Our friends over at dbthemovie.com has posted what is believed to be the monster ‘Oozaru’ form of Goku in the Dragonball live action movie. Iam sure it is unfinished and only a mask that he is wearing until some CGI work gets done. Well if you guys wished to be spoiled on what Oozaru Goku will be looking like in the film, then view the image below.

SPOILERS

UPDATE - Good news guys. FOX has informed me that the Oozaru image isn’t official and was just temporary ideas that they were messing with. They then confirmed me that it isn’t the final look.

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

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?

DBthemovie.com has received e-mail from FOX stating that the upcoming Dragonball film will be shown at this years Brand Licensing Europe during October 1st-2nd. We are not sure if this is the first preview screening or not and if it will be the entire movie or just early drafts. One thing is for sure though, that the film will be shown October1st or 2nd during Brand Licensing Europe.

Dbthemovie.coom forum member has also claimed the following statement.

The film is in final stages, 90 minutes long, likely PG-13, first in an on-going series. Major video game adaptation out next year, leading comic book company publishing new manga series based on movie. New animated television series in development.

Although most of this is very likely, a new animated series based on Dragonball is not. Keep in mind that this is only rumor. But why would a new cartoon series be made based on the movie when Akira Toriyama is most likely working on new projects for Dragonball aside from the brand new special that recently premiered. However we have already seen pieces of the manga a few months back, so the cartoon could happen. We will keep you informed.

An anonymous source as stated that Criss Angel (from Mindfreak) will be playing the role of Goku’s brother, Raditz, in the upcoming Dragonball film. Note that this is only rumor and is probably fake due to an unknown source.

“Acclaimed Illusionist Criss Angel, according to an interview at Access Hollywood this past Friday, is under a cryptic negotiation with director James Wong, to shoot a post production cameo scene where he will play Goku’s estranged alien brother Raditz. This suprise scene is said to take place in after the films credits”

DBTheMovie has been sourced with a brand new Dragonball Movie poster. This one is of Bulma holding her gun with the Dragonball logo. Sources say that there are several other new Dragonball posters to come.

Coming Soon.net has reported from FOX that the trailer for the live action Dragonball movie will be shown with the upcoming movie, Max Payne, which is set to be released October 17th.

ComingSoon.net has learned that 20th Century Fox will debut the first trailer for Dragonball in theaters on October 17 with the studio’s video game adaptation Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg. We’ll have to wait and see whether Fox will release the trailer online earlier that week.

IGN Confirms

The first teaser trailer for the live-action feature film version of Dragonball will reportedly hit theaters in October. A studio source informed IGN that, while Oct. 17 is Fox’s “target date,” nothing is guaranteed until the special effects and requisite approvals are in place.

Sources from SuperHeroFlix notes that FOX scrapping Dragonball is 100% untrue and FOX’s reaction to the movie was more along the lines of loving it.

Film Junk is reporting today that Twentieth Century Fox is looking to shut down production on their big screen version of Dragonball. In the report, higher-ups at Fox are said to be unpleased with the recent footage that they’ve seen. And that they are seriously considering shutting the whole thing down. Well, this is entirely not true.

The film was completed a while ago, and the reasons for moving the film’s release date from this summer to next spring was to insure that all of the needed special effects were completed. We have a source that is very close to the film. And he/she says that the first edit is done, and that it has been shown to those “higher ups” at Fox. And that they love the finished film. Our studio contact, who we aren’t allowed to name at the moment, worked on the production, and has seen the completed movie. Everyone involved seems to think they have a hit on their hands, and he even went on to say that it was “pretty darn awesome. There is certainly talk about a sequel. I have no doubt that it will happen. I’m sure that it will be a trilogy.”

If you are anxiously awaiting Dragonball, don’t be scared by these sudden rumors that the film is being scrapped or sent directly to home video. That is certainly not the case. Dragonball is still set for a April 3rd, 2009 release date.

Credit goes to dbthemovie.com for the heads up.