Advantages: Chow Yun-Fat understands the provenance of the movie... Disadvantages: but none of the other players or the director do.
Thousands of years ago, seven mystics created the dragonballs in order to defeat Piccolo and his demonic henchman. But now a solar eclipse heralds the villain’s return and if he gets hold of the orbs he will be able to make one perfect wish to destroy the earth. It is up to Goku, the young owner of one of the spheres to find the others and prevent Piccolo’s nefarious scheme. With the help of gadget-girl Bulma and his mentor Master Roshi the race ... ...I was surprised by the range of viewers at the showing I went to see – everyone from little kids to guys in their thirties and forties. Still I suppose the movie has wide appeal considering it’s based on a popular range of manga novels that have spawned a cartoon series, computer games and an animated film. But James Wong’s live-action version shows the problems inherent in trying to translate comic books and cartoons to the real world. There’s so ...
afy9mab 03.11.2009
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