I was never a huge <i>Dragonball Z</i> fan when the anime was showing on American TV the first go-through. But I watched it on occasion, and picked up enough of the mythos that I had a general idea of what was going on.
I find it fascinating that the new Dragonball Evolution live-action move (opening next weekend) has not only gotten rid of much of the mythos, but the commercials are now ignoring the rest of it, painting the film as a “teen has interesting powers that he uses to impress girl and give come-uppance to high school bullies” kind of flick.
Oh, and it all looks awful. Not just “this is a travesty of the original” kind of awful, but “wow, that’s the least lame action sequence and SFX shot they could find to put on the commerical?” kind of awful.
I look forward to a nice single-digits “Rotten Tomatoes” score.