This live-action adaptation of Akira Toriyama's beloved manga follows a teenage Goku who discovers a mystical Dragon Ball on his eighteenth birthday and must gather the remaining six scattered across the world before a resurrected warlord, Lord Piccolo, can claim all seven and wish for total domination. The film strips down the sprawling source material's decades of mythology into a compressed, Americanized teen-adventure plot, casting Justin Chatwin as Goku and relocating much of the story's tone toward generic fantasy-action beats. It was met with near-universal derision from both critics and the franchise's devoted fanbase upon release. Now regarded as a cautionary tale in anime-to-live-action adaptation, frequently cited among the worst films based on beloved source material.