It’s a hyperactive, eye-rolling affair.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 1, 2023

They clearly didn't know what they were doing, terrible. But hey, they made their money back? ... and I do like the movies, this was just really really dumb...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 12, 2020

There are balls of lint smarter than Dragonball Evolution.

| May 21, 2018

Dragonball: Evolution is my least-favorite film of all time. I hate it with every fiber of my being. If you were ever curious about the show Dragon Ball or the manga... please, avoid this cinematic disaster at all costs.

| Feb 3, 2016

There are fewer depressing sights than Chow Yun-Fat performing stilted wire-fu in a Hawaiian shirt.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

This film offers further proof, as if any were needed, that Western filmmakers cannot do justice to their Eastern counterparts when it comes to retooling anime and/or Fant-Asia for Occidental consumption.

| Sep 24, 2009

More concerned with recruiting the testosterone troubled boys of today than it is rewarding fans of yesteryear.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2009

As far as 2009 flops will go, [this] could have been much worse to sit through...

| Apr 30, 2009

A contender for the worst movie of the year was released in April.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 18, 2009

I am no expert in the field of Dragon Ball. However... the first live-action, English-language film in the franchise is absolutely insipid.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Apr 18, 2009

For anyone writing it off as a kiddie film, Dragonball: Evolution should be considered child abuse. Put everyone involved with this catastrophe on the receiving end of a Kamehameha wave.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 18, 2009

this first installment was actually entertaining enough that a sequel could work out the kinks to become a very solid franchise.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2009

The story seems to have been made up as the film went along, and not by anyone talented. The fight scenes and special effects are shamefully pathetic.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Faced with the choice of watching Dragonball: Evolution again and perishing in a fiery apocalypse, I'd take Judgment Day every time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

A rather tame live-action sci-fi flick.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

The producer, Stephen Chow, made the funny and original Kung Fu Hustle, but here he and director James Wong get into a terrible mess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Having been blandly adapted from a Chinese folklore-inspired Manga, that's about as much of the story that makes sense. Gibberish in the extreme, it has all the narrative cohesion of a trading card game.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

No, its unforgivable flaw is that it is boring, and the only emotion I could work up after exiting the theater was a yawn.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2009