I don't wanna admit but yes One Piece Red was not the best part in One Piece movies. The story was not solid, and even though I knew it was about Uta and Shanks and music, there was too much songs filled in the movie.

Yeah, I liked the last 15-20 mins with all the action, and also watching couple of my likeable characters (Katakuri) coming back to screen. Apart from that, the first half was not much interesting. Can say, that One Piece Red is a one time watch, although they have done good job with the animation and OST.

Story : 5/10 Animation : 7/10 Characters : 6/10

My Final Rating : 6/10.

The connection between Shanks, Uta and Luffy is great along with uta's past, but unfortunantely, that's the only good part of the story. Most probably, that's the only canon part.

Everything else is pure non-sense, especillay Tot Musica, no explanation about what it is, why it exists, its goal?

Ado's songs were really good, they carried the whole movie.

Spoilers below: Stampede had even more characters than this, but still each character got their moment there. In Red, characters are doing random things, playing no role in the story.

Somehow Usopp awakens advanced observation haki, and somehow it's linked to Yasopp.

Coby takes command at an unexpected time and everyone follows it?

Luffy using Gear 5 for no reason at all.

Why were 5 elders, navy, cipher pol involved and did nothing?

This is a pure mix of canon story, non canon story, random characters, random events, and the final story is terrible. It fails short at things where One Piece excells at. Unexpected.

Talk about what i don't know, why did echiro put up with this to begin with, honestly am not a dedicated fan of the one piece franchise but along the way I've seen what it means and more over, now the new turn was with music i get it it wasn't bad to see something of change different but based on the same concept of was captivating at first but then more tunes followed which became more annoying, if i wanted barbie then I'd watch barbie now this was just something entirely different from the other side of one piece, i tried to see you the end but i don't think an going back for a reason vroom baby am gone with disappoinment. Maybe in the near future i could change my mind but now no way for this movie wey dem do na vex i don dey vex sef.