 Hello guys, my name is Glassfoot and welcome to this episode of Critical Review. Today I'm looking at a movie that is at least 15 years old, probably older, because I'm not exactly sure when this movie came out. Yu-Gi-Oh! The movie, The Pyramid of Light. So when I was a kid, I got massively into Yu-Gi-Oh! Around the time when I was 8-ish, I want to say. Basically, in 2nd grade and then into 3rd grade is when I got massively into anime in general and a lot of... I have two younger brothers. One of them just happens to be enough younger than me that my parents were in the perfect position of what do they allow me to watch that is okay for him to watch? Because when I was 8, he was 2. So, I ended up watching a lot of preschool shows later than most people my age and overall it doesn't change a ton of stuff. I still found out and grew up on Teen Titans and Avatar and just a bunch of those shows but still it just so happens of when I founded a little bit later than most other people but what was at the point? Anyway, like I said, I got massively into Yu-Gi-Oh! I have a bunch of all the manga that I'm currently pointing to right now. Those are all just Yu-Gi-Oh! volumes. I have a couple out of the original Duelist run. I have most of the GX manga run which that's coming, the last one should get here. And I might review those books just because I can. I've got a couple of the 5Ds run. One of Zexel, one of Arc 5. And then I have the run of the manga-only arc Yu-Gi-Oh! R which I also might do a review on that one. Yu-Gi-Oh! R in the manga takes the place of what in the anime is the Waking the Dragons arc. You know, when Yu-Gi-Joey and Kaiba get those legendary dragon monsters, that manga, the R storyline takes place of Waking the Dragons. But again, all this is at the point. But the reason I got this into it is I got big into Yu-Gi-Oh! Like, really big. I still have a ton of the cards. I'm still into Yu-Gi-Oh! personally. I don't play the card game as much anymore. I used to. I have a number of decks that were really good with a while back. I have no idea how good they would be today. I still play a couple of Yu-Gi-Oh! games online. Yu-Gi-Oh! led me into getting into Magic, which is another game that I play. I'm much more casual in both those in both card games though. I don't really play competitively. I am not a super competitive type of person with that kind of stuff. So I don't play them. But all of this is beside the point when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh! the movie, which from when I was about 8 to about 9-ish, was my favorite movie of all time. Mostly because it had to deal with my favorite franchise at the time, which again was Yu-Gi-Oh! Sorry about the long preamble, guys. Let's get into the plot of Yu-Gi-Oh! the movie, The Pyramid of Light. The plot of the movie pretty much involves one of the people that the Pharaoh attempt defeated 3,000 years ago when he sealed the power of the Shadow Games by the name of Anubis coming back and wrecking havoc. You know, as you do, but he wants revenge on the Pharaoh for defeating 3,000 years ago. So, you know, like most villains in Yu-Gi-Oh! wants to just defeat the protagonist because of reasons. This time, however, the stakes are a little bit higher than they typically are in a duel. Similar to darts, Anubis wants to destroy the world with the monsters. Because what other goal should a Yu-Gi-Oh! villain have than to destroy the planet that you rely on to live? Yeah, moron. But anyway, most of this movie revolves around a duel between Yu-Gi and Kaiba, because Kaiba wants to defeat Yu-Gi to prove that he's the best in the world. We actually, early on in the film, see a simulation that Kaiba is running, that Kaiba's had some scientists run. Basically, as a, can I defeat Yu-Gi with this strategy thing. And here's the biggest disconnect between the god cards in the movie and the shows on the comics versus in the actual game. Basically, in, like I said, this scene has the biggest disconnect because in it you see Kaiba summon the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and then use a card to double its attack where Yu-Gi responds by sending two of the gods to the graveyard to activate Obelisk's effect which is to destroy pretty much every other monster on the field, on your opponent's side of the field. The only problem with that specifically is that I'm pretty sure you can't activate that effect on your opponent's turn and also in the movie it just raises Obelisk's attack to infinity which then instantly defeats Kaiba because, you know, you cannot beat that. But anyway, beside the point Kaiba goes to Pegasus, beats him in a duel, gets two cards to defeat Yu-Gi, one of which has been supplied by Anubis. Duel's Yu-Gi activates one of the cards to destroy all the gods once Yu-Gi summons them. Turns out that the Pyramid of Light, the card that Kaiba got and the natal of the movie is actually evil and it sucks the souls of Yu-Gi, Joey, Tristan and Taya into the Millennium Puzzle because apparently it can do that because, you know, freaky magic is a thing in Yu-Gi-Oh! And they end up destroying it because the reasons destroy the card and Yu-Gi magically wins the duel and then a monster shows up, summoned from Anubis and they use the shining, blue-eyed, shining dragon effect of sacrificing itself to kill it to defeat Anubis because, you know, what else are you gonna do? All of this, mind you, is while Kaiba is refusing to accept that magic exists like, he straight up at the end of the movie says I don't know what happened here, but I'll defeat you next time Really? You don't know what happened? I don't understand how the dude can't accept that magic exists he has witnessed it multiple times he got mind crushed by Yu-Gi in episode 1 like, shattered his brain, mind crushed I don't understand how Kaiba whatever, beside the point, that's a discussion video for if I ever want to talk about Yu-Gi-Oh! or its characters in the future but anyway, how this movie holds up plot-wise for the most part, it does there are a couple of wonky things mostly having to do with the fact that the way the movie progresses kind of revolves around, you know, a duel but, you know, it's Yu-Gi-Oh! so, of course the plot revolves around a card game I enjoy it, like I'm trying to find a way to, like, properly summarize the plot oh, here it is evil Egyptian spirit comes back from the dead possesses a human host that is Kaiba takes over to destroy its hem and destroy the world he fails because Yu-Gi-Oh! and his pals use the power of friendship to destroy him and all is saved by the end of the day yep, that's the plot of the movie which is fine, you know, for a Yu-Gi-Oh! film it's completely... it's a good... I enjoy it it's fairly decent and it's a fun plot now, this being said none of the characters really evolved throughout this film which, I guess, is obvious we have an entire franchise like five other seasons of the show for these characters to develop and grow so they don't need to go through any, like, major arcs here but it does kind of hamper a little bit because there is literally zero character growth at all in this movie Kaiba's still the arrogant asshole who wants to defeat Yu-Gi at the end of it Yu-Gi's still the power of friendship will save all you know, smart guy of the group attempts the best duelist there is Joey and Tristan are pretty much your big dumb morons of the group that can... that will be anyone to a pulp if they have to and Teya is still the, you know, emotional support of this group which, by the way, Yu-Gi-Oh! has a five-man band which makes me like even more actually, here's one of the things pretty much every single season of Yu-Gi-Oh! or season series of Yu-Gi-Oh! like with the new protagonist and whatnot always ends up forming a five-man band with Yu-Gi-Oh! it's pretty obvious it's Yu-Gi, Atem, Joey, Tristan, and Teya with Atem as the leader, Joey as his lancer Tristan as the big guy, Teya as the heart and Yu-Gi being the smart guy being as he's the one who knows the most about dueling and how all the cards work so he's able to do it in GX you end up with it as Jaden as the leader Cyrus as his lancer Alexis is the heart of the group Hulkeberry ends up being the big guy and I would argue Bastion but he ends up disappearing after season two but he's still probably the closest person I would call the smart guy of that group's five-man band and 5Ds it's fairly obvious it's the five signers with Yusei as the leader Jack as his lancer leaving Crow as oddly enough the big guy Akiza as the smart one and then Lua and then Luna as the heart from there I haven't kept up super well with Yu-Gi-Oh! the series Beyond 5Ds with 5Ds being my personal favorite series so it's harder for me to pin down exactly the rest of them but it's very interesting that that dynamic holds true for all of them where was I? sorry five-man band is my favorite trope of all time just because I love it and I don't know why it's my favorite it might be because I watch shows with that dynamic a lot as a kid but just the five-man band thing is my personal favorite trope of all time and I pretty much like most things that hold that trope especially if they're well done okay look if it's very very poorly done I'm not gonna like it anyway but if their five-man band trope is very well done I'm gonna love the crap out of the show that I'm watching with it anyway wow I'm gonna get off on a lot of tangents here sorry guys anyway so like I said the characters don't have a ton of growth which isn't needed here it's you-yo you don't need a ton of growth of the characters for the story to work at all but you know it kind of would have been nice to see at least a little bit of growth from our characters overall but not totally necessary yeah here's the thing with you-yo is that it is really really hard to say with certainty that you will like it if you're like me and part of it's nostalgia part of it is the fact that I for whatever reason just enjoy the story of you-yo you're probably gonna enjoy this film just as more of the same if you're not a fan of you-yo if you don't typically like the story that gets told throughout the series you're probably not gonna like this movie which you know isn't a bad thing it's just different tastes from me I don't really knock anyone for disliking stuff that I like or liking stuff that I don't I typically like to understand why people enjoy X thing over X thing but I don't hate on people for liking what I don't yep anyway with all that taken into consideration over the movie with the plot being what it is the fairly simplistic nature of it and the characters not really going through any personal growth throughout the film and even then for me this movie is a 13 no I don't think is the best thing in the world do I still enjoy it? yes do I think it's a movie that I necessarily need to go back to super often no it's a very fun movie for when I'm extremely bored or when I feel like a kick of nostalgia and I don't feel like watching through 100-some-odd episodes of you-yo gx or any of the other series to get that fix that's all I really have to say on the movie guys highly entertaining for your fan of you-yo if not probably not going to enjoy the movie nearly as much but yeah hey guys thanks for watching the video I hope that you enjoyed it I know that this got a little bit rambly and went on a lot longer than most other videos actually lately most of them have been getting on long and rambly but especially this one I'm really sorry how rambly it was with the very simplistic nature of what you-yo in and of itself is there wasn't a ton for me to talk about because it's basically always bad guy comes back wants to kill you-y and you-y defeats me in dual but you know sorry about that if you'd like to follow me on twitter or instagram links to both of those are going to be in the description as always if you enjoyed the video and you would like to see more of this face and keep following for more content that I do hit the subscribe button down below yeah if you'd like to watch more videos like this what I call critical reviews that playlist is going to be linked right here if you'd like to watch another video of mine whatever that's going to be is right there anyway I hope that you guys have a great day and as always peace out