Dragonball Evolution - 七龍珠：全新進化

Dragonball Evolution (七龍珠：全新進化) is a 2009 film. The movie stars Chow Yun-Fat, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, and Justin Chatwin. I had written an upcoming post about this movie back in March.

I am going to include Netflix's summary as I feel extremely lazy writing about this film. The summary from Netflix is:

After training with the great Master Roshi (Yun-Fat Chow), powerful warrior Goku (Justin Chatwin) fights to protect the planet from the evil Lord Piccolo (James Marsters), who is determined to conquer the universe by collecting the seven mystical Dragon Balls. Based on the hugely popular anime series, James Wong's live-action film follows Goku's thrilling adventures and incredible battles against dangerous alien adversaries.

Oh man. Where do you begin. The movie has a white guy playing an Asian role. Chow's turn as Roshi was not believable. Jamie Chung did her best. I had this on while washing dishes so it hurt less.

Dragonball Evolution - 七龍珠：全新進化 (2009) - Upcoming

Dragonball Evolution (七龍珠：全新進化) is being released in Taiwan on March 13, 2009. Coming to the US on April 8, 2009. Which is unusual since its a US film.

The trailer are out and the hype and promotion is starting to pick up.

For the record, Dragonball is after my time. I have not watched or read the comics in the past, so I have no warm and fuzzy feelings about this movie. Not like I did for Transformers or the upcoming G.I.Joe. I grew up on Voltron, Thundercats, Transformers, Go-bots, and G.I. Joe. I am in 80s kid through and through. Dragonball is a late 90s thing. I was already working when it made it to the US.

The controversy is the casting of a non-Asian actor in the lead role of Goku. There is a smattering of Asians in other less prominent roles. Its racist Hollywood at work again.