Introduction
While riding with Jack Atlas and Crow Hogan, Yuusei Fudou's Stardust Dragon is captured by Paradox, a mysterious Turbo Duelist from the future, during a Turbo Duel and turned into a Sin Monster. With the help of the Crimson Dragon, Yuusei chases after Paradox as he enters a time slip, ending up in the past. During this time, Paradox duels against Jaden Yuki, who is still able to use the powers of Yubel and The Supreme King. However, by this time Paradox had also captured Cyber End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon and overwhelms Jaden. He is saved thanks to Yuusei and the Crimson Dragon. Jaden informs Yuusei of Paradox's true intentions. By stealing various monsters from across time and turning them dark, he plans to kill Maximillion Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters, preventing the game from being created and causing the events of all three series to never happen.
Yuusei and Jaden agree to pursue Paradox, which leads them to the past and causes a meeting with the King of Games, Yuugi Mutou. However, by the time Yuusei and Jaden arrive, Paradox had already attacked his time, supposedly killing both Pegasus and Yuugi's grandpa, and had also managed to steal Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Red-Eyes Black Dragon. After explaining everything to Yuugi, he agrees to fight with Yuusei and Jaden against Paradox in the ultimate three-on-one duel to free the trapped monsters and save both the world and time itself before it's too late.
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Audience reviews
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Jastereich
I found this movie enjoyable. The crossovers were entertaining, but that was the film's only redeeming quality. The plot was weak, and felt like it was thrown together in a hurry. I would only recommend this movie to die-hard YuGiOh fans, as it was sometimes cringeworthy to watch.
The movie's plot is simple and intriguing. A mysterious character from the future travels back in time to kill Pegasus and erase the Duel Monsters card game from history. To prevent this, our three heroes from different series must team up and save their beloved card game. The biggest issue is the numerous plot holes, especially those related to time travel. These plot holes were so distracting that they took me out of the story. Overall, the plot was poorly executed and didn't make much sense.
The movie mainly…
Read at the sourceDuckielover151
All right, I'll admit it: my nostalgia/eagerness got away from me. I've got 2 more episodes of GX, but I'm familiar enough with 5Ds that I skipped right to the Bonds Beyond Time movie. I just couldn't fathom putting it off throughout another 150+ episodes. So here we are.
On one hand, this movie was everything I wanted it to be. It's Yu-Gi-Oh! I'm here for world destruction via card games, a little angst and darkness, and the cheesiest of friendship speeches. And it delivers on that.
But on the other hand, I can't deny that this movie felt... rushed. And I just can't fathom why. Or rather, how it found itself in that position. This is the big, celebratory, 10th anniversary movie where we get to see the first three main protagonists band together and overcome some great threat. It ought…
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Everything I remember about the series: campy as hell and really overdramatic. It was a nice thing to watch for nostalgia's sake, but it wasn't worth it to print it as a DVD/Blu Ray release (even the $5 I paid at Walmart for it was too much.) This should have been a TV special and left at that. I should mention that I am not the world's biggest Yugioh fan, but even I would think that having 3 of the most popular protagonists from the series history would have resulted in a more epic final battle. I think what really drags this down was because we have seen so much weird or mind-boggling stuff coming out of Yugioh before we take a lot to be shocked and impressed.
Read at the sourcePineappleRobin
Since the first time I watched this movie, I finally re-watched it (after like 7 years I think?)
Story: 8
I really liked the story. I do think it should have explained this future Paradox was talking about better but now that we saw a futuristic Duel Academy in Arc-V, he maybe meant that?
Art: 10
I just loved the art :p
Characters: 8
I was super nice seeing Yugi, Jaden and Yusei interacting and working together. I've always loved crossovers for exactly this reason. There's nothing better seeing characters from different series/era's working together and fighting the same villain. And even though this movie is clearly focused on Yusei (which is logical), I do wanted more references to Kaiba, Joey and the other characters. Or maybe even show them.
Enjoyment: 10
I just enjoyed this movi…
Read at the sourceMissChopin1
I swear, i really, REALLY love yu-gi-oh, specially the first one with Yami Yugi.
I've finished this movie right now and i must to say that its good but its not like the pyramid of light. Surely i am saying that because the first time i watch yu-gi-oh it was when i was little. I didnt like Yusei, and he is the main character of this film and that really make me mad.
The plot, "i came from the future and i want to destroy" Ok, DUEL! "we'll win this because you dont decide our future"
Well the all duel is "other function", "other function, etc There were a lot of magic card and tramp card counterattacks and i liked that. I have a due, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE TIME TRAVEL BOY? He died? he've just dissapeared? Where did he go? And, is Yugi more tall? Or is it just me?
Whatever, i liked the movi…
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It’s time to duel, this time with the protagonists from the first three Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series. But how does this 10th anniversary movie for the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise stack up? As a note, prior to watching this movie I have only seen the first series.
A mysterious figure is traveling through time and causing problems involving the destruction of Duel Monsters and the world, and the three Yu-Gi-Oh! heroes must join together with the magical power of time travel to defeat this new nemesis in an epic card game. It is a simple story, which is fitting of a movie that only spans around 45 minutes, excluding the credits. There are various moments in the movie in which I think to myself “What?” or “This makes no sense,” but this is Yu-Gi-Oh!, so a good deal of suspension of disbelief is required.…
Read at the sourceDarkness-Ryu
Yugioh: Bonds Beyond Time in America. I freaking loved this movie and in my opinion far surpasses the Pyramid of Light. Not only is there a lot more action in it and the story actually develops while it's been told, but everything about it is just much more grand and much more complex. Granted Pyramid of Light actually did have two actual duels in it while Bonds Beyond Time kind of only had one, but you could make an argument that it kind of actually had three. The one at the beginning with Yusei, the one with Jaden though most wouldn't really count that as a duel, but he still used his cards so it counts for me, and the final duel at the end. This was just an epic special for the 10th Anniversary for Yugioh and it didn't dispoint me at all.
The story I greatly enjoyed. It had a nice foll…
Read at the sourcechaosflame5
This review will be based on the Japanese version. Also, I had finished this movie a long time ago (in 2011) before writing this review.
As far as I remember when I watched this movie, this movie was released in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Most fans in my belief were waiting impatiently for this movie, as this was the first movie in the history of all Yu-Gi-Oh! movies to date, where all three protagonists from each era – Yugi Muto (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), Judai Yuki (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX) and Yusei Fudo (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s) had all made an appearance. Their purpose here is to defeat Paradox, the main antagonist, who couldn’t be defeated if each of them had a solo duel with him. The movie may seem good due to the appearance of all three protagonists and hence…
Read at the sourceLegionIscariot
The best thing about this movie is that all the 3 protagonists (Yugioh Duel Monsters, GX, 5Ds) come together. Well the only protagonist that matters to me is Yugi.
Here’s the plot, A VERY SILLY plot:
the future was destroyed by card games…………..?
this guy travels back in time to destroy card games, by playing card games…………..?
So they have a 1 vs 3 duel, the villain takes them to a realm that is not the Shadow Realm. He starts by overpowering them, eventually Yugi (of course) turns the duel around and they beat him together.
In all, a pretty good movie having the 3 together, it was very fun to watch even though the plot is silly.
The silliness comes from the antagonist whose goal is to save the future. But he goes at it the wrong way: hurting innocent people, stealing their cards, killi…
Read at the sourceKrzysztex
Well... First of all I have to admit that this movie can't shock anybody with any sophisticated plot. To be honest the plot is so irrational and just stupid that any person who isn't a YGO fan would turn it off after first 5 minutes of the film.
Is seems like the director was trying to tell us some story, but he hadn't got enough time so it ended up as a total nonsense.
But, let's face it. The plot isn't the thing that is trully important in this movie.
What's cool about it are the characters. A fan of YGO of any age can find his favourite character here cause... there are all of them! Yes, we are given a unique chance to see Yugi, Yusei and Judai facing a bad-guy together.
What's more we are given a chance to see Black Magician, Elemental Hero Neos and Stardust Dragon played in a single D…
Read at the sourceAnimeViewerJ
Yu-Gi-Oh: Bonds Beyond Time by all means not an amazing movie to say the least, but that is not to say that I did not enjoy the film. Anyway, lets begin.
Story - The story of the movie sees the 3 heroes of the series face off against the main villain in the film named Paradox. The heroes paths intertwine, and how that is done is told really well, and makes sense. It starts of in Yusei's timeline and his encounter with Paradox, then follows Jayden's encounter with Paradox. Eventually Jayden and Yusei meet up with each other because Yusei followed Paradox into the time portal. Eventually they follow Paradox again in order to warn Yugi of Paradox's plans.
Art - The art style is still the same from the original series, but the colours are more bright and vibrant, enhancing the experience.
S…
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This movie inspired me.
This movie has probably changed my perspective on the world.
This movie is so shocking, it needs to be seen to be believed.
This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life.
Story: The story is, in a sentence, non-sensical, plot-hole ridden and stupid beyond comprehension. I find it hilarious the villain's name is Paradox. The writers of this crapfest have probably never seen any piece of fiction or anything involving time travel in their lives. The amount of Time Paradoxes are immense. Sonic 06, eat your heart out. You won't even need to think about it, they're incredibly blatant. Anyone whose seen Back to the Future will cringe as they break every convention of time travel related story-telling or even just logic. Even so, the plot is almost non-exista…
Read at the sourceMiharu-Kun
This Yu-Gi-Oh! special/film brings together the main protagonists from each of the franchises anime’s (excl. Zexal) together to fight a time-travelling evil villain named Paradox. Yusei, Jaden and Yugi must now defeat him in a duel before he destroys all their worlds.
With a clichéd and predictable story, I think that only a Yu-Gi-Oh fan could truly enjoy and appreciate this. Bonds Beyond Time could of easily featured appearances by Kaiba, Joey, Téa, Tristian etc. but only manages to squeeze in the main characters, which was disappointing.
All of the original English voice actors retain their roles (I think) and for a 4Kids! Dub, it was well pulled off. I really liked the bonds between Yugi, Jaden and Yusei and the nice thank you message at the end credits as well as a mix of the three…
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