget cuts. So essentially they were going to use some of that money cause it did well in the chinese market, but then they became too afraid over the hate and backlash to do so.
So, that was Dragonball Evolution. Whether you're an average movie-goer, or a Die Hard Fan, IT BLOWS!
MasaoX lost half a brain cell reacting to that lmao
Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama was initially supportive of the announcement of a live action adaptation and asked fans to treat the film as a different interpretation of his work, but after watching the film he was so horrified at this adaptation of his work that he decided to revive the series with the animated film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013). He later revealed that he wasn't allowed to have any creative input on the film and all of his suggestions were rejected.
This movie feels like it was written by a group of 40 somethings that read a plot synopsis and a character list and decided that was enough research
"...Picollo. Who is literally dressed like a Picollo."
*puts Clarinet on screen*
I can't be mad that people who aren't that immersed in that side of music don't know, but it hurts little ol' Music Major me.
Orion White LOL
Yeeeeeaaaaah...that was more disappointing than it should have been.
Glad it wasn’t just me.
Orion White u spelled piccolo wrong but anyway that really upset me
Orion White naw u right he fucked up
Ok when Goku asked "Are you Piccolo?" I wouldve given this movie some points if Bulma responded back "Do I look like an instrument to you?"
aquawarrior12E yup.. Brought up from -100 to -99 lol! Then back to -100.. Because its that bad.
"Do I look like a flute to you?"
"Well I sure would love to blow you..."
Is Piccolo an instrument?
Yeah, it is.
@@justanordinarycritic4953 is mayonnaise an instrument?
Everyone to the makers of this movie
21:45
I was so excited to give this movie a chance when it first came out. My friends and I went to see it, and we were basically the only people in the theater first day. I threw myself hard into suspension of disbelief, gave it every benefit of the doubt. But in the end, I couldn't deny the emptiness it left me with. Nice review
Wait a minute, Goku DID NOT hate fighting! He trains CONSTANTLY and is always looking for a fighter to match him and grow stronger. He just originally hated when innocents or potential allies are hurt or could get hurt.
They mean that the Goku introduced in the beginning of the movie isn't consistent with the Goku fighting the bullies
I think the ONLY GOOD THING that came out of this movie is that now Akira Toriyama is determined to make as many new DBZ content as possible so that the fans can forget this movie ever happened. I'm sure i got some of the facts wrong, but that's what i heard.
He's doing it for money.
So you're saying DBE gave the real DB a zenkai boost? Clever.
@@hugov9671 WAY better!!! It's out of the question!!!
I love how the characters in the intro aren’t lip syncing right
just like anime is english dub always bad lip syncing
"IT'S OVER 9000!!"
9:55
"meanwhile on bowser's airship, a villan named *yoshi *..."
Never saw the show. But a friend described it like this:
"The world is going to end in 20 minutes!"
Five episodes later
"The world is going to end in 10 minutes!"
WJZAV to be fair, that's DBZ, not dragonball
Isn't anime logic wonderful?
wchan39 just DBZ logic
To be fair, Frieza's timer is probably way longer than Earth's. ;P
@deathgodriku @wchan39 Well, that same logic occurs during DBS as well.
Multiple fighters battle it out on the combat stage. End of episode, only 5 minutes have passed.
The sketch really was surprisingly faithful to the source material.
Z & onwards yea
I wanna like this, but it has 69 likes and I'm an immature dork
Years later, we did an actually good anime/game based film in Detective Pikachu and Sonic
Young Goku was like the complete opposite of horny. He had lived a very sheltered life, so he didn't know what girls were, saw no problem in nudity and had no interest in things like that. If he looked and touched people inappropriately, it was only out of curiosity...and not the dirty kind.
Dear Hollywood, stop trying to make good live action anime movies happen. They're not gonna happen.
BoyThunder Productions So fetch
BoyThunder Productions your pfp actually matches what you said XD
BoyThunder Productions They did one called Battle Royale. The US ripped it off and made it into The Hunger Games.
There's a small possibility of it happening if we actually get a person who knows the source material of the series they're adapting. I know it's not an anime/manga but for example, Deadpool was great because Ryan Reynolds was a fan of the character and put great care into making sure the movie wouldn't suck, we need more of this happening in Hollywood.
Richie Sahlin Also The Lion King ripped off Kimba the white lion.
"Kakakarrot cake! You am no real Super Sand!!"
Kor O'Connell “What do you mean, Virginia?!”
I thought super pooper scoopers were just legend
"What are you inSAYAN?!"
Last time on Dragonball Metamucil! Virginia acted the mickey! And now Chatwin and Sir-Not-Appearing-in-this-Film must fart! I hope they don’t make each other sick....
"YOU BIG SMELLY WILLY!"
I met Kyle two years ago and we talked about his cameo in this review and he loved being part of it.
9:17 In hindsight, if they REALLY wanted to make a "teen goku in highscool" (for some reason.... why not just adapt Gohan at that point?), the best way to introduce him would be him fightning bullies, attacking a young kid, and defeating them with martial arts, and when they thank him, for the help teen goku just says "oh right... i just wanted to have a fight, and they looked strong, so i stepped in"
AT LEAST that would be semi faithfull to goku to a degree...
OR AT LEAST start the movie from Bulma's perspective as a teenager hearing of the Dragon Balls and then we cut to a more faithful Goku (either as a kid or as an adult)
It's best not to make anime into live action.
@@KyleEvra Japanese Adaptation of Death Note would want to have a word (Not counting "L change the World")
Also Shinobi as the adaptation to Basilisk (which wasn't very faithful, but still well made).
@@KyleEvralast I heard, Netflix’s One Piece is doing good, partly cause they had some supervision from the original creator of the manga
The sight of the Nolstalgia Critic, Little Kuriboh, and MasakoX coming together for one huge project is equivalent to the second coming.
Ęÿūį Æßñ the end is coming 😂
Ęÿūį Æßñ of SANTA CHRIST
Ęÿūį Æßñ but what about jontron?
Ęÿūį Æßñ Our Savior has come...for 2000 years!!! Where the fuck were you?!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Chris Stewart only 3? Newbie. I'm always cumming
If you say to goku when he was a kid that he was a special he will probably answer "My name isnt special, my name is goku. "
In the anime and manga, Goku is tricked into marriage by Chi Chi
It just had to be Chi Chi...
Anime: Goku does the Kamhama wave At Age 10.
Movie: AIR BENDING?!?!?!?🤬
Yes. (also it's Kamehameha)
Critics version of dragon ball is better than the actual movie!
mister charmander
Well it does have little kuriboh and masako x so it does make it much better than the movie.
Masako was almost Vegita in that sketch. He thought it was part of the joke.
@@jeremycrouch4356 you spelled Vegeta wrong
@@the_illest7029 my bad. I'm not the best at spelling, or speaking without getting my words jumbled, and English is my native language. So I think to myself, "Stick to sucking at one language instead of broadening you scope of bad."
no shit
13:33 “Literally dresses as a piccolo”. *SHOWS CLARINET*
Malcom's part represents us all
19:31 shouldn't Goku and his friends instantly combust just by being so close to that Lava?
So just to be clear, Nostalgia Critic with his extreme love for Avatar the show and hatred for the live action adaption still finds this to be the worst adaptation ever. Wow.
Well, as much as it hurts me to say this, at least Avatar had the same storyline as the series and if I had looked at the poster without having watched the movie I would have thought "Yeah, this looks like avatar, bald arrow-head, similar clothes, bending". Evolution had nothing to do with DB except that there were Dragonballs in them and the names of the characters. The only thing I recognize on the DB Evolution poster is the dragonball.
Lars VanBarbecue I mean they combined the two evils in DBE. With all that talk of goku airbending.
Lars VanBarbecue both of the movies were terrible but atleast Avatar somewhat followed the storyline and didn’t make the main character some high school kid who got bullied
In fairness with the Avatar adaption, some of the visuals looked nice and the main character actually looked close to the animated version, whilst it's not the best adaption it is still a better movie than this, and the fact that the Critic views things in this way essentially backs up his points through showing a clear lack of bias on the matter. Also for comparison the only character out of all of the dragonball adaption that looked even remotely like the animated counterpart was picillo, Goku, a saiyan looked like a basic human if you stood him apart from the movie you would never know he was a dragonball character, even in costume you would think it's just a cosplayer.
Lars VanBarbecue as horrible as The Last Airbender was, at least it tried to follow the source material, poorly....but DBE has absolutely NOTHING to do with Dragonball.
Teacher: And next you're going to tell me that Christmas is actually the Holiday when we acknowledge the awkwardly effeminate galaxy emperor!
American!Goku:...You know about Frieza Day?
#TFSForever ...
The funny thing is, Jesus was considered to be the king of kings, the lord of lords and, depending on your perspective, can look pretty effeminate.
@@saharzaidi1018 right on brother ✊🏻
27:40
I can't believe you guys almost kept your faces for that one. I love Littlekuriboh !
Had me rolling ! Had to rewatch again and again xD
Honestly, I think a movie directed by Michael Bay with his typical style, particularly buff men and explosions, would actually be more faithful to the source material than what this film attempted. I could even imagine a few actors that would fit the characters:
Chris Pratt: Goku
Dave Bautista: Piccolo
Hugh Jackman: Vegeta
Peter Dinklage: Krillin
Tom Holland: Gohan
Jack Black: Yajirobe
Jackie Chan: Master Roshi
is it bad i think hugh jackman should play raditz instead
@NeedyBoBeedy Then who would you suggest play Vegeta? I personally don't see Hugh as Raditz, due to his time as Wolverine. Plus, considering Vegeta is oftentimes very angry and prideful, I think Jackman could protray that pretty well.
@@toxicdemon1315 damn i was about to make a peter dinklage joke but i forgot you wanted him for krillin
So happy to see LittleKuriboh here! He's been having a hard time for a while now, but he's still being creative and having fun. Good on you, Martin.
Wrath's Turntable Time Machine Rocksmash Attack (AKA The Mysterious Reuploader, Ace-edo Mask!) he is clinically depressed
japansace he makes to many gay jokes in his abridges tbh but hope he goes forward in his career
Depression. He's been fighting this for years now. Am glad he's still here.
Wrath's Turntable Time Machine Rocksmash Attack (AKA The Mysterious Reuploader, Ace-edo Mask!) What other tragedies have there been??
Agreed. all the love and respect to LK.
"People who don't know the show are being duped into thinking it's good", My mom and both of my sisters had never seen a single episode of any Dragonball series and even they thought this movie blew worse than The Last Airbender and Fan4stic combined.
RIP Akira Toriyama 1955 - 2024 🙏🏮💐♥️