One Piece Movie 8: Episode Alabasta

Finally, after some time, I could watch this 8th movie of One Piece. Eventhough I know that this movie got so much critics from those fans, I still couldn’t wait to watch it. And I must say……… I agree with most of the fans.

As you could already predict, this movie retells Alabasta arc. From the first day I heard about this movie, I already thinked: how can they made such a quite long arc into 2 hours movie?? And the movie itself answer my question. Everything feels rushed. So many important scenes and encounters were skipped, so many characthers weren’t there, so many improvement were made etc. No wonder so many fans feels dissapointed in this movie, including me. I so much prefer their original stories movies (like my favourites: Movie 7, of course I put aside those boing-boing thing -_-)

The story started with Vivi dreaming about her country, then suddenly skipped with Mr. Bon Clay encounter, but this time Sanji were there. They still make those ‘X’ mark thing of course, then suddenly they’re at Yuba. Yup, no Nanohana and they didn’t explain how they met Matsuge. Then suddenly they are already on top of that crab, and when Crocodile first dueled Luffy, Robin was there, watching. Then the crab managed to go to the border of Alubarna, no river and they didn’t meet the Super Duck Squad. And that’s just several example of how much they skipped things. No encounter with Dugong, Ace, Smoker and Tashigi, no Rain Base, etc. WOW…….. And not to mention the music. I mean, come on, this is a MOVIE!! How come there’s no new BGMs?? The movie feels so plain…..

But, there’s still some things that I liked though, like how they made the pics. It’s awesome!! Several screen shots are just great. Especially Zoro’s duels, OMG, it’s soo cool…….. And I must say, I like how they add things, like how Nami took off her Clima tact from Miss Double Finger, how Nami found Zoro and shook him awake, Luffy remembered Robin saved him from the sand tomb and thus rescued her from the ‘desert spada’ inside the tomb, how Robin managed to find Going Merry, etc.

Well….. overall, this movie isn’t that great, not like previous movies, but why not enjoy it just like an animated ‘other’ version of Alabasta?? At least you could still enjoy the animation quality ^_^ and as a One Piece fan, I just have to see this movie. Ah, btw, I heard that movie 9 will be a retell about Drum Kingdom but with Robin, Franky, and Sunny. *sigh* I really hope they made more original stories. But I don’t know the detail yet, cause apparently there’s some big monster involved too. Well…. We should just wait and see, shall we?? ^_^