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if it's going to start off with early dragonball, i wonder if they'll allow the infamous "no balls" scene that is pretty much one of the funniest scenes in dragonball altogether.

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Am I the only one who thinks Piccolo would be Hindu/Indian/whatever?
Turbin. Check
Stretchy limbs (Yoga originated in India I believe). Check

CCS: Yeah, a movie where Goku plays a kid would suck as much as one where Darth Vader is a kid. Rolling Eyes

Yeah, Gatsu, we all know a movie about a cute little boy having adventures goes over well with the action movie crowd.

I love DB probably more in many ways than DBZ, but the fact is that first segment of the manga didn't do so well which is why they went to the fighting stuff. The entire focus of them doing a movie with super-powered child in the lead would shift it to being more a kid flick which changes the potential audience. Just because people in the States view DBZ as kidstuff doesn't mean that's the audience around the world. I really don't think they're looking at the Harry Potter audience of kid to adult. Maybe the kid to adult wrestling crowd.

From a release put out about a month ago, the movie is supposed to start with Gokuu at the age of 18 (and in high school Rolling Eyes

) That sketchy sounding description can be found here It's supposed to be based on Dragonball, though the plot is so different it doesn't really matter whether it's based on DB or DBZ, just the ages of the characters is all that really makes it DB.

There was first news that it was going to film in Canada, recently it was changed to filming in Mexico....I have a feeling it's going to turn out to be a huge trainwreck, but guess who's still going to go see it opening night?

Isn't that about how old Goku was in the segment with Raditz? It was the Tournament where he surprized Bulma saying he was 12 or so when she thought he was closer to her 16 (15?) I thought he came down to 17 at the start of that Tourni with Piccalo, maybe 16.
Don't forget ages in shonen titles are usually obscenely low-Luffy at 18 is pretty high. Look at Ash roaming the countryside with no parental guidance from about age 10. Look at all these Gundam pilots-15 yr olds who can fly better than 20-something pilots hwo have had yrs of experience. Saint Seiya most of the Gold Saints are under 20? OK.
And so these guys even act like kids half the time? It's so easy to forget the YuGiOh group is school age the way they run around to all these tournaments (future poker sharks?).

Someone else could probably find a timeline out there on Goku's age--I'm sure someone's figured it all out, but I don't think he was even 27 when he died fighting Cell. (Not that death stops anyone in DBZ)

The dragonballs seem to be the biggest issue to me in the title. I could see shrinking Raditz or even skipping him. His appearance could signal a need for the heroes to train for the impending threat, but the dying & being wished back by the dragonballs seems to be a huge hurtle. I could see them being dropped entirely. They did become a major plot drag, & it would be just as easy to say it was Earth's time in Frieza's Universe take-over for Vegeta & Nappa to arrive as much as their coming for the balls. Without the initial story, the dragonballs seem to be a major plot drag, but they need something flashy to catch the public's eye if they ever want to go back & do Goku: The Early Years. Transformers has set up so they can go back & do prequels.

It probably was planned for 2010, but the strike forced FOX to ramp up production.

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