Anime 50410 One Piece Film Red Reviews Filter Check 3

First off, I would like to acknoledge the fact this is a non-canon movie althought we will get back to this. It's non canonness doesn't change the fact that, althought being a movie that doesn't inscribe in any timeline, it's still pretty incoherent. The movie is a huge purge to watch and I have seen a lot of people online stating that this is an incredible movie, they should use those words more carefully. This movie has a lot of objective flaws that are not my opinion that are simply made here to attract the fans.

At out the way, I would like to talk about ... the good part of this movie. Some of the songs are great. UTA's singer does a pretty good job. She sings pretty well and some of the songs are a BOP. BUT, most of the songs are those kind of "disney princess" song where the caracter just talk about her fellings and it's really cliche.

Now that i talked about what I liked, let's talk about what's not to like in this movie. And for a movie starring Shanks, It was clear that there would be some fan service, but damn. This is my main issues with the movie. It has numerous, to say the least, fan service that are for most, caracters doing cameos. We have caracters taking part in the film that are neither pertinent nor justified. The movie has plenty of caracters that are like this. It is clearly made just to attract the fan boys and nothing else. You can seriously wipe out half the cast and the movie doesn't change. It's like the infinity war of one piece but not in a good way. You also have elements that are still not in the anime nor the manga that appair in the movie. It's just here to spoil the anime and this not good at all.

Also, another thing you can add that's pretty funny. One Piece's (the anime) biggest flaw is it's pacing. And right here the pacing is horrible. Everything happen really fast and you have things just coming out of everywhere. For the first hour, you just altenate beetween UTA singing and the lore of the island being explained to you. So you have all of these caracters that are completely disconected with the events that come here and just explain the lore and then she starts singing again. And another one comes and then she sings again. The ending happens also so fast you don't see it coming, not in a good way of course.

Furthermore, the guys who wrote this should be ashamed. (it might be like my review) They should of reread the things they wrote because most of it is so bad, even a 5 year old kid would of done something better. It was really really bad. You have a bid deus ex machina. Characters that had no intoduction that just pop out of nowhere to save the situation. There is also a plot twist that completely ruins the movie by the end.

The animation was also a big question for me. Sequences are action are just the caracters throwing their main signature attacks and that's all there is for the combat. No choregraphy, no movement except maybe for one scene. There is tho two characters who got some fire animation : Jimbei and Brook. But why them ???

And when you thought I was done talking about the flaws. There was a promess of Shanks being developed. And I'm sorry but Shanks is more developed in the trailer than in the actual movie. The only character in the movie that get's a tiny bit of developement is UTA and it's pretty bad. She transforms from a cliche girl that sings and is just nice, to a danganronpa character. She starts doing some wacky face and some weird poses it's random. Her developement is just really cliche. The writers clearly took no risk it was really a shame.

And I could go on and on with this movie. The 2/10 is more than justified. If I was a One Piece fan, I would be embarrased. "New Gen" Toei animation is really lazy and cares more about the money they can found in your pocket that in the work they can put out. I suggest you don't watch this movie, especially if you are not up to date on the latest scan because it does spoil some things for you. You can always watch this movie later. But even so, the writing is straight up bad and lazy and really the only thing you will find out of this movie is just a warmed up fan service from the One Piece "saga"

See? This is the evidence of why Divas/Idols element would never work inside this medium. Please, please! stop creating a character with their sole characterization is only "Good At Singing". A character development contained solely on a progress of: "from a good singer, to a great singer, to a world famous singer solving a world wide problem with a song" it's so fricking lame! cringe! and lazy!

It's doesn't work on Black Clover with their mermaid diva. It doesn't work on Belle. The most boring part of Vivy and Kongmin is the singing part. And the only things that make Zombieland Saga became atleast a bearable ... idol anime, is because it's a fricking parody!

Can you guess why? why is this formula became one of my most hated tropes in all anime? Because idols or divas in real life, are relaying so much on the "fame factors" that they've had from the established fanbases. So, creating a fictional character or group based around this premises meaning that you're also have to create, fabricates and establish that fame factors from a fictional fanbases to make that character alive. And a fabricated fame, just like a sign on the audience seat that says "cheers", would always be counted as a plot armor!. Not to mention that the taste on music are varies on everybody, that'd just make the narrative became more and more unaccessible.

Uta is the embodiment of plot conveniences. And for some people that says Uta is the condensation of every themes in One Piece, yeah, no wonder it feels shit. They're trying too hard for basically making a speedrun of creating a likeable character by expositioning everything. So yeah sure, for some who doesn't understand what exposition means, she would appears soo deep. I mean, the only themes that i found aligned with Uta from the canon-piece, is the child abandonment.

Why Oda? Why would you tarnish your reputation like this? From Stampede to this, it's a lazy work to create a scenario with its sole objectives just to incorporates as many cameos as you like. No! more character does not mean more fun! The more crowded it is, the more lazy work has to be done! Are you happy that all of your characters are reduced to be just a hollow animated figures with an attack name and catchphrases?: The Straw Hat Pirates turned from a lovable protagonist into a squad of Power Rangers, shouting their secrets moves. Shanks crew turned from a mysterious figures into a boring deus ex-machina, solving all the problems with a biblical power. The Admirals and the Navy's are turned from a terrifying forces into a party tricks, just to enliven the ensemble. I mean what else could i say? Great job! *clap**clap*

Seems like it would be a long way for me until i see the next movie Z.

And oh yeah, for the positives,... atleast most of the songs are banger! Would surely jamming to the soundtrack when it's released

Okay, listen up! For all those who are bored to read a long review just know this: "I found a lot of subjective flaws in this movie and I don't recommend it. Heck, as a fan of the franchise for more than 20 years I even found it insulting."
For all the others fellow OP fans, keep reading...

Firstly let us look at the summary of this movie.
Cruela de Vil's daughter, dyes the black part of her hair red (because of her daddy issues with Shanks), becomes a famous singer a la Katy Perry, gets high on cute addictive mushrooms on stage and creates her own ... colorful Matrix so she can sing endlessly to her zombie fans and consequently wipe out piracy. Her sasaeng fans (this time in the form of the Straw Hats) were not very happy with that as they have other idols' concerts to attend to, thus decide to ruin all her fun.The end.
What you've just read is a summary to a very mediocre fanfiction story I would glimpse on a lazy Sunday. Unfortunately, for all of us, somebody from the OP team, also read this idiotic plot and decided that it would be a great idea to make an OP movie out of it.

Well, here is my own short plot if I would have any say in creating an OP movie called Red:
Shanks, the captain of the infamous Red Hair pirate crew ventures to seize a mythological artifact known for being able to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. Little did they know though that this artifact demands a great sacrifice in return for its gifts, thus leaving the Red Hair pirates decimated. As the world gets restless at the sudden loss of one of the most powerful crews, Shanks, asks for help from the only pirate crew he trusts: The Straw Hats.
Together, they strive to unravel the mystery of the artifact, save his crew from its guardians and bring back balance to the world.

And now be honest, which one of the aforementioned plots would you rather watch and think better suits One Piece and a movie called RED???!!!

Okay, back to being serious now. What is trending for the last two years in Japan? Ado, the singer behind Uta's songs. What is trending in Japan since 1997? One Piece manga/anime. Let's make a musical combination of those two. Eeeeh... wrong! You could have done that if your anime was Cardcaptor Sakura or Little Witch Academia. But, in relation to the two aforementioned shojo anime, One Piece's grand franchise is the only beacon attracting such a massive audience to watch Red. A pirate themed anime that has more that 70% male audience is not supposed to be this girly and wishy-washy. This whole thing screamed that the marketing team of OP just wanted to attract more females to the franchise or in plain English, the huge fan base of Ado. The only thing I can give kudos for to the marketing team is that they had the audacity and ruse to name the movie Red and make it look like we would see more of Shanks' involvement.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Ado. I googled a couple of her songs after this movie and her voice was enjoyable. Nevertheless, a movie in this franchise can’t be carried only by it’s soundtrack. I would have been more satisfied if the songs focused more of their lyrics on the world of OP instead of being another pop cliche single ready to be sold after the release of the movie.

My experience with this movie has been quiet straightforward. After watching Gold and Stampede my expectations were low to say the least. Red was an overall mess with no structure that's almost impossible to follow as the previous two movies. It keeps most of it's focus on Uta (Heck, she even has more lines and screen time than Luffy!), but everyone else feels like jam-packed in and there for the sake of it. Even Marvel's Infinity War had a lot of characters but they all had a purpose. As for the battles... hahaha! What battles? They seem like cut scenes from a video game. Especially if you see that the final battle is a full-on clusterfuck against something that wasn't even supposed to be in a pirate themed anime. How much weirder this franchise is going to be? The only things that made me give this movie a 3 were a couple of songs, Usopp's link with ****** at the end and Uta's devil fruit (which was a fantastic power but unfortunately very badly used).

I understand One Piece is huge and there's so many great characters outside of the Straw Hats, however I think future movie entries could stand to tell more intimate, shorter stories going on instead of being two & a half hour, poorly made money grabbers. Even Marvel learned their lesson and stated: "We will be focusing more on quality over quantity."

I do not understand how this movie has such a high score. Is it from all the One Piece fans that have yet to see it and just assume it is going to be great, so they give it a 10? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge One Piece fan, but this movie is the worst One Piece film out of the bunch, taking into account when they were each released.
You can feel the force of the movie, from the beginning, trying to rush you through. It felt so choppy and there were instances, that I will not spoil, that simply did not make ... sense for what was going on at the moment. There wasn't a single remarkable fight scene. The animation was subpar in comparison to past OP films. Honestly, it was a cluster f* that only had decent music, which in itself didn't mesh 100% of the time. Like, how are you gonna have a flashback of a child singing [multiple times], but have a clearly adult voice? It was disruptive in itself, causing you to lose any momentum the film may have gained. Could the producers not find a Japanese child with a decent singing voice?
The more I think about it, the more I want to lower my rating for this film.

Mostly Spoiler Free.

This movie was not made for me, since I do not have TikTok. A lot of the focus of this movie is on Music and dance choreography, and I just do not care. If you are like me and find those Dances a bit cringy, some sequences of this movie are hard to get through.

First, let's talk about the good things. The movie was mostly animated on a good to very good level. Little sakuga like we got with the finale of Wano and some CGI Models that stuck out a bit, but the finale was beautful and many art decisions, like the ... new character outfits, were really good. It is definetly a visually pleasing movie.

Sadly, the same cannot be said about the story. Overall, it is pretty simple: This Idol Uta uses music to cast Eternal Tsukuyomi.

This is an oversimplification, there is a reason for her actions, but the story is anything but deep. In fact, it often feels like you look at the backbone of a story that could have been a good but basic story for a one piece movie if developed beyond the first few drafts. It really feels like the writers didn't care a lot. Instead, the focus was on giving every single important character a cameo, just to get some hype from the fanbase, which began to feel jarring, especially regarding the relationship between characters that felt wrong.

This need to cram in as much as possible made the pacing way too fast, which is wierd to say as a One Piece fan. Everything was so fast and the good moments were soon met with something stupid and I was barely able to build up any sympathy for the character of Uta before she was revealed to be fucking crazy and basically Obito.

This basically the moment I also realised, what I was watching. This movie was not ment to be watched. This movie is way too fast for that. It's also not cohesive, it avoids storytelling thoughout the movie at most points. This movie is made to be consumed in the form of 30 second clips on TikTok, Reels or Shorts. Not at a homescreen or a theatre, on the phone while you are scrolling. Just take a short, senseless fight from the movie, add one of the multiple original songs from Uta in the Background and have someone do the fitting choreography thats also in the movie in front of it, that was the vision when this movie was made. Once I came to that realisation, it all made sense, but I lost all interest left in me. I actually had to take 3 attempts to get through it because I began to fall asleep all the time.
3/10

I will be very clear about why I gave this film a low rating and why it is horrible: UTA IS A TERRIBLE CHARACTER!!

What's more, are they playing with us? Did they create so much hype around Shanks' appearance for the damn thing to appear in very few frames? Honestly, horrible, I found the story really boring too, Uta is a spoiled girl who can't get over her traumas and wants everyone to get involved in it. I swear, when they put that scene showing that Uta was part of Luffy's childhood, I wanted to leave the movie theater. I've seen One Piece movies that ... didn't really captivate me, but this one gave me a feeling that I hate: disgust.

The first 80% of the movie is really bad imo. Very childish and many "musical"-like scenes, overall very cringe and not enjoyable for me. (My friends got dub ticket's on accident which made it even worse lol)
Many plot essentials like Uta's motives aren't really made clear. Shanks action isn't enough, imo calling the Film "Red" is just a marketing scheme.
Then once the final battle starts I find that the music fits much better and you get the usual one piece hyped feeling. And if you don't want to be spoilered in the movie, you should either have read the manga or wait till the final ... battle in Wano is over.

I am not sure about the target audience of this movie, for some kids the age under 14 who have watched all of one piece the movie will probably be way more enjoyable then it was for me. I think many One Piece fans are 20 and over, and for those that I know it was a cringefest.

To be fair the animation was solid, although not on the level of the demonslayer movie. I didn't enjoy the silly backgrounds in the final fight.

Most of the songs were very nice and fitting, there was just way too much focus on them imo.

The story doesn't feel well written at all.

Overall the movie was a big disappointment for me.

This is the only movie I've seen where the singing is better than the rest of the movie combined.

The writing is questionable at best, and tries too hard to jam in everything One Piece fans recognize. That leaves no time for any kind of character establishment or development; the movie assumes you already know all the characters and just want to see them do their signature thing.

The 3d animation is not good. The 2d animation is surreal, even more than One Piece normally is, and ends up being incoherent. The whole movie is more of a fever dream than a satisfying story.

But...the songs are good. ... One of them was #1 in Japan for a while, and honestly, it deserved that. Maybe it's better to just find the songs on youtube.

This movie is for already-fans of the series, its basically just fan service and a random story that's hard to care for.

Visuals are always nice to look at, i wish the battle scenes near the end weren't chalk full of cringe moments, it felt like i was watching a power rangers combination scene. eugh

However I thought the whole musical take on everything was a really nice spin on a one piece movie and the music was just really fun and enjoyable to listen too, it would have tied in really nicely if the story wasn't lame.

I wouldn't recommend this to people who aren't already ... invested in the series, otherwise it can be really fun for long time fans to see a one piece inspired musical setting happen! Just keep in mind that's mostly all you're gonna get from this.

This was the first one-piece movie that I watched in the movie theater and it was, in a way, boring.

Like, I get it. This movie has good animation, and good sound designs, the plot is not so bad, it has all the characters that might raise your expectations, and also has some songs. But I will be straight to the point. This movie did not give me the one-piece vibe I was looking for. This movie was more like a typical Disney movie. The songs were good up to a point. But I think there were six songs and that is a lot for ... a film. If every song takes 4 minutes, that's one episode of an anime gone just by using the songs.

The plot was good. But it could have been better. It was simple, yet complex. But no matter how good the plot is, if the execution is this boring, then it will not have a wow effect on the viewers.

Even the scene where the main characters are introduced did not seem so exciting to me.

The movie is just an Ado concert. An expensive MV with the main characters special moves.
The film's formula is: they took a list of the audience's most beloved characters, did some marketing research on metaverse and generation z, took a ready-made fanfic from the internet (Shanks' daughter) and a singer who is very popular in Japan at the moment.
The main character is annoying and dumb. Unfortunately she has more screentime than all the Mugiwara.
Her motivation is weak and makes no sense. Oh, to top it off, have her power create dozens of new figures for fans to buy complete sets of a cute ... pet-shaped boat, chibis of old characters, and pirate skins of current characters. Good marketing.

Well..Not the best Movie Anime, music and animation is good but... storyline just..erm

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Storyline:
Not a canon movie, well, not the best.. Uta lore just dont make sense, in my opinion, dont make some sense.

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Animation:
... WOOOOOOOO, its good actually, i like when uta sings, but idk.. the CGI on uta is good too.

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Music:
Well.. GOOD AS FUCKKKKKKKK, ado sing as una and ADO SLAPS, but, you cant make an anime that just animation and music is good, right.

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Others:
Uta akuma no mi is good i guess.
Shanks is used as a bait on the movie (oh).
No one piece soul.
The movie just dont make sense like, why a japanese idol in one piece, WHYYY.

Conclusions:
"If you like disney musical you may like it"
Boring asf

5.3 of 10

I would rather to watch a concert than to watch this. Not worth the time and money. The Visual Effect and CGI is indeed great, but the song is just too much. The writers just magically cramped the movie so it fits 5-6 songs (literally a single album) in one movie.

And then, in the end, they put 2 more "sad theme" song to baited audience's emotional after crappy one hour. Yeah, it's right, they ended literally song movie (I prefer to called it like that rather musical movie), with more SONGS with DIFFERENT EMOTION. So, literally minutes ago we got energetic happy song, and ... then next we got furious rage song, and lastly we got "forced" sad song. My ear and brain is so confused, that I can't even laugh at 'marvel-like' jokes/comedy scene in-between songs.

It is also my fault, I didn't expect it to be song movie or musical movie or whatever. With the title "RED" - which I think about Red Hair Pirate, and it's not - and the gimmick "Shanks' daughter", I was expected to see more of Shanks' crew fight (they literally who saved the movie), but unluckily it didn't happen (it also makes me learn to read the synopsis carefully before watch any movies).

At the middle of 'awkwardly sitting in the dark' place for 2 hours-long most awaited movie, I realized, "Yup, this movie is not for me."

TLDR: Like arcane or the recent tekken animation - fanservice artwork, animation and choreography, stunning soundtracks, mid to bad story telling (feel free to fight me on this comparison lmao)

I don't want to say much, but it's not worth watching really :/

I didn't want to know anything before the film, so I went in not knowing that is was a musical. That being said, the moment the first song played, I accepted it and tried to watch the film in a normal way but I couldn't. The story was all over the place. It was not compelling, barely related to shanks. It was an action ... fanservicy, orgasmic music mess.

Art/Animation - 9/10 (for the most part it was beautiful looking and animated)
Sound - 10/10 (sounded more like a concert, oh boy the music was loud!...I will be downloading the OSTs)
Characters - 5/10 (talking about movie-only characters. she was mid, her caretaker was mid too)
Plot/Overall cohesiveness - 0/10 (it just had no flow. the only thing that flowed was the action. the pacing and feel of it was so weird, it didn't feel like a movie. it felt like a school project writing-wise. also, as many have said, WHERE WAS SHANKS I WANTED MORE SHANKS)