With Yu-Gi-Oh!, a Japanese animated film, the line between entertainment and advertising has been emphatically erased.
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08/12/04
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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
Top CriticThis isn't even a movie. It's a commercial.
08/15/04
A feature-length sales pitch aimed at kids.
08/13/04
Top CriticI took one for the team this week ... If your kid is a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, then God help you.
08/12/04
No doubt its small fans are thrilled, but even young kids will have to be pretty undemanding to enjoy this mess.
08/13/04
Yu-Gi-Oh! will make you go ugh!
08/13/04
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
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
I suspect even children will be sophisticated enough to understand that a film should feel more alive than a trading card.
11/01/04
the characters are thinly sketched; and the sense of adventure is mediocre at best
08/14/04
I sacrificed 90 minutes of my life points to sit through this and nothing I can summon is going to make up for that.
08/13/04
Toward the movie’s climax, the characters start spewing clichéd drivel about the power of friendship, lines that will make all but the youngest viewers shudder.
08/11/04
Although the movie isn't bad, wouldn't kids probably have a better time playing Yu-Gi-Oh themselves than watching others play it, cartoonically?
08/12/04
Yu-Gi ouch! Rare is the movie experience as painful as it is here
08/13/04
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.
04/18/09
The film is simply part of a synergized income stream, more deft revenge upon us for having won World War II.
08/13/04
A feature-length promotion for the trading cards your kids will beg you to buy all the way home.
08/12/04
Shallow and repetitive.
08/12/04
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
Games shouldn't be movies. Yu-Gi-Oh! is the (barely) living proof.
08/13/04
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