Dragonball Evolution
Directed by James Wong
On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are only six others like it in the whole world, and legend has it that whoever possesses all seven will be granted one perfect wish. When the arrival of a dark force triggers a tragedy, Goku and his companions are propelled into an epic quest to collect the seven Dragonballs and save the Earth from destruction. From TMDB
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60 of 146 · most liked first'Dragonball Evolution' released on this day in 2009. An attempt to transplant the action of the live action Dragon Ball movie to the PSP, by way of developer Dimps. Functional, if not over-simple: Largely hated simply for its connection to a bad movie (plus cheapo cutscenes).
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched DragonBall Evolution to prepare for the podcast and forgot that Goku hits every woman in the film. In fact, the final scene is him creepily happy he gets to attack a woman again.
negative · AI labelView post →For 14 years I've gotten hate comments in Dragon Ball Dissection for not reviewing the dub and not using its nomenclature. I do *one* episode where I talk specifically about Dragonball Evolution and use its terminology only to get "corrected" for it too. I've found my no-win scenario! 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →The endless swaths of angry commenters can finally rejoice. I spend an entire video saying "Bulma." It's Dragonball Evolution time! There's a lot to break down about this movie, emphasis on breaking. youtu.be/ETFbVbEmjTQ
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Dragonball Evolution in theaters back in 2009 with a big group of my friends and even though that movie was terrible it was absolutely a highlight of my time in college, we all got so much joy out of it
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight for our Movie Monday, we watched Dragonball Evolution! For a bad movie, thankfully its not unwatchable. I was really, REALLY worried it was going to be dreadfully dull. It was actually REALLY funny, with plenty for us to make jokes about the whole run through.
neutral · AI labelView post →If Obsidian Blaze ever gets adapted to live action, I want either a streaming series that takes the story in a different but still faithful direction, like The Boys, a Dragonball Evolution style low-budget movie that gets the characters completely wrong, or a fan film made in a parking lot
neutral · AI labelView post →remember that weird movie DragonBall Evolution from several years ago? that could make for a really good anime. just have to flesh out the characters and story, maybe drop the "Evolution" subtitle....idk I think there's a lot of potential!
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh fuck no. That movie is as bad as Freddy Got Fingered and Dragonball Evolution. Plus it's enbyphobic.
neutral · AI labelView post →The worst movie I ever saw at the cinema was Dragonball Evolution. Saw it in Fukuoka Japan WAY ahead of the US release. While there were only 8 people watching at the start of the film (I counted) I found myself alone by the time credits rolled.
negative · AI labelView post →11. Finally faced my fears and watched Dragonball Evolution for the first time. I had a great time laughing at it with a group of rowdy friends but fuck me it really was as bad as everyone says it is letterboxd.com/cckirby/film...
negative · AI labelView post →Real opinion: Every anime should have a Dragonball Evolution style Hollywood movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Super Mario Bros is a high budget B-movie and it's pretty charming for that. I enjoyed much of it, but I also kept reflexively punching the friend who made me watch the damn thing so idk if that's a positive review or not. It's a bad movie, but bad movies can be fun. Plus, *"Monkey!"* is perhaps the greatest line ever penned. I agree there's plenty of aspects in just about any movie to enjoy, especially for the meme value - I enjoy the hell out of James Marsters as King Piccolo in DragonBall:…
neutral · AI labelView post →Dragonball Evolution: The Game is the video game adaptation of the Dragonball Evolution movie, featuring similar gameplay to that of Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's treadmill movie is Dragonball Evolution. Goku's just a normal teenager trying to talk to girls and deal with bullies. Just the way we remember him.
negative · AI labelView post →Guy in a friend group is like "don't pick bad movies for movie night, I've got am atom bomb; I'll show you Dragonball Evolution!" Me, sitting on Catnado, The Secret, ABC's of Superheroes, Space Thunder Kids, and Neil Breen's catalog: "that's just cute."
neutral · AI labelView post →Made the mistake of seeing Scary Movie: spoilers? Kind of. First movie I've seen since DragonBall Evolution where the audience left early. The longest 90 min movie ever. My breaking point was a K Pop Demon Hunters parody. For no reason. The laziest jokes on every topic. A COVID test joke in 2026
neutral · AI labelView post →Dragonball Evolution: The Game is the video game adaptation of the Dragonball Evolution movie, featuring similar gameplay to that of Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road.
neutral · AI labelView post →watching the first Final Destination movie for the first time in decades and its a shame James Wong hasnt been allowed to direct a film since Dragonball: Evolution ten years ago the first movie is a neat time capsule and tight little horror movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Big congrats to Black Widow, a movie I mostly slept through, as it is knocked out of the top 3 worst movies I've seen in theaters! Lee Cronin's The Mummy, welcome to the number 2 slot, sandwiched between Dragonball Evolution (#3) and Men (#1). Run, don't walk, away from The Mummy!
negative · AI labelView post →lmao, the only movie on Letterboxd rated lower than that new War of the Worlds is Dragonball Evolution, oh noooo.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's the lowest rated film on Letterboxd? Adam Corky returns to dive into this anime adaptation that fizzled instead of catching fire. #dragonballevolution notthatbadcast.com/2025/02/05/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →hey look I can tag people post your favorite movies and tag some friends I probably have to say Dragonball Evolution. Watch it if you're a lover of Dragonball. In all seriousness, any (Jackie Chan) kungfu movie is my favorite @basherr.suzooiey.com @daanje.bsky.social @bealzzzy.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →One of my deeply held opinions is that every single anime should have a Dragonball Evolution/The Last Airbender live action white person Hollywood film adaptation. They'll be shit, but it's important for anime fans to have perspective.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact, Justin Chatwin played Goku in that live action Dragonball Evolution movie (yes, I know how loved it is) would later play a Superman stand in (The Ghost) on Doctor Who
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember when the Dragonball Evolution writer rescinded his apology for working on the film and put all the blame on the executives who sabotaged it His reason was literally “I’m old as fuck and my career’s dead, I don’t give a shit about the consequences anymore” Beast mode
neutral · AI labelView post →Strongly leaning towards Dragonball Evolution, but The Ridiculous Six was so bad it made us ban comedies, carte blanche, from bad movie night.
negative · AI labelView post →Snow White’s score on IMDB is currently at 1.6/10. That’s lower than Dragonball Evolution, which is at 2.5/10. Is the movie that bad or is everyone jumping on the bandwagon?
neutral · AI labelView post →BEST MOVIES ASIDE FROM SHYAMALAN LAST AIRBENDER 1. AFTER EARTH 2. DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION 3. FANT4STIC 4. EMILIA PEREZ 5. GREEN BOOK 6. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER 7. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (GENIUS SATIRE OF RACISM) 8. THE EMOJI MOVIE 9. DISASTER MOVIE 10. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
positive · AI labelView post →The Cat In The Hat (2003) Dragonball Evolution A Minecraft Movie Ralph Breaks the Internet
neutral · AI labelView post →For April Fools' Day last year I pit Dragonball Evolution against the live-action Knights of the Zodiac movie, thinking "This should be an amusingly silly concept, because there's no way one is handily better than the other" KotZ trounced DBE so hard that I seriously considered using the mercy rule
negative · AI labelView post →☄️NEW EPISODE☄️ #DragonBallEvolution (2009) #DragonBall #DragonBallZ #DragonBallSuper #FilmSky So @foryourrefpod.bsky.social asked us to tackle the worst rated film we have ever watched, DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION. Paul's son Woody is here to tell us his thoughts too! 🎉OUT NOW t.co/fcqDWrYveh
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm bumping it down to half a star, since I can't find a 1 star review I've done that I feel worse about. Also, its closest comparison is Dragonball Evolution, which kinda says everything. The top review just says "por qué." Shoutouts Latin America, I know y'all feel me on this one 🙏
negative · AI labelView post →This kind of thinking applied to movies bugs the hell out of me too. No, Dragonball Evolution isn't one of the worst movies ever made. It's not even in the bottom third as far as movie quality goes
neutral · AI labelView post →I am happy for you Dragonball Evolution PSP movie tie in game Goku
neutral · AI labelView post →you mean Master Roshi from the 2009 movie Dragonball Evolution?
neutral · AI labelView post →297. Dragonball Evolution I saw the Backrooms movie on the recommended list after clicking off this
neutral · AI labelView post →The director apologized for Dragonball Evolution 🤨
neutral · AI labelView post →I hate Dragonball Evolution so goddamn much I threatened to remove all 3 of my nephews from the will of any one of them watched this blasphemous movie. The only good thing to come out of this fucking hot mess is bringing Akira Toriyama out of retirement. Other than that, 🧠💥🔫 > watching this crap
negative · AI labelView post →The 90's one is silly fun. SF:LoCL is a terrible fucking mess with poor creative choices. For a movie with "Fighter" in the title, I only recall 3 fights, and one of them happened offscreen. I'd rather watch Dragonball Evolution 100 more times than ever watch that turd again.
negative · AI labelView post →16 years ago, ‘DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION’ hit theatres. The live-action film was slammed by fans and critics for straying from its source, yet still grossed $56M globally and earned cult infamy. #DragonballEvolution #AkiraToriyama #AnimeAdaptation
neutral · AI labelView post →Snow White doesn't sound or look like a good movie by any means, but does it genuinely deserve the title of "worst movie ever"? Dragonball Evolution and The Last Airbender, both were disrespectful to their source material and couldn't even stand on their own when you separate it from that.
negative · AI labelView post →We recently found out that James Marsters, Spike from Buffy and the voice of Zamasu in the English dub of DragonBall Super, also played King Piccolo in the terrible DragonBall Evolution movie from 2009. Now I kind of want to watch it again.
neutral · AI labelView post →No way. They'd ruin it if they tried to make it into a cartoon or comic. Just look at all the other masterpieces they ruined by turning them into comics and cartoons. Like the award winning Dragonball Evolution movie.
negative · AI labelView post →absolutely crazy to me that Dragonball Evolution is the lowest rated film on Letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →[MOVIE] Dragonball Evolution [2009] James Wong Okay so wait 2 airbending movies came out in a 1 year period and the better one was the one that wasnt about airbending
neutral · AI labelView post →… The only redeeming thing about this film is it’s better than Dragonball Evolution. UGH.
negative · AI labelView post →Wait sorry I need clarification. In Dragonball Evolution, characters in the movie refer to what Goku is doing as airbending?
neutral · AI labelView post →Dragonball: Evolution Only movie I ever walked out of in the middle.
negative · AI labelView post →The Naruto movie moving forward is one weird thing, which couldn’t be worse than Dragonball Evolution (maybe?). But it’s incredible that Marvel followed up on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ success with absolutely nothing. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Dragonball Evolution when it first came out having seen maybe five random episodes of DBZ and no dragonball. I still think about it at least once a month.
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neutral · AI labelView post →On his show this week Kazuhiko Torishima, Akira Toriyama's first editor talked about the #DragonBall Evolution movie He called it "his greatest failure as an editor" Continue👇 #anime #manga
neutral · AI labelView post →So... does enough time had passed so people can start admiting that "Dragonball: Evolution" movie was pretty good?
positive · AI labelView post →Gamers would rather have a Dragonball Evolution-ass street fighter movie than a beautifully stupid goofball movie and that's why gamers need to be geno[hook pulls me offstage]
neutral · AI labelView post →Still salty about the time I saw Dragonball Evolution in theaters, picking a slow day and an odd time to get an empty theater. And we succeeded until 15 minutes into the movie, some awful parents walked in with their kids. The kids spent more time watching me than the movie.
negative · AI labelView post →They don’t tell you this but Dragonball Evolution is a fun movie. Not a good one, but a fun one
neutral · AI labelView post →I can think of a few: Sonic Movie Dragonball Evolution Fixed Transformers One Ghostbusters (2016) Madame Web Cats Batman v Superman Terminator 4, 5, & 6 Any Fake AI Trailers
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't be fooled into thinking Desert Dawn is a good movie just because Texas Battle, who played Casey Fuller in Dragonball Evolution, is in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →108: Dragonball Evolution extremely uncontroversial but dude this movie fucking sucks. what if there was a movie that didn't understand anything that makes Dragon Ball worthwhile and also it looked like dogwater. Speed Racer walked so this movie could trip and fall and have its pants fall down
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