Looks to me that they just borrowed the names, a bit of the plot and the balls in the hopes of cashing in on the Dragonball name.

I thought it looked awesome and I'm a HUGE Dragon Ball fan.

Why does people keep doing this to us?!?!??!!!

The worst part of it is that they're going to make Chichi the queen bee of high school. Whatever happened to our butt-kicking country girl?!

What were you guys expecting? It's a live action Dragon Ball movie, not a meditation on the holocaust.

I guess I'll just never understand the mentality of super nerds (see also: the Transformers movie).

It's a joint production between America, Japan and China, so it's not just "Hollywood."

The important thing to remember is that it's an adaption, and as an adaption, some things will be changed, that's just how it is. Anybody that reads Harry Potter, for instance, has to accept that when they go into those movies. I like Goku as a naive character too, but it's not a character that's going to work as a centerpiece in a 90 minute movie to a fresh audience, that's just the harsh reality of it.

Sure, but I think there's a point in taking way too far. It is, after all, just entertainment. I could wager that I'm probably one of the biggest DB fans on the forum (since around 1994 or 1995) and I'm really excited for the movie. Regardless of what they've changed there's no way it's going to be any worse than GT (past the space travel episodes) or the old Chinese live action movie. It'll be nice to see a new take on it, in my opinion.

I usually don't make a big deal when it comes to different versions of the same story and characters, because I tackle them as separate things. That doesn't, however, stop me from commenting how much better or worse something could have been done and how significantly it differs from the original, which I mostly tend to favor to any adaptation or spin-off. That said, I never found Dragonball intellectual enough to take it very seriously. It's just entertainment fun and this live action film looks promisingly trashy and bad.

Personally, I just disliked the whole Dragonball franchise. I hate the animation style, the lack of story, just... all of it. Guh. I could go on endlessly about the things I dislike with regards to that whole sorry show.

Which is why it offends me that a man I happen to find extremely attractive is involved with this.

It burns! Is it just me or does piccolo look like the bad guy from the first the Mask movie?

I was (and still am, to a point) a heavy Dragonball fan.

But, like the others have said, everything looks so entirely different from what we've all come to know and love. And, call me dumb, but, if you can't even remotely stick to what was put out there in the first place, then you're not doing the fans any sort of service. Like, okay, they want to make Goku a white guy. Fine, whatever. And, Piccolo looks.....okay, he's not so bad. But Bulma looks like she's some sort of Charlie's Angels rip-off, and Roshi looks almost 180 from what he should be. I mean, this Roshi looks more like E. Honda than Roshi.

And, that's just on looks, mind you. The plot looks wanky, and correct me if I'm wrong but, wasn't Goku like, 8 when he crashed to earth/got his orange gi? I know it's been quite a while since I've seen/read this stuff, but even my mom, who, mind you, is 55, and had a girl-crush on Trunks and adult Gohan, said that it looked stupid.

But, y'know, I cant really condemn people for at least giving it a shot.
A poor, badly aimed one, in my opinion, but maybe I'm being too judgmental.

Leroy wrote:

What were you guys expecting? It's a live action Dragon Ball movie, not a meditation on the holocaust.