Dragonball Evolution (2009)

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I must confess I missed out on Dragonball. The long running manga has been made into several anime tv shows, from 1984s Dragonball to Dragonball Z to twenty-one animated features (no, that’s not a typo), and it was inevitable that one day they would make a live action version. Beating M. Night Shyamalan’s adaption of Avatar: The Last Airbender (a movie so dull and horrible that even I can’t stand it) by a year, it did a few things that doomed it from the start. First and foremost, taking a Japanese property and casting its leads with Caucasian actors didn’t help. Oh, and also lying to the actors to get them to participate also wasn’t a good look. James Marsters described his experience as the following: “… they told me it was a $120 million picture, and that Stephen Chow was producing. And Stephen Chow is the director of ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ and ‘Shaolin Soccer.’ Which if you guys haven’t seen his films, go get them, just fabulous. They’re funny, goofy, violent, scary: Everything you would need for Dragon Ball to work…I get out to Durango, Mexico and it’s a $30 million picture and Stephen Chow is just on paper to fool us down into the desert. And they don’t even want to pay for the stuntman to get made up like me, so they never used the stuntman; they just kept putting me up on wires.” Tonight’s film is 2009's DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION, starring Justin Chatman, Emmy Rossum, Chow-Yun Fat and of course the aforementioned James Marsters. It’s available to watch on MAX and is also rentable on Amazon. See you at 6:30! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B002C4P7J6/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

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On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are only six others like it in the whole world, and legend has it that whoever possesses all seven will be granted one perfect wish. When the arrival of a dark force triggers a tragedy, Goku and his companions are propelled into an epic quest to collect the seven Dragonballs and save the Earth from destruction.

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