Sure its a kids film. And sure, its on a subject that couldn’t possibly be made into  movie with any lasting value. And sure its a load of crap. But its kinda cool in a way. I watched it on the plane after 9 hours of chronic leg cramps and considering the mood I was in I actually enjoyed it in a strange kind of way. The characters are pretty empty, the effects are cheezy at times and the acting is horrendous all the time. But for some reason I enjoyed watching it, very imaginative script. You would have to be very imaginative to get any kind of passable story line out of a real life dragonball movie. I mean WTF!! Japanese cartoons are way to crazy to translate to  western movies.  Imagine what would happen if Akira was made into a western movie. My god that would be a weird film. People would leave the cinema scratching their heads trying to figure out what the fuck they have just witnessed and what the fuck it all means.

What I did enjoy about it was the Karate Kid flavour that seemed to cover it. And at no point did I cringe at the characters, even tho they where terribly portrait. Yun-Fat Chow was likable and the main guy Justin Chatwin or “Goku’ also seemed quite cool, at times anyway. I guess I kind of identified with his dumb ass type of character. Or maybe it was because my legs where killing me from the cramped seating

Im not a watcher of the dragonball series so I don’t really have anything to compare it to. Im sure Dragonball Z fans out there will have many a bad word to say about this picture. But as a no brainer, piece of shit entertainment flick. It does the job well. Lets not kid ourselves, it aint gunna be another matrix. But if your looking for a good stoner brain rest and you like crazy kung-fu type mythology movies, then give it a buzz, why the hell not. Theres a lot worse around.

Tvterrorist rating 4/10