Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie

Like Pokémon and Digimon before it, popular Japanese animation Yu-Gi-Oh! seems to exist solely in order to sell its tie-in merchandise. The brand extension continues with this film, in which hero Yugi, the master of a Top Trumps-style game called Duel Monsters, discovers that his hobby has a mysterious (and dangerous) past. Yugi has to battle an evil ancient Egyptian spirit called Anubis, and the numerous monsters involved - not to mention an army of mummies - provide a few exciting moments. But only fans of the series will be able to follow the largely incomprehensible plot - and the bog-standard animation won't win it any new ones.