The popular anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! makes the jump from television to the big screen with the franchise's first feature film. Yugi (voice of Dan Green) is a boy who, like thousands of others, is a loyal fan of "Duel Monsters," a card game that's sweeping the nation. Yugi joins many other players for a Duel Monsters tournament in Battle City, where they make a startling discovery -- the "Duel Monsters" cards have supernatural powers that have resurrected Anubia, an evil leader from ancient Egypt.
As it happens, one of Yugi's ancestors was a pharaoh who vanquished Anubia centuries before, and now the young man and his pals must use their skills with the cards to conquer the foe once again. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie arrived in American movie theaters in the summer of 2004, six years after the Yu-Gi-Oh! television series (and its attendant flood of merchandise) made its debut in Japan. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
love the show love the card game love the movie another great anime childerens show adaption
December 13, 2010
Michael Edwards
Super Reviewer
Why have I seen this? Who knows, but the fact still remains that this is a bad film. I'm putting it into the context of children and their conceptions towards it and still I see only schlock. The concept of a game of cards deciding the fate of the world and ultimately saving the apocalypse from an ancient tormentor
reaches beyond the levels of stupid witnessed in Poke'Mon. Speaking of this antagonist there is something overly ridiculous about him in this movie - he is in the last 5 - 10 minutes of the film, then dies. Even for children this is absolute nonsense and while I may be harsh towards a childrens movie such as this I am seeing something that is catering with it's wacky hairdoes and farout action. This is just bull, there is better children's entertainment out there.
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