Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: PG
Running Time: 90 Mins
Audio: English DD 5.1 surround and Japanese surround with subs
Due Out: 8/10/2018
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
Inside a game shop Yugi Mutou is trying to solve the millennium puzzle. Little does he know that in completing it he could bring about a chain if events that will change his life.
One of Shonen Jump's more famous manga gets the movie treatment with Yugi at the point where he was at the beginning of the manga story, he has solved the puzzle and at the same time the tomb of Anubis has been discovered and, along with many new artefacts, since placed in a museum.
This also goes way back to where Yugi first battled Kaiba, the game playing out in teal time to a TV audience. Kaiba underestimated Yugi's power instead acting too cocky for his own good. What is truly worth watching is Yugi. He is a high-schooler used to being bullied, but who has become a hero of sorts as everyone wants to play him at the shadow games.
Now Yugi has the respect of the school and friends who will protect him when he needs it. For those who remember reading the manga back in the nineties, this brings it all back. Here Kaiba is looking for one particular card to make his deck the strongest around and Pegasus won't give it to him as he doesn't think he deserves it being the brat he is.
One of the reasons I liked the movie so much was it didn't need the long drawn out explanations the TV series had to give to compensate for the ones who hadn't read the manga. It is much faster as a result and lets us see how Yugi has progressed from being a kid to a shadow master. Since Yugi is well known however he has problems with being challenged to duels even at school.
From the sight of Yugi piecing the millennium puzzle together to the excavation of the tomb of Anubis and Yugi's friendships, Yu-Gi-Oh! and The Pyramid of Light is the sort of movie fans of not just adventure anime will love, but those who like to play the Tomb Raider series of games and earlier still the Indiana Jones movies.
Bonus Material: None.
Summary: Yu-Gi-Oh! as a manga was good, as an anime it was great, but it's amazing as a movie!
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