YMMV / One Piece Stampede

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Fujitora's appearance consists of him showing up, fighting Zoro briefly and summoning a meteor before vanishing. It comes more or less out of nowhere and isn't tied into the plot at all, making it look like they had it just so they could have Fujitora face off against Zoro.
• Continuity Lockout: For those who never saw the 2018 stage show (which was only in Japan), they'd probably wonder why Ann seems so familiar with the Straw Hats to the point she's worried and likewise cheering them on during the events. She was a main character in the stage show and befriended the Straw Hats who had saved her from the villain in that story.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The brief scene of Killer saving Kid from drowning is this, because by the time Killer finally made his canon reappearance since the end of the Dressrosa arc, Killer has eaten a defective SMILE and he's been robbed of the ability to swim.
• Shocking Moments: Hoo boy, many:
  • For one, it's the first official movie that has a good chunk of official characters from the series gather in one place. As Oda even stated, it's essentially an "All Star" One Piece movie.
  • Luffy actually fighting against one of Roger's former crewmates... who can make mechas and imbue them with Haki. It's been stated that it's essentially Luffy vs the equivalent of Godzilla (Reflected in the teaser poster which has the regularly drawn straw hat flying amidst real life metal structures).
  • How serious a threat was Bullet back in the day? It took nothing short of a Buster Call headed by the Admirals to stop him. That's right, a Buster Call, the force that can quite literally erase an island from the face of the earth, wasn't even enough to kill Bullet, just subdue him.
  • Sanji briefly fights Smoker and repels Lucci from interfering with Luffy, and Zoro clashes with Fujitora and likewise repels Crocodile.
  • The treasure prize that Roger supposedly "left behind" turns out to be an Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale. As in the island where the One Piece, the treasure that holds all the secrets the World Government desperately wants to keep hidden, resides. This is what Bullet uses to lure the Navy for his rematch, and in response they send two Buster Calls, and Akainu refuses to rescind them until he's been informed that Luffy destroyed it.
• So Okay, It's Average: It's certainly not a bad movie, but general consensus is that, in terms of story and plot, it pales in comparison to Gold (which itself is seen as a fairly weak movie in comparison to the latter 2 films), Strong World and especially Z, since it's essentially an hour-long fight scene, and Bullet lacks the charisma of Shiki, Zephyr, and Tesoro. The major appeal for fans is instead the animation, character interactions between various characters who are never or rarely onscreen together in the main series, just the chance to see their favorite supporting characters in a movie at all, and the tie-in with some of the One Piece lore (and, surprisingly enough, this movie is slightly referenced in the canon Wano arc via the line about Roger wanting to have an heir).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Many of the featured characters involved in the final battle are more or less extras, like:
    • Lucci, who barely gets any speaking lines, doesn't directly join the team-up at all, and just contributes to the fight with one blow to Bullet from the sidelines;
    • Crocodile, who also doesn't directly join the team-up and just works with Law in regards to the plan (though, in fairness, he wasn't advertised as being part of the team to begin with);
    • Sabo, who doesn't even show up in the movie at all until right before this fight (long enough for a brief skirmish with Smoker before they decide to work together);
    • And to a lesser extent, Hancock, who gets a few more lines than the others, but still doesn't show up until over halfway through the movie just looking for Luffy.
  • The only one of the Four Emperors who shows up is Blackbeard at the very beginning, and it's as a flashback when he and his crew were performing their Impel Down prison break. Story-wise, you'd think that he would probably want to at least send someone from his crew to the Pirate Festival since he's interested in being Pirate King and the prize is a treasure that Roger supposedly left behind. On a meta-level, though, it makes sense, since the Emperors are all too powerful to fit into the story in a large role.
  • With the exception of Law, none of the Supernovas actually get to partake in the final fight alongside Luffy.^note This includes Zoro, but he at least gets other fights and still has a good amount of screentime. While they do appear at the very end, they're essentially written out halfway through the movie after getting curb-stomped along with Luffy by Bullet.
  • Bullet likewise is considered a bit dull compared to three previous film villains (Shiki, Zephyr, and Tesoro). Ironically, fans have the opposite problem with Bullet that they had with Tesoro, in that Bullet has good use of powers but an uninteresting backstory and personality: he couldn't connect with anyone because he was stronger than everyone else he encountered until he met Roger, obsessed over strength to the point of alienation and derides people who care more about their friends than their own strength, and got himself captured. That's pretty much it. As such, there isn't much to him for viewers to empathize or connect with, and he comes off as pretty generic in comparison (especially in regards to Shiki, who was also a self-proclaimed rival to Roger and was better-written as a character than Bullet).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The trailers put heavy emphasis on the Enemy Mine team-up, which turns out to last a grand total of ten minutes.
• Unexpected Character:
  • The Buggy Pirates are showcased here, making their first movie debut (If you don't count the Soccer King short).
  • Turns out there are loads and loads of them, including all of the Eleven Supernovas, Cavendish and Bartolomeo, Blackbeard, Crocodile, Mihawk and Perona, Hancock, Sentomaru, Hachi, Camie and Papagu even Wapol (alongside his non-canon brother Musshuru)... but none are as unexpected as Foxy the Silver Fox (though he, like most of the others listed, doesn't play much of a role and is more of a cameo with multiple scenes).
  • There are even a few filler characters here and there like Drake (from the fifth movie and the G-8 filler arc) and Grout from the Marine Rookie arc.
  • It's not technically him, but Ann uses her power to project Ace at Sabo's request. The projection doesn't talk or really move, but it's a very unexpected cameo.
  • Carina from "Film: Gold" even makes a quick unvoiced cameo at the start during the Good-Times Montage when the crew explores the island. She's in the beauty contest that Nami enters and wins.^note Guess Nami did get even with her after all for taking Tesoro's ship at the end of that movie.
  • Vander Decken even makes a quick crowd appearance.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: As mentioned above, much of the CG work is incredibly well done, with the crowner being Bullet's massive monster.