Trivia / Clockwork Island Adventure

• Recycled Script: In many ways, the movie's plot is a big-budget remake of the first One Piece OVA (a little obscurity that predates the Toei anime). You've got an animal-themed Big Bad enslaving an island to make superweapons, Nami stalling for time by pretending to join him, the Kid-Appeal Character Taking the Bullet at the climax (though in this case it's to protect his adoptive brother, not Luffy), and Luffy ultimately winning by using the Big Bad's own weapon against him.
  • There's also a few bits of the Drum Island Arc shining through, most notably in how Borodo plans - much like Dalton - to kamikaze the Big Bad's castle with a dynamite belt.