Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals - Movie Thoughts

Original Creator Eiichirou Oda
Directed by Junji Shimizu
Screenplay by Hiroshi Hashimoto
Cinematography Yumiko Kajiwara
Satoru Nakae
Edited by Shinichi Fukumitsu
Music by Kōhei Tanaka
Release date March 2, 2002
Running time 56 minutes
Tales of a glorious treasure lead the Straw Hat Pirates to Crown Island, a lush wilderness filled with animals that can think like men. By a stroke of fate, Tony Tony Chopper is separated from his crewmates, and inadvertently fulfills a prophecy heralding the island's lord and protector, the King of Beasts.
Now revered by the island's inhabitants - particularly a pirate-hating boy named Mobambi - Chopper finds himself torn between his new "kingdom" and his place with the Straw Hats. In time, however, all of them are swept up in the machinations of Count Battler, a greedy invader hunting for the treasure through the bloodiest means imaginable.
5/10