Friday, April 3, 2009

Dragonball Z(ucks)

So, I watched the trailer for the new Dragonball "Evolution" movie and...wow...I mean it looks neat and all, but other than borrowing character names and vaguely copying the look of the Dragonballs...uh...yeah I don't see what it has to do with Dragonball...like, at all. Roshi for example is supposed to be a really old womanizer slash pervy old guy whose far more silly than serious...and yet in the preview he's depicted as this uber serious, slightly older than middle aged guy. And Goku, whose supposed to be really easy going, a mostly clueless and carefree bubble head is depicted as a very coherent, sarcastic sounding prick. And don't even get me started on Bulma, or the fact that Goku's surrogate grandfather is still alive when he was supposed to have been killed when Goku was still a kid (by Goku himself, who turns into a giant rampaging ape when exposed to moonlight...unless his tail is cut off). About the only character that even comes close to the series is Piccolo...except for the fact that time line wise he wasn't actually evil anymore when Goku was at that age. Which of course brings us to the other glaring face palm, in that the movie's story isn't actually related to *ANYTHING* that actually happens in Dragonball...at all. To the point that even the Dragonballs themselves don't even serve the same purpose/function as they did in the series. Honestly, I'm having trouble even figuring out *WHY* they bothered to call it Dragonball at all when they could have just as easily called it something else, changed the names and certainly NO ONE would ever mistake it for even being remotely related to the series. It might be a decent sci-fi kung fu movie...but it's no Dragonball, not by a long shot.

3 comments:

Sage Freehaven said...

Honestly, I'm having trouble even figuring out *WHY* they bothered to call it Dragonball at all when they could have just as easily called it something else

Because then it wouldn't be able to make a shitton of money based on the license alone, you fucking retard.

Onideus said...

And if you weren't a fucking retard you would know just how often doing that results in spectacular box office failure of epic proportions. As such, if that's the case, well the only explanation is that some fucking retard like you in charge.

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