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- One Piece Film: Red is gorgeous, funny, exciting, and even has great songs. Uta is a new character, and this story is more or less self-contained, so it's not hard to get a handle on things. It's crisply told, with various surprises tucked away, and even though it seems as if there's a lot going on, it all clicks into place.
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Nov 2, 2022 · One Piece Film: Red is in this great tradition: a sugar rush of stunning animation, great music and a strong central story with frequent stretches of utter nonsense.
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By Just Lunning
Posted: Oct 23, 2022 2:00 pm
One Piece Film: Red will debut in North American theaters on Nov. 4, 2022.
Shonen anime films are often formulaic one-off adventures. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the main cast enters a new location. It’s revealed that the new location is home to a “famous,” extremely powerful character who has never been mentioned before. Shonen protagonist comes into conflict with said character, besting them with a new technique. The main cast leaves the location victorious. Everything ends hunky-dory. Blah. This formula generates snazzy clips but flattens stories into their most broadly appealing form. In short, it’s kind of boring. One Piece Film: Red, on the other hand, shakes things up by combining shonen tropes with musical elements, making for the best One Piece movie of the last decade. Unlike previous entries, Film: Red has holistically captured One Piece’s essence.
One Piece is, of course, about Monkey D. Luffy’s journey to becoming King of the Pirates. To achieve this goal, he and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, travel the sea to find a legendary treasure known as the One Piece. Along the way, the Straw Hats participate in action-packed shonen battles and an exceptional amount of hi-jinks. Those hi-jinks are what give One Piece its charm, with the series often leaning closer to an adventure comedy than a traditional shonen. Film: Red is one of the only movies to wholly embrace that idea. Jokes are made at inopportune times and, in moments that a lesser film would depend on action for, Film: Red opts to throw in another joke or a musical number. This movie understands One Piece.
In Film: Red, the Straw Hats attend a concert for a reclusive celebrity named Uta. Like many One Piece characters, she’s a triple threat. In addition to being a singer, Uta is also Luffy’s estranged childhood friend and daughter of the famous pirate Shanks. The film opens with Uta serenading a stadium and continues to dole out regularly scheduled earworms.
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All of Uta’s songs, meanwhile, have lyrics that reflect One Piece’s core ideals. For example, the main theme, New Genesis, is about the current era of oppression and strife being overturned. New Genesis also draws lyrics from the classic One Piece song Bink’s Sake. It’s a thoughtful choice that makes the whole movie feel authentic to the source material. Using music as a vehicle, Film: Red is able to include far more of One Piece’s tenets than its predecessors. The songs also act as easily digestible, catchy shorthand for Uta as a character, catching us up on her offscreen development. The trade-off is that the film does require viewers to have read the main series to understand some of the nuances of the songs. Many lyrics are laced with double meanings that might have larger implications for One Piece’s main story, and while that’s fun for hardcore fans, it might be less so for those who aren’t fully caught up.
One Piece Film: Red breaks the mold of the typical anime shonen film, capturing the magic of the series. It’s confidently a musical, too, with J-Pop star Ado providing several fantastic earworms as Uta Shanks doesn’t get as much screen time as fans may hope, but it’s still satisfying to spend more time with him. It’s not the movie that will convert...
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One Piece Film: Red completely understands and captures what’s so great about the series, with some catchy songs to boot.
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Nov 4, 2022 · 69. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 55 User Ratings. 7.0. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. iTunes ($3.99) All Watch Options. Top Cast. View All. Mayumi Tanaka. Monkey D. Luffy. Kazuya Nakai. Roronora Zoro. Akemi Okamura. Nami. Kappei Yamaguchi. Usopp. Hiroaki Hirata. Sanji. Ikue Ôtani.