Enjoy This Pitch Meeting For The Terrible Film DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
I’m not sure how you can really mess up a live-action adaptation of a classic anime. After all, everything the filmmakers need to tell a solid story has already been done and laid out for them! But then for some reason, they ignore all of that and decide the fill the story for the film with one stinky brain fart after another. The result of that is Dragonball: Evolution.
The movie was a turd and now we have a funny new Pitch Meeting episode to share with you that gives us an amusing take on how the pitch meeting for this film must have gone down with the studio executives.
Dragon Ball is an incredibly popular anime, so it makes sense that Hollywood decided to take a crack at a live-action adaptation. Maybe it would have been helpful if the movie was actually BASED on Dragon Ball in ways other than just the character names.
Dragonball Evolution raises a lot of questions. Like why did Goku fling a fly in his grandpa’s mouth. How did Piccolo escape? Why does Goku carry a Dragonball to a teenager party? Why does Piccolo go to Goku’s home if he can sense that the ball isn’t there? Why didn’t Goku just explain himself to Roshi instead of fighting him? Why did Roshi waste a bunch of time in the pit if he was perfectly capable of jumping out? How does digging through that pit lead them to the top of an open-sky volcano? How did anyone think this movie was a good idea?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to Dragonball Evolution! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.