One Piece - The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (Movie No. 8)
by Takahiro Imamura
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Director: Takahiro ImamuraBrand: Funimation
Editor: Masahiro Goto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation Prod
Movie Reviews of One Piece - The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (Movie No. 8)
Movie Review: Simply dreadful
Summary: 1 Stars
I do not recall ever being this disappointed with an anime. I have read a little bit of the One Piece manga after friends recommended it for its superb humor. Those characteristics are not present in this movie. The humor is ridiculous, the fighting is over-the-top ridiculous, and the story holds very little appeal. The only redeeming characteristic is the quality of the graphics and animation, but given how bad the rest of the elements are I could not bring myself to give a higher score.
If you want to experience One Piece I recommend you try out the manga and leave the anime alone.
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Summary of One Piece - The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (Movie No. 8)
One Piece..Uncut, and with an all new FUNimation dub!The island kingdom of Alabasta is about to erupt in civil war - a war engineered by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and his criminal organization Baroque Works. Monkey D. Luffy, his Straw Hat pirates and Princess Vivi race to the island, where the strongest warriors of Baroque Works wait to stop them. Can Vivi and her friends stop an entire war? And how can Luffy fight Crocodile, when Crocodile can turn into sand?
A desert may seem like an unlikely place for pirates, but Luffy and his Straw Hat crew fight for Princess Vivi in the eighth One Piece movie, subtitled "The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta." Crocodile and his Baroque Works gang foment a civil war in Alabasta, so they can control the country after most of its warriors have been killed. Crocodile also hopes to gain control of the Pluton, an ultimate weapon that may or may not exist. But Luffy and the Straw Hats charge to Vivi's rescue. Having eaten the Suna Suna or Sand Fruit, Crocodile can turn any part of his body into sand--a trick that may remind viewers of Gaara in Naruto. The climactic battle between the two pirate leaders pits Crocodile's sand transformations against Luffy's Gum Gum limbs and wits. Despite its title, One Piece: Movie 8 consists of recut footage from the "Alabasta" story arc of the TV series with some bits of additional animation. The repurposed footage doesn't always fit together: the film opens in the middle of an adventure and some important story elements get lost in the shuffle, including how Luffy is saved from the poisoned wound Crocodile inflicts. These inconsistencies probably won't bother One Piece fans. (Rated PG-13: violence, risqu? humor, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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