It's a painful, ponderous experience that's not helped by being weighed down by lengthy explanations of the esoteric duelling rules.
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08/17/04
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie (2004)
5 %
Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 3 Rotten:53 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
Don't watch the TV show or play the card game? Then this movie is not for you.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: 13-08-2004
Synopsis: This animated feature is steeped in the mythos of the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, Manga comics, and television show, which should make it a hit with fans. The plot concerns teenage gaming wizard Yugi Muto (vocalized by Dan Stuart) who, having merged forces with an Egyptian pharaoh since he solved his... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Dan Green, Wayne Grayson, Eric Stuart, Darren Dunstan
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Top Critic
No doubt its small fans are thrilled, but even young kids will have to be pretty undemanding to enjoy this mess.
08/13/04
Top Critic
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
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
Like Harry Potter, Shrek and Spider-Man, it will become part of the currency of grade and middle school conversation.
11/17/06
Yu-Gi-Oh translates from the Japanese into 'Intense migraine in elders.'
07/25/05
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
I suspect even children will be sophisticated enough to understand that a film should feel more alive than a trading card.
11/01/04
Tecnicamente limitado, o filme não é esteticamente melhor do que uma animação produzida para a televisão.
09/03/04
It’s a lot like hearing the play-by-play account of a heated game of bridge. Only not half as gripping.
08/22/04
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
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
The imagination and audacity behind the game are wildly fascinating, and the same is true of the movie.
08/16/04
This may be the first mainstream movie to have more in common with an infomercial than a screenplay.
08/16/04
the characters are thinly sketched; and the sense of adventure is mediocre at best
08/14/04
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
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