There is a new Dragonball Evolution Trailer online today, and I have to say it looks like the best one yet.
Oh sure, there will still be those drooling fanboys that are still bent that Bulma’s hair isn’t teal, or that Goku (the alien monkey boy) wasn’t an Asian, but the trailer looks good. They show off the characters as much as the effects, and dash it with some hip J-Pop soundtrack and we might have a winner here.
I think they did alright considering the original would have looked utterly ridiculous if they did a literal visual translation. Adapting this to film was certain to step on some fanboy toes (you can never please everyone), but in the end it looks like they will have a good action flick with some fantastic visuals, great fights, seriously cool special effects and still maintain the spirit of the story laid out in the children’s cartoon. This is an adaptation, not the next chapter.
It still could all tank, but if it does, it will be on its own failures, not because they didn’t make it exactly like the cartoon.
