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An American [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[
Goku is a young high school student who must battle the evil space overlord Piccolo and retrieve the Dragon Balls in order to stop Piccolo's massive ape servant, Oozaru. Along the way, Goku loses his grandfather and meets an inventor named Bulma, a martial arts master named Roshi, and a bandit named Yamcha.
Has a tie-in video game.
Not to be
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* [[Action Girl]]: Chi Chi
* [[Adapted Out]]: Krillin who?
* [[Alternate DVD Commentary]]: A [[
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: The movie ends with {{spoiler|the main characters heading off to look for the dragon balls again.}}
* [[Anticlimax]]: Piccolo creates several creatures to fight the heroes. {{spoiler|It takes the heroes about 10 seconds to defeat them. Then, Mai shows up. She takes another 3 seconds.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Mai was originally just a minor character who was a henchwoman to second-rate villain Pilaf. She also becomes an [[Adaptational Badass]].
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: James Marsters referred to the anime as "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years."
* [[Asian Gal With White Guy]]: Goku and Chi Chi. [[Gender Inverted Trope|Gender inverted]] by Bulma and Yamcha. ▼
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Gohan.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Yamcha and Bulma, though they do almost nothing of consequence compared to Goku.
* [[Beam-O-War]]: Sort of.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Yamcha and Bulma.
* [[Blood Magic]]
** Piccolo creates creatures from his blood.
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** During the final battle, Bulma must fight Mai alone for the Dragon Ball.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Goku takes on Piccolo, [[Informed Ability|who is hyped all movie long as an extremely powerful badass]]. [[Anticlimax|He isn't]].
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[The End -
* [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting]]: Most of the bullies use the usual assortment of [[Good Old Fisticuffs|punches you'd expect from untrained jocks]]. The one Asian in the group, though, adopts a fighting stance and tries to use a flying kick.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Chi Chi for Goku.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Goku is choleric, Yamcha is sanguine, Roshi is melancholic and Bulma is phlegmatic.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Master Roshi and Piccolo.
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Chi Chi
▲* [[
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Observant viewers may have noticed Roshi's [https://isaacspictureconclusions.com/2013/09/20/shitfest-2013-fall-dragonball-evolution/dragonball-evolution-roshi/ t-shirt] with a sexy anime girl in it.
* [[Necessary Drawback]]: Roshi tries to seal Piccolo again, even though it sucks out his life force. [[Senseless Sacrifice|It doesn't work]].
* [[No Sell]]: When Mai takes on Goku, she lands a solid punch to his face. Goku [[Made of Iron|doesn't seem to notice]].▼
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: All Goku can say when Roshi catches him in his house.
* [[Not Screened for Critics]]: Both American and Japanese.
* [[Overshadowed
▲** Roshi in particular played up his "goofy mentor" role and played down his "perverted old man" personality. He still has his porn stash and managed a PG rated feel-up on Bulma, but requesting a [[Panty Shot]] would be a bit too much.
* [[Race Lift]]: In the original, everyone was [[Mukokuseki|vaguely Japanese]]. In this movie, the two leads are white and everyone else is Asian.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Goku's kept changing color {{spoiler|after his transformations into Oozaru form}}.
* [[The Reveal]]: It's no real shocker to those who are DB fans {{spoiler|but Goku and Oozaru are one and the same}}.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sequel Hook]]: See [[And the Adventure Continues...]] and [[The End -
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Possibly Chi Chi for Goku and defenitely Yamcha for Bulma.
* [[Shout-Out]]: There are actually a TON of references to the original series including (but no limited to):
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** The Wish {{spoiler|being used to revive Master Roshi}}
** Bulma's capsule cars
** Goku's hair: while preparing for the party (where he confronted the bullies), he spends some time styling it only to have it snap back into exactly its normal form, complete with sound effect.
** A quick reference to "chi chi" being Japanese for "boobs" ("Just because my name is Chi Chi doesn't mean I'm an idiot"). In the manga, Master Roshi goes off muttering at one point about how the name Chi Chi would be better suited for the larger-chested Bulma.
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: Goku had to do this when Mai disguised as Chi-Chi fights the Real Chi-Chi. It didn't go too well.
* [[Stock Scream]]: of the Wilhelm variety.
* [[Stock Subtitle]]: "Evolution".
* [[Stock Footage]]: [[Freeze
* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: Goku and the gang must acquire all the Dragonballs before an upcoming solar eclipse, when Oozaru will return and joins Piccolo. When said eclipse appears, {{spoiler|Goku transforms into Oozaru}}.
* [[Tournament Arc]]: Averted; it looks like the World Martial Arts Tournament, but it has a different name, Goku doesn't fight in it, and it's barely shown.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Very much averted, as Bulma in the original story was conspicuously a blunette. In some scenes she's got one lock dyed blue, likely as a nod to the original.
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