[Excessum]

All right, being the impatient little brat that I am, I finally gave in and had a look at a cam-rip of the movie (which I usually don't do, since the quality sucks) and as expected... I was not impressed. They tried too hard to squeeze almost all of the DB story in a 100 minute movie... and failed miserably, of course. The part of DB from the beginning up to Goku's fight against Piccolo is like what? 14 mangas long (or >120 episodes, when talking in anime terms)...
This task is nearly impossible, but maybe, just maybe... with a bigger budget and thus the ability to make a longer movie (5+ hours?) they could have managed to cover it more or less. But what makes me mad is the fact that they did not even seem to be trying... at all.
It was painfully obvious from the trailers, posters and the rest of the advertisement prior to the cinematic release, that the guys at Dune Entertainment were not making a movie for the die-hard DB/DBZ fan (Such as yours truly), but rather a corny Hollywood teen-flick. Well, "OK", I thought... "Maybe they will, at least, make a good movie on it's own and I will judge it from there. Even if it is loosely related, or completely unrelated to the original story, it still could have some strong points." But the sad part is, that they failed even here.
I only hope that they were trying to put so much info in this movie in order to have some foundation for the (already signed) sequels of the movie. But seeing how hard this peace of trash will suck it's not hard to draw a conclusion that it will surely not make the box office top 10. It will be a miracle if it makes any profit at all, so I doubt that the next movies will have a decent budget either... and will suck even harder, if, of course, they decide to humiliate themselves and ever release a sequel at all.

Some spoilers follow, beware.

Originally Posted by Spoiler Alert!

... I mean, Goku learns Kame-hame-ha in a single night. That's just plain retarded. Not to mention the fact that Oozaru is Piccolo's accomplice (!!!) o_O And don't get me started on the whole other things they did wrong. Ok, they were are trying to sell his movie to teenagers, and I could accept the fact that Goku is attending school (*headsmashes keyboard for saying that*) and that he is a troubled emo-like bloke (even if it is completely the other way around in the originial story), but even if it is stupid to expect them to retell the complete story in full detail, why did they had to come up with new s*** to put in the story? The seven mystics? The eclipse in order to call for dragonballs and for Goku to transform in to Oozaru? Some freakish mutant-monsters that are made from Piccolo's blood? Wtf! Toriyama's story was full of all kind of creatures, characters and what not that they could have put in there, why did they have to kill it all with new, often completely unrelated crap of their own?
This movie won't appeal neither to the DB fans, nor the infidels due to both - slaughtering the story and in the same time, expecting the viewers to have certain knowledge of the original story in order to understand a lot of things. It's just a epic failure altogether.
And while I am at it - Shenron looks just like the dragons in Eragon (not surprising, considering the fact that it is made by the same company) and he does not speak... no, you won't hear his goosebump-inducing low pitch voice in this movie... Those cheap bastards >_<

In short - a complete disaster.