New Trailer for Dragonball: Evolution

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Originally Posted by DeeChizzle

Nice argument but I'm still not sold. If you're right then why isn't there a variety of races in the cast? Name origins aside, you're basically saying that it's not 100% certain what every character's race in this comic/cartoon is and that it's almost open to interpretation. Well if that's the case, I find it really convenient that the Goku is white and the rest of the cast is Asian.

In a martial arts film based on a Japanese comic, it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to cut the Eastern influence entirely. Goku can be reasoned into being white, but the same cannot be said for the rest of the cast. I personally think they nailed the balance perfectly: Goku and Bulma being more "American" and the likes of Chichi, Roshi, and Yamcha being Asian.

You're argument would hold water if this wasn't originally a manga. That's like me saying that Superman is an alien therefore his race is open to interpetation so he could be played by an Asian when it's pretty damn certain that Superman is and will always be portrayed as a white person.

The difference here is that Superman comics were made in America and the films were made in America. If Superman comics were being adapted in Japan, would you really expect them to hold true to the "Superman looks like a typical White American" ideal?

As for Chow Yun Fat playing the Joker, trying selling that to the Batman fanboys.

Not the best example, because playing the Joker would not play to this person's forte, but just look at how Ledger took it. No one thought he'd be any good, but he took it places they never expected. If an Asian actor did the same, it wouldn't matter his race.

Originally Posted by EricJ

(Er...."Learn Japanese"? )

Not sure what that's supposed to mean... are you saying it's not necessary to understand any Japanese to view the show/manga? That's not what I was getting at. I was saying that because in the English versions of these things, Goku is not heavily differentiated from the rest of the cast like he is in the Japanese material. He regularly uses English phrases when Japanese would be more appropriate. For example, the last thing he says before teleporting Cell away toward the end of the Cell Games is "bye bye". Not "sayonara" or any number of other Japanese phrases that would be appropriate (and that he has used multiple times before). "bye bye". Tell me that's not a Western-ly thing to do.

The setting was never identified but referred to as "Dragonworld", an alternate place resembling ancient China, except for said dinosaurs, talking animals, Capsule technology, and six or seven moons in the sky at any given time...

There are never that many moons... I think there was one instance of the moon being destroyed, only to appear again later on for no reason, but that's easily explained as a plot hole, not the idea that this alternate reality planet had multiple moons.

Later referred to as "Earth" in later dubs, but the movie settles for an alternate Earth that was catastrophically re-geographized after the LAST epic battle years ago (or at least, that's the explanation in earlier script drafts, hence the last-minute "Evolution" title)--
And no direct mention of Capsule Co. either, but the movie-Bulma does get a cool transforming bike in the trailer.

I'd say with confidence that Capsule Corp. will be identified clearly, or is planned to be in a sequel. After all, when Goku first met Bulma, he had no idea she was involved in all that jazz.

Originally Posted by gamer4eva

thanks for ruining my fav cartoon

Yeah, it's just like Super Mario Bros. the Movie. Ever since that movie got made, I can't even enjoy playing SMB on the NES anymore. No... that's not right. How about this...

Yeah, it's just like Blade Trinity. What a terrible movie. Ever since then... I can't even enjoy Blade comics... hmm... still not right.

Yeah, it's just like The Punisher. That stupid movie didn't even have the skull in it! I can't even read Punisher comics anymore without associating it with this CRAPPY MOVIE.

Oh. That's right. Terrible film adaptations DO NOT ERASE THE GOODNESS of the things they're based on.