I agree with you Xantar, mostly. What you say is perfectly true for animated movies (none of the movies of Dragonball Z have anything to do with the series [excluding that one with Garlic], and are mostly fan-feed). However, crossing into live-action is tricky. Video games tend to go straight into live-action... but that's a "little" different just because there was no other form of uncontrolled entertainment. That is, aside from numerous cinematics, such as those in Final Fantasy games (which had a similar graphic system for its movie).
I've watched numerous Dragonball Z movies, a few of those Pokémon movies, and plenty movies based on video games. It's true about the Pokémon movies. The story is absolute crap, but I didn't care when I watched it. Brock is still the man. As well, the Dragonball Z movies were wonderous in my eyes, even though the plots were awful, and some characters were overused (Brolly... die for good this time!). But, when it came to those live-action movies based on video games... I cringed. Only Mortal Kombat (the first) was decent, as I remember.
There are several reasons why live action movies fail so very often, and why the Dragonball Z movie will also fail:
1) Low budget for paying actors.
2) Director (who is making bank off a popular game/show) has done minimal research.
3) Live action can't do what animation can.
But of course, even if Dragonball Z movie sucks, you know I'll have seen it. The producers know that too. It's one of the many phenomena of this world... kinda like how people will buy FF games without a thought.
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