I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!! Reacting to "Dragonball Evolution" by Nostalgia Critic

[@connorwood9211]

- The only positive this movie can receive is that it was so bad it pissed off the creator, Akira Toriyama and he actually decided to return to the series with the movie Battle of God's which led to the continuation of the franchise. Even one of Evolution's writers apologised for the movie few years after - Which is worse? Well it's comparing garbage to different garbage, but Airbender was some what more faithful. - Apparently originally Oozaru wasn't even going to be an ape in the movie. Instead it was going to be a some kind of lizard monster. But fan outrage made them change it. In hindsight was it really worth it? - One of the narrator's was the same narrator for the DBZ and the other guy is the "Epic Voice Guy" from Honest Trailers

[@HB-fq9nn]

Even though TLA follows the plot of the first season better than anything DBE adapted, it still fails in every single category (Even the CGI isn't that great). It truly is pick your poison. They are both bad movies/adaptations that fail at being movies in general.

[@Rubyshedinja33]

@@HB-fq9nn cgi like that rock scene

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I..... I'm at a loss for words.... I could make a better movie from only watching DBZA

[@zebreacts9706]

Another plus was that the actor who played Piccolo in this movie became a huge Dragonball fan cuz he watched the series in preparation for the role. [He, of course, hated the movie.]

[@HB-fq9nn]

@@zebreacts9706 I guess it due to bad directing that his acting was so flat then.

[@stallingtick4122]

Fun fact the actor who played Piccolo in this movie eventually plays Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super And he nails it

[@Flufux]

He was also one of only about two or so people involved in the movie who had actually watched DragonBall.

[@furydeath]

@@Flufux i think he had said being in the movie got him into dragonball cause his kids liked the show then when they went to watch the movie it....didn't go well xD

[@starkiller1289]

Perhaps that's why Zamasu was such a misanthrope. He glimpsed into our universe and didn't want humans to exist anymore.

[@DarkNoiseBW]

That would be James Masters (AKA Spike from Buffy) whose a massive DBZ fan and (if you can believe they had the BALLS to think this would even happen) signed a contract to do 7 movies before this flopped! XD

[@Doodles2345]

Really I didn't know that, that is really interesting.

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

They might as well have called this movie "How Toriyama Got His Groove Back". This movie was so bad, it caused Akira Toriyama, a creator known for his indifference toward his creations, to look back and say "oh fuck, THIS is what apathy gets you?" So when he heard Toei was working on Battle of Gods, he strutted up to their office, declared "I'M BACK, BITCHES!" and proceeded to _rewrite their entire script._ After that, he wrote Resurrection F, and the reception of both movies invigorated him enough to start working on Dragon Ball Super. Heck, even Piccolo's actor, James Marsters, got redemption in that he voiced a major villain in Super by the name of Zamasu, and is widely credited as giving one of the best performances in the entire dub.

[@VirtueCry]

In the Anime, Goku was an illiterate hillbilly that was dropped on his head as a baby. That is all canon, including the being dropped on his head part. In this, "Goku" attends school and gets bullied. (However, Roshi did teach Goku how to read and write after his grandpa died)

[@haku8135]

Not just dropped on his head, dropped off a CLIFF onto his head.

[@mrroboshadow]

@@haku8135 yep and what? about a week after he supermaned his way...i mean uh...crashed to earth in a pod in a totally original fashion

[@sheevpalpatine6139]

@@mrroboshadow no not after. He was sent to earth first. He was dropped on his head about weeks later

[@RichardX1]

It's like someone saw clips from the Great Saiyaman arc and confused Goku and Gohan

[@VirtueCry]

7:13 "His grandpa? That's not Roshi." *Roshi is not Goku's grandpa.* Gohan is Goku's grandpa, but he died in Dragon Ball.Goku named his son after his grandpa.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Oh I thought roshi found him in a forest or something or was that Gohan that found him

[@furydeath]

@@theduckgoesmoo you def need to give dragon ball a watch, sadly can't do it on here with toei being...well toei

[@CapSci-x6q]

@@theduckgoesmoo Grandpa Gohan found Goku close to his home and took care of him. I'm really not sure how exactly he found him since they keep changing Goku's story from being sent to Earth to destroy the planet like Raditz said in DBZA, to him being sent to Earth by Bardock since he knew that Frieza would kill them all. So either, Grandpa Gohan found him and Goku was trying to kill him to escape and then just hit his head and forgot it all, or he was always as naive as he is depicted and was never supposed to kill everyone on Earth at all. The second one's supposed to be the canon one that was written by Toriyama in Dragon Ball Minus or the Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie but some people don't like how Goku's origin was retconned so I just listed both of the origins.

[@celestialcreeper8736]

@@CapSci-x6q well as we saw goku before he his his head was preddy bad however remember goku only had a pl of 2 when he was sent to earth as a baby so gohan or even the farmer with a shot gun with a pl of 5 could easily over powered him at that time.

[@mrroboshadow]

@@CapSci-x6q for my part i dont like that second revised origin cause its just a carbon copy of superman's origin the original where he hits his head it goes into a whole "nature vs nurture" deal

[@CyberDalek17]

Funny enough, the actor playing king Piccolo in this movie goes on to dub Zamasu, one of the antagonists from Dragon Ball Super

[@Dim4323]

James masters

[@BBBHuey]

12:31 Still can't believe they used the word "Namek" instead of "demon". While Piccolo is Namekian, he was first believed to be an actual Demon King.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Jesus....

[@AttemptedVoices]

​@@theduckgoesmoo Or as abridged Piccolo himself put it: "Aw, dammit! I liked it better when I was a demon!"

[@VirtueCry]

Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, was on set but was completely ignored by the filmmakers. Akira had Dragon Ball Super made to make up for how bad this movie was.

[@SebasTian58323]

Watch the nostalgia critic last airbender review

[@chefcircuit5392]

Ju-Dee: There is no live action Last Airbender movie… :D

[@thinhnguyenuc5973]

I don't think he knows the animated avatar the last airbender

[@SebasTian58323]

@@thinhnguyenuc5973 he said in his first yu-gi-oh abridged reaction that he's watched ATLA

[@legohunter1020]

Evolution was not that bad. The ATLA live action however not do much.

[@codywelter5302]

Please

[@SyxxPunk]

Justin Chatwin, the actor that played Goku, was excited to play the role, and had originally thrown himself fully into researching and studying the manga and the show. Then he saw the script and how heavily the budget was slashed, and just gave up right then and there and phoned in the performance for a paycheck. EDIT: the budget of the film was $30 Million, slashed from the originally promised $120 million.

[@crimsontide34]

I always fell like the creators of this movie mixed up Goku with Gohan who actually did attend school. So if you exchanged Goku with Gohan and Chi chi with Videl it starts to make a little more sense. Not that it make it any better since weather you have Chi Chi ro Videl the movie completely stripes away their tough personality s.

[@toonamidemon2519]

Kyle Hebert was the Narrarator for the official funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z. He also voices grown up Gohan in the dub. Believe it or not, there was actually a video game adaptation of the shitty Dragon Ball Evolution movie as well.

[@DavidRomigJr]

Jon Bailey is known for his movie trailer voice-overs since he took over for the original epic movie voice guy on Honest Trailers. His epic movie voice sounds a bit like Don LaFontaine. On that note, Honest Trailers did an epic movie trailer for Dragon Ball Evolution with special guests Team Four Star. And Cinema Sins did a sins video for Dragon Ball Evolution- normally they sin a movie as a stand alone and ignore source material, but they made an exception because Dragonball is so beloved by fans. Both are worth a watch at this point.

[@HB-fq9nn]

Glad to see you've discovered the Nostalgia Critic. Sadly there aren't many movies he's reviewed that you know of or won't watch due to spoilers. However, he did review The Last Airbender, as well as the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. So maybe you could react to those in the future? I recommend looking through all the Nostalgia Critic Season playlists on the channel so you can choose which reviews you would like to react to.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Maybe not the star wars ones

[@dynaman7329]

@@theduckgoesmoo he also reviewed all five Spider-Man movies and the Captain America movie from the 90's

[@theinimitablejora522]

Ah, Monday! Back from my weekend excursion, just in time for the day's DuckGoesQuestionCorners! I wonder what he's reacting to toda- _evolution evolution EVOLUTION EVOLUTION_ _SPIT-TAKE_ WHAT ...okay, I... did not expect that... hoo boy we got quite the corner ahead of us, eh? Alright, let's get this moving. "Is this an intro? Is this like a group of people?" Nostalgia Critic was the second comedic personality-based reviewer of anything that got really popular and known. The Angry Video Game Nerd was first. Despite some modern controversies surrounding Doug Walker (Critic's real name), both have cemented their place in internet history. "What is going on right now?" It's a bit of a parody of the style of the original Z, complete with the original narrator from the dub himself, Kyle Hebert! Still more faithful than the movie. "His grandpa? That's not Roshi." Remember how Goku got dropped on Earth after escaping the destruction of Vegeta? In the original, he got found by an elderly man called Gohan. Gohan is the man who gave him his name of Goku, taught him a teensy-bit-basics of combat, and taught him to not look at the moon. I WONDER WHY- yeah Goku killed Gohan and didn't even realize it was him until he saw Vegeta transform into the Oozaru. It was actually a pretty sad moment in the original. "What was the budget for this movie?" 30 million USD. The best-looking thing in the franchise, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, had a budget of 8.5 million. Christ. "I don't know what that's about." He was quoting Pumbaa from The Lion King. "Slimy, yet satisfying!" became parodied as "slimy, yet seething with anger-filled disappointment!" "What's worse, this or The Last Airbender?" A question none dared to asked, as such would require further exposure to both. They're about equal shit levels. At least you can squint at The Last Airbender and see the show. This? WOW no. "Geeko? Really?" Yes, really. Christ, this movie... "What have I seen him in? I feel like I've seen him in other movies..." You've seen War of the Worlds. He was... kinda... starting? Evolution killed him though. "Gohan's actual dad." NNNNNNOPE. I don't know how well it was brought up during your run on Abridged, but in the original, Kami was once unfit for the role of Guardian of Earth according to his master and predecessor. In an attempt to please him and prove his worth, Kami split the evil from his body and formed another being- the evil Demon King Piccolo. Roshi's master Mutaito sealed him away in a rice cooker using the Mafu-ba technique, but he was set free much later and wreaked havoc across the world. Fortunately, Goku was able to kill him. Unfortunately, he immediately spit out an egg. That egg hatched into the Piccolo that YOU know. "Containment...?" Ghostbusters joke. They were making jokes because Ernie Hudson was in both movies. "Who's Uncle Ben?" ...Spider-Man? Peter Parker's Uncle Ben? "They're bringing in guns a lot." That glock is kinda the Nostalgia Critic special. His iconic sidepiece. "Did they cut his tail off?" HE HAS NO TAIL. He just got shocked back to normal! THIS MOVIE IS BULLSHIT! "Wait, who's that?" Jon Bailey. Famous badass internet voice guy. Voice of Honest Trailers, if you've seen those. "I remember going to theaters to see Last Airbender" Oh... oh my god... you... poor, poor soul... I... don't have it in me to do a proper outtro for the DuckGoesQuestionCorner. Evolution is... oh, I think I'm gonna be sick...

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I'm glad you enjoyed it and love the way you type your comments

[@TheName983]

"What's worse, this or the last air bender?" That is a good question

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Most people say this is worse

[@furydeath]

you watch avatar cause you know it's bad you watch this...idk why you would wanna do that

[@fist-of-doom487]

@@theduckgoesmoo it’s honestly a toss up between the two

[@tylerwindoloski4778]

@@theduckgoesmoo It is worse, in my opinion. I saw both and honestly, at least the last airbender movie had some things that were similar but this movie had like nothing in common with dragonball

[@Daoutsida05]

@@theduckgoesmoo I can't agree. Dragonball is so bad, but you can at least make fun of how bad it is. Airbender is far worse because it is legitimately boring.

[@twistedgabriel4774]

*-grandpa gohan dying to piccolo-* *me who has never seen dragon ball but manages to piece some of it out:last time I checked, he died because of Goku turning into like said the oozaru/great ape.*

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

Akira Toriyama, in case you've forgotten from the DBZA intros, is the creator of Dragon Ball. The people who made Dragonball Evolution actively ignored his rightfully negative opinions of how the movie was turning out because they were convinced that they could do it better. He hated it so much, that he started the Dragon Ball series again with the "Battle of Gods" movie after practically retiring the series nearly 15 years earlier.

[@furydeath]

I mean if you wanna say something good for the movie we got james marsters as piccolo who then went on to VA as zamasu in super

[@chaossalad3243]

9:14 well Kermit believes Last Airbender at least tried with their direction (don’t worry, you’ve seen that one). I won’t waste brain cells thinking about them long enough to compare them

[@Biostar96]

You would have had to watch old english dubbed anime like Speed Racer to get the opening sketch parody. The stiff animation, off sync lip moving, and over the top reactions were everywhere.

[@Death36669]

The live action last air bender was at least fairly faithful to the source material it had lack luster special effects and tried to cram the whole first season into 1 movie. But Evolution followed nothing of the source material, they cherry picked characters and lore, this is movie is better said to be loosely inspired by dragon ball.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Thats a very good way to describe it

[@soup_doctor]

I've watched evolution. Only thing I can say is, it's not dragon ball.

[@mrroboshadow]

i can think of a few other things but they cant be said in polite company

[@thepsychicspoon5984]

"Nameks almost conquered the earth 2000 years ago". That line hurt to listen to.

[@Sundowner13]

Fun fact: the actor for piccolo in this movie also voiced the English dub for Zamasu in dbs

[@gogetablack5384]

The Piccolo in the movie is based on the Original Piccolo, who is the father of Piccolo in Z. They just have the same name.

[@TnT_F0X]

Chi Chi being a fighter in the original made sense... The Ox King (Big grandpa man) is actually a king and was trained by Master Roshi. The Ox King Trained Chi Chi to be safe as a princess... and she decapitated then exploded a T-Rex as an 11 year old so... strong training. Here she is just the hot girl who likes to do UFC.

[@BBBHuey]

And she knows about chi because her name is Chi Chi. Not because Chichi is a word meaning "milk" because her father is the Ox King.

[@restaurantworried8031]

fun fact: the actor for in this film piccolo(James Marsters) later voiced zamasu and fun fact#2 piccolo was almost white

[@TnT_F0X]

The Last Airbender is the Mona Lisa compared to this movie. The last air bender had terrible effects and acting, but they at least tried to follow the first season plot... which boiled down to 2 hours of narration.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Are there any other adaptations that come close to those two?

[@TnT_F0X]

@@theduckgoesmoo Death Note adaptation was horrible, FMA Brotherhood Adaptation on Netflix... was never seen or heard from so you know how that must have turned out. Actually the only Decent live action recently I saw that was any good was Detective Pikachu. The effects were alright, the pokemon looked great... and Ryan Reynolds. Sonic wasn't bad either, but it was less authentic to the source and Jim Carrey is just gold.

[@TnT_F0X]

@@theduckgoesmoo If you want to die laughing, look up the DBZ live action movies from 1989. Know what... here is the Trailer. Add it to the reaction list, you will NOT be disappointed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJzTe6iiaamcbq8

[@DementisXYZ]

Okie doke, glad I got to actually watch this today, now it's time for some fun facts! 1. You've actually seen what LittleKuriboh and MasakoX look like previously, albeit very briefly. They were in the Mustache Music Video. 2. Speaking of, in that music video, you also saw Malcolm (The one who comes in behind them waving a gun) and Nostalgia Critic, who actually gets the only speaking line in the whole video. 3. Kyle Hebert (the narrator who walked out and came back) is actually the original Narrator for Dragon Ball Z. When many who grew up with the show think "Dragon Ball Narrator," his the the voice they think of. Critic actually worked with him a few times in the past, including one of my favorite skits called "Kyle Hebert is an A**hole," which is a fun short video I recommend watching, maybe even reacting to. 4. Justin Bailey, who came in at the end doing an impression of Kyle, is also known as "Epic Voice Guy," and does the voices for actual movie trailers, as well as being the voice for the series Honest Trailers. Critic has worked with him many times in the past, actually. 5. Little fact about Channel Awesome here, that's actually where TeamFourStar originally hosted there stuff (off youtube, anyway) before they got their own website. There are season 1 bloopers for DBZ Abridged where they actually reference The Nostalgia Critic.

[@DementisXYZ]

Off topic, but I decided to come watch this on KZbin rather than on Patreon, because I assumed you get more revenue from my KZbin Premium view rather than Vimeo. If it's actually the other way around, lemme know and I can go the other way.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

@@DementisXYZ wait you can watch videos through patreon???

[@DementisXYZ]

@@theduckgoesmoo Yeah! As a matter of fact, people who subscribe to your Patreon can get these videos a day early! They should go do that.

[@RichardX1]

Also Doug Walker (the guy who plays the Nostalgia Critic) had a vocal cameo in TFS's ill-fated attempt to make an Attack on Titan Abridged

[@cassiemichael4697]

This movie kicked me in the nuts, and I'M A GIRL!!! There are so many Dragon Ball characters missing here! No Krillin, no Tien, no Chiaotzu, no Oolong, no Turtle, no Kami, no Mr. Popo, no Red Ribbon Army, no Master Mutaito, no Mercenary Tao, no Emperor Pilaf, no Shao, no Ox King, no Dr. or Mrs. Briefs! And the characters we did get are SHIT! Goku's ethnicity I could forgive because he was an alien and could look like anything, but his hair! My gods, what happened? And speaking of hair, Bulma's and Yamcha's were hideous and completely the wrong colors. Master Roshi was too young. Piccolo looked too young, remember this is King Piccolo, so even after he wished himself to be younger in the anime, he still looked around forty to fifty years old. He doesn't have antennae, he uses his own blood instead of eggs to have more minions. Where are his kids? He had no affiliation with Mai in the show or the Saiyans (Great Apes in the movie). Also, the Kamehameha does NOT HEAL PEOPLE. IT IS A MASSIVE ENERGY BALL OF DEATH! I'm so angry because this video brought back so much pissed off energy. When I first watched this in theaters, at the end of it, I was so mad, I didn't even ask for my money back. I just wanted to get the hell out of there, go home, and angrily puke up all the popcorn and soda I had. This whole thing was a huge F**K YOU to all the fans of the show who went to see it! And whoever greenlit this shit needs to die!

[@pleasehelp2446]

Fun fact the plant that the woman picks at the end is supposed to be a senzu bean.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

You wanna hear two crazy things about this film? First: both the lead hero and lead villain actors were big fans of Dragonball. Justin Chatwin, playing Goku, buried himself in Dragonball material to be ready for Goku. He watched both DB and DBZ, read the manga for both, and even read the book that inspired the franchise, Journey to the West, to understand Goku's roots in Sun Wukong. And James Marsters, playing Piccolo, argued and fought with both the makeup artists and Director to make him green and actually look like Piccolo. He literally argued to have MORE time in the chair; first I've heard of that. And yet, both were sorely bummed and disappointed when they finally read the script; pretty much deciding to give as much effort acting their roles as the studio did adapting the manga. Second: when Akira Toriyama saw what they did to his series in this film, he came out of retirement to make Dragonball Super because he was THAT pissed. Yes, he was pissed off so badly by this film that he retconned GT (kinda) and came back to show them how it's done.

[@crimsonknight7011]

In the real show Goku killed his Grandpa by turning into the giant ape and stepping on him.

[@mvpuppy5396]

14:35 MasakoX: "So the original Goku, who hated fighting and only did it when he had to ..." Um ... he's talking about GOKU, right?

[@furydeath]

he's talking about dragonball goku not Z not SUPER

[@rjai5003]

I’m guessing NC was the one who wrote that line and no one corrected him

[@kakashihatake313]

@@rjai5003 if anyone was going to correct him it would've been masakoX since he's the biggest DBZ nerd out of the three of them.

[@bluetoon1499]

Love MasakoX, but even I have to admit that this was a hot take. GOHAN (Goku's son, not his grandpa) hates fighting. Goku on the other hand is passionate about fighting, pushing his limits by intense training, always looking to take on strong opponents in order to test his skills. If you recall even in Z (in the Cell Saga) Goku (along with Vegeta and the others) refused to kill Dr. Gero before he had the chance to complete the androids, because they wanted to fight the new enemies head on and viewed her plan as a cowardly solution.

[@furydeath]

@@bluetoon1499 gohan is DEAD this is dragonball NOT dragonballZ goku only fights because all the other bad guys make him least till around piccolo

[@ceruleanwalker1069]

Krillin and Tien dodged a bullet by not being in this movie.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

They probably would've given Krillin a nose

[@ceruleanwalker1069]

@@theduckgoesmoo Krillin don't need no nose. The lack of a nose is what got him 18. Think about it.

[@LordHypertronUniversum]

5:26 - *Kyle:* Who is supposed to be Goku, in this? *Me:* Good Question. 7:13 - *Kyle:* His grandpa? That's not Roshi. *Me:* That's not Master Roshi. That's Grampa Gohan, in Anime Goku named his firstborn after him. 11:56, 20:49 - *Technically in it doesn't matter,* but lady working for Piccolo, is soupoust to be Mai from Pilaf Gang, the comic relief characters that are trying to get Dragon Balls for themselves, but they always, will somehow screw it up. In the Movie, Mai is Piccolo's Henchwoman, that can also shapeshift (22:33), which is only a little weird. Even thoe in Anime Shapeshifting is actually known in Dragon Ball World, Mai shouldn't known that technique. 17:00 - To be fair in Anime, Capsule Technology doesn't make sense either. 19:06 - It's disapointing that, this is the closest we ever will have to "Fighter Chi Chi". 19:29 - This moment is not much far from Anime, When Goku meet Yamcha for the first time, Yamcha was a Desert Bandit and he wanted to robbed Goku & his Friends, and back then Yamcha was kicking Gokus butt, but than Yamcha spotted Bulma and run away, because back then Yamcha used to be scared of girls. In Movie, He's just a jerk. 22:09 - *Kyle:* Do I wanna see, what Tien looks like? *Me:* Don't worry, at this point there's no more character introductions, So no Live Action Tien Shinhan and/or Krillin. 24:19 - That's a thing in Dragon Ball, In Anime Every time Goku saw Full Moon, he turns in to Oozaru (A.K.A. Great Ape), and loses control over his mind. And that was an actual reason how Grampa Gohan Died, Through most of his life Goku belived a mysterious monster killed his Grampa, and non of his friends knew how to tell him, that he was a Monster that killed his Grampa. But than Dragon Ball Z happend, we were introduced to Saiyans and that Oozaru Form is common among Saiyans. And as you can see, Movie doesn't care. 27:32 - *Kyle:* ...And they gonna fight, and i guess they gonna get married, cause that's in the show, but they were kids? *Me:* To be specific, In Anime, When they were kids, Goku promised to Chi-Chi he marry her, but the thing was that goku didn't know what marriage was. When they both became young adults, Chi-Chi was mad at Goku, not only to forget the promise, but also for not recognising her, after clearing up a misunderstanding, she became understandably depressed. Goku feeld bad about all this, so he decided to, propose to Chi-Chi for real this time. Also i don't know if you can, but can you watch MasakoX's videos. A "Dragon Ball What IF" to be Specific. From all of MasakoX's What Ifs, i recommend, "What IF Raditz Turned Good".

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Lol I love how you break it down for me

[@LordHypertronUniversum]

@Shadow M That's kinda what i meant. i just didin't elaborated on it. Before Z, Chi Chi was starting to be fans favorite, but then Akira Toriyama, that was given by studio more freedom, decided to make her as much hateable as posible. Dragon Ball and it's creator has many flaws that are understandable: Guku being Gary Stu, makeing cool ideas (like: characters, lore & story arcs) and than ignore them, or forget stuff. But him making Chi-Chi an nagging wife was kinda "Man-child" from him.

[@FireFox2590]

This movie was so bad the director had to make a public apology for it. The creator of the actual show and manga was totally ignored throughout the creation of the movie as well, and before the movie even aired the creator told fans not to go see it because it "Isn't DragonBall."

[@smugsneasel]

Seriously, the weed break cuts had me rolling the first time I watched this video.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

If only it was real

[@annnichols3091]

Thank you, The opening skit seems to be missing from the review video now, and that was the part I wanted to watch again.

[@zacharygroysman279]

If you’re asking which is worse, this or last air airbender than I would say this. The main difference is that Airbender had a director and screenwriters that at least claimed to care about the show even though the movie doesn’t reflect it. Evolutions screen writer strait up said that it was a cash grab.

[@smugsneasel]

29:43 Wait! There it is! The answer to the lore of theduckgoesmoo! He went and saw Avatar the Last Airbender and it was SO bad that he chose to selectively erase his memory of it through...as of yet unknown means, and he accidentally erased his memory of almost all popular media, leading us to today! Oh yeah. It's all coming together.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Oh no definitely didn't lose memories my brother and my friends are very similar to me and never seeing some things like dragon ball

[@mrroboshadow]

@@theduckgoesmoo so if i just start turn over rocks, am i gonna eventually come across your family home?

[@chaossalad3243]

29:35 Epic Voice Guy from Honest Trailers

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Yeah no idea

[@ChakasCave]

Goku or Justin chatwin was in the first few seasons of shameless as Steve. He was also in an episode of lost, and he was Robbie in the 2004 war of the worlds

[@323starlight]

You should watch Mother's Basement's The Roast of Dragonball Evolution

[@embran8486]

When Grandpa Gohan swallowed the bug and Doug made comparison to Donald Duck cartoon and the like, he said: "Slimey and seething with anger and disappointment" a joke reference to Pumbaa & later Simba from Lion King "slimey but satisfying". So the bug in mouth is more fitting in Disney or Looney Tune cartoon slapstick basically.

[@averagegamecritic]

Rewatching forever later and just heard “No drywall is safe!” 😂😂

[@white0thunderwhite0thunder71]

Fun Fact: The narrator Kyle is the actual voice actor of Gohan and narrator in Dragon Ball Z and Super.

[@BlahBlahWoofWoof12]

The film had a budget of 30 million & only made 58.2 million at the box office. Also, fun fact about Goku's awkward horniness. After Goku came to earth his grandpa Gohan found him as a baby in the woods & raised him. Until he died he had never seen another human being until he met Bulma when he was still a child, who was the very first female he had ever met, so he was pretty confused about her & that she was different from him & even tried lifting up her skirt. When they went on a journey together to find the dragon balls they set up camp one night & while she was sleeping he laid in her lap like he used to do with his grandpa, but since she was a girl her lap felt different & he didn't understand why so he ended up slapping it & then took off her underwear to see why, causing him to go into a panic because he believed that, "Your balls are gone!" This woke her up but at the time she thought he meant the dragon balls so she didn't realize what he did. Also also, there are many Kyles in this video but there is only one Best Kyle

[@furydeath]

ya the first girl he ever meet's hit's him with a car and then shoots him xD

[@matthiasrauert8397]

The should rly have had a joke about little kuriboh being the narator for dbza.

[@embran8486]

Second "Kyle" is actually Jon Bailey, well known as the the deep hoarse Epicvoiceguy from Screen Junkies (Honest Trailers series)

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Never heard of him or the series

[@embran8486]

@@theduckgoesmoo Honest trailers is a popular You Tube series of trailers made by the team filled with wit and sarcasm of movies requested by people to cover. Some actually make you think of things you didn't spot growing up that are pretty bad. Also popular to react to. Besides that Screen Junkies is mostly commentary on movies & culture surrounding it.

[@nicholasmaddocks7545]

Android 16: another reason to hate this movie, is this Goku is not worth killing. Also when you have a movie review that involves three kyles all at once, you know you're in for a crap fest.

[@NikkiTaLance]

Goku and Chichi were 18 and 17 respectively when they fought in DB. They weren't little kids. They were... highschool age.

[@MasamuneNoirFilms]

11:12 he was in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of War of the Worlds

[@Larkie257]

Was surprised to Kyle Herbert in the video, the voice of adult gohan

[@ArchivesofCybertron]

33:45 - I’m the same, positivity is something I kept on hand most of the time now. First time I really knew a movie was abysmal was Transformers: The Last Knight. Film’s literally almost 3 hours and still feels rushed.

[@hideofreakingkojima5457]

22:03 "It's like tryin' to describe a dog turd that's sittin' on a sidewalk. Which side is better? The side that's facin' up, dryin' up in the hot afternoon sun? Or the side that's stickin' to the cement, stayin' moist and shitty?"

[@TnT_F0X]

Oh Boy! I cant wait to see my boi Krillian in the live action movie! :D

[@PassiveSmoking]

Man, this is worse than that time I was in high school, and all the guys called me "Geeko", and I was Piccolo's slave, I couldn't get Chi-Chi to like me, and... Oh wow, I hit that rock harder than I thought.

[@drakeware655]

"With his grandpa-" "That's not Roshi." Roshi isn't related to Goku. In the original/first Dragon Ball anime, Goku, after having crashed on Earth as a baby, was raised by a man named Gohan (the namesake of his future son), who taught him how to live in the wild and became a grandpa in Goku's eyes. Eventually, Grandpa Gohan died, and Goku met Roshi, who knew Grandpa Gohan, and taught Goku his martial arts, including the Kamehameha. Long story short, Roshi is not Goku's grandpa, but one of his martial arts teachers

[@robertchapman625]

ah, the staring a chi-chi scene. I remember some speculation when we just had screencaps/trailer bit of that scene that people were speculating that the writers had while it would not let him transform, a realistic enough image with light would put goku into a subcounsic trans because his body is half waiting for the moonlight trigger. There you go, a scene that reflects more of the show and takes into account the difficulties trying to have goku's actor have a realistic looking Saiyan tail for most of the movie.

[@ahedjehad8514]

there's a Taiwanese movie named Dragon Ball: the magic begins. it may not be a good movie by itself, but it's WAY better than this movie...at least Last Airbender TRIED to make it like the source material! at least the characters there somewhat looked like the source characters.

[@calebgoodman2076]

Yes Piccolo did kill Goku in Z however that was actually Piccolo *Jr.* His father the Demon King Piccolo was killed by young Goku way before his first child was born and even before he knew what a Saiyan was.

[@BBBHuey]

19:05 If you notice carefully, the fighter on top of that rock on the left disappears in the next shot.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

NOOOOO THE WHOLE FILM IS RUINED

[@cyberextreme86]

And Also Remember That Asian Woman Who Serve Piccolo in The Movie That Mai From The Original Dragon Ball Series, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball Heroes Super Series.

[@whydoistillusethissite8626]

15:20 "Who's Uncle Ben?" Kyle have you ever, and I mean EVER, seen Spider-Man before?

[@legohunter1020]

There is also popular Dragon Ball fan series. Dragon Ball AF Dragon Ball Absolon Dragon Ball Into the Gohanverse Dragon Ball Deliverance

[@spikejr3113jr]

So the creator of dragonball Akira Toriyama saw this movie after retiring from dragonball and said no this cannot be the last thing of dragonball so he created battle of gods and it got him inspired to keep going with dragonball super.

[@Shadowpack95]

everytime i watch this movie i have a hurricane, hand grenade, and a resurrection, really dulls the pain

[@CassiusStelar]

Oh yeah, Piccolo's assassin is supposed to be Mai, one of Pilaf's soldiers

[@anyathepanther7977]

Somewhere, on Flower Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King is screaming in agony, just so he would not *hear* this abomination of a movie!

[@env0x]

this movie was actually painful to watch when it first came out as everyone was expecting it to be really good

[@chaossalad3243]

If Herman could finally get you to watch this, I’d better start spamming Superhero Bowl requests

[@chaossalad3243]

Yes sir

[@RaV3nn]

Imagine if Goku was like this in the original.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Id rather not

[@timothymarzelli3874]

@4:56 Does LittleKuriboh not know what spin-offs are? Because what he lists here are not spin-offs, they're sequels. Except for DBZ Kai, with is an updated version of DBZ.

[@haku8135]

That "Other Kyle" was John Bailey, from Honest Trailers. That assassin was named Mai, she was stolen from the first villain of Dragon Ball, Emperor Pilaf. She's nothing like this Mai. The creator of this movie had NEVER watched Dragon Ball. This movie actually pissed Toriyama(The creator of Dragon Ball) off so much he decided to make more Dragon Ball. And that's how Super came about.

[@ThePolishValsion]

Kishimoto created Naruto. You were meant to say Toriyama.

[@roberthodson8645]

The only live action DBZ worth your time was done by Mega64. "The Freza saga in five minutes" followed by "The cell saga in five minutes".

[@SPEEDY4004]

watched it some years ago here in germany on regular television - if you go at it with zero expectations it was ok to watch - except some parts (especially related to yamcha iirc) but as a dragonball movie well... mfg Olli

[@SPEEDY4004]

oh wow just watching this to the end just makes me remember how much I forgot/erased from my memories PS: saru=ape and iirc my few beginners lessons - the "o" in front of a noun is to give it some extra emphasis - so yeah it is just "APE/MONKEY" - well given that all dragon ball characters are actually named after food, animals or kitchen appliances... mfg Olli

[@deazy6453]

I think this DBE is worse, but the Avatar movie is sooo much more boring it's hard to tell.

[@artistanthony1007]

Tbh DBE is better because names are correct and it's doing something new, they aren't using frustrating & odd transitions every single minute to go through every episode.

[@MrAuthor3DS]

The problem with this movie is that they took the kung fu comedy story of Dragon Ball and gave it an unnecessary amount of 21st-century edge. Oh, and they gave Goku the high school life of Gohan in the Buu Saga. Aaaaand completely omitted key characters like Krillin, Launch, and Tien.

[@BBBHuey]

22:31 Mai became Oolong (or Puar) for some reason...

[@ytrkhgfd]

I mean, if you want to experience later Dragon Ball without worrying about copyright or taking too long, you may want to check you TotallynotMark's review on Super. If you want, that is. Just to get you caught up on Super.

[@kirinbobarcana]

Admittedly, the skit was more faithful to the source material than evolution.

[@scottvgamer1163]

If you watch Nostalgia Critic, I’d like to see you react to his reviews of The Room, The Last Airbender, and Foodfight (and perhaps his two videos of his top 11 favorite and worst Avatar episodes (specifically in that order)).

[@cjkalandek996]

To answer one of your questions, this movie reportedly had a budget of $30 million. And I feel you should watch the Honest Trailer on this film. There are 2 ways they put it best. The first was they called it "America's biggest insult to Japanese culture since the bombing of Hiroshima." The second was that it was "an adaptation that literally steals from everything except the source material."

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Also, I'd say last Airbender movie is better, but just slightly. They at least have decent effects to an extent. But there's still a lot they get wrong too...

[@seamusburke639]

This movie was originally supposed to be a $100 million production directed by Stephen Chow from KUNG-FU HUSTLE. But they couldn't get a script together, so by the time the 2007 Writer's Strike rolled around, they just threw together a script and a $30 million budget. They filmed at an abandoned blue jean factory in Durango, Mexico, and basically lied to all the actors to get them down there.

[@mechatar1051]

Well, even though this was your first Nostalgia Critic, perhaps start from his first episode up to his most recent, theres 100s

[@mechatar1051]

@Makuta Hermann i disagree, the old episodes dont rely on skits as much, not that i have a problem with skits, just that too much can be too much, plus theres some gems in there like Thr Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, scooby doo movie, The IT mini series, the room, etc. All classics

[@majesticproductions7254]

The budget of the movie was 30 million US dollars.

[@jayburn00]

By the way, the Kyle hebert narrator is wearing a doctor who shirt 😆.

[@renji90998]

If Krillen was in this god awful film he'd be the stereotypical black sidekick. Possibly played by Keven Hart

[@SuperInu]

Fun (?!?!) Fact: James Marsters' German voice actor is the same one that Piccolo got for DBZ. So by some cosmic coincidence, there was actually ONE common thing between this abomination and the anime. And let me tell you, seeing this and hearing the voice you connect with proper Piccolo was kind of jarring. Like... A LOT...

[@nikolab.4065]

This might be a stretch, but could you maybe watch the bloopers for this review. I don't even mind if you just watch it on your own and not for a reaction, because there's some really funny stuff with Little Kuriboh in those bloopers

[@nikolab.4065]

@Makuta Hermann that was absolute peak performance by him 🤣

[@NilCaelum]

I saw this movie in theaters… it was the only movie I left disappointed in. I’ve watched movies I didn’t like of course but I felt betrayed with this one.

[@embran8486]

Biggest insult to fans a movie ever did is neither this or TLA. That's reserved for Jem and The Holograms. Also covered by Nostalgia Critic.

[@VirtueCry]

Nothing is worse than this movie. If I could cure cancer or remove this movie from existence, we'd all be happier not knowing about a terrible live action adaptation of of Dragon Ball.

[@anyathepanther7977]

Could you cure cancer after you erased this abomination?

[@mohaumoseki3582]

Well there is ATLA Movie which is equally worse with DBE.

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

dragon ball evolution had a 30 million dollar budget

[@TheKeeperoftheCreed]

The smartest choice for anyone wondering what dragon Ball evolution is

[@MrZRACER]

this movie is worse because there are way less interesting locations and worse special effects. at least some parts of bending in TLA are neat.

[@granvilledavid7814]

I've seen Dragon ball, Dragon ball z, and Dragon ball super and what did they mean Goku loved fighting. But I still agree that the bully scene is out of character

[@granvilledavid7814]

Yeah hated fighting really sounds like Goku?