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3 | ''Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins'' (七龍球 神龍的傳説 ''Qi long qiu Shen long de chuan shuo'', "New Dragon Ball: The Legend of Shenlong") is an unofficial 1991 Taiwanese movie about the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise, with a few differences. |
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5 | Okay, make that ''a [[AdaptationDeviation lot]]'' of differences. The movie actually is something of an adaptation of the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, but using different names for the characters, but otherwise is at least [[PragmaticAdaptation somewhat faithful]], even if the story is more based around the ''[[Anime/DragonBallCurseOfTheBloodRubies Curse of the Blood Rubies]]'' movie. |
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7 | An Ultimate Edition version was released in 2007, with remastered picture and sound, as well as new computer effects. |
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9 | Compare with ''Film/DragonBallFightForVictorySonGoku'', a more faithful unofficial Korean live-action adaptation, and ''Film/DragonballEvolution'', the 2009 American live-action adaptation which received ''massive'' negative reviews. |
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11 | !! Tropes demonstrated in this movie: |
12 | * AdaptationNameChange: All over the place; Bulma becomes Seeto, Oolong becomes Piggy, Yamcha becomes La Ping/Westwood, and Grandpa Gohan is renamed, of all things, Sparkle. Oh, and despite what the title would have you believe, everyone's after the Dragon ''Pearls'', not Balls. |
13 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Piggy is a human described as a "pig-fairy", whereas Oolong is a pure pig. Likewise, Westwood's companion is not a cat, but a (non-shapeshifting) bird. |
14 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: King Horn is defeated [[spoiler:by being fed all seven Dragon Pearls, prompting him to explode as Shenron appears]]. |
15 | * DubNameChange: |
16 | ** Sun Wukong and La Ping are renamed Monkey Boy and Westwood in the English dub. |
17 | ** Averted somewhat in the Latin American Spanish dub, when Goku and Master Roshi retain their names, but anyone else still got their names from the original Chinese version. |
18 | * {{Expy}}: Most of the characters in the film, heck, Goku even ''[[LogicalExtreme becomes]]'' the character of legend he was based upon, [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]], the {{Monkey King|Lite}}! |
19 | * LetsGetDangerous: In the final battle against [[BigBad King Horn]] and his soldiers, the protagonists shows exactly how much asskicking they can deliver when they want to. But the prize goes to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Piggy]], who at first comes as a pervert shapeshifter, then develops to a LovableCoward, to becoming a ShoutOut of Franchise/{{Rambo}} more than capable to slaughter dozens of soldiers TheDragon of the movie with a machine gun and a few grenades. |
20 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: Apparently Monkey Boy and Sparkle are related. Also, Monkey Boy and Piggy are descendants of the Monkey King and Pigsy from the legends. |
21 | * {{Mooks}}: King Horn's soldiers. |
22 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Whereas Grandpa Gohan dies before the events of the story happen, here his counterpart Sparkle is merely captured and rescued at the end. |
23 | * StuffBlowingUp: Whenever King Horn and his soldiers are present, expect the dreams of Creator/MichaelBay to be shown onscreen in all their volatile glory. |
24 | * WireFu: It happens a lot, usually when Monkey Boy is flying around, and it's almost always noticeable. |
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