Okay so, listen. For all those who are bored to read a long review, just know this: "I found a lot of flaws in this movie and I don't recommend it. In fact, as a fan of the franchise for almost 7 years I even found it insulting."
For all the other fellow One Piece fans, keep reading -->
I have never written a review before. The movie is so dry and I saw people online stating that this is an incredible movie, I think they should use those words more carefully.
Going out of the way, I'll talk about the good part of this movie, the animation. In terms of Art and Animation, it can be a extremely fair statement to say it is the best one piece movie when it comes to it. Secondly, Shanks is obviously the poster boy of the movie and thankfully, getting to see Shanks with more than 1 minute of screen time was a joy. The Straw Hats are still great as always, and Luffy is very likeable throughout the entire runtime. When it came to the peaks and the ending moments, Film Red knew how to do it. Umm, great choice of picking Ado. Some songs were low-key a bop.
Now that I've talked about what I liked, let's talk about what's not to like in this movie. We have characters taking part in the film that are neither pertinent nor justified. The movie has plenty of characters that are like this. It is clearly made just to attract the fan boys and nothing else. You can seriously wipe out half the cast and the movie doesn't change. It's like the Infinity War of One Piece but not in a good way. The thing is it is a fair point that a large amount of seven songs is too much. Everything was paced to horrible level and I had some moments where I was awkwardly staring at the screen wondering "What is even going on?". I don't really understand how this movie has such a high score. Is it from all the One Piece fans that have yet to see it and just assume it is going to be great, so they give it a 10? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge One Piece fan, but this movie is the worst One Piece film out of the bunch, taking into account when they were each released.
After watching Stampede a while ago I went into this movie with somewhat high expectations. I just wanted to have a good time in an almost sold out cinema screening with some friends, regardless how the movie would turn out. If you had/have the chance to see the movie in the cinema, I would say go for it, it'll was a nice experience. I don't know if I would watch the movie alone at home.
The bottom line is that if I was a One Piece fan, I would be embarrassed. "New Gen" Toei animation is really lazy and cares more about the money they can found in your pocket that in the work they can put out. I suggest you don't watch this movie, especially if you are not up to date on the latest scan because it does spoil some things for you. You can always watch this movie later. But even so, the writing is straight up bad and lazy and really the only thing you will find out of this movie is just a warmed up fan service.