Overview: A live-action adaptation of the hugely popular franchise, 'Dragonball Evolution: Z Edition' is a non-stop action thrill ride centered on a humanoid alien named Goku (Justin Chatwin, War of the Worlds), who tries to fulfill the wish of his dying grandfather by collecting all seven of the world's mystical Dragonballs with the help of the great Master Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat, Bulletproof Monk).

DVD Verdict: Fans of the original Dragon-Ball franchise who have been drawn to the series distinct humor will find disappointment in Dragonball: Evolution. Goku who has been friendly strong and kind in the show has now become a whinny invert school-boy that gets picked on in classes.

Chichi has gone through a total personality change as well, from a bossy loud-mouth to an over-friendly popular rich airhead that falls heads over heels for Goku almost instantly. Goku punches Chichi in the movie by 'accident'. It was surprising how she was so calm and 'forgiving' about being knocked out.

The fact is that in the anime Chichi had to run after Goku to grab his attention, not the other way around. Bulma has also gone through a personality change and had it not been for the two blue strands of hair and actually saying her name she would have been unrecognizable with the exception of the machines.

Yamcha has completely lost his fear of women and instead is like a lousy fill-in sand dune wannabe cool guy. Piccolo, instead of being the unique bad-guy with split personalities has become just the "bad-guy". He has totally lost his antenna's and pointy ears as well being reduce to a incomplete villain that just sends out his chick to do all his dirty work.

Where are the rest of the characters? Where's Launch, Krillin, Yamcha's floating cat buddy, Tien and Chichi's oversized strong-as-an-ox father and others? Heck, even the dinosaurs are missing except for the giant eggs-scene at the very beginning of the movie.

Another disappointment is the fight-scenes. They are pretty linear in concern of action-fullfilling. A lot more of doing cool, swirly hand-signals and gun pointing/zapping than fights. And what has happened to Gohan's extension pole? It's not even included.

Goku turning into a Oozaru was pretty lame too. Instead of being the size of King-Kong he's normal height with no tail. All he has to do is to "believe in himself" and he'd return back to normal, which is not how it goes! The most disappointing of them all was the fight with piccolo, the Kamehameha (not 'Kameha' like the movie says) is supposed to be a gigantic ball of energy shot towards the opponent.

Instead it has been reduced down to a stream of wisps when Goku lunges at Piccolo. When Master Roshi 'dies' the summoned dragon is a dwarfed,speechless,golden' glow version of the impressive original. No black ominous skies. Just a chopped, quick cameo with some cracking-noises, wind and lighting in broad daylight. [Digi] This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

8 Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gag Reels
Music Video, and so much More!