Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie keeps the kid-friendly spirit of the show while raising the stakes enough to justify a serviceable big-screen treatment.
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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
The quality of the animation certainly hasn't improved and the dialogue is typically basic and repetitive.
08/13/04
Nothing in Yu-Gi-Oh! will make the inscrutable more scrutable, as it were. And anime being anime, this one could be nap-time for accompanying adults.
08/13/04
A feature-length anime commercial.
08/27/04
Top CriticAdults: If your child forces you to go to Yu-Gi-Oh!, remember that there's no law against iPods in movie theaters.
08/12/04
A treat for the fervent young fans who remain, and a true test of devotion for their accompanying parents, who may need all the help they can get figuring out the storyline.
08/12/04
Top CriticWhile 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
Looks like 'Transformers On Speed: The Autobots Take Japan.'
09/15/04
This isn't even a movie. It's a commercial.
08/15/04
Feels like a 91-minute infomercial selling the popular collectible-card game.
08/12/04
Top CriticUnless you are one of the Japanese phenomenon's army of devoted young followers, much of the film's story line and machinations will be Greek, or at the very least Egyptian, to you.
08/12/04
Top CriticI 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
I suspect even children will be sophisticated enough to understand that a film should feel more alive than a trading card.
11/01/04
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
The film is simply part of a synergized income stream, more deft revenge upon us for having won World War II.
08/13/04
Shallow and repetitive.
08/12/04
Top Criticthe characters are thinly sketched; and the sense of adventure is mediocre at best
08/14/04
There's nothing inspiring about Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, unless you count the way it compels kids to continue to support the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise.
08/12/04
Top CriticLike 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 CriticThis cartoon based on the popular and complicated card game might as well be written in another language.
08/13/04
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