I will grant that given that the source material involves a little boy who with a tail who rides around on a cloud with a magical extending pole collecting balls and defeating entire armies, who then grows up into a girly-voiced grunting father of a whiney little wimp who fights super villain aliens and dies/comes back to life multiple times.

So making a real movie transition would be quite difficult. Still. If the first 30 minutes are goku as a lonely friendless high school student, I have trouble seeing how they will convince me in the remaining hour or hour and a half that he is actually an alien monkey fighting an even more evil alien (who is no longer green, and lack antennas) in order to secure a pile of balls.

But isn't it every lonely friendless high school student's dream that they will one day turn out to be some kind of super alien who can smash up badguys? Its a marketer's wet dream.

Nope.

It's EVERYONE'S wet dream.

Ok. You got me there.

And in the shame of defeat, I sentence myself to watch this movie with a straight face.

You guys had the fucking weirdest dreams in High School.

I dunno man, its STILL my dream. And I've got friends and a hot girl and a good career and everything.

At least we ain't Otakukin. <_<;

There only hope is to turn the move into a comedy by making it 2 hours of old guys powering up into super-muscle forms and casting kamehamehas at rich people's mansions and having little boys kick people between the legs to determine their gender.

What?

I dunno about the movie, but Synk's post makes me want to see Sabat do a stand up routine or something.