I remember that episode!

god they are gonna crap this up

Lovely.

omg...

God I grew up with DBZ please don't mess this up.

This movie was one of the worst ideas in history. Right up there with the holocaust.

He gets hit by a mustang? I am having difficulty using my imagination here...

He's a pair of visible earbuds away from me vomiting with rage.

Wait, Frieza is in this movie right? And this guy looks a little too young to play goku.

@The Bruce: Not a mustang just a heavy hidden charger somewhere under there. (Sorry was a car nerd way before video games.)

This movie is gonna suck horribly. I may watch it in the same why I watch a train wreck.

I love the manga series, but this... right.

Goku is white? @_@

I'm...so confused...

I
err
WHAT

His hair...

that looks like elija(sp?) wood

Oh my precious Dragon Ball... what the hell is this?!!?

Oh look. It's a white guy in an orange T-Shirt with minimally spiky hair. That must be Goku. Except... THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE GOKU. I guess that's supposed to be his magic bo staff on his back... shit. Whatever. Seems like the producer, director, and writers haven't seen a single episode or read the comic.

...

*tosses self onto the ground exploding on impact*

This reminds me of the "OMG THAT NOT OPTIMAS PRIME TIS MOVIE GUNNA SUCK" ramblings of last year.

While he doesn't really look like the character at all, I'm pretty sure they'll have a damn good explaination for this.

Either way, wait for trailer.

@LLamaStar:
Close. Just missed the 'h'.

@Balance_In_Life: Still, imagination... trouble...

The actors and actresses in this movie are probably going to ruin their careers.

uhh... Well now the Speed Racer movie looks fucking amazing!

@Zhen-Chan:

Come on, it's completely reasonable for us to demand they find a real life human being who looks exactly like an anime character.

@Balance_In_Life: Wow, that even confused me...

I would watch this in the same way I would watch a train wreck.

Better.

Witzbolt I DEMAND AN EDIT BUTTON.

That is all... thank you.

so is this DBZ movie a coming of age story based in an alternate screwed up universe where Goku goes to high school? because thats what Goku would look like if he were an angsty teenager. Chana has lost all hope already for this film

OK, OK, hold on - this shouldn't be "Dragon Ball Z", it's just normal "Dragon Ball". Get that 'Z' out of there.

read: [HollywoodReporter]

The Bad Guy in this movie is Piccolo. He was a villain in the normal Dragon Ball storyline, not DBZ. And, it clearly states the title is "Dragonball". No 'Z' (but no space, either)

So I feel a little better about this -- Goku is supposed to be a teenager when he fights Piccolo, and he doesn't know how to fly or go blond or destroy planets or anything. All the aliens haven't landed yet.

In other news, I'm a big nerd.

I don't care if they got the color of his hair wrong. Or they got the fact that all the cars were hover cars wrong. But I just don't see how this movie could be any good.

Then again, if Goku ends up getting punched through buildings a lot, and there's some cities that get blown up with Lord of the Rings quality CG, then MAAAYBE. But that's a hell of a long shot.

Transformers may not have sucked, but it also wasn't that great because the robot battles were too brief and cut crazily so you couldn't tell what was going on.

@Balance_In_Life: BUT IS IT A HEMMI?

Wow. This is...
Man, they aren't even gonna try to stay true to the original story, are they?

This is gonna be Matthew Broderick in Godzilla all over again.

Emoball Z

I think the car in the picture is a Dodge Charger SRT8.

So... what... man, what the fuck.
Seriously. This is like if Japan made a Batman movie, but instead of making with the dark and gritty crime, they slap giant robots and cat girls on it and set it in space.

So, what? Goku is a normal teenage fuckwit who loves his I-Pod and other product placement staples. Then the world is attacked by Piccolo. Martial Arts ensue.

ARG.

@boboh: Hey, you know, you could be right. You know what it isn't? Relevant in any way to Dragon Ball. Why is that damn car in this movie?
That damn thing better turn into a Dragon and grant some fucking wishes.

Here's mine: don't make this movie!

Dragonball can NOT work as a live action flick. Too much leveling up for my taste.

A Legend of Galactic Heroes, Macross, Space Cruiser Yamato, Black Lagoon, or Haruhi would translate much easier.

I think the only reason why I'll be seeing this is to see how bad it is, just like doom. OR my DBZ fanatical friends will drag me to the movies, kicking and screaming.

Unlike all of you I have to see this. I cant pass up MST3k material like that.

Why is Hollywood constantly allowed to release these blights of creation upon humanity?

'ZAT IZ NAWT CORRECKZ HAAAIIIRR!!! HIS HAIR IS THE POWER!!! They really should've gotten that guy that emailed Kotaku.

People of Earth! Lend me your energy!

I'm gonna drop a Spirit Bomb right on top of this bitch!

SCOOPS!

!

@Balance_In_Life: I don't care about Dragonball - but that car isn't a Charger. It maybe is a "Charger", but definitely not a Charger. :P

@Zero_:
That guy was awesome.

In other news... The dragon balls are really gumballs that come out of special dispensers in various malls throughout the quest. For product placement, they are inside various Godivas as Truffles.

Along the way, he befriends many B-Boys and Skaters and a surfer or two, because (that's hella rad to the extreme!?!), and faces many mall security guards with tasers, as moviegoers pray for the characters swift demise, but are shortly disappointed. Chow Yun Fat makes an appearance as Tom Green (Daddy would you like some sausage?).

So far, that's what I get from the two pictures above. Good luck convincing me to see this movie...

Perhaps this is like a Spider-Man thing...he gets hit by the car but instead of being sent flying, the car goes flying for some unknown reason...the movie is all about Goku discovering who he really is!

heh...still doesn't sound good.

Hey Kotaku! Everytime you guys post news about the DBZ movie, you should post that picture of that dude with the fro who was shermed out! LOL!!

Worse than DOA movie... Far far worse...

Tom cruises kid from war of the worlds was also the star of "the invisible" more recently lol

BTW he goes to school on this as well + Bulma is a Z Fighter now....go to this site for more blood boiling news

[www.dragonballmovieblog.com]

@Elliuotatar:
Oh, how could I forget about the hover cars? Capsule Corp. where art thou?

@That Girl Hates You:
You're part of the problem.

My god! What the hell are they doing? Why do Hollywood take good game/cartoon/book series and make a film. But in making the film they change everything about it apart from the name and turn it into the same film you've seen 1000 times.

This will suck donkey balls.

This is the equivalent of a live action Gundam movie without the Gundams.

@pokebud:

O yeah I also forgot to mention Krillan (spelling?) has been replaced with a guy named Teto, I just thought you guys should know that.

I bet they will go the teen drama route and have Goku, Bulma and Chi Chi get drunk and have a threesome. Bulma will be pregnant, Chi Chi will hate her, Goku will pay child support until he gets hit by that car...

This is from another movie. Has to be.

Hilarious joke Ashcraft. Now make with the real image...

@SaintAnima: Oh, and this movie will be the biggest laughing stock of the summer. 70% of the audience will walk out of the theater as soon as the movie starts up and a hip hop Dragonball theme pops on.