The artwork by director Hatsuki Tsuji and his team of animators is sharp, but it pales before state-of-the-art CGI.
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08/14/04
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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
It's a pretty deep dive off the high board in the world of anime, but there's no depth there.
08/14/04
Kids will eat Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie up. The rest of us will have to wait for the translation.
08/13/04
This cartoon based on the popular and complicated card game might as well be written in another language.
08/13/04
The film is simply part of a synergized income stream, more deft revenge upon us for having won World War II.
08/13/04
The latest kiddie con job to float over from Tokyo.
08/13/04
A shabby, joyless, 90-minute slab of 'advertainment' designed to sell booster packs for a popular trading-card game.
08/13/04
If your pulse quickens when you hear lines like, 'Not so fast! I still have two cards face down, and they'll bring down your life points to a measly 1000!', then Yu-Gi-Oh is the movie you've been waiting for all summer.
08/13/04
Top CriticA feature-length sales pitch aimed at kids.
08/13/04
Top CriticWould be hilarious if it weren't so dreadfully cynical.
08/13/04
Yu-Gi ouch! Rare is the movie experience as painful as it is here
08/13/04
Games shouldn't be movies. Yu-Gi-Oh! is the (barely) living proof.
08/13/04
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 fantasy kitsch tale.
08/13/04
Top CriticFrom 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
This 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
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 CriticWith the possible exception of ESPN-televised poker, watching somebody else play a card game is incredibly boring.
08/13/04
Yu-Gi-Oh! will make you go ugh!
08/13/04
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