Yes, Chi-Chi was one of the strongest women in the world in the original, but in her teenage years she was bossy and prone to violent outbursts, and granted she fought in the turtle school style, she had no real knowledge of ki at that time and, suffice to say, Chi-Chi brought all the emotion to their relationship, not Goku. Chi-Chi is a high school popular kid who is a martial artist and knows about ki.
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To get Goku so wrong kills the movie from the very start, but to also get everyone else wrong as well is just taking a liberty too far. That makes about as much sense as polar bear in the Sahara desert. I’m of the opinion he skipped through some episodes of Dragon Ball and went to Dragon Ball Z, mistaking Goku’s son Gohan for Goku and wrote the high school stuff from what he saw in the Buu Saga, and then decided to make a worse version of it. Goku is meant to be simple, naïve and caring, not a teenager who fantasises about Chi-Chi in a field eating strawberries in a sexualised manner, and yes that is an actual scene in the movie! Also, Goku is in high school, a character who is supposed to have no formal education, is in high school. However, Wong failed to any of this into consideration and decided to rile Dragon Ball fandom.Īlso, if you are going to make a film about Dragon Ball, don’t make Goku, a character of innocence and ultimate kindness, a horny teenage douche. You would have thought that with the source material was Japanese you would have tried to remain true in casting or, if failing that, tried to make it obvious that the character were from differing parts of the world, thus reasoning a more international cast. The reasoning behind this I cannot begin to fathom.
Ok, so Goku is portrayed by a white actor while nearly everyone else is Chinese, Korean or Japanese actors and actresses. Well it appears to me to say what I feel rather than worry about what everyone has said and hopefully with all my comments spouting forth in text, perhaps one of them will be a gem of pure originality. So, what can I say that has not been said by many more reviewers who have lambasted this so much that the film now resembles a rotting horse, laced with maggots and bloated flies whilst a putrid and pungent smell remains forever fixed around what could, and should, have been a superb stallion that would have pranced round the racecourse of cinema in fine style. With Goku in mourning, he must find Muten Roshi (Chow Yun-fat) in order to train to fight Piccolo and to prevent him from obtaining all seven Dragon Balls before the upcoming total eclipse. While Goku goes to a party held by his crush Chi-Chi (Jamie Chung), Piccolo returns, killing Grandpa Gohan in the process of searching for the Dragon Balls. It is now present day and Goku (Justin Chatwin), an eighteen year old martial artist and student is given a four star Dragon Ball by his Grandpa Gohan (Randall Duk Kim). However seven mystic sealed Piccolo within the Mufaba, an enchanted box, for all eternity.
Two thousand years ago, the earth was under attack from the Demon King Piccolo (James Marsters) who wreaked havoc with the assistance of his minion Ōzaru, a giant ape. However, to criticise from an ignorant standpoint is not really criticising at all and so, seeing it was on Film 4, I recorded it, watched it, let in all seep into every crevice of my mind, and now I shall share with the internet what I thought of James Wong’s adaptation of the manga and anime great that is Dragon Ball. As a lover of the Dragon Ball franchise (apart from Dragon Ball GT, seriously, that was crap), I was utterly perplexed by this film and, because of the overwhelming bad press about this film, refused to watch something I hold so dear to me bastardised in such a manner. Not that I’m the only one as many, many people hate this film with as much passion as I do. Ok, so from the title you can guess at least one thing, I hate this film.
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