The 49th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump announces that the new Dragonball Z Special (Heya Son Goku and Friends return!) will stream online towards the end of November (11/24/2008). This online stream will be available at the official website, Jumpland. The free streaming begins November 24th, the day after the Jump Anime Tour ends.

It also appears that the special will premiere again during the Salon Del Manga Tour tomorrow. Hopefully we can get some leaked footage from that!

All the heroes come together on the SHONEN JUMP Super Anime Tour!! Announcing the opening of the official movie site.
(Watch anime movies for free, starting 11/24!!)

We get this new promo poster from the current convention from our affiliate Dragonballfilm that shows some interesting bits of news. The movie will be promoted at this event, but not only that, a contest will occur that will give a lucky fan the chance to win a pre screening of the actual Dragonball film.

“Release date is April 2009″. Feel the Vital Energy. Win your very own pre-screening of the film. Kamhameha!”

We will keep you informed if anything else new pops up from this event.

From the TV program NHK special in Japan, a short clip from the actual Dragonball movie was aired. It shows Goku opening a box with a Dragonball inside then another scene showing Goku opening another box to find his new orange gi with the Kame symbol. View the short Dragonball movie clip below!

A reader from Aint It Cool News has sent in a review for an early cut of the Dragonball film. Please note that this is only rumor but does contain possible spoilers.

Hello to all of you,

I am a huge fan of your site and constantly visit here but this will be my first time emailing you about something. I love geek movies because there is nothing better than a well made geek movie. Well after watching the 95-100 minutes (excluding credits) of the movie i say this movie was solid. Ya you heard that right. I simply love the anime but I was very very nervous about it being made by fox. After all the studio has been making nothing but shit lately. Another reason why I was worried about this movie is that the director is James Wong who made final destination 1 & 3 and The one starring Jet Li. What I watched had unfinished sfx and with no scoring done yet. Also… they will be adding one or two scenes which will be shot sometime end of october.

Now let me list the positives of this movie

1) Action - I wasn’t expecting the action scenes to be as awesome as they were. Simply put the best thing about this movie. The last action scene of Goku vs. Picollo are simply amazing and when picollo takes out his huge fucking ass sword with weird rectangle shape tablet attached it at the tip of sword and slamming it on goku was fucking awesome. Lot of blowing shit up, super cool flying scenes, awesome ki blasts. This fight scene was around 13-15 minutes long. There are other small action scenes that are fun and entertaining with slo mo but nowhere as good as the picollo vs. goku scene.

2) James Marsters as Picollo was awesome. He was perfect as picollo. Very mean and a villain that makes you say fuck ya kick all their asses. Oh and Picollo transforms into a light greenish color picollo towards the end of the movie.

3) Justin Chatwin as Goku. This guy surprised me a lot. I really didn’t like him when they casted him as goku but he did a damn good job in the acting department and he nailed the KAMEHAMEHA line.

4) Oozaru - the giant monkey is in the movie. Goku turns into a 8-9 feet tall giant baboon when he looks at the moon. It was awesome looking though a bit CGI. Maybe they will fix it later.

5) Emmy Rossum as Bulma- She was really really good in this role. I liked how she never acted like a wimpy girl and eventhough she knows she can’t win against the evil forces yet she kicks ass. A strong female role I will say.

6) Fullum Assasins - I thought adding these monsters were bad idea but they were pretty damn cool and there was an enitre scene where Goku and his friends fight these monsters and that fight scene was pretty damn good.

7) Joon Park as Yamcha was pretty cool. His acting was spot on like the character and they showed some cool fighting techniques of his. The fight scene between him and goku was good.

Negatives

1) Story - Dragonball fans will be dissapointed with some of the changes they have made with stories and characters etc. Krillin isn’t in the movie, Tien isn’t in the movie too. High school setting for the first 22-23 minutes was so not needed but ah well typical hollywood garbage of adding bullshit like that.

2) Jamie Chung as Chi Chi - Ya this was another casting i didn’t like and my worst fears came true. Her acting is as bad as Jessica Alba’s in F4 movies but thankfully her screentime isn’t that big. I really wished they could have tried harded to find someone else. I hope for sequel she can improve if there is one of course.

3) Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi - I was dissapointed with this. I wanted the fucking perverted roshi who fucking grabs breasts and asses like in the anime but alas all of that is fucking gone. Also he acted like Mr. Kesuke Miyagi. You know what I mean. The lines he spoke were fine but I felt he was uncomfortable in the movie. Very dissapointed.

4) Shenron the dragon - Ah another huge dissapointment. This is like sentinel in X3 all over again. FUCK FUCK FUCK you fox. So ya they get all the dragonballs and the dragon appears but the dragon is hiding behind fucking clouds and you only see his shadow. The voice of the dragon was provided by none other than Christopher Sabat who provided the voice for the dragon in the american version of the anime. When the dragon spoke it was chilling but damnit it was hiding behind clouds. One can hope they will fix this but chances of that are very slim.

5) Eriko Tamura as Mai was underused character and frankly speaking if that is what their intention was to underuse her then they might as well have not added this character and just added more picollo. Her moments were cool and she basically was there to show her nice boobies but ya she was kinda wasted.

Overall, I would give the movie a 6.5/10 simply because i was expecting disaster but it turned out better. The positives I mentioned coupled with some cool funny goku moments like eating a massive turkey etc. were hilarious. If only Master Roshi was perverted and Shenron was visible I would have given this 9 but ah well they messed up there. Hopefully they will fix shenron as they still have 5 months to movie’s release but if not then well fuck you to fox and james wong. But in all seriousness I am glad it aint the disaster I thought it would be. Hopefully you guys will post this. Thank You.

Call me DON

With the recent viewing of the Dragonball teaser shown at Brand Licensing Europe Expo, a new teaser was shown a couple days ago at the recent FOX 2009 line up show. Here is the description.

On October 23rd, 20th Century Fox Korea held a 2009 line-up road show at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hannam-dong, Seoul. At this time, X-MEN and Dragonball special trailers were shown. But unfortunately Joon Park didn’t appear in this trailer. The trailer was edited centering around lead actor Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow and Emmy Rossum.

Source

Another source states that another Dragonball will have its own panel at the upcoming expo known as Ficomic. The convention will be held October 30th through November 2nd. Rumor has it that another Dragonball teaser trailer will also be shown at this event (most likely the same one most of us have seen).

But that’s not it. Rumor has it that during Jump Festa (same tour that showed the new Dragonball Z anime special) 20th Century FOX will show a secret Dragonball movie trailer on the date of December 20th. This trailer will most likely be the full blown teaser trailer that we have yet to see (since FOX is aiming for the actual trailer to be released 12/12).

We will update this post if we hear about any more expos/events that Dragonball will be held at.

Thanks goes to dbthemovie.com for providing some of this information.

Emmy Rossum (who plays Bulma) recently appeared at the Bonnie Hunt show and mentioned a little bit about her role in the upcoming Dragonball film. You can read the Dragonball portion below or just watch the video.

We were in Mexico in the desert for four months shooting this movie.

What was that like?

It was really fun actually, Iam from New York City born and bred. But Iam kind of a little bit more outdoorsy than I probably think Iam. I had to learn how to ride a motorcycle, kickbox, how to shoot a gun…which was crazy.

Well there you have it, she mentioned she had to learn how to kickbox. So Bulma will be fighting in the film. Your thoughts?

Remember the short descriptions of the upcoming new promo pics that we should be seeing shortly? Well dbthemovie.com has shown an edited version of Piccolo’s sword. They mentioned that they will be showing more teaser pieces of the promos until they are official released to the public. View the edited version of the supposed sword that Piccolo will be wielding in the upcoming Dragonball movie below.

Your thoughts?

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