Feature-length animated movie based on the television series, and Manga comic book of the same name, is like watching a Japanese video game being played on a movie screen.
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Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie (2004)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:3
Rotten:57
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Don't watch the TV show or play the card game? Then this movie is not for you.
Theatrical Release:Aug 13, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $19,742,947
Synopsis: The plot concerns teenage gaming wizard Yugi Muto (vocalized by Dan Stuart) who, having merged forces with an Egyptian pharaoh since he solved his grandfather's cosmic puzzle, now rules the... [More]
Starring: Dan Green, Wayne Grayson, Eric Stuart, Darren Dunstan
Director: Ryusoke Takahashi
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Reviews for Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie
It's essentially an advertisement for a similarly titled trading card game.
10/18/08
The popular kiddie cartoon show comes to the big screen, looking exactly like a TV cartoon blown up to colossal proportions.
08/07/08
While this probably constitutes a good tutorial in the trading-card game's lingo and lore, it's tremendously boring to watch an animated series in which most of the fighting doesn't even involve combat, just characters looking at cards.
01/08/07
Like the gods, the trading cards are capricious, with ever-changing rules and strategies so intricate that only Yu-Gi-Ohlogists will fully enjoy this adventure.
01/08/07
Top CriticLike Harry Potter, Shrek and Spider-Man, it will become part of the currency of grade and middle school conversation.
11/17/06
Yu-Gi-Oh translates from the Japanese into 'Intense migraine in elders.'
07/25/05
Various other minuses for the uninitiated -- the changing powers of the cards, the intricate strategies of the participants, the almost-lethal nature of gameplay -- are great pluses for aficionados.
02/13/05
I suspect even children will be sophisticated enough to understand that a film should feel more alive than a trading card.
11/01/04
Looks like 'Transformers On Speed: The Autobots Take Japan.'
09/15/04
Tecnicamente limitado, o filme não é esteticamente melhor do que uma animação produzida para a televisão.
09/03/04
A feature-length anime commercial.
08/27/04
Top CriticIt’s a lot like hearing the play-by-play account of a heated game of bridge. Only not half as gripping.
08/22/04
Watching it is vaguely like watching someone explain how to play poker when you have never played it and in fact have no intention of ever playing it.
08/19/04
It was mostly over my head but the kids in the audience knew what was going on and loved it. If you see this movie, take a kid and let him guide you through it.
08/19/04
It's a painful, ponderous experience that's not helped by being weighed down by lengthy explanations of the esoteric duelling rules.
08/17/04
The imagination and audacity behind the game are wildly fascinating, and the same is true of the movie.
08/16/04
This may be the first mainstream movie to have more in common with an infomercial than a screenplay.
08/16/04
This isn't even a movie. It's a commercial.
08/15/04
the characters are thinly sketched; and the sense of adventure is mediocre at best
08/14/04
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