One Piece: Clockwork Island Adventure

One Piece movie 2 was a fun-filled adventure with a memorable cast of new characters. There were countless pieces of music which enriched this film and the anime episodes which followed. The animation had lots of highlights and the shading was akin to episodes such as 312 and 474. The composition was rather impressive too.... This is truly one of the most underrated One Piece movies despite only being the successor of One Piece 2000.

This is the second One Piece movie, theoretically taking place after Sanji joins the crew and before they go to Drunken Drum Island. Just like all movies, it is a filler mission with a good budget and a simplistic plot. The story is just about the Strawhat Pirates trying to save a kidnapped Nami and their stolen ship from an evil pirate crew. Along the way they also need to stop them before they complete their super weapon. And as usual there is a kid asking for their help … Although not as far fetched as the previous movie, it still abuses the notion of makinga super weapon out of a machine island. I mean they make it look so hard just to find the knowledge to build one from ancient manuscripts and they just do it with normal established technology? And where the heck is the navy to take advantage or protect this place? But hey, since when do filler movies try to be consistent? As usual, Oda takes ideas even from these movies into the canon story later on, so later on you actually get a very similar case where Nami is kidnapped and is dressed as a bride to be forcefully married to some creep. There even is a mechanical island where they build all sorts of weird super weapons. Anyways, as far as a movie goes, both action and plot are a bit more exciting than that of the previous movie for having more secondary battles (there are four mini-bosses instead of one) and the whole super weapon plan feels more epic than just looking for hidden treasure. Of course the whole thing is still quite simple since after their initial defeat by being unprepared, the good guys go to the offence and own everything. There is also that damn fuss with the kid asking the heroes to help out. They tried to make it look a bit tragic by having the population unwilling to resist the bad guys for not wasting all the years they spent on making the device. Yet all the resolution to this issue was just Luffy trashing everything and saying “There, I ruined your life’s work, so stop complaining and start from scratch.” Very weak I must say; normal people would flip if you do that to them. So you will just watch this for the action scenes, which are not bad at all. They are more in numbers than in the first movie and since the enemies are all devil fruit users that use booby traps and sneak attacks which makes them have a lot more fancy powers. Plus, they have a motif around card symbols and gambling, so there is a vague identity trait here that follows a pattern. There is even a minor character that has a grudge against Zoro for an earlier defeat to build up some cheap excitement. As for the big boss, Bear King seemed to be undefeatable until he used the super weapon on Luffy. Just for no reason than ending the battle, Luffy manages to reflect back a bullet three times his size and wins the day. I didn’t like how he won with no real strategy other than having infinite stamina and reflecting what was supposed to be beyond human capabilities. Cheap! In all, it is quite the passable movie. The action is cool but it all ends in a convenient way. Oh and don’t miss the special short that comes with the movie. “Jango's Dance Carnival” may only be 5 minutes long but has an awesome song and choreography. And now for some excused scorings. ART SECTION: 9/10 Analysis: General Artwork 2/2, Character Figures 2/2, Backgrounds 2/2, Animation 2/2, Visual Effects 1/2 SOUND SECTION: 6/10 Analysis: Voice Acting 2/3, Music Themes 2/4, Sound Effects 2/3 STORY SECTION: 4/10 Analysis: Premise 1/2, Pacing 1/2, Complexity 1/2, Plausibility 0/2, Conclusion 1/2 CHARACTER SECTION: 6/10 Analysis: Presence 2/2, Personality 2/2, Backdrop 1/2, Development 0/2, Catharsis 1/2 VALUE SECTION: 1/10 Analysis: Historical Value 0/3, Rewatchability 0/3, Memorability 1/4 ENJOYMENT SECTION: 2/10 Analysis: Art 1/1, Sound 0/2, Story 0/3, Characters 1/4 VERDICT: 4.5/10

People saying this shit's underrated. That it's better than the first movie. I don't know what they're talking about. That was bad. Really bad. I don't even wanna review it. I'm glad the skunk died. And that the kid got shot. Twice. Apparently my review was too short. How about now? Maybe now.Jesus let me please post my review you can't just silence me like this. Also here's my friend's review: "well, luffy was in it. and I love luffy. I am also glad the kid got shot. I wish that sanji died. Love you xxx" Wow still not enough. Okay for real though, the colors were mostly drab, the advertised new outfits got switched for new ones in like 5 minutes, the antagonist was a boring idiot who got beat by "gotta get angry mode luffy". There was no tension, the temporary friends weren't interesting and the stuff that was almost good about them was rushed and poorly expanded on. The antagonists minions all sucked. So much. They were all tropes. The vampire dude was kinda fun looking, but his joke got old real fucking quick. Music was aight.

One Piece Movie 2: Nejimaki Jima no Daibouken Review Story (5/10) Average The story for the second One Piece movie was as the plot starts off weird and they introduce you to this Clockwork Island which is has and interesting design. The starting plot introduces you to two movie characters Akisu and Borodo which I guess are suppose to be a resemblance to Luffy and Shanks as far as relationship. Anyway the movie tries to give you their story while turning into a "Save Nami" plot also as she capture by the enemies of the movie and the crew has to go save her. For an animemovie the plot sounds fine for a movie but I thought the execution was a tad bit lack luster. The execution on many many occasions has so my inconsistencies that threw me out of the movie. To name a few Zoro being poison but still able to beat his enemy, Sanji hurting hit foot at the beginning by a small spiky ball but being able to kick the entire enemy he was fighting who was moving fast and more aggressive at hit why because he was where his shoes this time? The multiple of para shoots coming out of now where for when Akisu get's shoot and blown out the window (which idk how he ended up hanging from the pole when the direction of the blast he got knocked out of just didn't make sense) or the hundreds of other para-shoots that every other character plus the ship has at the ending. Too many "wtf why?" moments threw me out of the movie. Art and Animation (6/10) Fine Firstly for an anime movie I'm disappointed on how this one looks as it looks like an average episode pulled from the hundred plus episode anime. The first movie has a nice smooth 90s feel to the art style and animation but this one just looks average there were a few scenes that stood out (like when that water lady was first introduced) which is why I'll give it a 6 but now more than that. It's a step down from the first movie which only came out a year before this one. Sound (7/10) Good Voice Acting is good nothing really to be said about this section it's good nothing stood out that would make me feel it was anything higher than that. Characters (8/10) Very Good The pirate crew is here again still being their old selves and though they are entertaining like always the other character of this movie like Akisu and Borodo weren't. And even though in the last movie I gave this section a 9 this one get's an 8 because, the many inconsistencies of this movie all together. Example where's one that I didn't understand and was never explained, why at the start of the movie is the straw hat crew wearing different clothes? At the very very beginning when they were all of the beach they were fine but when their Ship gets stolen Nami and Sanji are wearing wedding clothes and Zoro and Ussop are in these Edo period outfits. WHY? It's like the only reason they did this was for the sake of having them wear different clothes because it's a movie. It bothered me I under stand usually in movies this happens it usually doesn't get under my skin but it did this time. Enjoyment (6/10) Fine Usually my enjoyment when it comes to watching anime movies is for the art style and animation that is put behind it because it usually has the budget for it. But when you take that away from it, this movie is lower than the first in my opinion. It wasn't bad because at least the pirate crew had more shine in this one versus the first, the inclusion of Sanji and the enemies where kinda cool, the execution of everything when put together fell short when it comes to being better than the first movie when didn't really set the bar that high yet this movie couldn't even reach it. Overall (6/10) Fine More Specifically (6.60/10) Fine+ This movie was all over the place although it wasn't bad it was enjoyable to SUM extent but the execution, inconsistencies, bland art style and animation for an anime movie are the main things that made me feel this movie couldn't even reach a 7 in my book it was a fine movie though but nothing more than that.