Goku is the Japanese Pride & Hero. Goku is JAPANESE.

Goku is Asian look at his name. + its a Asian cartoon series Y did they change him to a white guy, a skinny white guy. I guess the Afro Samurai movie will star Tom Hanks. I wont even comment on King Piccolo.

jeeze. whats with all the hate. just be glad that someone had the balls to make a db movie. mortal kombat sucked but its still part of the mortal kombat universe. its the same thing with this.

You must be someone from out of this universe

@Vegito
How dumb can you be? Saiyan are drawn to look Asian, and even Vegita himself said that Saiyan have Asian traits, so ethnicity does mean something here.
And as you should know, Goku's a kid in Dragonball, not some wimp pretending to be a teenager.

WHO CARES IF GOKUS WHITE.
How dumb can you people be? GOKU is a saiyan. Saiyans are not Asians. Ethnicity means nothing here.

And yes he's skinny, but Goku was a kid in the dragonball series and he was never bulky during that time. Even in the beginning of DBZ, Goku still wasn't that muscular.

So this stuff doesn't belong in the series or the movie. Don't say it does just because you want it that way.

Thank you Mozar, pleasure to have your signature as a true DB fan or at least non-DB fan but a reasonable person ;)

I hope petition will grow after upcoming textual video rant I currently work on, and which I will upload on youtube.

@ vegeta_dtx

Not a bad forum and petition, BTW.
Too bad it seems the Asians aren't that cool with joining a foreign forum or signing a foreign petition even though the whole continent's organizing for a boycott.
Perhaps to them boycotting this flick's a common sense so to be taken for granted they're just playing down the hype and using the simple mouth to mouth method instead.

man I was so mad I made so many grammatic and spelling mistakes... sorry about that.

All in all, TRUE DB FANS will never sell their PURITY, PRIDE AND MORAL for ANYTHING especially not for something low as money or entertainment...

And thats what was DB/Z always about! That's what Mr.Toriyama was always preaching through his masterpiece!
its ridiculous that now they want to turn DB into the oposite of what it preaches...

Retarded humanity and retarded materialistic personalities rule the world... just SAD!

WHAT THE F!?!?!? “The original writer of the dragonball series wrote this script with other writers”!!!???

THE ORIGINAL WRITER IS PROBABLY DISGUSTED! he never confirmed he gave licence!!!
He is one of the best genious on the earth and he would never like what they do with his masterpiece!
Its just a matter of time when all the fans from all over the world would protest this pile of shit back to dust! together with the ultimately respected Mr.Toriyama Akira, Mr.Katsuyoshi Nakamuru, and rest of the ingenious crew!

@stephen, if you weere a DB fan, you would be be spitting on your post now!

THIS IS BEYOND THE LEVEL OF MOCKERY AND MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The original writer of the dragonball series wrote this script with other writers"!!!???

Stop kissing up to a movie that's ruining a series you don't even know about.

Close minded people. those who actually have an open mind about this movie im proud of you. we all know that life action movies will be somewhat different. story's are somewhat the same but not completely, understand that! the original writer of the dragonball series wrote this script with other writers, having the original creator on this project is always a good thing and besides be happy that Uwe Boll isnt doing it, he destroys movies, look at bloodrayne, i mean seriously. you have a great director, great writers and honestly great actors weather you like it or not. tyler bates is doing the music to the movie which i know will be kick ass since he is the same one that does the music to 300 and the fast and the furious original scores. deal with it, stop complaning and saying its gonna be bad, give it a chance.

Making this kind of mockery and exploitation out of DB is FORBIDDEN.
As a die hard DB/Z fan whole my life I will defend DB with my life if it takes, I won't stop protesting till the end even if I am the only one in the world left.
All true fans know well that DB should always stay what it is, not to turn into hollywood pop culture stereotype! therefore brothers, please sign my petition it takes about 10 seconds!

http://db-lam-protest.forumotion.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/dblam444/petition...

thank you very much for reading!

Those who REALLY grew up on the story should be the ones NOT going to the cinemas for this crap

It would be great if Goku will be Tony Jaa :) There will be cost reduction in special effects :)

But I hope this film will be good... I'll go and watch it in the cinema, because I grew up on this story...

Some people's intelligence are as bad as their english

well dont be stupid their tring to make kind of a new story so that all the fans dont realy know whats gona happen next i think this movie is gona be great just because its dragonball and maybe if the movie is a succes theyl release a new dragonball series

sorry about my english

I wonder why am I still seeing comments praising the movie after all these pictures. Shouldn't every sensible person be going on a boycott against the movie after this? Or is there a desperate shortage of sensible people in this country?

does anyone have the new pics of dragon ball i didnt get to see them can you share with me pls

I agree with True fan, btw, what that guys wearing looks like one of those pijamaa's they sell in Argos or Woolworths. This is FAAAKE,

P.S Mr popo did appear, he kicked goku's ass remember? After he climbed Korins Tower

If you look at the old man carrying his candle....Behind him is Goku. Justin chatwin. I still have hope for this movie even though the set pic looked crap.

Ok I'll admit it I liked the Mortal Combat and Street Fighter movies (what can I say, they're my guilty pleasure.) As bad as the characters are and the terrible writing and effects, its still a fun flick to watch because it's so bad. Thats just my opinion, but these pictures.....My expectations are low for now, I'll wait for the trailer. But this had bad news written on it since they announced the cast.

Hey mira esto!!! ahhhh taaa super bacan!

The picture of the guy who I think is Goku looks nothing like the main guy from The Invisible who I thought they signed on to be Goku. Either that or he can change his entire profile to look like that of someone who is constipated. I am really going to hold off any judgement till I go see it.

if that is mr.popo it will suck cuz from what i can remember mr.popo was black as night, they shouldve just left him a white guy and made him black in post...wouldve been awesome haha

Oh crap! I knew this would be horrible. They should've done a CGI instead. It looks even worse that the first Streetfighter.

That pic of Goku doesn't even look like Chatwin at all...

Yamcha, maybe?

everybody in the dbzworld is asian... just watch the original videos... they speak japanese... hehehe

looks crappy... looks like something that came out of that guy who will quit if 1,000,000 people petition for him to stop making films.

Firstly, these look soo fake, secondly, since when are there like 3 refs in world tournament, they would get blown to pieces, second... that girl, if you could place her to any1 it would be emperor pilafs assistant..but they dont appear after goku is 17ish and competes for his last time before marrying chi chi, thirdly, there were no monks and no mr popo in dragonball

everything is all wrong. goku's hair, what he's wearing, and the fact that he's white. i always thought that if a live action film were to be made he'd be asian. in this film i was expecting some uber graphics. i'm talking about non stop fighting in the sky. heck get an asian guy to power up throughout the whole movie and i'll watch it.

Chatwin has no muscle whatsoever.

Unless they add it in after, he is going to be terrible.

How can a scrawny kid with no muscle fight off aliens?

I had hoped they would make Chatwin beef up for this roll, but apparently they don't care about making Goku anything like the Dragonball Goku, other than the ki's vague resemblance.

@ Kode: I have faith in it, but I think they shoulda started in the Z series, 'cause that's what most americans watched, and they shoulda had Eric Bana as Goku, Nathan Jones as Nappa, the midget from Pirates as Krillin, and god only knows for Vegeta. Besides that, I think we need to pray for no more delays and trust in the power of Stephen Chow. Oh, and by the way, I HAVE been told that "turbolover" is a word for a vibrator. I'm not like that, I just own a Subaru STI and like Judas Priest.

@ Frank

"300" had no plot. It was all style over substance. If you play that movie back at regular speed you have a 40 minute movie. That said, stylistically, it is certainly a benchmark.

And since when do "box office results and user ratings/reviews" mean anything? Roger Ebert gave "The Day After Tomorrow" 3 stars and that movie did well and a lot of other reviewers liked it, but it's clearly a horrible movie.

...I think "300" actually stole the shitty CGI wolves from "TDAT" if I'm correct.

Damn is there anyone with faith in this movie??..

@Alex
Box office results and user ratings/reviews obviously thought different. And I liked it very much as well.
But, of course, it's a matter of taste. All I'm trying to say is that production photos almost never reflect the quality of the end result. They are, after all, just set pictures. And with a movie like DBZ, I expect loads of post-production stuff being added to the final product.

@ Frank

You weren't wrong...'300' was lame.

I want to burn my fucking eyes out!!!!! who evers makeing this movie , this is what one hard core fan has to say FUCK YOU. I HOPE YOU FUCKING FAIL and one more time FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

You can't do DBZ in live action ,you just can't

I think i'm going to kill myself now!!

People who are obsessed with Dragonball are complaining about the quality of something? Hilarious.

@ derden

I get you, and you make a quality point. In the end it really shouldn't matter. I can honestly say I didn't know Steven Chow was producer and that does bring hope over all. I suppose my beef would be that by DEFAULT the asian thing would stand to reason.

But like anything, it's whatever. They just put the turkey in the oven.

sorry if my comment sounded rude
but in an universe like the dragon ball one, a kid with tail, a man with 3 eyes and four arms and green people are aliens, the "normal" people are the humanoid animals and the humans..you could say

the thing that still give me hope is the fact that stephen chow is the producer
and being the huge dragonball fan he is, one would expect at least a little involvement
james wong on the other hand hrmm final destinations hrmm

So, how about that Ernie Hudson guy playing some old, wise wizard or whatever the hell you call them?

Should never have been made live action, EVER. It's like the live action version of Underdog, pointless.

The outfits look nothing like the anime series. It looks like another horrible adaptation along the lines of Street Fighter.

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dreden & Clarence

Either way, he damn sure wasn't animated by an alien.

My bad about Goku being asian then. Like I said, I don't watch the show. I just always thought he was asian...My fault for being ignorant. Either way, I still think it's going to be pretty bad.

I don't like the idea of Goku getting bullied at all. DB had a wacky universe with talking dinosaurs and all manners of cyborgs and freaks. Heck, Guillermo del Toro would be perfect for this but alas ...

I think its rather hopeless to try to ground DBZ in reality. You cn do that with the Marvel characters but not DBZ. Its pure fantasy. And that's why its so fun.

Goku was never asian to start with...heck not even half of the character were asian, they traveled around the DB world(which is not exactly our earth, but has in some places a chinese-like vibe) and met each others
only chichi, roshi and maybe two or three more were clearly asian-like

the"only" thing that make me worry, is that goku goes to school...and is unpopular...

and remember set pictures ALMOST never look good

anyway, i'll have to wait for the first trailer to have an opinion

(sorry if my english isn't very good)