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Doraemon Movie Review: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (2013)
What is Doraemon? The title character of the Doraemon manga and anime is a blue robotic cat from the 22nd Century who keeps an array of high-tech gadgets in a portable pocket dimension on his belly, and has traveled from the future to improve the fortunes of a hapless schoolboy named Nobita. Although relatively obscure in the English-speaking world, Doraemon is a Mickey-Mouse-level cultural icon in East Asia (and some other regions, too). The Doraemon franchise was a big part of my childhood, and there are still elements of it that I enjoy now.
Doraemon has released theatrical films almost annually since 1980, most of which involve Nobita and his friends (kind Shizuka, brash Gian, and crafty Suneo) getting swept into adventures thanks to Doraemon's gadgets. Despite being of potentially broad appeal to fans of science fiction and animated films, there are very few English reviews of the Doraemon movies, so I'm embarking on a project to write about all the films that have come out so far. Good luck to me…
Movie premise: Doraemon’s bell gets stolen, and he really wants it back. Nobita and his friends track it to a 22nd Century gadget museum, where they have to find the bell and figure out who took it.
My spoiler-free take: This movie features a unique setting and story genre for a Doraemon film, and it’s pretty respectable, though I think its singular qualities had even greater potential still.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT
Review: Whereas most Doraemon movies use Doraemon’s gadgets as a means to transport the main characters to classic science fiction or fantasy settings, a museum that displays these gadgets is a location that can essentially only exist in the Doraemon universe. Combined with the fact that the Doraemon films have not yet done a proper detective story up to this point, and the premise of this movie looks very attractive indeed.
Yet for reasons that are difficult for me to put my finger on, I came away from this film somewhat underwhelmed. Maybe it’s the fact that, despite an ideal setup for showcasing previously introduced gadgets in fresh and creative ways, much of the main plot ultimately hinges on new gadgets and additions to the lore. Make no mistake though, this movie does not skimp on giving cameos to established gadgets. Probably the best use of the museum locale is the scene where the protagonists and law enforcement are confronted by the gadget thief in one of the exhibits. The “duel by proxy” between the thief and the inspector investigating the case, in which they simply show off the gadgets they have on hand to counter each other’s strategies without actually using them, is pretty amusing, but makes sense in a setting where gadgets are widely available.
The mystery story itself is decent for a children’s movie, though I found the handling of the aftermath to be unsatisfying. To make a long story short, it is eventually revealed that Doraemon’s bell and several other items were stolen on behalf of a disgraced scientist, who hid microchips in those objects to preserve his life’s work on developing a sustainable metal for use in manufacturing gadgets. By the time the movie ends, the scientist simply goes back into hiding, with no apparent opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of the relevant authorities nor any clear headway made in addressing the metal sustainability problem.
I also felt lukewarm about the revelation that Doraemon exhibits more cat-like behavior without his bell, which came across as more of an easy excuse to make visual gags than a natural extension of the lore. I did appreciate that everyone in the main cast contributes at one point or another, even though the story focuses most heavily on Nobita and Doraemon. Additionally, this movie features one of the few times (if not the only time) that the Restoration Light is used in a Doraemon film, which is a gadget I’ve often thought should be acknowledged in the movies more often considering how frequently Doraemon’s gadgets break!
Star rating: ★★★☆☆
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Countries and territories the Doraemon franchise has visited through >70 movies.
UnadamantlySmall:
The Doraemon franchise takes place somewhere in suburban Tokyo, Japan. While some of its movie sets take place in another planet/world (2019 takes place on the Moon), they have also travelled throughout the world through its numerous movies. In order of mainline appearance, the list of places include:
1980: Nobita's Dinosaur in USA and Canada (remade in 2006)
1982: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil in Democratic Republic of Congo (remade in 2014, my personal favorite movie)
1984: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld in Croatia (remade in 2007)
1988: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West in People's Republic of China (also featured in 1989's Nobita and the Birth of Japan that would be remade in 2016. Xinjiang and Tibet were also featured in 2003's Nobita and the Windmasters)
1991: Nobita's Dorabian Nights in Iraq
1992: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds in Germany (also featured in 2001's Nobita and the Winged Braves)
1993: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth in Italy
1994: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen in France
1997: Nobita and the Spiral City in Slovenia
1998: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas in Oceania (country not specified)
2000: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King in Mexico (shut-out to Austria's Wiener Sängerknaben (GER: Vienna Boys' Choir) for providing the opening track for this movie)
2002: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom in Ukraine
2003: Nobita and the Windmasters in Mongolia
2004: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey in New Zealand
2010: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King in Palau
2012: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure in Fiji
2013: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum in United Kingdom
2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
2018: Nobita's Treasure Island in The Carribean (country not specified)
Edit: 1983's Nobita and the Castle of Undersea Devil took place somewhere in The Atlantic Ocean. While not part of the mainline movies, the Doraemon franchise has also visited The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland in 藤子不二雄スペシャル ドラえもん・ヨーロッパ鉄道の旅 (JP: Fujiko Fujio Special Doraemon: Europe Rail Travel). The Doraemons spin-off includes characters from Spain, Russia, and Brazil.
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Doraemon’s bell had a cat-summoning function, but it was converted into a miniature camera after it broke.
Source: Nobita and the Animal Planet, 1990 (manga, Doraemon Long Stories)
In the 2005 anime, the cat-summoning function is said to be repaired. Doraemon is also revealed to lose control of his cat instincts if his bell goes missing.
Source: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum, 2013
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🧐 Countries Doraemon visited in the movies
👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/Doraemon/comments/vn7m35/countries_and_territories_the_doraemon_franchise/
🙏 u/UnadamantlySmall
👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doraemon_films/
The Doraemon franchise takes place somewhere in suburban Tokyo, Japan. While some of its movie sets take place in another planet/world (2019 takes place on the Moon), they have also travelled throughout the world through its numerous movies. In order of mainline appearance, the list of places include:
1980: Nobita's Dinosaur in USA and Canada (remade in 2006)
1982: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil in Democratic Republic of Congo (remade in 2014, my personal favorite movie)
1984: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld in Croatia (remade in 2007)
1988: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West in People's Republic of China (also featured in 1989's Nobita and the Birth of Japan that would be remade in 2016. Xinjiang and Tibet were also featured in 2003's Nobita and the Windmasters)
1991: Nobita's Dorabian Nights in Iraq
1992: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds in Germany (also featured in 2001's Nobita and the Winged Braves)
1993: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth in Italy
1994: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen in France
1997: Nobita and the Spiral City in Slovenia
1998: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas in Oceania (country not specified)
2000: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King in Mexico (shut-out to Austria's Wiener Sängerknaben (GER: Vienna Boys' Choir) for providing the opening track for this movie)
2002: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom in Ukraine
2003: Nobita and the Windmasters in Mongolia
2004: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey in New Zealand
2010: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King in Palau2012: Nobita and the Island of Miracles—Animal Adventure in Fiji
2013: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum in United Kingdom
2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
2018: Nobita's Treasure Island in The Carribean (country not specified)
Adapted from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_where_Doraemon_visited_in_the_movies.svg#/media/File:Countries_where_Doraemon_visited_in_the_movies.svg
Note: 1983's Nobita and the Castle of Undersea Devil took place somewhere in The Atlantic Ocean. While not part of the mainline movies, the Doraemon franchise has also visited The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland in 藤子不二雄スペシャル ドラえもん・ヨーロッパ鉄道の旅 (JP: Fujiko Fujio Special Doraemon: Europe Rail Travel). The Doraemons spin-off also includes characters from Spain, Russia, and Brazil. Feel free to add to this comment if there are anything else incorrect and/or missing.
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Y'know somethin else that fuels my hc that Nobita has self-loathing and feelings of inadequacy? From that one scene where Doraemon was trying to get Nobita to catch a ball in Secret Gadget Museum, Nobita limpens in Doraemon's hold and screams "I can't do anything so I don't want to do anything!" Also doesn't help Sewashi and Doraemon called him useless in that segment as well...
It also seems to show Nobita never had anyone to motivate him to be better after his grandmother passed and before Doraemon came along. So that mindset permeated for around five or so years as his academics and athletics began taking a plunge. Yikes.
Cue this: Doraemon: Oh geez, you never want to study, you never want to play sports! Oh, you never want to want to try harder! And then, you never want to do anythjng! That's why you're useless!
Like, hmmm... I wonder why he never does. No one was there for him.
Like, look how much Doraemon putting that into perspective seemed to really affect him! He almost is on the verge of crying and his face is reddening!
Furthermore: He has such little faith in himself that he immediately defaults to beating himself up and saying he's useless. As seen here:
And then wants to hole himself up in his room at home to wallow because no one was ever there to cheer him up and tell him otherwise.
When Doraemon berates his behavior, he's struggling and pawing at him to just let him go. But when he calls him useless...
He immediately snaps and screams he's useless, and is very hostile. It obviously eats him up inside. He gets much more desparate as if a massive wound has been reopened and it stings him. He tries to just flee, obviously not really wanting to hurt Doraemon, but still fights him because his inner demons are on full display from those comments Doraemon made, and he can't handle it.
And this has been a rhapsody of a children's show character that probably isn't that on the nose as I make it out to be!
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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"The unseen story of Doraemon"
I have seen countless episodes of Doraemon and it never fails to entertain me through my childhood, and if you ask me what the darkest part of Doraemon is, I would probably guess that it's just Gian's horrendous cooking. While Nobita is quite a character in Doraemon, sloppy and most oftenly comes to school late, Doraemon is his best friend especially since he helps Nobita on anything making his life very much enjoyable to watch.
Aside from his school life, every day of his time with Doraemon was an adventure, a trip to the Dinosaur's era, to the Gadget museum where they set their eyes on an artificial star trapped inside a four dimensional space, many hurdles and many heartwarming episodes made up my childhood watching my favorite show. Every episode and movie of Doraemon was my happiness, and it's saddening to see that also the same show is as if on hiatus with no new episode since the original author died not very long after Doraemon was drawn. And to hear rumors about the author ostensibly sourcing the inspiration of Doraemon on a dark footing.
Discovering the story before all these smiles and happy vibes that it brings us, Doraemon is a real best friend of someone yet it became the grim shadow. A 9 year old young boy named Nobita Hiroshi, seemingly healthy and happy like all the countless kids are, has a hidden secret. Suffering from a disease named Schizophrenia; a delusional disorder made the impossible possible in his sight and his illusions felt so real that he refuses to believe that Doraemon is all a lie, one that was given birth by his disease, Doraemon was his first and only friend thus Nobita became fairly dependent on his imaginary friend, and due to this intensive interaction with his imaginary friend, his classmates felt estranged and he became alienated in school, misunderstandings happen whenever he talks by himself and everyone considers him a creepy delusional, when Nobita was at his darkest moment his parents took him to the doctor that diagnosed him with the disorder, and said the undeniable truth which led to his grim. The doctor has told the truth about Doraemon. He was devastated as his thoughts cleared up, he had lost his best friend. He took a bold step, he held his father's gun and shot himself in the head in front of the doctor.
Disclaimer: the story is derived from fiction
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Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum / 電影多啦A夢 -- 大雄的秘密道具博物館 movie review / 電影評論 (cantonese ver.)
The Good: Great imaginative world. Fun plot.
The Bad: Slight pacing issues and predictable plot.
Storyline:
One day, while Doraemon is taking a nap, his bell is stolen by a mysterious man known as Thief DX. Nobita dons his Sherlock Holmes outfit and begins to search. Knowing that there is a bell at the secret gadget museum in the future, Doraemon and the gang travel to the future.
Based on Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio /藤子不二雄 .
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQN_jDxpXo
Director:
Yukiyo Teramoto / 寺本幸代
Distributed by:
Toho
Toho Animation
Cast:
Wasabi Mizuta / 水田 わさび
Megumi Ohara / 大原めぐみ
Yumi Kakazu / 嘉数 由美
Subaru Kimura / 木村 昴
Tomokazu Seki / 関 智一
Chiaki / ちあき, チアキ
Kotono Mitsuishi / 三石 琴乃
Osamu Mukai / 向井 理
Yuuko Sanpei / 三瓶 由布子
Seki Tomokazu / 関 智一
Yui Horie / 堀江 由衣
Chiba Shigeru / 千葉 繁
Naoki Tatsuta / 龍田 直樹
POPPON
Hashi Takaya / 土師 孝也
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Ranking the Doraemon Movies
Having watched (or rewatched) and reviewed every Doraemon movie released up to this point, the temptation to rank them is hard to resist. I’ll stress that the following ranking is of course based on my own opinions and I can’t pretend to represent any sort of consensus viewpoint. The Doraemon films have played with such a wide variety of settings and story genres that it’d only be natural for different viewers’ rankings to differ dramatically based on personal taste.
It’s striking to me that even after over 40 installments, there are very few Doraemon movies that I’d outright consider “not worth watching”. Not only that, but each cinematic storyline manages to do something that sets itself apart from the others (excluding remakes, that’s a total of 36 unique narratives to date). Considering how easy it would be for the nearly annual releases of such a long-running, popular franchise to descend into staleness and mediocrity, that is quite an achievement. No, not every Doraemon film is a winner, and I’m not going to claim that even my favorite movies in the franchise are the pinnacle of animated entertainment. However, if you enjoy family-friendly science fiction about adventure and friendship, there are certainly worse ways to spend an evening than with a Doraemon movie that has an enticing premise.
Full ranking (with links to individual reviews) below the break...
Note that for reasons given in my review, the original Nobita and the Haunts of Evil (1982) is disqualified from ranking.
From highest to lowest rated:
Nobita and the Birth of Japan (2016)
Nobita’s Great Adventure into the Underworld (1984)
Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds (1992)
New Nobita’s Great Demon (2014)
Nobita’s Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)
Nobita’s Little Star Wars (1985)
Nobita’s Three Visionary Swordsmen (1994)
Nobita and the Steel Troops (1986)
Nobita’s Diary on the Creation of the World (1995)
Nobita and the Windmasters (2003)
Nobita’s New Dinosaur (2020)
Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (2000)
Nobita in the Robot Kingdom (2002)
Nobita’s Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (2019)
Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth (1993)
Nobita’s Dinosaur (1980)
Nobita’s Dinosaur (2006)
Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil (1983)
Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express (1996)
Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001)
Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004)
Nobita’s Treasure Island (2018)
Nobita’s Secret Gadget Museum (2013)
Nobita’s Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (2017)
Nobita and the Animal Planet (1990)
The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer (1981)
Nobita and the Birth of Japan (1989)
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs (1987)
The Record of Nobita’s Parallel Visit to the West (1988)
Nobita and the New Steel Troops (2011)
Nobita and the Spiral City (1997)
Nobita and the Green Giant Legend (2008)
Nobita Drifts in the Universe (1999)
The New Record of Nobita’s Spaceblazer (2009)
Nobita’s Space Heroes (2015)
Nobita’s Dorabian Nights (1991)
Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)
Nobita’s New Great Adventure into the Underworld (2007)
Nobita’s Great Adventure in the South Seas (1998)
Nobita and the Island of Miracles (2012)
Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King (2010)
Also, because I have to be a dork about this, I made a graph of this ranking with the movies ordered by release date. Each film is assigned a score based on its ranking, with the highest-rated having a score of 42 and the lowest-rated having a score of 1. The green line on the left separates the entries produced within the manga author Fujiko F. Fujio’s lifetime from those that came afterward, whereas the green line on the right marks the beginning of the 2005 anime reboot.
It’s interesting to see where the rises and dips are (or so I think). Looks like I’m not a fan of most movies that came out during the first decade of the anime reboot! More recent Doraemon films, however, have started rising in the ranks again. I look forward to seeing this year’s movie!
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