Part III isn’t as over the top as the first two, and is also a bit shorter. The fighting remains amazing, and part of the fight reminds me of the fight between Black Star and Mifune from a Soul Eater episode.

Here is some Tifa on Hitomi action:

And again, if you missed parts 1 and 2, you can watch them HERE. Enjoy!

Yes I am a big dork, that is all…

Already you can see they messed up the name. Dragonball instead of Dragon Ball. C’mon, how you mess up the name of the series? I guess I could let this slide.

Then you have the chosen “talent” for the roles of the characters. Alright, I know nothing about the process of casting actors/actresses for films, but they could have done a better job. Or maybe all the “better choices” turned down the offers because they knew how movie is going to end up? Meh, what do I know?

Then there is the plot, where all hell breaks loose. It’s like they’ve never read or watched the manga or anime. I mean, there is already a great story for Dragon Ball, why change it?

If you are planning on seeing the movie and don’t want to be spoiled, then you should stop here.

Continue on if you would like know how the movie went. I watched it, so that you didn’t have to.

Dragonball: Evolution

The movie opens up with Goku training with his grandpa Gohan. Goku then complains that he doesn’t have any friends at school, and that instead of teaching him to control his chi, his grandpa should teach how to talk to girls, and how to be normal.

Grandpa Gohan says something about how normal is overrated, and that he should be himself. He then gives Goku the 4 Star Dragon Ball for his birthday, and tells him about the 7 Dragon Balls.

- Scene cuts to Goku’s High School -

Goku is making his way through the school parking lot on his old bicycle, and parks his bike. Suddenly some kid in a nice car comes in and runs over his bike. Enter the Jocks!

The leader the jocks does one of those “whatcha gonna do about it?” thing, and calls Goku, “Geeko”. He tries to start a fight with Goku, but Goku just walks away. The high school jocks and a few girls walk away laughing. Poor “Geeko”.

- Scene cuts to a flying Fortress -

Not any ordinary flying fortress, Piccolo’s flying fortress! Piccolo is searching for the Dragon Balls, and destroys a town from his fortress. He then sends his assistant, Mai, down to the destroyed town to find the Dragon Ball. They now have one.

- Scene cuts to Goku in class -

The teacher is talking about solar eclipse while Goku is staring at a female student, and daydreaming about her. He is interrupted by the teacher, and was asked about the eclipse. Goku says something about his grandpa telling about Nameks, and the class laughs him.

Class ends and students are at their lockers getting ready for their next class. The bell rings, and here we see a girl still having trouble getting her locker opened. Goku uses his Chi to open the locker from around the corner.

The girl sees Goku trying to hide, and confronts him about using his Chi. She introduces herself as Chi-Chi, and invites him to her party that’s going on that night. Goku quickly accepts, and runs away.

- Next Scene is at Goku’s House -

His grandpa is cooking up some birthday dinner for Goku, while Goku is getting all dressed up to go to Chi-Chi’s party. There was some cheesy lines somewhere during this, and Goku sneaks out to go to the party.

- Party at Chi-Chi’s Mansion -

Goku shows up, and some jocks see him here. They proceed to bully “Geeko” trying to make him leave. Goku finally stands up to the bullies! But since he made a promise not to fight, he’ll have to do it by pretty much dodging and making them hit each other.

There was a lot more cheesy lines, and a lot of bullet time involved, and Goku manages to take out the jocks.

Goku is now the man, and is talking it up with Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi, who previously seemed to had something going on with the leader jock, pretty much brushed that whole fighing scene off, and is chatting it up with Goku. Chi-Chi you slut!

- Scene cuts to Goku’s House -

Grandpa Gohan is sitting patiently in the kitchen with a birthday cake, waiting for Goku to come home. All of a sudden, he is attacked by Mai, but manages to fight her off with no problems. Then Piccolo shows up, and defeats Gohan, causing the house to come crashing down on Gohan’s body. Piccolo of course was after the Dragon Ball.

Goku, while still at Chi-Chi’s party, senses that something was wrong, and comes running back home. He finds the house in ruin, and finds his grandpa under the rubble. Gohan tells Goku about Piccolo, and tells him to find Master Roshi, then passes away.

- The next day -

After burying Gohan, Goku goes back to the ruined house, and finds a chest. Opening it, he finds an orange martial arts gi. He then hears someone sneaking around the house. He confronts the intruder. Enter Bulma!

Bulma was trying to track down her stolen 5 Star Dragon Ball, and ended up tracking Goku’s Dragon Ball instead. After clearing up some misunderstandings, Goku and Bulma team up to find the remaining Dragon Balls.

They drive off on Bulma’s capsule motorcycle, looking for Master Roshi. Bulma sees a Dragon Ball on her tracker, and it leads to a house. They break in.

While Bulma goes searching for the Dragon Ball, Goku accidentally wakes up an old drunken man. Goku and the man fight for a bit, then after the old man sees Goku using his Chi, reveals his identity. Master Roshi!

Goku tells Master Roshi about what happened to Gohan, and has some vision after touching the Dragon Ball. Master Roshi joins them to search for the rest of the Dragon Balls.

- Cut to flying Fortress -

Piccolo finds another Dragon Ball. Grats!

- The next morning -

Bulma and Master Roshi rides on the motorcycle, while Goku runs behind them carrying all the luggage. They head towards the Stone Temple, where Master Roshi will give Goku some training.

When they arrive, Goku finds Chi-Chi there. She tells him that she is there to train for an upcoming fighting tournament. Bulma picks up a Dragon Ball reading on her tracker, and Goku leaves Chi-Chi.

While on the way to the next Dragon Ball, Goku and Master Roshi does some crazy Jedi training. Bulma manages to drive into a huge hole, and they all get stuck at the bottom.

- Later that night -

They set up a campfire at the bottom of the hole, where Master Roshi tells them about the legend of the Dragon Balls. A bandit overhears the story from above, but refuses to help them out unless he is paid.

This bandit reminds me of Cody Lambert from Step by Step. Master Roshi then flies out of the hole, and forces the bandit to help them. The bandit’s name is Yamcha.

- The flying fortress -

Piccolo is sitting down in a chair that is hooked up to four needles. The four needles extracts some blood from Piccolo, which he uses to make mini-Piccolos. For a powerful bad guy, he screams like a little girl when the needles take some blood.

- Back to Goku and Company -

They keep digging deeper in search of the Dragon Ball. When they find where it is, there is an ocean of lava between them and the Dragon Ball. They are then attacked by the Piccolo minions. Goku makes a bridge out of the minions to cross over to the Dragon Ball.

He gets another vision, and is then attacked by Mai. He beats the crap out of her, and brings the Dragon Ball back. They all leave to head back to the Stone Temple.

- The Stone Temple -

Master Roshi talks to some monk about obtaining a container to stop Piccolo.

During this time, Chi-Chi is fighting in the tournament. Her opponent is Mai! Chi-Chi wins the fight, but Mai manages to draw blood, and stores some in a small capsule.

A scene with Goku and Chi-Chi, then a scene with Bulma and Yamcha. With some horrible acting.

- Goku training with Roshi -

Roshi says something about Air Bending which reminded me of Avatar, then says that the last step of Air Bending is the Kamehameha, and leaves Goku alone to train.

Goku is supposed to light a few candles with the Kamehameha. Chi-Chi shows for some encouragement, and he manages to learn it. They hook up of course.

- Middle of the night -

Bulma catches Chi-Chi sneaking out of Goku’s room in the middle of the night. Thinking that she was leaving Goku’s room after a night of “training” she lets Chi-Chi leave.

After Chi-Chi leaves, Goku shows up walking down the hall. Uh oh, Goku wasn’t in the room, and it looks like Chi-Chi made off with all the Dragon Balls. They all go to chase her down.

Chi-Chi manages to separate herself from them, but runs into… Chi-Chi! The two Chi-Chi’s fight, and Goku comes in and knocks out one of them. Uh oh, that was the real Chi-Chi he knocked out, and the other one shoots Goku in the face with some Fire Blast gun, and runs off with the Dragon Balls. She reveals herself as Mai.

The gang shows up and finds an unconscious Chi-Chi and a dead Goku. Master Roshi then revives Goku with a… wait for it… Kamehameha to the heart!

They need to head to the Dragon Temple, where Piccolo will need to go to summon Shenlong. Roshi also gets a container from the monk.

- Dragon Temple -

Piccolo and Mai gather the 7 Dragon Balls, and activates some tower. Goku and company then flies by in a flying jeep. Roshi and Piccolo shoot fireballs at each other everyone gets thrown around.

Goku shows up wearing his grandpa’s gi, and looks like an idiot. Throw in some bad acting here. Piccolo tells Goku that the vision of Ozaru, the giant ape he keeps having, is actually Goku!

Goku then transforms into Ozaru and is under Piccolo’s control, and is commanded to go after the Dragon Balls. Goku chases after Bulma and Yamcha while Roshi and Piccolo are fighting.

Roshi manages to knock Piccolo out, but Goku grabs hold of Roshi, and kills him. Goku goes through some inner battle with himself, and transforms back. He and Piccolo start having some fireball fight.

Bulma and Yamcha manages to beat Mai and recover all the Dragon Balls. Goku manages to beat Piccolo.

The go back to where Roshi is lying. Goku decides he will used the Dragon Balls to wish back Master Roshi from death. Shenlong revives Roshi, and the Dragon Balls are scattered again.

Looks like they’re on the journey to find the Dragon Balls again! But before that, Goku needs to go back to Chi-Chi and hook up with her again. The End.

Vegetta, what does your suck meter say about Dragonball Evolution!?

Vegetta does NOT approve!

There is a lot of things you would find wrong with the movie, especially if you are a big Dragon Ball fan. As a movie, the lines were horrible, and the acting was terrible. You couldn’t help but just laugh at how bad it was while watching it.

Then there is all the Dragon Ball stuff that they totally f’ed up. Akira Toriyama probably cried after seeing his creation butchered like this. Why was Mai with Piccolo? Where’s Krillin? Full Moon vs Eclipse? Where’s Goku’s tail? There is a ton more questions you can ask.

I think that they should leave the manga/anime series, to the Japanese studios. They have done an excellent job with their own live-action adaptations before. A few favorites that come to mind are Battle Royale, NANA, and Death Note.

Blah it just angers me to see a beloved series like Dragon Ball get ruined.

If you are using Comcast or Verizon as your internet provider like me, you may have been noticing a lot of disconnections from World of Warcraft starting on December 19th, 2008. Blizzard is aware of the situation, and you can read up on the latest update on the situation HERE.

Hopefully they can get this issue solved soon.

The Wednesday night that the Phillies won, it was crazy all over Philadelphia. The streets were all filled with hundreds of thousands of people. All out and celebrating. As a Philly fan, we have a bad rep of being rowdy and destructive. So I was proud to see no vandalism or looting happening anywhere in the city. Just drunken cheering, and fireworks.

The Phillies Parade was scheduled for Friday afternoon, on Halloween day. It started at 12pm and lasted about 5 hours. Starting on 15th and Market Street, the parade slowly made its way around City Hall onto Broad Street, then made its way to ballpark.

Holy crap was it crowded! It was estimated to have over 2 million in attendance over the 4 mile stretch from beginning to end. Even the Philadelphia Eagles opened up their stadium to be able to hold more people (since the two stadiums are next to each other).

This week has been one of the best weeks of my life. From my Birthday, to the Phillies winning Game 3, winning the World Series, then finally the parade in Philadelphia, it was a lot of fun. It is also the reason why I haven’t wrote anything lately.

My head hurts, my voice is gone, I’m dehydrated, and will mostly be sick from being out in the cold. But I feel great! I am no longer without a memory of my own.

So the day goes by, and what is mostly on my mind is the Phillies/Rays World Series game which was going to be played later that night. All day on TV, radio, and internet, I kept hearing “match up” this, “predictions” that. I was getting really pumped for this series.

So an hour before game one of the World Series, I put on my Phillies attire to prepare for the game. It became a little good luck thingy now in the house to order pizza from the same place, with the same toppings, and same side orders. They’ve won the last 3 times we’ve done this. So we ordered, and watch the pregame shows on ESPN/Comcast/Fox.

Food arrives, game starts… … an ends.

The game was close, way too close for comfort. I had that feeling of uneasiness the entire game. I’m glad the Phillies were able to present me with a win as a birthday present! Great job guys! Go PHILLIES!!

The good birthday didn’t end with the Phillies, it kept going as I logged onto WoW later that night. More on that later today.

Brewfest is over, and no I didn’t get my Kodo Mount, but I did end up with a bag full of goodies. Other than the Kodo, what I also wanted was the [Direbrew's Remote], which I got. I also picked up one of every trinket that drops from the boss, including both Beerwench trinkets. Gotta wait til next year for the Kodo Mount now.

I also got my proof of a C’thun kill ready for the upcoming Achievement system which will come out with Wrath. The only ways Blizzard can track if you have cleared an instance before the Achievement system is out, is by tracking your quests (if it has something to do with the death of, or a drop off the last boss), or by seeing of you have obtain loot off the last boss.

With the expansion just around the corner, you will be seeing more and more players doing old instances such as Naxxramas and Ahn’Qiraj. Naxx for a chance at Tier 3 loot which will be lost forever with the expansion, and AQ for mounts and achievements. Now I wish I didn’t throw away my collection of AQ mounts. At least I kept my Blue one.

Kil’jaeden at 30% last week! Will we have what it takes to kill him before the next patch? I sure hope so.

Gaming:

A local arcade in Philadelphia has happen to get a Street Fighter 4 arcade machine, and I got to finally play it. My first impression is: Very fast, and very fun. Anyone in the Philadelphia Area, University Pinball – gogoogog!

Movies:

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, great movie. If you enjoyed last year’s hit movie, Juno, then you will definitely enjoy Nick and Norah’s. Michael Cera starring as the only type of character he knows how to play, himself.

Why is it that every time I have to take a short break from WoW that all the cool things happen during that time? This time I missed the Harvest Festival, Pirates’ Day, and Brewfest (which is currently still going on).

Gaming:

I am currently a little over 45 hours into Spectral Force 3 for the Xbox360, and reached what I’m guessing is 75% done mark. I’m guessing that because I just got a little over half of the game’s Achievements, so I should be close to finishing the game.

Great game if you enjoy Tactical RPGs. My only gripe is that the voice acting is HORRIBLE (with no option to switch to original Japanese voices), and the game has PS2-esque graphics. I do wish more import games include the option to switch the voices.

Abandoned games I need to go back and finish:

• Final Fantasy IV (close to final dungeon)
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (2 hrs in)
• Lost Odyssey (on disc four)
• Persona 3: FES (64+ hrs in, maybe halfway through the game?)
• Final Fantasy XII (15 hrs in)

Anime:

I just finished watching the 2nd Bleach Movie: The Diamond Dust Rebellion ~The Other Hyourinmaru~, and it was a rather good movie. Probably because it starred one of my favorite characters in the anime, Hitsugaya Toushirou. Oh and his zanpakutou (living sword) has the power of Ice, coincidence?

Real Life:

One wedding down, and one more to go this coming weekend. After that I can go back to WoW and raiding again.

Biggest news is the release date for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion has been set by Blizzard. The release date is November 13th, 2008! Onward to Northrend!

The PTR is open for patch 3.0.2. This patch would be similar to the patch which came out right before the release of the Burning Crusade expansion. The patch will allow you to use the new talent trees, and some of the new features which will be coming out with the WotLK expansion.

Then general consensus of the PTR: “Everyone is doing way too much damage”

Gaming:

Rock Band 2: If you enjoyed the first, you will enjoy the 2nd. No huge upgrades other than online World Tour mode. It is pretty much $60 for 80 new songs to play with. With the prices of the songs you can download at around $2-5, this a bargain. Another huge plus is that you can import all the songs from the first Rock Band too!

Star Wars: Force Unleashed: Pretty much is Ninja Gaiden with Star Wars characters- minus the difficulty and refined combat system. A high fun factor, and great storyline. Though I am a bit biased towards anything Star Wars.

Self explanatory. Yay!

Real Life:

Football season started! My beloved Eagles are off to a great start with a big win over the Rams, 38-3. Next up, the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football.