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

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

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

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

[Chow's] hamminess doesn't make Dragonball Evolution make more sense, but it's a great way to cope with an otherwise inexplicable kitschfest.

| Apr 15, 2009

Evolution is far more entertaining than it deserves to be, unless you're a 10-year-old boy, in which case it's only the greatest movie ever made.

| Apr 13, 2009

There are a few entertaining fight scenes. But there is also uneven CGI, bad dialogue and a host of clichd moments that make Dragonball Evolution just another disappointing matinee movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2009

The film is crammed with treats for old-school Dragonball fans. For everyone else, this amounts to another seen-it-before, probably-willing-to-see-it-again distraction, a passable collection of 'splosions and special effects for a slow film weekend.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 13, 2009

Fans of the best-selling Dragonball comics (and cartoons, and videogames...) might have a shot at untangling the knotty dream-logic that strangles Dragonball: Evolution's live-action adaptation.

| Original Score: C | Apr 13, 2009

The giddy, anything-goes spirit of Japanese manga comics and Hong Kong martial arts flicks animates Dragonball Evolution. Not enough to make it a good movie, mind you, but enough so you won't hate yourself if you sit through it with the kids.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2009

It's hard to muster up fear for the end of the civilization when the whole production looks like an hour of network filler.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Apr 10, 2009

It may be silly and occasionally miscast, but Dragonball Evolution never loses steam; the movie is both entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2009

A hyperactively messy little adventure fantasy in which movement is everything and meaning means nothing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2009

A more accurately descriptive moniker would have been Dragonball Stagnation.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2009

Making no effort to be original, exciting, witty or even vaguely plausible, it may pass the time as sparkly fodder for 12-year-old boys with plenty of sugar in their bloodstream.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Apr 9, 2009

Dragonball Evolution is an example of Hollywood at its most calculating and cynical. Utter drivel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Run a mile in any direction from Dragonball Evolution.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Super-colourful, super-bouncy and as much of a giggle as a tickle fight in a balloon factory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Dragonball Evolution doesn't take itself too seriously, but avoids campiness.

| Mar 26, 2009