One Piece Movie 06: Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima

I saw this movie expecting it to be great. It's often considered the second best One Piece movie, and that left expectations of greatness. What I found was a disappointing mess.

Art - The different style of this movie was refreshing, and interesting, but at points felt static, rather than dynamic. At many points, rather than looking like a world with depth, the scenes felt like cut outs, the characters were only pretending to interact with. Still, this was a decent, and interesting play around, and it certainly wasn't bad.

Sound - Decent. Not my area.

Character - The characters are, more or less, those we've come ... to love. They were slightly misused in the film, but were same old good. The new characters were also, in some regards powerful, particularly Sir mustache.

Story - Oh, the story. This film was basically an attempt at character-expression. The story was mostly just a framework to give a message of friendship, but it was so terrible done. Most of the movie felt pointless at the end. I had no idea why certain things were going on, as they lacked any reasoning, or explanation in the narrative. Overall, it felt like they were banking on the characters, but they were misused to hammer home a message that doesn't fit, and doesn't even work that well with the story given. A lot of characters are essentially scenery given too much detail.

So, if you want to watch 'em all, see it. If you're more interested in whether it's a good film, I'd give it a miss.