Hey--So I took my nephew to watch this movie--He thought it was pretty awesome but that was coming from a 12 year old. He had never seen any of the anime cause his mom believed that it was to violent of a cartoon. Ha Ha. So I took him to watch it and yes--that I knew this movie was going to be terrible.
I guess the movie was fair enough to say that my money wasn't totally wasted. Though this movie should have gone directly to TV. You know on Cartoon Network movie day or something like that. You guys should read IGN'S review of the movie. But after reading the review they didn't mention anything about the terrible special effects that were in the movie. I believe that some TV shows have better effects than this movie did.
After all I could say about this movie--it doesn't matter--cause the fact that the producers or who ever was in charge of the material didn't want to follow a good plot of the dragonball series. Lets just hope that this movie was meant for kids and not for adults.
Here is a good suggestion on if they wanted to see if they could produce a decent dragonball movie. How about instead of Piccolo as the Villain why not try the Red Ribbon Army. You know something simple with just humans and not aliens. You know put some androids in the mix. Fox does have the tech for androids cause look at Terminator Salvation--Which I believe that this movie will be