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Amazing storyline and i like the plot twist. Lack of some characters development, but doesn't really matters, since there are not really important. Only 1 thing got no explanation, why tesoro asking 10 navy ships when they end up attacking him and also i did not remember any comedy in this movie because the original one piece has a lot.

Overall, this movie was very enjoyable to watch if we look at the storyline, caused you will not expecting what will happen.

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 in my opinion the film is very good and thanks to the many moments of action and thanks to the twists and turns it manages to maintain a very good level of attention from the viewer. Even if the film lasts more than two hours, they are not felt because the plot runs very smoothly and in an organic way.

I would avoid what critics have to say on this, as it is clearly a movie for fans of the series. There a blink and you miss it cameos from past villains in the series and call ups of events that took place more recently in the One Piece story. Now you don't need to know all that to see this movie, Though it will make the experience better as it builds the giant vegas like country ship they are on as being a believable destination for anyone. Now with that said this movie brings the Straw Hats to an interesting adventure with all the silliness you expect from Luffy and crew. The Villain in this one has an interesting Devil fruit and is given a back story as to why he covets money so much, and what made him be the way he is, as well as introducing a character from Nami's past which gives you a good connection with the characters overall. Now it does follow the formula you expect with a one piece movie at this point. Strawhats show up, have fun, bad guy shows up, they get beat, then they win. Overall it is an enjoyable One Piece movie, with a villain with a cool power and some side bad guys that are interesting and just has the right amount of silly and action. Any Fan of one piece should go out an see this while they can.

Amazing movie. Tesoro is a nice villain, but he will never defeat Luffy. Especially for hurt nakamas Luffy.

So it's been a while since I reviewed a One Piece movie, and a lot has changed. Watched the entirety of the show 5 times, I've read and am caught up on the manga, and I still love absolutely everything about the series.

My review for this movie is changing because the first time I watched this movie was with REALLY bad subs, but I can now confidently say this is the best One Piece movie to date. Dare I say it, even better than Stampede, cause at the least the first half of this one wasn't rushed.

The reason this film stands above all the others for me is because it told a much more interesting story than the others, with a villian who's so cool he ranks as my number 3 One Piece villian despite being non-canon. (1st is Katakuri, 2nd is Doflamingo).

Tesoro's ability is so unique yet simple and the way he uses it makes watching Luffy fight him all the more interesting.

I won't say anymore but I can't recommend this movie enough.

By far has One Piece Film Gold has appealed to my emotions. The storyline is well built and there are unexpected twists and turns. The animation and HD of the film surpasses all of the One Piece movies. The antagonist in the film are great with new devil fruit powers. I highly recommend people to watch this and view the other movies.

One of the most moving animated movies I have seen ! It reflects life, to a degree that you can identify. The message, that your circumstances effects the way you grow up, even tho at the end of the day you have your own choices, but unfortunately it leaves marks. One piece reflects the world we are living in right now.

The movie starts with Straw Hats are going to the biggest casino in the world and they meet the owner of the Casino. Then movie is starting.

The animation is good as always. I really happy to see some dark costumes because they look really, really good on our crew.

Like Stampede Movie wee saw a lot of characters from older arc. I really like that they show different and old characters in almost every movie.

I really enjoyed One Piece: Gold. It's funny. The action was perfect either. The fights are amazing as always.

Watch this movie! I am sure you will like this movie.

Thanks for reading.

I really enjoyed the world premier that held in United Arab Emirates 7 days before Japan the movie was excellent in every way. i cant wait for the Blue Ray Release i know it will be in a while. the movie is based on Action and Comedy and Drama there are secret Characters you have to notice otherwise you will miss them. over all i enjoyed it 10/10 i thank Ego Space and Toei Entertainment and Oda Sensei for Choosing United Arab Emirates as the First Country to see the movie before Japan sees it. so Everyone enjoy the movie next week and people around the world do as well enjoy your world premier as tickets are running out fast.

This is my top recommendation for newcomers looking to understand what One Piece "IS":

> Straw Hat crew are the main characters of the film, not a 3rd party newcomer > Straw Hat crew have personal stakes within the crew and with secondary characters.

> The main antagonist is sympathetic yet still despicable. All antagonists possess genuine threat and menace.

> Side characters don't distract from the main cast or the antagonists > Unique atmosphere and entertaining story gimmicks > Cohesive and simple plot with enough tension to never feel stressful or boring.

> Doesn't rely excessively on the main-series lore, unlike the other modern films.

Glad to watch this movie and rated excellent. Those who are OP fans should watch it too. Makes me so excited until i wanna to watch it again. Worth my money to watch this OP film Gold. Don't hesitate to spent your money on OP. Love OP: film Gold so much <3 Find sometime to spare yourself and go to the nearer to your house and watch the OP. Because is too awesome to watch it!! Young people and teens should be the fans and go ahead and watch it. Anyways , is about something that Luffy that they gambling in a casino and who have some luck. Ended up they had to fight with a group of enemy. If you want to have more information then you can go watch it on the released date 25th Aug......

Never in my life that I will keep skip the one piece movie except this one. Too boring and also make character look weak

Zoro easily defeat Brook make a mistake in infiltration even though he very good at it (he state in manga) Others easily defeat by that gold man power

One Piece: GOLD was so disappointing. It is a reminder of how the show has vastly outgrown its protagonists, and keeps trying to make them seem younger, while the fan base in the real world grows older.

From an adolescent perspective, one could argue that the last two movies were strong as far as storytelling goes. One Piece Gold however is a mailed in script. No longer One Piece able to merge the impossible paradox of realistic story-telling with the magic of Disney storytelling. The formula is just too obvious at this point, and is especially visible in this movie.

The first few scenes are quite entertaining and the animation is visibly more fluid and dynamic than we have yet seen, but Luffy and his pals are not all that much different than a group of kids getting a personal and pandering tour of Wonka's Chocolate factory.

In this case, the factory is Gran Tesoro; the worlds largest entertainment city, run by an unimaginative super villain who enslaves anyone that falls in debt to the city (mostly through obsessive gambling in the giant casino). But he also enslaves their families, and he is untouchable by the world government because he bribes them.

We've been here before, and unlike film Z where the villain was a substantial and interesting character, Guild Tesoro is nobody, and the inclusion of a backstory for him (which the movie introduces in the middle of a battle) doesn't make him any less cheesy.

The whole thing feels like watching a video game. It is a rushed and contrived series of action sequences, that uses its protagonists as little more than models for the latest in Munchkinland fashion. As usual, Luffy is a caricature in a world of characters, and once again we are asked to accept his naiveté as charm, and his boyish recklessness as pure determination. Because he hasn't grown in maturity however, that gets harder and harder to do. Yet the series always allows him to seem intelligent simply because he can recognize the difference between good and evil, and get to be the one to save the day.

The appearance of Rob Lucci, Sabo and Koala are quite refreshing. It is equally frustrating when considering that Sabo is way more qualified to be the protagonist of the series. As the #2 of the revolutionary army, he has a vital role to play in the universe. Luffy, just wants to party.

Film Gold's, sole strength is that it is visually spectacular, but it is the Batman and Robin of One Piece movies. Cartoony, lightweight, and annoying.

The first time when I was show this movie I was be like : << oh great another movie of my favorite TV show >>. But after I watching it my opinion has totally changed. For me it's not juste a animé movie it was THE to watch because the spot was amazing!

That Oda Eiichiro again takes a role as executive producer here, maintaining a somewhat more active role, seems meaningful to me. It's also very notable that Miyamoto Hiroaki, assistant director in my favorite 'One Piece' film, 'Baron Omatsuri and the secret island,' sits in the primary director's seat for this thirteenth entry to shape Kuroiwa Tsutomu's screenplay to his vision. 'Gold' came into the world with a tall legacy to live up to, but I sat to watch confident that it would be just as well made and fun as the preponderance of its predecessors. With an opening sequence of music and action that's more flashy, splashy, and dazzling than anything Broadway, Vegas, or Dubai have ever conceived of, in a preposterously grandiose and extra modernized fantasy setting that unabashedly embraces a storytelling spirit of "just go for it," it's safe to say that the flick has us locked in for its two hour thrill ride in no time at all. And still, even as this unflinchingly reaches for new heights of free-wheeling bombast, rest assured that the strength of the storytelling is as unfailingly robust as we could ever hope, and we definitely get everything we could want out of the franchise. In fact, 'Gold' thoroughly impresses right from the start, and as in one way or another the viewing experience sustains that intense energy all the way through, I wonder if this isn't one of the best movies of the series.

For all the bare-faced resplendence that we get from top to bottom in a runtime that moves faster than we think, Kuroiwa also doesn't hold back in beginning to reveal the dark side of the tale just as quickly; we get a small, jarring glimpse even in that opening sequence. There are themes and bigger ideas underlying Gran Tesoro that are all too relevant to real life past and present as horrifying violence, cruelty, inequality, and injustice operate behind the scenes of the outward welcome and libertine showmanship of the floating city-state, with inescapable, enforced poverty propping up the oppressive security state and the hedonist privileges that the average patrons enjoy. We swiftly see ruler and owner Gild Tesoro to be a man whose sadism, narcissism, and lust for wealth and power are only very thinly cloaked by his boyish presentation as an entertainer and a "man of the people." Indentured servitude and slavery; manipulation, corruption, and remaking the rules in one's favor; the facade maintained by world-renowned destination resorts; the sheer sociopathy of those who pointlessly hoard wealth when it could be used to benefit others: all this and more quietly fuels the narrative as the Straw Hat Pirates get sucked into a new boatload of trouble. True, it's not as if Kuroiwa is trading in purely original or exclusive notions, yet he has whipped them all together into a wonderfully engaging, captivating, but substantive swirl of the fantasy, adventure, action, and comedy we anticipate of 'One Piece,' with fabulously flavorful scene writing and wild characters on top. 'Gold' is primed for hearty entertainment - and not least as Miyamoto's direction is tremendously tight and sharp, it doesn't let us down.

Yes, the picture boasts firm foundations of concrete, admirable, absorbing plot, with a moment for every character to shine (even the antagonists and supporting characters, before it's all over) - and amidst gleeful dalliances with one of the most popular genres in cinema no less, taking cues from a certain "oceanic," numerically-minded, star-studded Hollywood trilogy. It's also the case that between Kuroiwa's screenplay, Miyamoto's direction, the stalwart animation of Toei, and presumably some degree of creative input from Oda, this goes all-out in providing audiences with a breath-taking cornucopia of fancifulness that rivals the most far-flung ideations seen heretofore in the franchise, or really, anywhere. The designs of the characters we know and love benefit from some delightful costume changes; the very concepts of new characters and their abilities are a blast, and their interpretation for the visual experience just as much so. The artists intermittently play with different art styles, which is always a swell bonus, and it's worth observing that as we commonly expect of 'One Piece,' 3D digital rendering is employed only sparingly and judiciously as embellishment and augmentation, and therefore looks great. All this is to say nothing of the superb imagination poured into the luscious, gorgeous backgrounds, environments, and broad setting; designs for creatures, machinery, and other active elements; the consideration for lighting, shading, color, and perspective; or the smooth, fluid, exciting action sequences and effects.

Why, as regular composer Tanaka Kohei sits out this title for the first time among the franchise's theatrical releases, I discern a clear reason. There are familiar strains in the score of his stand-in, Hayashi Yuki, but as befits the eye-catching splendor of the setting and the "devil may care" attitude that characterizes most aspects, his music is also defined heavily by boisterous, electrifying themes straight out of the infamous shows of Vegas. Jazzy, big band instrumentation and chords, and even some rock 'n roll, freely tickle our ears amidst all the glitz and glamour, and the more conventional phrases are more of a supplement this time around. It's a little surprising, but it works magnificently. The voice acting is an absolute joy, as ever, offering expressive and spirited performances, yet part of me wonders if guest stars Nanao (Baccarat) and Hamada Gaku (Tanaka) don't actually outshine the primary cast in this instance. And even as the feature emphasizes a far-out but pointed and scathing indictment of the role of money and wealth in the world - further accentuating the reckless abandon that's so prevalent in 'Gold,' the climactic sequence is astonishingly lengthy, and moreover exercises even more of the marvelous creativity of all participants as the raging battle sees heroes and villains alike using their powers in some inventive fashions. Truly, from beginning to end, this is a ludicrous, exciting lark to rule over all ludicrous, exciting larks, and gosh darn if it doesn't roundly succeed.

It succeeds, I might add, despite a few minutiae that in my mind deserve nitpicking. As that huge climax shoots for the moon, it does so by embracing a level of cartoonish absurdity and anime flourish beyond anything I think 'One Piece' has shown us before. Even in a world of supernatural abilities, immensely skilled warriors, and strange beasts, this franchise is grounded in some marginal sense of reality that ostensibly asserts limitations for our heroes. This flick heedlessly blows past all that, and while it is arguably in keeping with the tenor of the production, the disparity is glaring nonetheless. Furthermore, in brief asides that take place outside of Gran Tesoro, we get scenes with other characters who in this narrative are no more than tertiary, and they serve no actual purpose here. Maybe as someone generally unversed in the manga and anime there's something here I'm just not picking up on, but it's plainly apparent that these figures and these additional scenes have nothing meaningful to do in Kuroiwa's screenplay, so they just shouldn't have been here in the first place. With that said, however much we might harp on these matters, still the film sustains such incredibly potent vitality that those moments do not specifically take away from the viewing experience. They represent at least one if not two abject flaws, and still the sum total utterly astounds. If that doesn't speak well to what Miyamoto, Kuroiwa, the animators, and the cast and crew achieved here, then I don't know what does.

Unfettered in its zest even as it toys with some very dark thoughts, there's really no other way to put it: 'Gold' is a fantastic time from start to finish, and whether you have some special impetus to watch or are just looking for a cinematic joyride, it's hard to go wrong here, faults and all. It's even better than I had hoped, and I'm happy to give 'One Piece: Gold' my high, hearty, and enthusiastic recommendation!