As just another parent heavily invested in Yu-Gi-Oh cards, we were as hopeful as anyone else that the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie would be a must-see proposition.

But it isn't. Nothing in Yu-Gi-Oh! will make the inscrutable more scrutable, as it were. And anime being anime, this one could be nap-time for accompanying adults.
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I could attempt to explain the plot of the first Yu-Gi-Oh! feature film to you, but that would be a waste of time. Even if you did understand it, you likely wouldn't care -- because, presumably, you're older than 12. (If you are above that age and a fan, good luck with that whole living friendless in your parents basement forever thing.) For the uninitiated, Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese marketing scheme like Pokemon, which incorporates a TV cartoon with a collectible duelling card game and an endless supply of plastic pieces of crap children beg their parents for. The film is basically a storyline featuring the cartoon's central characters -- Yugi, The Pharoah, Kaiba, etc. The quality of the animation certainly hasn't improved and the dialogue is typically basic and repetitive. But, again, that's from the point of view of a parent who's slowly going bankrupt because of the Yu-Gi-Oh! craze, and not as a child enjoying it.

(This film is rated PG)
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