The Yu-Gi-Oh movie is a little different than the rest of the Yu-Gi-Oh series. The movie is made by a different production company than the show is, so this causes some things to be different. One such instance is the new character that is friends with Yugi and the gang, Miho. This is a girl that isn't in the show but is friends with Yugi and the gang in the movie.
The movie begins in a card shop (no its not Yugi's grandpa's shop)where three young boys buy some booster packs. All of them get "junk cards" such as the Basic Insect, Skull Servant, and Mushroom Man, which are all under level three. They are all disappointed as they leave the shop. Then they run into a kid that they know from school named Shyogo. They make fun of Shyogo because he isn't a very good duelist and he is just buying more cards that he will lose with. The three boys then leave the shop and Shyogo walks up to the counter and buys one booster pack of cards. He opens up the pack to find a Kuriboh and then to his surprise he also finds the ultra rare Red-Eyes Black Dragon. The store owner is very surprised and tells Shyogo that the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a powerful card that brings victory, but the Red-Eyes Black Dragon doesn't bring victory but possibility. Shyogo then leaves the shop, happy to have his new, powerful, rare card.
Next Yugi and Jonouchi (Joey) are dueling each other and Yugi is trying to teach Jonouchi how to duel. Honda (Tristan), Anzu (Tea), and Miho are all watching them duel. First Jonouchi summons the Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1 in attack mode and Yugi summons the Cyclops. Jonouchi destroys Yugi's monster and takes 200 life points from Yugi. They duel a little more and Curse of Dragon is summoned along with Silver Fang. The rest of this little duel isn't shown though because the three boys that were in the card shop are picking on Shyogo again. They are telling him that they will beat him agian like always. Shyogo then tells them that they have already lost to him because he has the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card and he shows it to them. Anzu tells Yugi and the gang that Shyogo was challenged the day before but he declined. Anzu thinks that Shyogo will definitely win even though he has never won before.
It then goes on to show how Kaiba had been monitoring card shops and had seen that Shyogo had gotten a Red-Eyes Black Dragon. He then decides to hold a tournament where he will invite all the people that he had been monitoring. In the tournament the people who lose have to give up a rare card to the winner. Kaiba wants to use this as a way to get the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and a lot of other rare cards. Kaiba believes that he is the top duelist, that he is even better than Yugi who has never even lost a match.
Shyogo is then in the park pondering if the Red-Eyes Black Dragon can really help him win. He wonders if he should even try to keep fighting because he feels now that he has the card that he has already won and there is no reason to prove it. He also feels that there is no reason to play if you know you'll win.
Yugi then arrives at the game shop where he finds the invitation to Kaiba's tournament.
Shyogo also finds an invitation to Kaiba's tournament after opening his locker at school.
Yugi and Jonouchi are then walking home from school and Yugi tells Jonouchi about the tournament that Kaiba is holding. Jonouchi is at first mad that he wasn't invited along with Yugi to the tournament. They then suddenly see Shyogo running away from one of Kaiba's henchman. Jonouchi stops the henchman and they get into a fist fight. The henchman tells them that Shyogo must go to the tournament if he is invited because it is required of him. This disappoints Jonouchi even more because Shyogo, just a small child, was invited to the tournament but Jonouchi isn't. The henchman then tries to obtain Shyogo again to force him to go to the tournament but Jonouchi stops him and holds him back long enough for Yugi and Shyogo to run away. Yugi and Shyogo keep running while Jonouchi fights off the henchman till they get to an alleyway and decide that it is safe and they can rest. After Jonouchi finishes off the henchman he runs off towards Yugi and Shyogo to try to aid them. While Jonouchi is coming, another henchman sneaks up on Yugi and Shyogo and attacks them. The henchman knocks Shyogo's cards out and takes his Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Yugi's puzzle. Jonouchi arrives too late to stop the henchman from getting away with Yugi's and Shyogo's possessions.
Shyogo then becomes depressed because he doesn't know how he will win anyone if he doesn't have the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card.
They then show that Kaiba is winning everyone in the tournament and he is unstoppable. He even defeats Rex Raptor and takes a rare card from him.
They all then set out to go to the tournament to take back their possessions. Jonouchi runs through the crowd of duelists once they reach the tournament and finds the guard that stole the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card and Yugi's puzzle. Jonouchi fights the guard and gets the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card back for Shyogo, but he gets his blood on the card. The guard no longer had the puzzle though because he gave it to Kaiba already as a way to lure Yugi into fighting Kaiba again.
Yugi then enters into the arena to battle Kaiba and show him who truly is boss. Kaiba throws Yugi's puzzle back to Yugi and he changes into Yami Yugi so that he can beat Kaiba. Kaiba tells Yugi that he has a special surprise set up for Yugi. Kaiba then whips out the duel disks to play with and they set there life points to 2000 but they use little green rectangles to represent the life points. They then both draw their five cards. Then they just throw their cards into the air and the cards grow bigger and turn into holograms.
The duel of the century then begins between Yugi and Kaiba as Yugi takes his turn first. Yugi summons the Curse of Dragon in defense first. Kaiba then summons a monster in defense that sorta looks like a Relinquished but has an Attack of 1500 and a Defense of 2100. Yugi relizes that he won't be able to destroy the monster if it remains in defense position with the Curse of Dragon because it has 100 less Attack then is needed to kill the creature. Yugi then switches Curse of Dragon to attack mode and powers him up using the Earth Dragon Viens card which boosts Curse of Dragon up 300 Attack which raises him to an Attack of 2300. Yugi then destroys the monster but it was in defense so it doesn't cause any damage to Kaiba.
Kaiba then summons the Battle Ox which has an Attack of 1700. Kaiba then ends his turn.
Yugi summons Gaia the Fierce Knight in attack mode and destroys the Battle Ox since it has an Attack of 2300. This causes Kaiba to lose 600 Life Points.
Kaiba then finally gets his first Blue-Eyes White Dragon and attacks Gaia the Fierce Knight which causes Yugi to lose 700 Life Points. Yugi then puts Curse of Dragon in defense and it is killed by Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon on the next turn.
Yugi then gets the all powerful and the card filled with Yugi's heart, the Dark Magician (or as the subtitles on the version I have like to say, the Dark Pharmacist). Yugi then sets a card on the field and allows Kaiba to take his turn.
Kaiba on his turn tries to attack Yugi's Dark Magician but is stopped by the Magicial Hats! Yugi also adds a trap to the hats so that if Kaiba misses the Dark Magician he may hit the trap that is hidden in one of the hats. Kaiba decides to attack the hat on the far right side which actually turns out to be the trap that Yugi hid. The Spellbinding Circle was the trap that Yugi hid and it is now placed on the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The Spellbinding Circle doesn't just immoblize the Blue-Eyes, it also lowers its Attack by 700.
Yugi then brings the Dark Magician out of the Magician Hats and attacks the Blue-Eyes White Dragon which sends it to the Graveyard and causes 200 damage to Kaiba's Life Points.
Yugi thinks that he has won the battle until Kaiba draws his next Blue-Eyes White Dragon and summons him to the field. The new Blue-Eyes White Dragon then destroys the Dark Magician and does 500 damage to Yugi's Life Points.
Yugi then draws the rare and powerful Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Little did Yugi know that Jonouchi slipped the card into Yugi's deck after he got it back from the guard. Jonouchi then notices from the stands that the card is the Red-Eyes Black Dragon is in Yugi's hand because he can see his blood on it. Yugi decides that he won't use the card unless it has the fighting spirit of Shyogo behind it. While Jonouchi then tries to convice Shyogo that the Red-Eyes Black Dragon needs his fighting spirit and courage to use all its protential, Yugi has to go on with the duel. Jonouchi tells Shyogo that without dreaming you will never obtain real power. Since Yugi refuses to use the Red-Eyes Black Dragon he has to go on the run and try to protect himself. Yugi then plays the Cletic Guardian in defense mode.
Kaiba then takes advantage of Yugi's defensive tactics and summons another Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Also to add to his power, Kaiba reborns his Blue-Eyes White Dragon that was destroyed earlier on in the duel by the Dark Magician. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon then destroys Cletic Guardian.
Yugi still has to go on the run because Shyogo is too afraid that using the Red-Eyes Black Dragon will still not give victory to Yugi. He doesn't want Yugi to lose even after using the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Jonouchi then has to remind Shyogo that you need to fight till the very end no matter what happens. Yugi then places the Beaver Warrior in defense and awaits Kaiba's onslaught.
Kaiba next decides to combine the attacking power of all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons with the magic card, Devil Chain. He then destoys the Beaver Warrior.
Yugi then places Summon Skull in defense.
Kaiba destroys the Summon Skull and awaits to finish off Yugi once and for all.
Yugi still awaits for Shyogo to get the courage that is needed for Yugi to be able to win with the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, so Yugi just summons the Feral Imp (or some monster that looks like the feral imp) in defense mode.
Kaiba once again destroys this monster.
Yugi now plays the Small Planet Dragon in defense mode to protect himself from the massive attack of the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons that are on the field.
Kaiba decides that he has had enough of Yugi trying to save himself by hiding behind defensive monsters so he activates the Block Defense magic card. This switches Yugi's Small Planet Dragon to attack.
Shyogo then gets the courage and fighting spirit that Yugi was waiting for. Shyogo knows that Yugi will be able to beat Kaiba if Shyogo just believes in the power and possibility of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Yugi feels the immense power and will to fight and win from Shyogo. Yugi uses this to summon the Red-Eyes Black Dragon in attack mode. Yugi then uses the magic card Polymerization to fuse the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and the Small Planet Dragon together. Yugi then kills off the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons and wins the duel!!!
Kaiba accepts defeat this time and tells Yugi that Yugi is his only true worthy opponent. Kaiba tells Yugi that he will defeat him someday.
Yugi gives the Red-Eyes Black Dragon back to Shyogo. Yugi tells Shyogo to keep his fighting spirit and courage to win duels. They then all have a happy ending but don't remember to get their rare card from Kaiba seeing as they won him and that is what you get for winning the tournament...Oh well, Yugi can still win Kaiba without it.
Thank you for looking at my guide for the Yu-Gi-Oh Movie and I hope that it provided a good description of what happened. I also hope that you enjoyed reading it and please come back soon!