Cheesy Reviews

Media Name: One Piece Media Type: TV Series Season: 1 Episode Count 61 Release Year: 1999-2001 Series Director:  Kōnosuke Uda Production Company: Toei Animation English Networks: Crunchyroll, FoxBox, Toonami Finished Watching: 20th November 2022 My Rating: 9/10 This was the first season of One Piece that I watched and I would have to say that it was a strong introduction. I really liked the animation, especially within the fight scenes. The writing was also really good throughout each arc. The music is also great. I would have to say that the arc that I enjoyed the most was the Arlong Park Arc which had some of the best scenes out of this entire season. I really like the characters as well, especially Usopp. Basically the only problems that I didn't really like the start of the Syrup Village Arc since I don't really like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" stories (though I think that it improved as it went on). There were also some times where Sanji (despite being really cool ...

Media Name:  One Piece: Adventure in the Ocean's Navel Media Type: TV Special Series: One Piece Release Year: 2000 Special Director:  Yukio Kaizawa Production Company:  Toei Animation English Network:  N/A Runtime: 49 Minutes Finished Watching: 28th November 2022 My Rating: 4/10 Given that this was the first TV special from One Piece , I was looking forward to it to see what Toei could do with an extended episode. I would have to say that I was disappointed. The plot was really not interesting with it feeling quite generic, same with the new characters who feel exactly like some of the other new characters from filler episodes. The ending was also quit underwhelming as well. The animation was nowhere near as good as in the show and could feel at times like a PowerPoint presentation. I did find some of the jokes to be funny though along with the character writing for the Straw Hats. Overall, I didn't like this special and I found it to be quite disappointing.

Media Name: One Piece: The Movie Media Type: Movie Release Year: 2000 Director:  Junji Shimizu Production Compaies:  Toei Animation,  Fuji Television,  Shueisha,  Toei Company English Distributor: Manga Entertainment Runtime: 51 minutes Finished Watching: 24th November 2022 My Rating: 6.5/10 This was the first of the One Piece movies which I had to watch so I was looking forward to seeing what Toei could do with a movie based on the series. I'd have to say that this was good but not really the best. I was surprised by how short this movie was given that it is actually less than an hour long. I really liked the animation in this and found it to be really entertaining to watch. The characters were also as well-written as in the main show itself. The action was really good though. I'd have to say that the short runtime really held it back especially since it took around 20 minutes for the plot to progress. The main villain felt like an average villain and actuall...

Media Name: Final Destination Media Type: Movie Release Year: 2000 Director:  James Wong Production Companies:  Zide/Perry Productions,  Hard Eight Pictures Distributor:  New Line Cinema Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes Finished Watching: 22nd October 2022 My Rating: 7/10 This was the first horror movie that I watched to celebrate Halloween and I'd have to say that I enjoyed it. The acting was great. I really liked the idea of the premise of not being able to escape death. The writing was also quite good most of the time. The scene where the bus is in the window looked really cool. Some of the problems were that it didn't age perfectly as some of the deaths were extremely goofy. The toilet water returning to the toilet also looked really dumb. I ended up finding the movie to be way funnier than I probably should have. Overall, while I thought it was a good movie, it aged too poorly for me to be able to take it seriously.