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.
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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 imagination and audacity behind the game are wildly fascinating, and the same is true of the movie.
08/16/04
Feels like a 91-minute infomercial selling the popular collectible-card game.
08/12/04
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
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
Yu-Gi-Oh! is so flat as to make the card game on which it is based seem positively three-dimensional.
08/13/04
Top CriticThe artwork by director Hatsuki Tsuji and his team of animators is sharp, but it pales before state-of-the-art CGI.
08/14/04
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
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
Shallow and repetitive.
08/12/04
Like Harry Potter, Shrek and Spider-Man, it will become part of the currency of grade and middle school conversation.
11/17/06
Tecnicamente limitado, o filme não é esteticamente melhor do que uma animação produzida para a televisão.
09/03/04
A pay-for-admission commercial for its own empire, it stretches the definition of a movie into something so ugly as to be unidentifiable
08/10/04
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
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 CriticThis lousy animated feature not only looks like bargain-basement TV animation blown up to big-screen proportions, it also feels like a round or two of the trading-card game.
08/13/04
From the endless product placement to its attempt to reel viewers in with free trading cards at the door, it all adds up to a 90-minute commercial.
08/13/04
Yu-Gi-Oh! will make you go ugh!
08/13/04
No doubt its small fans are thrilled, but even young kids will have to be pretty undemanding to enjoy this mess.
08/13/04
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
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