Dragonball: Evolution - Trailer

Following on from my previous post I wanted to talk about the trailer for the new Dragonball movie 'Dragonball: Evolution.'
Having watched the trailer my expectation for the movie has not changed from a feeling of cautious optimism.
As the trailer below reveals a lot of the story and aspects of Dragonball have been changed to be more Americanized and to appeal to western audiences more. Now of course in order for this movie to work that needed to happen to some degree but just how much is the question. From the trailer the pros and cons of tweaking aspects of the story are as follows:

Pros:
- Goku starting the story line older rather than as a child, to have him as a child would turn the film into something of a kid's kung-fu movie.
- Changing Master Roshi's character to be more serious and less cartoon-ish will obviously work well for the film.
- Playing up the importance of the Dragonballs rather than just having them as a device to make a wish makes the storyline thicker and something different than if the original story was just followed to the 'enemy wants to destroy the world' angle.

Cons:
- Goku's character has been edited far too much in order to western-ise him. He dresses too fashionably and looks like one of the cool kids from an American high school drama. (When he's not dressed in his very well adapted Combat attire).
- Bulma's character has been made to look far too dominent and female empowering. There are powerful females in the Dragonball series but Bulma is not one of them and the fact she thinks she is but is not is key to her character.
- The whole trailer has an air of Hollywood about it which as everybody knows, can ruin a potentially good film by making it appealing to an ignorant audience.

However one thing that pleased me greatly is that Piccolo looks absolutely fantastic.
Hopefully the film will be a success leading to a sequel going into the story to the point of introducing the Saiyans and Goku's past.
Should the fact that Goku is a Saiyan be ignored then I for one will not be pleased.

Trailer: