| Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light |
Promotional film poster for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light. |
| Directed by |
Hatsuki Tsuji |
| Produced by |
Michael Pecerlello |
| Starring |
Dan Green
Eric Stuart
Scottie Ray
(all in English version) Shunsuke Kazama
Kenjiro Tsuda
Kouji Ishii
(Japanese version) |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) |
August 13, 2004 |
| Running time |
101 mins (Japan)
86 mins (UK)
90 mins (US) |
| Country |
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| Language |
Japanese
English (Dubbed) |
| Preceded by |
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Battle City (English version) |
| Followed by |
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Forbidden One (English version) |
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light (遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ 光のピラミッド, Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu Hikari no Piramiddo?) is an anime film based on the second series of Yu-Gi-Oh!. In the United States, this film was rated PG by the MPAA for scary combat and monster images, making it the first 4Kids movie to receive such a rating.
This film was released in America before Japan; the uncut version (with noticeably different dialogue) was released in Japan shortly after the North American theatrical release. The characters are the same as the english version of the Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters television show and their names retain their regional changes (i.e., Téa is Anzu in the Japanese version and Téa in all other versions).
The movie came out with a soundtrack featuring various vocal artists(most notably Black Eyed Peas, who contributed the song "For The People"); however, the score for the movie was never released.
Synopsis
The events of Battle City have just concluded, and Yugi now owns all three Egyptian God Cards. Seto Kaiba longs to finally defeat Yugi, and he suspects that since Maximillion Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, he would have also created a way to beat them. Kaiba heads off to Pegasus' retreat castle to find the card. Meanwhile a shadowy being breaks into Pegasus' safe and adds a card to the deck hidden inside. Kaiba arrives and challenges Pegasus to a duel, wagering his Blue-Eyes White Dragons for Pegasus' card that can beat the Egyptian Gods. Kaiba wins, and Pegasus' allows him to seach his Deck for the card. To Pegasus' surprise Kaiba finds two cards, capable of defeating the God Cards. Kaiba leaves ignoring Pegasus' claims that there should only have been one card.
Meanwhile, Joey and Tristan hold off a mob of duelists wanting to duel Yugi for the Egyptian Gods, with Yugi and Téa seeking refuge in Domino Museum, where they meet up with Yugi's Grandpa. They discover a new attraction on display, the Pyramid of Light, which resembles the Millennium Puzzle. Once Grandpa reads an inscription on the side of a sarcophagus, also part of the exhibit, Yugi has a strange vision about Kaiba. They wake up to find the pyramid stolen, the sarcophagus empty, and Mokuba standing outside. Mokuba says that Kaiba wants Yugi to come to the KaibaCorp Duel Dome immediately. Yugi does so, transforming into the Pharaoh on the way, and finds Kaiba ready to duel. He seals all the exits, forcing Yugi to duel him; Joey and Tristan, who have been chasing Yugi to see what he's up to, are also trapped.
During the duel, Yugi is starting to suspect that there are dark forces at work - especially when Kaiba activates a trap card called the Pyramid of Light, which not only bears a striking resemblance to the pyramid in the museum, but also removes the Egyptian Gods from play; it also sucks Yugi, Joey and Tristan's souls into the Millennium Puzzle, and later Téa as well. During the duel, as Yugi and Kaiba lose Life Points, they begin to lose their own life force as well. Before long, Kaiba has his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field, but to Yugi's surprise, he sacrifices it to summon an even stronger monster, the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. Kaiba wants to humiliate Yugi by wiping him out with his own Egyptian Gods; since Pyramid of Light removed the Gods from play, Kaiba plans to play Return from the Different Dimension to get them under his control. Kaiba commands his Shining Dragon to use its special effect, which allows it to sacrifice itself to destroy the Pyramid of Light. Suddenly, a ghostly voice calls out and the effect is canceled. Anubis, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead whom the Pharaoh destroyed 5,000 years ago, is resurrected by Yugi's ebbing life force and rises up from behind Kaiba, throwing him aside and taking over the duel himself, all in the hopes of having his revenge against the Pharaoh.
Putting his faith into the cards, Yugi draws the Double Spell card, which allows him to discard a card to activate Monster Reborn from the graveyard. He uses it to revive Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and destroys the Pyramid of Light, after it is weakened by Yugi inside the Millennium Puzzle, which also releases him, Joey, Tristan and Téa. Anubis is seemingly defeated, but a giant jackal arises from the remains of the Pyramid and attempts to kill Yugi and his friends. Kaiba and Yugi join forces and summon the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, which destroys Anubis once and for all.
Reception
On its opening weekend, Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie grossed $9,485,494 landing it in 4th place. In its second week of release it went down six places to 10th with $3,245,167. It closed its gross on November 3, 2004 and grossed $19,765,868 domestically and a worldwide gross of $29,170,410.
The film received very negative reviews when it was released in the United States. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 5% "Tomamometer" rating, revealing an extremely negative response from film critics, similar to Pokemon: The First Movie dubbed by the same companies.
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