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Pojo's Dragonball - What If?

What if they made a live action DBZ. . .
OMG, they did that already and look what happened!!!

Greetings and salutations to all of the Pojo and Dragonball faithful. This is Lawrence / DarthNaps writing and it has been a LONG time since I have contacted you all. One reason for this is that life has been evolving; however, another reason is that it has taken me an entire year to recover from the Dragonball abortion of a live action film that was released on April 12th, 2009. I just happened to find myself doing some leisurely web-surfing and found out that they have green lit a sequel, Dragonball 2: Reborn. I almost immediately snapped out of my sullen demeanor as a fiery lust for vengeance filled my soul. “I must sound off on Pojo.com!” was the only thought racing through my mind. And so here I am, ready, willing and able to get every single one of you to become responsible movie-goers and give this predestined flop of a sequel the old heave-ho!

For those privileged few who missed Dragonball Evolution in ’09 let’s give a quick review of what you missed. The only names attached to this project that were noteworthy were director James Wong (from his behind the camera work on the X-Files) and Chow Yun-Fat (as Master Roshi). Normally, a known success at the director’s helm and an alpha actor of any capacity are two big plusses for any film project going forward. Unfortunately, that was the extent of any momentum this film had to succeed. The story of Dragonball Evolution was retrofitted for pre-teens, dislodged and galvanized into a Frankenstein’s monster amalgamation of some plot barely resembling the one we know from the comics and cartoons. At least the film included 7 dragon balls to be searched for. It starred Justin Chatwin as Goku, a white actor who has neither establishment nor background in martial arts of any sort, so naturally he was a perfect fit. The action was below average, the wire work was amateur night at the Apollo and the acting was deplorable save for one small shining light: Randall Duk Kim, who played Grandpa Gohan. You’ll remember him as the Keymaker in the Matrix Reloaded and Dr. Crab from Memoirs of a Geisha. Wait, am I the only one here who saw that film? The point is this gentleman has a track record for doing a lot with very little. Believe you me, he got the very least from Dragonball Evolution, but managed to breathe life into his character.

I remember writing an article to Pojo back in ’06 about the invalidity of a Dragonball live action film, but I never realized it would have been everything I said, and much worse! Evolution had a $45 million dollar budget and brought home a whopping $4.5 million in its opening weekend. It ran in theaters from April 12 to June 4 of 2009 and accumulated an estimated $76.2 million in box office. Effects heavy action films should be able to double its budget easily, but somehow this performance, paired with equally unappealing reviews that led to an impressive 3.3 rating out of 10 on imdb.com warranted a sequel to be given the proverbial thumbs up. Having watched the trailer once gave me the foresight to not even consider seeing this in the theater, but I did catch it on demand. As much as I love Dragonball, I know how bad this live action franchise is and how much worse it’s going to get. Sure, you could just take this as the ranting of a seriously miffed fan boy or you could just mill over the facts.

In all seriousness Pojo faithful, if this sequel ever hits the big screen, do yourselves a favor and DO NOT SEE IT! Wait to be disappointed on cable. Take the time to dust off some old DBZ tapes and/or DVDs and relive the glory days. Besides, wouldn’t all of you enjoy seeing a litany of studio exec’s get the can for backing such an absurd product? In Hollywood land, it’s this kind of epic fail after epic fail that WILL lead to better quality for YOUR hard-earned bucks! I’m only one person, but if you tell two friends, and they tell their friends, and so on, and so on. . . well you get the point. Hollywood and more specifically, the corporate entities that really run the show, think we are the simple-minded mob and we will fund their BS ad nosium! Well I say screw that! I say we tell people who fumble sure shot licenses to bite some serious curb!

From Russia with love,
Lawrence / DarthNaps
4/3/2010

To celebrate the anniversary of Androids death, monuments are made to Gohan and Trunks.
Gohan and Truks start a dojo only for the moral-minded, and the best fighters are given arms and ammunition as the police. Gohan and Trunks retire and live a normal life.
2 years later, a group of Namek people arrive to thank the Z-warriors for saving them from Freiza.
They are very sad to learn of the events that took place 20 years after Namek blew up.
Dende now grown up, chooses to stay as the gaurdian of Earth, with his Namekian friend Inal as assistant.
They restore the dragonballs and live in Kami's palace.


 


 


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