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Dragonball Evolution (2009)
Director: James Wong
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Akira Toriyama’s “Dragon Ball” series has enjoyed a very fruitful run: The anime franchise’s mix of cartoony violence, transforming aliens and general silliness kicks the coveted 5-to-40-year-old male demographic square in the face. This live-action adaptation, however, is a devolution. Goku (Chatwin) must train with Master Roshi (Chow) and find all the dragonballs in order to stop invading King Piccolo (James Marsters). Much of the cringeworthy dialogue could probably be excused, were the fight scenes suitably tight. But this melee is unworthy of the puniest Saiyan warrior.Author: Drew Toal
Time Out New York Issue 707: April 16 - 22, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: James Wong
Cast: Justin Chatwin, Chow Yun-Fat, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, James Masters, Joon Park, Eriko Tamura, Randall Duk Kim, Ernie Hudson full cast
Rated: PG
Duration: 84 mins
US Release: Apr 17 2009
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