I posted this at The Exiled Gamers forums and thought I’d put it up here as well.
Does anyone else agree that that film is awful? To me it fails on almost every aspect.
- It’s modernised/westernised, what happened to the old Japanese feel to the show? And Goku never went to high school, he’s a Saiyan. His goal is not to learn Home Economics, he’s a warrior for Christ’s sake!
- The cast – Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow*, James Marsters, what the hell were they thinking? Chatwin is a terrible actor and is 26 years of age whereas Goku was meant to be 18 in the film, Chow is Chinese (Master Roshi wasn’t) and Marsters; I’ve got nothing against him but, he looked NOTHING like Piccolo. The makeup artists/special effects team or whatever must have been on crack when they made that ghastly rendering of the almighty Namek. Before the film came out I remember saying, “The only reason I’d go see this film is Emmy Rossum.” Now I’m just taking a wild stab in the dark here but, I’m thinking that eye candy isn’t the kind of reason James Wong (the director) was looking for.
- The film was obviously rushed, the story was all over the place leaving no time for viewers to relate to the characters. The only actor that was relatively similar to their cartoon counter-part was Yamcha.
- Dragonball, Dragonball Z & Dragonball GT (GT was abysmal, by the way) were about fast-paced and sometimes ultra-unrealistic fight sequences with over-the-top ki blasts. Where were they in Evolution? Practically non-existent, that’s where. Wow, I use a lot of hyphens don’t I?
– Where’s Krillin?
* “Yun-Fat Chow” is in fact his actual name, not “Chow Yun-Fat” as people would have you believe.