How Dragonball Evolution Saved the Franchise

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There are few titles that receive the kind of scorn and hate that Dragonball Evolution does. For years prior to the movie being released, there was a lot of demand from fans of Dragon Ball Z for a live-action adaptation. While there had been previous live-action adaptations of the source material – Dragon Ball: The Magic Beings and Dragon Ball: Son Goku Fights, Son Goku Wins for example – there had yet to be a big-budget Hollywood adaptation that fans felt could do the series justice on the big screen.

At one point it was announced that 20th Century Fox had acquired the rights to make a series of movies based on the Dragon Ball franchise, and fans eagerly speculated as to what they would look like. Development of the film started in 2002 and the world got to see the final result in 2009. To say that critical and fan reception was poor would be…putting it mildly. Yet many fans may be surprised to hear that if it weren’t for this movie, the Dragon Ball franchise would most likely still be dead and dormant, and it wouldn’t be experiencing the renewed popularity it is experiencing today.

Is Dragon Ball GT Still Worth Watching?

When Akira Toriyama put down his pen and decided he was done with Dragon Ball, he meant it. There would be no more adventures for Goku and his friends. The Z Fighters would officially be retired. Not wanting to let a popular series die just yet, Toei Animation reached out to Toriyama and offered to make more Dragon Ball anime without him, and he gave them their blessing. The result of that deal was Dragon Ball GT, a series that was despised by longtime and ended on a whimper. These days the series has been re-evaluated by the fans, yet the failure of the series meant this was the last fans saw of Goku for