I also didn’t understand how Luffy could block or deflect energy beams but then again I am overthinking in a shounen filler movie. If there is something I didn’t like is how final boss El Drago was being defeated constantly with his own power turned against him and he didn’t just stick to using cutting attacks. They are definitely longer and more elaborate than those of the earlier Ganzack OVA and there is even a mini-boss for Zoro to fight and show off his powers properly. So you will just watch this for the action scenes, which are not bad at all.
As epic as it sounds though, the overall plot is as I said quite simple and unimpressive, and has the usual kid asking the heroes to help out fuss. In a way the first movie may be spoiling one of the greatest mysteries of the show. Since Oda takes ideas even from these movies into the canon story later on, I wouldn’t be surprised if it is so. Hell, why is there even a character called El Drago, when the main series already has Dragon? But hey, since when do filler movies try to be consistent? Anyways, a notice must be given to how the real form of the pirate treasure may as well be the real One Piece of the main series. This is something one would normally expect after the CP9 are introduced. It just doesn’t feel like that sort of grand-scale premise fits into the weakest and calmest of the world’s seas.
The treasure is supposed to be around 1/3rd of the world’s riches and the main villain has weird Dragonball super powers. Why? Well, the adventure sounds like fun and there is a kid asking for their help, so how can their shounen hearts say no? As simple as it all sounds though, I must say the premise is quite far fetched for the point in the storyline it was thrown in. And indeed, the story is just about the Strawhat Pirates trying to find a great treasure before an evil pirate crew does. Just like all movies, it is a filler mission with a good budget and a simplistic plot. This is the first One Piece movie, theoretically taking place after Usopp joins the crew and before Sanji is introduced.
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