One Piece Movie 01

Man, what a beautiful movie. It's the pure essence of what the author wants to tell us about the values of friendship, adventures, and everything else you can imagine. It's really worth watching not only the whole anime, but also the ovas and all the movies, to add great values and lessons to our lives. Definitely the best thing I did was stop to watch each one piece movie, I'm already looking forward to watching the others. Watch One Piece my dears, many people give up because of the number of episodes, but I guarantee that there is no story in the world that has ... such a capacity to charm, move and make everyone fall in love

(This review contains spoilers!!!)
A film without any ideas of its own

The first movie of One Piece has no fresh story. It sort of takes the prologue story of One Piece ("Wealth, Power and Glory...." We all know it) and just rewrites it a little. There was once a pirate named Woonan who was called - surprise - Gold Pirate. He stole stolen gold from pirates together and eventually had a huge treasure. Then he hid it on an island. To find this treasure, there is a treasure map, which coincidentally reminds us of the Road Porneglyphs. There is also a little boy named Tobio whose ... biggest dream is to find the treasure (comparable to Luffy), and his grandfather Ganzo knew Woonan (comparable to Garp). This story has many parallels to the real One Piece story, even more so from today's perspective.

The film is now by and large a simple treasure hunt story. With an island, treasure map, riddle and an antagonist who is also looking for the treasure. The riddle is on the treasure map and is super trivial. Apparently, not even minimal effort has been made here. By the way, the main antagonist is El Drago. He has eaten from a Devil Fruit (the name of this is never mentioned). The power of this Devil Fruit seems very One Piece untypical and fits more to Dragon Ball (he can shoot such a Kamehameha out of his mouth). Of course, so that Zoro also has an opponent, El Drago has a swordsman named Golass as a sidekick. Both the fight against El Drago and Golass are pretty boring.

At least the comedy aspect of the film is convincing. The comedy gives the movie a bit of that old One Piece feel. Ruffy is stupid, Nami yells around, Usopp lies for his life, and Zoro is typically cool on it. However, I feel like the writers of the movie simplified the consistency of One Piece to just comedy and stretched it to the max. There are some very over-the-top jokes that don't fit even for the old One Piece. For example when Ruffy asks Ganzo if he died and even repeats that. Yes Ruffy is the typical stupid Shonen protagonist, but he's also not that stupid. The old One Piece, besides the comedy, also makes up for a sense of adventure with, or rather through, an unknown island. The island here, however, remains uninteresting. No inhabitants, no special animals, nothing.

In the end, the film should have been made longer and embellished more. So even for huge One Piece fans (like me) there is no real reason to watch this movie and even less for basic viewers. At the same time, the film is not really bad, but simply sinks into insignificance without bringing its own ideas to the franchise. Too bad

Such a boring movie. It felt like three or four filler episodes crammed into one movie. Old characters are basically the same here, the art somehow looks worse than in anime at this point, main villian is laughably silly and simple, as well as his crew which are almost identical to crew from Syrop Village Arc. I'm not really fond of One Piece comedy in general, but here it was especially poor and cringeworthy.

Other than formulatic but touching final with Ganzo and the last words of Woonan, all of this felt like a waste of time. At least it wasn't very long.