One Piece Film: Red (2022) User Reviews

Does not feel like a one piece movie

[mpsingh-50166 · 6/10 · 25 August 2023]

The connection between Shanks, Uta and Luffy is great along with uta's past, but unfortunantely, that's the only good part of the story. Most probably, that's the only canon part.

Everything else is pure non-sense, especillay Tot Musica, no explanation about what it is, why it exists, its goal?

Ado's songs were really good, they carried the whole movie.

Spoilers below: Stampede had even more characters than this, but still each character got their moment there. In Red, characters are doing random things, playing no role in the story.

Somehow Usopp awakens advanced observation haki, and somehow it's linked to Yasopp.

Coby takes command at an unexpected time and everyone follows it?

Luffy using Gear 5 for no reason at all.

Why were 5 elders, navy, cipher pol involved and did nothing?

This is a pure mix of canon story, non canon story, random characters, random events, and the final story is terrible. It fails short at things where One Piece excells at. Unexpected.

I had a great time!

[cb_whitewood · 7/10 · 19 December 2022]

I'm not caught up with One Piece by any means, but that didn't keep me from enjoying this film! The animation and effects are visually very appealing. The songs were tacky at the worst, and while the plot was pretty predictable, just going with the flow of the movie allowed me to enjoy the antics. I'm not sure how this plays into canon (if it IS canon), but Uta is decently complex and stunningly over-powered. I loved seeing the extent of her devil fruit powers, and her dynamic with Luffy was entertaining, too. Besides the crowd being a bit rowdy, I had no serious gripes with this movie. A fun watch, and if you're dedicated to the franchise, probably a lot to discuss too.

Weakest entrant in One Piece filmography

[pranayjalvi · 6/10 · 8 October 2022]

I don't wanna admit but yes One Piece Red was not the best part in One Piece movies. The story was not solid, and even though I knew it was about Uta and Shanks and music, there was too much songs filled in the movie.

Yeah, I liked the last 15-20 mins with all the action, and also watching couple of my likeable characters (Katakuri) coming back to screen. Apart from that, the first half was not much interesting. Can say, that One Piece Red is a one time watch, although they have done good job with the animation and OST.

Story : 5/10 Animation : 7/10 Characters : 6/10

My Final Rating : 6/10.

It's not that good (boring)

[jellygore · 1 December 2022]

I watched the whole movie and honestly the plot was really boring , fights felt REALLY overused and the twist was good but rather vauge? , the movie also feels like it's a musical rather than actual one piece movie. The effects and fights were pushed to almost extreme limits were instead of exciting it was boring and overused. I honestly expected a lot from it but it just wasn't it . I love the singer and songs but overall the movie isn't really it, it's not that good.

Idk honestly if i like the character uta as she's kind of too annoying to be ""likeable"" and ""appealing"" in this whole movie but i guess the creators intended it.

Finally got to watch it

[ladyliliroche · 7/10 · 23 March 2023]

I'm a huge one piece fans but most of their movies are lackluster for me. Including this one and the previous one.

It was nice watching many characters teaming up and showing their personalities. The comedies are there and the songs are nice. Ado is amazing and the songs are catchy. The lyrics are pretty good too.

Unfortunately the story is just lackluster and the part where they were all fighting the big boss were just colour and nonsense. You don't feel power from it or much hype (except the end with shanks and luffy).

Feel like it could be better tonally and emotionally. Think it was marketed as shanks movie but it didnt feel like that. They still have to keep shanks secretly I guess... even in the manga shanks is still kinda a side characters with probably the most secrets.

Anyway I love luffy and the bear is so cute. Kuma chan Im a fan.

Nice

[gianmarcoronconi · 7/10 · 16 April 2023]

Movies about one of the longest running and still unfinished anime we have out there. Not being very knowledgeable about either the comic series or the cartoon series I cannot say if this film is accurate in terms of coherence and continuity with the general plot and for this I will limit myself to judging the film for what it is. So overall the film is very colorful and full of life but it's still a bit boring, there are several points that in my opinion are too drawn out and too long to keep the viewer's attention, having said that though overall the film is watchable It is funny. So in conclusion the movie is good.

Idk why it's getting so much hate

[ammaarfasim · 9/10 · 30 October 2022]

Watched it today, and j have to say it was a solid movie, idk why people keep on saying it's like a musical there is only 4 songs😂 and their bangers too, the hype is crazy too, the fight against the demon king was lit, especially shanks 😱, there was also a few frames where we could see gear 5 luffy, I was hyped tf uped when I saw gear 5 officially animated for the first time , the animation was fire , watched it in 4k 60fps everything was super smooth the fight scenes were lit, zero especially was sick af , the usual , sanji was also fire , i would rate this movie a solid 8.7/10solid movie, defo should check it out.

Cool songs, amazing fight scenes, but a few problems

[aliyaaisyah · 7/10 · 5 October 2022]

Cool songs and a few amazing fight scenes, but unfortunately a letdown on some parts. I love One Piece so much but I'm not gonna lie, I almost fell asleep in the middle of the movie simply because too many effects were used in the battle scene and it got pretty repetitive that I lost all focus and got too bored. It's also a big shame that recent One Piece movies had become a series of cameo fest instead of a good adventure movie with just the straw hats. I know it's interesting to see old characters coming back, but too many of them randomly showing up makes it look like they were there just for show. I believe One Piece movies are mostly non-canon, but I think a sense of believability is still needed to make them enjoyable and this movie simply offered no canon continuity or believable value (in the perspective of a long-running series with its own universe). Although, as a spectacle, this movie was enjoyable and a fun watch in general, filled with classic One Piece humour, and it surely is always nice to see the straw hats together!

A movie about a Japanese idol with Sing Sing fruit has songs? (SHOCKING)

[diwasmainali · 9/10 · 3 November 2022]

Of course it will have songs, and I personally loved it. It was different from conventional shonen meathead action. The story felt canon, although I doubt it is canon. It also revealed a lot of information on Shanks which is basically the second main driving force of the movie. Uta was a great new character added to the movie and scenes with her and luffy were always amazing. My personal favourite character from the movie was definitely BEPO and all the Shanks crewmembers. They were all great!

Overall, it had a good message, good action and great moments. The first half is kind of slow which was the only drawback in my opinion.

Not a One Piece movie and more a movie about One Piece

[jeroen47 · 7/10 · 20 September 2022]

The purpose of this message is to temper expectations and to reduce disappointment, so that the viewer can enjoy the movie for what it is.

I think this movie is not really a One Piece movie: it does not capture what the manga or TV series is about or their spirit, and does not capture what makes them good or what people read and watch them for. It makes mistakes in areas that the series excels in and does things that are unprecedented in the series. It is instead a movie about One Piece, or a One Piece themed movie. I think you should see it as a 'fan made movie' or perhaps a 'fan service movie' or a film maker's (who is not Eiichiro Oda) original take on One Piece.

Since the movie is for 'fans' of One Piece and since it is not a 'One Piece quality' movie, I think generally speaking people unfamiliar with One Piece should not watch this movie.

I think the movie is still worth watching for those interested in the movie. What I found enjoyable in the movie are the very fantastic and beautiful songs and accompanying visuals in the movie, the original ideas or the original take on a One Piece movie, and the interesting and powerful set up or start. I would have rated this movie an 8 if the marketing surrounding this movie didn't present it as anywhere near canon or authentic.

Expect cringe AND enjoyment (at the same time). This is a movie you do not want to be canon in any way, because the way familiar characters act in this movie sometimes appears unrealistic or at least questionable. Perhaps the right expectation is to expect a nonsensical spectacle, because my constant cringing in the second half of the movie did lessen my enjoyment quite a lot. If I knew in advance that this movie was not to be taken seriously, I would have been more mentally prepared for this movie.

To give you an impression of what kind of person I am, these are some series I have rated highly in the past: 'The Sandman', 'Violet Evergarden', 'Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song ', 'Great Pretender', 'Messiah', 'The OA', 'Sense8', 'Beastars', 'Dark', and the movies 'Interstellar' and 'Arrival'.

What a mess....

[drumskostas · 4/10 · 15 March 2023]

I was really looking forward to a Shanks movie and when One Piece Red was announce I was really excited to watch it! Unfortunately it was really disappointing and did not live up to the hype in any way.

I want to make one thing clear, I have nothing against the musical approach of this movie, the songs are actually really good! My main issues are how much an already weak story was rushed just so they can include as many one piece characters as possible and, because of the inclusion of all those characters, the mess that happened later in the movie where they tried to show off every single attack of all those characters.

Uta the "daughter" of Shanks causes an incident to a music nation and in order to protect her feelings Shanks takes the blame, abandons her there which causes here to hate him and pirates in general. She feels so much anger and hate towards them and pirates in general that she creates a virtual world with her powers to kidnap and keep safe thousands of people. We only find out towards the end that she already knew what really happened from a video snail which doesn't makes sense at all considering how much hate she felt towards the Shanks pirates during the whole movie....

Shanks appeared everywhere in the trailers but I guess it was a classic marketing scam to get you to think it's a movie about shanks since he only appeared towards the end and boy what a disappointment... Seeing his face all blooded after ordinary people in the audience punched him was a shock of disbelief. Then during his fight scene you don't feel like he is as strong as he is being hyped to be in the manga. Only his haki moment shows that he is on a different level.

This movie also masters a trend that has started with the previous two movies and after only a few minutes in, there are fights happening all over the place... The future-sight master, fifth emperor Luffy is casually taken out by two buckets of salt water thrown at him by ordinary people which makes me wonder why they didn't try this on Kaido and finish the Wano arc after a few chapters.

Meanwhile Luffy apparently forgets how to use Haki until the last few minutes of the movie but god Ussop casually uses future-sight. During the last attack something different is happening with Luffy (Manga readers you know what I mean) which shouldn't be possible according to the explanation in the manga unless certain parameters where met.

The navy is simply there for decoration... They used all their power against whitebeard, but for Shanks, 30 ships and 2 admirals should do. I guess the 3rd admiral, the CP0 and the rest 70 ships were too busy for a world class threat.

The rest was just plain old copy/paste moments/character quotes from the anime, such as the Kizaru - Beckman situation or Fujitora's exact same quotes etc. Etc. Which are simply boring and bring nothing to the table. The animation apart from a few moments felt subpar and there were many times I thought to myself that there are anime episodes with much better animation overall...

Watch this movie if you have nothing else to watch, but I simply cannot recommend it. This is a very generous 4 for the soundtrack and some visuals I liked but I cannot rate it more than that. One Piece has standards, especially when it comes to captivating stories, it's not about mindless brawls and this movie misses the point entirely.

a worthy 25 Years special

[maximilianschneider-44601 · 10/10 · 16 October 2022]

First of a the Setting is a pop konzert therefore music is a huge part of the Film but every single song is absolutly beautiful and many will find the way in my playlist.

As for the characters many fan favorites will make and appearance and you will see combinations you didn't imagine you get, but ohhhh boy you now totally need. The only sad part is that you can only put so much in 2 hours and therefore most characters have only a very limited screentime.

The animations are from the beginning to the end absolutly stunning and very well made even through at the end it feels like the animators had finally the time and money to get every drop of their creativity into the animations and have gone a little bit over the top.

Nonetheless I personally really enjoyed the movie, it really shows what one piece is all about about: Freedom and Joy

It feels like it is a movie from fans for fans and even if its not your classic aniume movie, I would really recommend watching it to everyone who likes one piece.

Omo na just fight and song full am

[Sh31kh_H0kv5 · 6/10 · 19 April 2023]

Talk about what i don't know, why did echiro put up with this to begin with, honestly am not a dedicated fan of the one piece franchise but along the way I've seen what it means and more over, now the new turn was with music i get it it wasn't bad to see something of change different but based on the same concept of was captivating at first but then more tunes followed which became more annoying, if i wanted barbie then I'd watch barbie now this was just something entirely different from the other side of one piece, i tried to see you the end but i don't think an going back for a reason vroom baby am gone with disappoinment. Maybe in the near future i could change my mind but now no way for this movie wey dem do na vex i don dey vex sef.

Mid

[knutthorvaldson · 5/10 · 21 April 2023]

Half of the movie was like Disney on ice because of all the singing. But at the end when Shanks came and you got to see gear 5 animated it was pretty good. I would give the first half a three out of ten and the second half a six out of ten. The songs and soundtracks were good but it felt kind of cringe when Uta started to sing in the middle of a fight. The ending was pretty good but the first hour felt like an eternity. The movie might not have been my taste bu if you like musicals you will love this. Some of my friends watched the movie with me and their ratings were 5/10, 6/10 and 6/10. If your caught up with one piece I would recommend the movie but if you haven't seen it you will not understand it. I wouldn't say that it's very good but it is not that bad.

The best One Piece Movie

[shivahikari · 24 September 2022]

The story is good, normal people can enjoy it, not just fans, and there are some of good tearjerking scene, though not as good as when Going Merry sank

The songs by Ado and the UTA singing scene are epic, and the feels you get when you watch it, it was so damn good I've search and added all the songs to my spotify playlist.

The battle scene are all epic, and talk a lot about their characters, especially those who rarely shown in Manga and Anime

All in all, the movie is a very good One Piece Movie where it focus on a backstory, and makes you love the character, for me this is the best One Piece Movie so far, because you actually feels the story, not just come and see Luffy punch the hell out of the enemy. It's boring

Ignore those who rate this Movie is bad, just because

• They felt oda mislead them to see it for shanks power, where in the movie Shanks did shows some of his power though not all of them, cmon, the even in the manga Shanks is a very mysterious character, and you think Oda will shows it in Movie, when the manga itself haven't got to that part?

• The angry fans because the movie shows a lot of singing scene, i mean cmon, the trailer already shows that the new character is a SINGER, the stage is a LIVE CONCERT, even all the synopsis says so, how come you can't even expect the movie will contain a lot of singing scene? Think a bit before talk.

Could've been better

[laj-21526 · 7/10 · 18 February 2023]

One Piece is an amazing TV anime and one I've been watching for more then a decade. So I was make sure to tune into their movies. While this movie was far from their best, I still enjoyed certain aspects. If you tune in to watch a bunch of fighting (which most fans would've seeing as it is a battle shonen) then the movie is not good. Personally, I thought the musical + battle arrangement was innovative, of course it could've been better but the overall story was able to entertain for the duration (until the last part). I personally found the ending a mix of being extremely cool and extremely cringy, Shanks and his crew can't actually show their power because spoilers so it felt a bit awkward, and the choreography is nothing compared to Stampede. The music and animation was great, but Uta felt annoying, its a waste seeing as I thought she could've been the best movie only character. Overall, fun movie but would not satisfy most fans, particularly those who expect the usual style of One Piece movie.

What a beautiful mess!

[jraymondshaw · 7/10 · 22 April 2023]

This one got me emotional, to be honest.

Uta, the antagonist, is just endearing. I'm pretty skeptic whenever a VG or anime universe features their "world's greatest pop star," but I really enjoyed the songs and the animation that went with them! Watching this hyper-optimistic diva slowly darken was gorgeously tragic, and I think it gave Luffy's journey an added richness.

But that said, it's far from perfect. The character cameos are so relentless that they blunt the impact. It's not really remarkable that REDACTED is there, because everybody else in the series seems to be crammed in there along with them! The fight animations are intense, and yes, the animation is very good! But because of the size of the character roster, the fights start to get unintelligible. And personally, I balked at my screen more than once as the various character motivations are revealed. Not everything seems to add up.

It is a beautiful film, but it's also a total mess. Which, if you love One Piece like I do, may be the flavor you're after.

it wasn't good, but it was still good if you are a big fan

[maggieli-61427 · 6/10 · 8 October 2022]

Let's be real: it wasn't good, there were good things about it but mostly it was just a mediocre and sometimes bad things

1.there was a large amount of cg, when uta is performing her movement is mostly similar to vocaloid mmd/concert tech. Whenever it camera isn't close enough to have it be overly noticable it will switch to cg. Lots of scenes of large movement was cg. Though it makes sense because of the reclining animators, but credit to them because some of the fight scenes were animated beautifully.

2. the story writing is questionable at best, it wasn't exception, it was a typical shounen movie plot - some world ending thing happens but it is resolved by the power of friendship and love because its technically not canon and the characters have to be alive - and some parts don't make a lot of sense. Many things were thrown in to make sense. The whole tot musica thing was made for the movie. It was another one of those overpowered things that could possibly end the world! Oh no! Well here comes the main character to save the day! And here the movie ends, and now you all paid money to see a mediocrely written plot of your favorite anime.

Overall there is also things like severe fan service, like things happening so that it could be a good marketing placement, oppertunities for merch, etc.

But despite these, there are good things about it too, especially when you are a big fan, things like shanks showing up, the fights were extremely hype and so many throwbacks to the anime itself. These are all things that you can probably only enjoy if you are a big fan. Things like the red hair crew and the mugiwara's fighting basically alongside each other, shanks showing up.

There's also the music, the music is absolutely beautiful, the vocal artist ado, who's been blowing up in japan in recent years with her voice. As someone who had listened to her for a while i was super happy that she was featured in the film. And if you like the music in the movie definitely listen to the full songs and just ado in general. The movie uses its music extremely well, the songwriting and placement was beautiful.

One of the songs, backlight, was featured in the movie - the animation that went with it, the scence itself, were so impactful and ado had so many amazing vocal cues in it. If you've listened some of her more popular songs you can see her style. I'm glad the directors let her have a song that fit her so well. It gives me goosebumps everytime.

This movie made me cry, not because it was bad just because no matter what cry bait you throw into the movie, oda still has the skill to make you care about the characters and be sad about them, the voice acting was as usual, amazing. Kaori nazuka (who also played nunnally in code geass and a lot of roles, check her out) blew it out of the park with some of the scenes. All the other characters also did amazing. The emotion of the characters and some of the animation was so clear and so effective you can't help to just be sad.

In all, it wasn't that good, it's another piece of content that is used to make more money. But if you are a one piece fan, watch it, look past some things and its still amazing.

*spoilers*

[sameerrajchal · 10/10 · 14 October 2022]

Personally id say this is the best one piece movie. Yes even better than stampede. The slow but steady peace at which the audience got attached to the characters, the way shanks broke the fourth wall with his haki, the animation quality everything was just amazing. I saw alot of 1 star reviews with people trashtalking but then realized they reviewed the movie months before release. If you're checking reviews use this review's date as a reference to determine whether the reviews were uploaded before the worldwide release or after. Personally, I would suggest this movie to everyone, even non-one piece watchers.

Can't Stop the Music

[EdwardtheBlackPrince · 6/10 · 5 November 2022]

One Piece Film: Red is the fifteenth installment in the film franchise. In this film, the straw hats head to a music event hosted by Uta. Shanks's Daughter where after arriving things takes a serious turn of events. I feel as if some things need to be said that can't be avoided no matter how you try to work around them. So to get down to the basics of what the film is about. It's without a doubt a bait and switches and many ways will disappoint fans. Expecting a film about Shanks this film sadly is not really about Shank it is entirely about Uta who is revealed rather quickly to be the villain. She wants to bring the world together in peace and harmony with her music. Without giving too much away I have to say for one piece it's pretty messed up the way she intended to pull it off. So as a villain she's okay. As for the structure of the rest of the film. It is rather flat with its story. The film does market Uta as a singer with a music devil fruit, but I don't think many fans will be expecting these many songs. There is about 8 total in the film and the songs aren't bad they're pretty good. This whole thing is just one big AMV. The way it's shot with all the music numbers, music styles, artistic visuals, and colors. This is a more goofy movie centered around music. So if you are not one for song numbers then that will have an impact on audiences vary. The last gripe is the length it's a little too long for what it is doing. The characters are alright the straw hats are their usual selves nobody stands out this time around outside of Jimbei making his first appearance as a member of the crew. You have a couple of fun side appearances from others like Law and Bartolomeo which are welcomed. It's not a smorgasbord like Stampede where they pretty much threw every popular character in just for a cameo. The action goes well, but near the end, it goes so over the top, and it's great.

What was this?

[nvjrhyd · 3/10 · 13 August 2022]

I'm big fan of One piece for 8 years but i just wanna say this is the worst movie in one piece entire history. I love film Z,Gold. This movies and advertisement use Shanks as a money tree.

Fan since 1999

[ccebrero · 10/10 · 5 November 2022]

I have been a fan of one pieve for a long time now and this movie did not disappointed at all. The move was great, amazing animation, great music, and very entertaining.

In this got see more about shanks life and his crew when it comes to fighting. The move was something different since it inluded songs. , myself dont realt like this types of movies and not a big fan of movies like that but the movies was enjoyable.

It was great seeing many old characters show up in the movie that we have not seeing in the tv show or the manga appear in this movie.

Overall the movie was good. It did not felt like it was a two hour movie.

Entertaining, but has issues.

[bartgodboy · 6/10 · 7 November 2022]

Yeah it's getting bashed alot. Not entirely without reason but still...there's issues here.

Yes, musical numbers run throughout the entire film. To me, since they weren't all really fowarding the story, they became sort of awkward. Not to bash the actual singing tho, it's really great. We coud've used less of them in my opinion.

80% of the people went to see this movie because of Shanks. Please do not go in with such expectations. He is in it, but barely. I'm not one of those people, I just really love One Piece.

The animation is excellent obviously. The direction is nice.

Overall...6/10. I didn't entirely work, but was entertaining.

Very Boring

[zaiparis · 4/10 · 8 October 2022]

One does not tend to expect much for an anime movie spinoff. Still, the bar has dropped so low nowadays.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Action was limited and predictable. Cool battle choreography was little and they mostly depended on cool flashy lights and CGI (which is nice if balanced with good battle choreography).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) I still don't understand what Tot musica is and where it came from. Why was it connected to Utia etc.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) A cocktail of characters that mostly appeared and did nothing. Writers need to understand that it's much better to deploy a handful of old characters with a handful of new ones, put the Mugiwara in the middle and write a story. Obviously, throwing too much is nostalgic and easier for writers to get away, as usually they are pressed for time.

My point is I'd like to forget Big Mom crew or CP0 or Coby were even involved in this movie.

All in all, watchable, at best.

Enjoyable

[Wardragon3399 · 7/10 · 10 September 2022]

I don't know movie will be part of Cannon or not but if Shonen want to make it cannon there is possibility.

Screenplay: 9/10 Story: 7/10 Illustrations: 10/10 Music: 10/10

Overall screen play is good, I somehow don't like story so much specially Uta as antagonist due to her past. It's sad. Normally we expect Lffuy give final punch to antagonist, and we enjoy it due to evilness but here Uta isn't evil. So don't like this part of story.

Direction of Illustration and background music and also Ado song are great it's and it make movie more interesting. It's my first anime movie which is song base I love it. I hope we get more like this. Well musical play and musical movie with dance it's common but musical movie with grate fight it's new for me.