Okay, listen up! For all those who are bored to read a long review just know this: "I found a lot of subjective flaws in this movie and I don't recommend it. Heck, as a fan of the franchise for more than 20 years I even found it insulting."
For all the others fellow OP fans, keep reading...
Firstly let us look at the summary of this movie.
Cruela de Vil's daughter, dyes the black part of her hair red (because of her daddy issues with Shanks), becomes a famous singer a la Katy Perry, gets high on cute addictive mushrooms on stage and creates her own
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colorful Matrix so she can sing endlessly to her zombie fans and consequently wipe out piracy. Her sasaeng fans (this time in the form of the Straw Hats) were not very happy with that as they have other idols' concerts to attend to, thus decide to ruin all her fun.The end.
What you've just read is a summary to a very mediocre fanfiction story I would glimpse on a lazy Sunday. Unfortunately, for all of us, somebody from the OP team, also read this idiotic plot and decided that it would be a great idea to make an OP movie out of it.
Well, here is my own short plot if I would have any say in creating an OP movie called Red:
Shanks, the captain of the infamous Red Hair pirate crew ventures to seize a mythological artifact known for being able to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. Little did they know though that this artifact demands a great sacrifice in return for its gifts, thus leaving the Red Hair pirates decimated. As the world gets restless at the sudden loss of one of the most powerful crews, Shanks, asks for help from the only pirate crew he trusts: The Straw Hats.
Together, they strive to unravel the mystery of the artifact, save his crew from its guardians and bring back balance to the world.
And now be honest, which one of the aforementioned plots would you rather watch and think better suits One Piece and a movie called RED???!!!
Okay, back to being serious now. What is trending for the last two years in Japan? Ado, the singer behind Uta's songs. What is trending in Japan since 1997? One Piece manga/anime. Let's make a musical combination of those two. Eeeeh... wrong! You could have done that if your anime was Cardcaptor Sakura or Little Witch Academia. But, in relation to the two aforementioned shojo anime, One Piece's grand franchise is the only beacon attracting such a massive audience to watch Red. A pirate themed anime that has more that 70% male audience is not supposed to be this girly and wishy-washy. This whole thing screamed that the marketing team of OP just wanted to attract more females to the franchise or in plain English, the huge fan base of Ado. The only thing I can give kudos for to the marketing team is that they had the audacity and ruse to name the movie Red and make it look like we would see more of Shanks' involvement.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Ado. I googled a couple of her songs after this movie and her voice was enjoyable. Nevertheless, a movie in this franchise can’t be carried only by it’s soundtrack. I would have been more satisfied if the songs focused more of their lyrics on the world of OP instead of being another pop cliche single ready to be sold after the release of the movie.
My experience with this movie has been quiet straightforward. After watching Gold and Stampede my expectations were low to say the least. Red was an overall mess with no structure that's almost impossible to follow as the previous two movies. It keeps most of it's focus on Uta (Heck, she even has more lines and screen time than Luffy!), but everyone else feels like jam-packed in and there for the sake of it. Even Marvel's Infinity War had a lot of characters but they all had a purpose. As for the battles... hahaha! What battles? They seem like cut scenes from a video game. Especially if you see that the final battle is a full-on clusterfuck against something that wasn't even supposed to be in a pirate themed anime. How much weirder this franchise is going to be? The only things that made me give this movie a 3 were a couple of songs, Usopp's link with ****** at the end and Uta's devil fruit (which was a fantastic power but unfortunately very badly used).
I understand One Piece is huge and there's so many great characters outside of the Straw Hats, however I think future movie entries could stand to tell more intimate, shorter stories going on instead of being two & a half hour, poorly made money grabbers. Even Marvel learned their lesson and stated: "We will be focusing more on quality over quantity."
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Dec 7, 2022
One Piece Film: Red
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Not Recommended Well-written 
Okay, listen up! For all those who are bored to read a long review just know this: "I found a lot of subjective flaws in this movie and I don't recommend it. Heck, as a fan of the franchise for more than 20 years I even found it insulting."
For all the others fellow OP fans, keep reading... Firstly let us look at the summary of this movie. Cruela de Vil's daughter, dyes the black part of her hair red (because of her daddy issues with Shanks), becomes a famous singer a la Katy Perry, gets high on cute addictive mushrooms on stage and creates her own ... 
Apr 5, 2020
One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
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Though I had high hopes for this one, unfortunately it turned out to be quite horrible. Brainless plot, abrupt start & ending, bad use of characters, no heartfelt incidents, no meaningful turning points, dialogs that made me facepalm myself and so, so many coincidences throughout this movie. So many coincidences it's actually ridiculous. For instance, they are all on a huge freaking island and they just keep 'stumbling across' one another at the right moment. Nevertheless, the thing that ticked me off the most was that I found 0% funny scenes. Seriously, even One Piece Movie 6 had more humor and its basically a psychological
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