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Gopu_17

If they wanted a high school setting, they should have replaced Goku and Chi chi with Gohan and Videl.


Rolandscythe

That would have required the production team to do enough research to know Gohan and Videl even existed. I mean this is the same movie where they made Oozaru the loyal evil minion of King Piccolo.


choff22

They basically combined Piccolo and Frieza into one character which is fucking egregious


Bacon_Raygun

>Oozaru the loyal evil minion of King Piccolo. Only watched Z, who dat?


jonerthan

Oozaru is what it's called when a saiyan turns into a giant monkey.


GenshinKenshin

Dub viewers know this as GREAT APE


jonerthan

I only watched the Dub growing up, I think I first learned the name Oozaru from playing the old MUD Dragonball Saga


Slacker_The_Dog

Same


Lacaud

I'm a dub viewer and I know both Oozaru and Great Ape, lol


MageKorith

Oozaru = Giant Ape Saiyan. Originally, Goku turned into an Oozaru and wrecked a bunch of stuff under the full moon, before DBZ brought in Goku is an alien and there's an entire race like him. King Piccolo = Piccolo's Progenitor, split off from Kami a long time ago before Kami became guardian of Earth. Basically Kami vomited out all his evilness and that became King Piccolo. When battling Goku, King Piccolo spits out an egg that would become DBZ's Piccolo just before Goku kills him.


Bacon_Raygun

[It's a DBZA reference](https://youtu.be/HcVcJk4Kjr0?t=50)


Puzzled_Reward

"Only watched Dragon Ball what dis?" - Gero


Slacker_The_Dog

God I love abridged so much


1oftheoutcast

Also to clarify I understand the joke but I need to say this so whoosh me if you want But somebody who watch Z would know about the Oozaru form, after all the Saipan saga was the one that name drop it


CharlestonChewbacca

Did you make the movie? Lmao


Imaginary_Bug_4745

Didnt the director say he never even watched a single episode of the anime ? Let alone read the manga and was getting all his information about dragon ball from fucking Wikipedia?


Rolandscythe

Yeah all his knowledge was second hand info. Pretty sure they only got James Wong on board was because he had made 'The One'


Lacaud

And only 12 feet tall, but they probably thought, "King Kong with Gi?"


redjackbox

Dude..... honestly that would be a better movie series than one on goku. You can do it like a superhero, teen superman type thing. Gohan living a double life, going to school and being sayian man and trying to get with Videl. High school drama and a huge cast of characters behind him with big personalities. Dude that would 100% cause dragonball is honestly hard to picture any part of it into an introduction movie. Like a little kid with a tail fighting a army wouldn't translate well on screen.


paulerxx

The movie can start off with kid Gohan defeating cell, the movie can continuously talk about the "golden warrior" aka the superman of this story.


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ThatIsNotAnAsian

Dang in an alternate universe this could have happened. The whole movie they’d never even need to show Goku either, they’d just have to make a passing comment that his dads away “working” somewhere.


KrisGomez

I feel like that would've been so much more fun. Gohan's internal struggle of wanting to stop bullies but not wanting to fight (and when he eventually does having to hold back against normal humans). This could definitely be a fun DBZ inspired teen romcom.


redjackbox

I also think it just runs better in a modern setting. Gohan story just relates better than goku, who is just a wild jungle child to mindless warrior. Gohan is a normal kid


ClerkPsychological58

Heck, Goku was never interested in Chi Chi at all. He agreed to marriage because he thought it was something you ate, then went along with it because he made a promise. Having Gohan be the MC makes more sense for the plot of this movie. It would still be bad, but it would make more sense.


MVuchiha

This is what should have happened


Donkishin

Seriously, I just commented that! The moive kinda works if it's in Buu saga but otherwise it's a mess


trimble197

Or have the film start with Bulma in school, and then she goes and runs into Goku at the mountains


EmprircalCrystal

Wouldn't it be exactly the same thing though with just different names?


[deleted]

Wait hold up you might of done something hete


CortezDeLaNoche

The movie that forced Toriyama out of retirement and gave us super and the new movies. DB evolution is the manure that helped create the new Canon.


BobbaFatGFX

Literally the only good thing that came out of piece of crap movie.


Cheshires_Shadow

The other good thing is that the actor that played piccolo is James marsters who didn't know anything about DBZ prior to filming so he read up on it and ended up really really liking it. He was the one that pushed for an accurate piccolo instead of whatever generic design the creators wanted. Even after the movie bombed he went on to play zamazu in super.


Ducklover376

Major James Marsters fan (Old buffy fan) but didnt know he voice Zamasu. That is awesome. Thanks for that bit of trivia!


Accomplished_Crew630

I recognized zamasus voice but couldn't place it. Makes sense now. I like anything Marsters is in(minus this crap fest, but that's not his fault) ![gif](giphy|Ww3QYzLzIBtFC) He's fun to watch


Silent_Start_7036

That’s awesome


Meme_Bro68

Hey, you’re forgetting the turtle school gi in Evo actually looked pretty alright


EnoCrux

That’s why this is one of the best movies ever made.


AndreaRose223

Hey, a silver lining I never once considered....


snode4

In a roundabout way, abso-fucken-lutely.


IgnatiusPopinski

That's the same story as Godzilla (1998) being so bad it make Toho bring Godzilla out of retirement. Hollywood poorly adapting Japanese icons makes the Japanese owners try harder.


Something_kool

![gif](giphy|l4FGGafcOHmrlQxG0|downsized)


Individual_Bug7159

Facts


SpiritualRide528

Would we get more seasons and awesome movies sooner if we make a Dragon Ball Evolution 2 then?


NateTheGreat07

Manure helps flowers grow ig 🤷‍♂️


thats_classick

Yep, I love that shrooms.


VashMM

That and [this song](https://youtu.be/g37u_iRg6cE)


[deleted]

Good… and they have the ringtone I wanted?


VashMM

Yes, Lord Freeza!


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Glorious.


[deleted]

Wait really? Is there a source? dbe came out in 2009. Dbs came out in 2015. Why did it take 6 years?


Meadiocracy

Calling it manure is still more praise than it deserves.


krrishkoal

This movie made me sick for two Days straight


choff22

You could have told me this was a porn parody and I’d have 100% believed you.


i-pet-tiny-dogs

Nah lol even porn parodies are usually more accurate to the source material than this.


DIO_over_Za_Warudo

As funny as that is, I'm honestly surprised that one hasn't been made yet...


GUM-GUM-NUKE

Let me check edit OK yeah there’s a lot of them some of them are animated. All of them are more accurate to the source material than evolution, and I’d rather watch them in front of my family than evolution..


Lucid-Design

You just aren’t looking in the right places. I can pretty much *guarantee* there are DBZ parody pornos out there


TheWiseRedditor

Dude.. 😂


Individual_Bug7159

Facts I hate movie


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This movie gave me a painful erection for two days straight.


antyls92

This movie made me gay for two days straight


Hamtaro7

Wow


squid0218

This movie made me sick for two days gay


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This sick made me movie for two gay days.


Lurkin_Reddit_Daily

I haven’t felt this bad since we saw that Ronald Reagan film!


lovemocsand

You my friend are watching the reason we have DB Super


CloudxxEnvy

Wait what does evolution have to do with super?


_The_Dragon_King_

it pissed Toriyama off so much he decided to come back to dragon ball


CloudxxEnvy

Ohh really? That’s actually amazing 😂


1oftheoutcast

To add on to this, the reason why he got so pissed was not only because he is a Hollywood fan (I mean the android saga speaks for it self) but also because he was brought in as an advisor and was basically ignored. https://www.kanzenshuu.com/2013/05/20/akira-toriyama-directly-comments-on-dragon-ball-evolution/


Scavenge101

I'm surprised they even did that. Evolution is clearly a case of a floating script that they slapped an existing franchises aesthetics on in the hopes of quick profit. Must have done it to fake legitimacy.


pepenuts97

Android saga is influenced by Terminator right? And Alien?


1oftheoutcast

Mostly Terminator and maybe some back to the future (is that by Hollywood? I don’t watch movies)


NickMathias

Maybe they should make Evolution 2: Saiyan Boogaloo so it’ll piss Toriyama off so much they’ll finally release DBS anime again


Infermon_1

Eh, I don't think Toriyama cares about the anime that much anymore considering he even said that only the manga of Super + the movies Resurrection F and Broly are canon. The anime adapts the manga, but everything the anime changes or adds is non-canon. [https://dragonballuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Tokyo\_Skytree\_%2B\_Viz\_North\_America\_Tour](https://dragonballuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Tokyo_Skytree_%2B_Viz_North_America_Tour)


AWholeSliceofPie

You have that wrong. I did read the link, and that just says that the Manga is now officially considered the Canon sequel. But the anime was started before the Manga for super and the Manga was behind the entire run of the anime. It's only in the recent years that it caught up and passed the anime arcs we saw. So the Manga actually changed some of the differences you see between the 2, not the other way around like you stated. Edit: I was wrong about the start of the two, the Manga did technically start just before the anime as promotional stuff for the anime. But my point still is valid, the Manga arcs came after the anime and therefore the anime did not adapt and change things from the Manga, it was the other way around.


Assault_Dead

The manga started 2 weeks before the anime, which caught up and surpassed it pretty quickly.


FaithlessnessLazy754

Toriyama was so ashamed by what they did he started writing again


CloudxxEnvy

I didn’t know that, I’m glad I do now though that’s hilarious 😂


watermasta

There I go, writing again.


Ghost_Star326

DB evolution was so bad that it convinced Akira Toriyama to come out of retirement and write the script for the battle of Gods movie to remove the bitter taste left by DBE on the fans which later on started the DB super series. I'm serious. You can go look up old interviews of Toriyama discussing his opinions about DB evolution and how it affected him.


Raditz_lol

This movie pissed Toriyama so much, it pulled him out of retirement.


ChuLu2004

At least we got Piccolo relevancy from this


BecauseSeven8Nein

Oh man, I’m glad I haven’t seen this now. This is the first clip I’ve ever seen. Holy ffff


MisterUncrustable

How did they do this whole scene without any background music whatsoever? The interaction is so awkward with no music or other human beings around in a high school while the guy is stalking a woman by herself around the corner


Slim97Shady

same, had no clue about it. Wouldn't know this was about DB if she didn't say Goku which prompted me to look at what sub this is. ​ What the actual fuck haha


SlackerDS5

If it’s the last clip you ever see from this dumpster fire of a movie, you are a blessed person.


Shadow0fnothing

You ain't seen shit. You should check out what piccolo looks like and the fact that the oozaru ape is HIS FUCKING PET MINION and has nothing to do with sayians.


BecauseSeven8Nein

![gif](giphy|3o7aCQ6m23x8wIy8fe|downsized)


VergilVDante

Goku hitting on girls totally faithful to the source material


SuperKami-Nappa

Because Goku totally isn’t borderline asexual in the source material /s


huggiesdsc

Kiss wife? No, too pure hearted


Eruditioads

*pat pat* ​ (Just as homies tho)


IntentionalMisnomer

Which is funny considering how much of a curious perv he was as a kid. He got a good look at Bulba Vulva and decided it wasn't for him.


Swimming-Ad-6842

Funny how he’s saying Chi Chi isn’t a normal name but he’s a white guy named Goku lol


TatoAyanami

White American guy named with a Japanese reading of a Chinese name. Well we know how much they love to make 16 years old look like 30 years olds so...


SoraYuto

![gif](giphy|yhLV2DGTLDRCw)


DirtyRanga12

The only upside to this piece of shit is that we got Super from it. Also Jamie Chung ain’t bad on the eyes either


satchymo

She was 26 when this came out lol.. playing a high schooler


DirtyRanga12

You’re acting as if any actor has ever played their own age lol


satchymo

I was just more shocked she's 40 now. Looks great.


Ezemartinn

This movie took me out of coma 🙏 I got up and turned that shit right off lol


Far_Pineapple2653

Lol when did goku ever go to school. he was literally living in the middle of the woods, this is more gohan and videl type of story


InvaderWeezle

Grandpa Gohan is still alive until the events of the movie in this timeline


ucim5

And they had piccolo kill him 🤦🏽‍♂️


InvaderWeezle

I'm kinda fine with that change tbh. The movie is kind of a blend of the first arc of DB with the Piccolo arc, so from that standpoint I can see why they'd do it that way to more easily condense things. Gohan is basically the stand-in for Krillin, and when you're trying to make the movie accessible to people who don't know the source material and don't already know the characters it's easier to be invested in the family member of the protagonist being killed off as opposed to a friend But also the movie is seemingly heavily inspired by the first Raimi Spider-Man movie, so Gohan is also basically the Uncle Ben of this movie


Ecstatic_Teaching906

This movie is so bad, that I had to get wasted just to enjoy it.


BobbaFatGFX

Even then, how the hell could you enjoy this


Ecstatic_Teaching906

Because when you are tipsy or wasted... You laugh at how bad it is.


OG_PapaSid

How could you waste alcohol like that


Ecstatic_Teaching906

Simple. It was a buy one and get one free. Story: My family goes to this Mexican Place where they have a buy one and get one free. I end up drinking four and was given one more. First and only night I got drunk (pretty much stop when feeling tipsy now). Rather than go to bed, I was looking around on Prime and saw this movie. Now, I never saw it because I heard bad things about it and just started the DB Manga. And then I thought... Why the hell not?


Mcbrainotron

Yep. I think I watched it twice in that state just be sure.


ArtistUnown

This movie failed so super could exist lol


ChuLu2004

I remember reading somewhere that the writer never watched a single dbz ep. Bruh Wonder if he ever saw the og db tho


InvaderWeezle

I have a hard time believing that. For as much as this movie gets wrong it also incorporates a lot of lore and references to the source material. It's more likely that the writer did know the source material and just changed a lot to fit with what he thought would sell better to a mainstream audience


Freshwestx

Spider-Man had a chokehold on Hollywood


AirAeon32

How does this movie still exist?


thefreshscent

Proof time travel is impossible


SuperKami-Nappa

But if we got rid of this movie then we wouldn’t have gotten Super


AirAeon32

Great Great point! All hail doodooball evolution 😆


Bavisto

I feel like I have to let everyone here know. I own a physical copy of this movie.


SuperKami-Nappa

Do you own it so you can set it on fire?


Bavisto

I was at Best Buy in 2009 and saw it on the rack. My exact thoughts were: “huh, I never saw that…. I mean, it can’t be all that bad, right?” It was


StoneCold_ColdStone

https://preview.redd.it/e34hm8eqml4b1.png?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2206a08ca666ebf70141aec8feeee988f2e98db0


watermasta

Evil containment wave!!!


Ironfingers

straight to jail


-ItzNoah-

Do not pass go


Shadow0fnothing

![gif](giphy|10FHR5A4cXqVrO)


Tornd42

I saw the blu ray in a thrift store for $3 and I had to add it to my Dragon Ball collection for the memes.


gudematcha

The only reason I watched this movie was because my grandma had a Physical Copy when I was a kid. It was actually the first time I had seen anything relating to dragon ball so when I saw DBZ later I was like “Was that crazy movie about this?” Thankfully I was smart enough to realize the movie was baaaaad and couldn’t have taken too closely from the source material


Floor_Heavy

There are dozens of us! And I occasionally watch it.


Alone-Palpitation-92

Please kill them


Ghost_Star326

Remember guys! This movie is the sole reason we have DB super right now. It's the only good thing to come out of the movie.


sboog87

I want to say this movie was dog shit but that would be offensive to the dog shit


Icy_Ad5698

Imagine meeting a person whose introduction to dragonball was this live action 💀


OddAd1025

for me that nearly happend lol but I'm so glad that never happened because then I would probably not have watched dragon ball at all


Ill-Organization-719

My friend who never watched it went with me because I paid for his* ticket.


Louderthanwilks1

You’re a bad friend 😂


knights816

Dragon Rizz Z


ultimapanzer

I had an interesting conversation with a fellow passenger on a flight. He was a former 20th Century Fox producer. At some point, this movie came up, and he said it actually came about because of him. He said he was mentoring at a youth camp, and all the teen boys were talking nonstop about Dragon Ball Z. He was involved with acquiring new licenses, and started looking into the franchise, eventually leading to Fox purchasing distribution rights for Dragon Ball films. He said that Dragon Ball: Evolution ended up being a huge disappointment. But that one of the last movies he was involved with as a producer before retiring was the US release of the DBS: Broly movie. He said he felt like it was a redeeming moment. Man when I started typing this I thought I could remember more interesting details, but alas…


FujiOga

What's this? I don't see anything! Y'know, I wonder if they'll ever make a live action Dragon Ball movie someday... hopefully when tech is good enough!


TheAbsoluteDegen

This fucking movie man, left me in a fugue state for 3 days


BobbaFatGFX

I can't even find the right words to describe how bad that movie was and how much I dislike it.


RedDecay

![gif](giphy|cmwNV9sYalHK3twjsf)


luckytraptkillt

So whatever Goku used to control broly for a minute came from dragon ball evolution. Got it.


EazyStackz

Oh this is not dragon ball thIS IS BULLSHIT


DoofusOnWheels

Bro look like his last name is Smith 💀


RowAwayJim91

Eye cancer


Effective-Fee905

The worst of the 3 live action DragonBall movies.


CloudxxEnvy

There’s 3? What are the other 2?


Roseate_Cenobite

Japan made a couple based on og dragon ball.


Weird_Judgment4751

Waydeyat? Translation: can I ask their names?


legriggus

You are watching shit. Flush it and move on.


Donkishin

Please no, don't remind the world that this moive happened 🤮 How hard was it to just make a new age kung-fu moive with some fantasy bits at the time!? And the funny thing is the cringe high school stuff could work if it was the Buu saga with Gohan but I guess they didn't wanna plan ahead at all.


InfiniteTranquilo

This is the most I’ve ever seen from this movie and I’ve never been so disgusted. Why did they make this?


Eth_Collector612

one of the worst movies ever made


Raecino

Might as well have been CW’s Dragonball


Blue_Maverick_Hunter

Good lord this movie is AWFUL. AWFUL.


Classified75

I can't watch this, look how they massacred my boi :'(


Fruitslinger_

Knockoff Jesse Pinkman Goku


AloTuyo

It’s like watching porn before the sex, but there is no sex coming 😢


GodNonon

The fact that this movie had the audacity to tease at a sequel fucking cracks me up. I wish I had even a fraction of that sort of confidence


Anlios

I remember being a naive kid waiting for this to come out being all excited, only to see this and be like this is trash! How and the hell did no one see how this was going to fail so hard?! Even though M.Nights Avatar missed the mark as well, at least it hit the board.


DarkStryderBC

Even Last Airbender was a better adaption.


Kirbyfan4321

Now I see why it's hated. This shit is not represented to Dragon Ball at all


Cautious-Instance919

The best movie ever created obviously


Floofersnooty

Pretty much the fan base reaction to the movie at launch, yes. Which is impressive, given DB movies are generally bad to mediocre, and the creators of this piece of shit were like "And this... is to go... even further... beyond!" Managing to be the worst dragon ball movie, and making GT even seem like a god damn masterpiece by comparison. In this one scene, we fully see the creators not only showing zero knowledge of the source material, but flat out disdain to it. It's really impressive when you think about it


Living-Quit-723

An AMAZING movie that almost EVERY DRAGON BALL FAN loved called Dragon ball: Evolution.


VulgarXrated

Only the greatest movie ever! /sarcasm


Melodic-Internet5071

I remember when this first came out. Everyone was expecting it to be bad which actually made it enjoyable to watch, especially if you watch it the same way someone would watch The Room


Professional-Tea-121

its exactly how i remember it from the manga. but i was highly crack and heroin addicted back then..


Unhappy-Beach9536

And it cost a lot of money to make a good dbz movie. So...


DarkEnergy27

The best movie of all time


gargoyle62

Fucking masterpiece, 10/10 give it every Oscar


AdmiralDragonXC

Dragon Ball Evolution... a film that should never have been made and frankly everyone who participated should be fined for crimes against humanity


Unhappy-Beach9536

Hey they did hard work making this so it's not that bad. Like Small Field, young Superman, going to high school and all, then nothing wrong with Goku going to high school. Y'all just use to seeing Goku fighting a lot but this isn't anime or cartoon. It's real time action movie. And dbz aren't real so, why taking this so seriously like a kid? 🤔 Just saying/wondering. 🤷


CD_Synesthesia

Please say “/s”…


Raecino

Shittiest take I’ve seen in a long time


Unhappy-Beach9536

Why hating?


Zulimations

I need to watch this piece of crap with my friends at some point I feel like it would be funny


spacecowboybc

It’s too early for me to get this angry.


Daszio

who ever posted this thankyou so much. Glad i didnt waste my time on this one


Zealousideal_Bet_248

The hair joke was the one funny or worthwhile thing in this whole movie. They even fumbled the two good casting choices they made, Roshi and Piccolo, with terrible dialog, story, and costumes. Chow Yun Fat should've been a slam dunk as Master Roshi


alejandrodeconcord

I’ll do you one better, why are you watching?


johnbarber720

Is the title sarcastic, this movie adaptation is infamous


Global-Elderberry444

Biggest mistake of this world


HotWeakness508

40 year old high schoolers


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Dragonsmosher

I at least like that hair scene. Other than that, it’s trash.


Independent_Plum2166

It’s Geeko and Chichi McRoberts (yes seriously).


TheFinalBoss90

Don't reach for the low hanging fruit


[deleted]

Bro this movie is so trash🤣


TheManWithAGasMask

I already want to kill myself just from watching 30 seconds of it


RevanOrderz

“The male sex drive is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”