Hundreds and hundreds of people have been waiting for years and years and years for a movie that depicted in accurate detail the show that has acquired the reputation of the "the greatest action show ever-made." The movie has finally come. Before criticizing the movie that has ALREADY been made, ask yourself this: how else did you expect it? Did you actually expect that accurate detail? Did you ever THINK any live-action whatever will do this great show justice? Well, people, guess what? No live-action whatever will EVER do this great show justice. It never does. NEVER. So now, we are still left with the movie that has been booed by those that know nothing of it and care nothing about the show that inspired it. BE THANKFUL. DB has been forgotten and replaced by newer shows. The fact that someone is making an attempt at re-introducing this great show should make you happy. Now, stop WHINING and go SEE it. If you actually about DB that is.*

So many people are complaining about this movie, i saw it in japan and i loved it. americans are so judgemental. look for people that are comparing DBE to DBZ, DBE is based off of dragonball not dragonball z, goku doesnt know he is not from earth yet. this movie was number 1 and 2 in all of asia. also there are many different stories of dragonball, the only time it was one direct story was when dbz started. For people that honestly think they know it all, watch DRAGONBALL!!!!!!!! and shut up, stop bitchin about th emovie because to tell you the truth they did alot off of a 45 million budget. Like chatwin said. Its not dragonball, its not dragonball z, its dragonball Evolution! Oh and one more thing, people that have a huge problem with this movie, go watch dragonball :the magic begins, maybe you will be happier with that piece of ****you call a movie.

This is BEFORE GOKU knows he is a saiyan and other saiyans come to the earth. This is when Piccolo comes and he is evil.. He tries to destroy the earth.. Goku fights him.. Then in Dragon Ball Z when Goku has Gohan, Gohan's will and spirit makes Piccolo good..ish. More or less. So this is just Dragonball this is before all the saiyan stuff and freeza etc. And in the Anime Goku is only like 2 feet tall.. as he is a child but obviously that would have been hard to do and stupid for a live action movie. HENSE why he is a teen, is not married to Chi-Chi yet, why Roshi is not so old and perverted (yet) and there is no gohan.. who had a tail for a large part of his life which explains alot..

as a big fan of the dragonball franchise i was extremely disappointed when i saw this movie. i was extremely surpised when i noticed that it was only 85 minutes. i wondered to myself how the hell are they going to fit hours worth of anime material into the movie in 85 minutes. well they didnt and that in the end is what killed it. i could deal with the acting performances in respect to the plot development of the movie. they missed crucial points from the anime, such as goku already having great skill and easily mastering his ki...which annoyed the hell out of me when he couldnt do the kamehameha right off the bat. its little things like that which made the movie bad along with HUGE gaps in the storyline. and also i read another review which said that goku needed to be asian cuz in the anime he was asian. no disrespect but in my opinion hes white. and in later movies id like to see an asian guy try to rock long blond hair like a white guy haha. overall dragonball evolution sucked

I will face the wrath of Badhorsie and write a review because I think this movie is going to be awful. Part of charm of the original comic (and subsequent anime) were the imaginative art, character designs, and outlandish situations. None of the photos or pre-release stuff seems to capture any of this. This could easily be called something else and no one would know it has anything to do with Dragon Ball. Another example of Hollywood unable to come up with an original story or franchise so they go out and ruin one. I believe this movie will beat out Street Fighter: The Legend on Chun-Li as the worst anime/game-to-movie ever made.