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Summary: Very bad, a dissapointment, for the fans (i'm one of them)
Review: This movie it's just too bad, dumb plot, stone characters, no humor, no fun, no nothing, good, not even the animation!, the music it's the only good thing. period.
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Summary: Who says tragedies are better than comedies?!
Review: Even though I first watched it 100 times, when I got Pokemon 2, I was watching it again and again. This movie contains over 300 laughs, nice graphics, etc. Because I had too many R-rated movies that suck so hard that I'll never watch them ever again. I love the part when Mewtwo is throwing too many evil poke balls at his opponents. When he does, he simply tries his luck at making clones for himself. Did he? No. Not only is this movie the dark ruler of all, but it's the easiest movie to follow. But whatever you do, stay away from South Park. It's not worth it. Difficulty level: Easy
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Summary: Gotta watch 'em all!
Review: Pokemon. A word that strikes fear into the hearts of adults and sends children scurrying for their pocket money. The incredible marketing phenomenon, which has spawned games, trading cards and an animated international TV series, now makes it's way to the local cineplex with the first in a projected series of feature film outings. For those of you who have been living on a desert island for the last couple of years, Pokemon are 150 critters of different shapes and abilities, which are captured and held by human trainers, who unleash them to do battle witheach other. The main character in the animated series is Ash Ketchum, a brash young trainer, whose pet, Pikachu - a cute, mouse-like animal that shoots electricity - has become the unoffical mascot of the Pokemon universe. In Pokemon: The First Movie, Ash, Pikachu and their friends are lured to New Island tocompete in the greatest competition in the world. Their host is Mewtwo, a sort of mouthless flying kitten. Angry over his creation, Mewtwo plans to wipe out all humans and Pokemons off the face of this Earth, using clones of the visting Pokemon. The result is a series of protracted battles between clones and original, before Ash and his crew finally save the day. Whether the movie actually suceeds or not is difficult to say. There's lots of silly moralizing about things like responsibility and team-work, but, at the end of the day, the kids are there for the pointless, noisy fight scenes. All parents and adults should resign themselves to bringing along a good book or simply sitting in the car until the film is over.
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Summary: Lost in the Translation
Review: I gotta tell you...The Japanese version is much better... Now, don't start judging my review because I said the word Japanese. It really is better. What was an originally dark and suspenseful movie has become over-emotional and darn right goofy movie. It makes me mad that the WB was totally cheap in the production. They wouldn't pay the bit extra for the better Japanese music, which is now replaced with very inappropriate music. For example, the final battle(in the Japanese) had exciting battle music, but it was replaced in the dub by the horribly unfitting, brother my brother song..It was a totally different mood! And it was worse... Secondly, the dialogue. The whole Mewtwo hating humans was wrong. In the original, he didn't hate humans, he was just misguided. They really over-emphasized that fighting is wrong part as well. Corny dialogue such as "A fight to Death! A fight that can never be won!" was inserted. Lastly, they cut out a lot of stuff from the original. About 15 or so minutes! One semi-good thing I can say about the movie is that the animation was toned up every so slightly. In conclusion, I'd like to say that it's the little things that butched this movie from the original. Why create a new script for a movie that already has a script written for? Why compose music for a movie that has a complete CD devoted to the backgroud music? (The original sounded very much like Gunadm Wing music which is awesome) And haven't you noticed that Pokemon has deteriorated ever since WB got their hands on it? This is a prime example of how the WB mistreated Pokemon. Watch the Japanese version subtitled in English!!
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Summary: POkEMON MEWTWO REVIEW
Review: THE perfict movie 4 all pokemon trainers any age 1-100>> one of the best movies eeeeaver with extra features including m2m music video, and story of mew and mewtwo origin ,and 4 non pokemon wachers alook at the pokemon story,>> other great features>>>>>and the best picer and sound u will ever see and hear////
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Summary: Not that great.
Review: Im a little too old to watch this Japanese Animation but I love a great laugh and the cute pokemon, but I hated this movie. I've seen it in japanese with english subtitles before the movie came to the states, and It was better since they didn't edit anything out. But I'd wish It had more of a story line and funnies.
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Summary: A Really Bad Movie
Review: This was the singular most poorly made movie I have ever seen in my entire life. My younger brother wanted to go see it, and so I brought one of my friends who likes Pokemon to come and check it out with the rest of us. Before the actual movie there is a shorter one, Pikachu's Vacation, and that was alright. It did rather drag on, though, and even my friend got bored half-way through, and he's not one to have a short attention span. The actual movie, when it started, was the most sacrany, goody-goody, we-should-all-love-each-other children's flick I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. All children's movies have an undertone of such, but to come right out and preach a sermon about it as this movie did made me want to leave the theater, and I probably would have if my friend hadn't been there to make fun of it's stupidity. It does have it's audiance, which is kids up to about the age of ten, but anybody over that age will not enjoy this movie at all.
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Summary: Good, but could do without "Pikachu's Vacation"
Review: I haven't ever watched the Pokemon cartoon that much, but I didn't want to miss the chance to see the movies. While I was watching this movie, I thought for awhile that it was gonna just be a bunch of different cartoons because the first part of the movie is a cartoon called "Pikachu's Vacation" that's only about 20 minutes long. Then the "Mewtwo Strikes Back" finally came on. In "Mewtwo Strikes Back," some scientists clone and create Mewtwo, which becomes the strongest Pokemon of all. What the scientists don't realize is that Mewtwo is psychic. Mewtwo gets real upset and wants to be ruler of all Pokemon and humans. Pikachu and the rest of the Pokemon crew must find a way to stop Mewtwo from becoming ruler of the world. "Pokemon The First Movie" is a good movie. It has good effects for a cartoon movie and once it gets to "Mewtwo Strikes Back," it will keep your interest. The only drawback I saw in the movie was that I didn't really see the point of including "Pikachu's Vacation" at the beginning of the movie. Not that it's bad, but I just didn't see the point in it. It would be better if it was just "Mewtwo Strikes Back." If you like watching a good cartoon movie every now and then, or if you're a fan of Pokemon, you should like this movie.
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Summary: It was good but not great
Review: I like the movie but it needed something else. There was not enough action. I also agree with the viewer that said this movie told pokemon not to fight. However what else do they do? The music was nice but not hype. I think that all of Ash's pokemon are cute. Pokemon is over hyped. It's not what people make it. However you can't help but watch the pokemon because their cute !
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Summary: The Japanese version was better...
Review: All in all, I was quite pleased with this film. Pokémon's first showing on the big screen seems to have passed the quality checks of most US and UK fans, and its success in other countries has undoubtedly been similar. However, I was quite disappointed by the English dub (by now a very common point of criticism). The dialog, compared with the original Japanese, has been butchered, which I find very annoying. A prime example of this is actually from the second Pokémon movie, Pokémon The Movie 2000, where, in the Japanese version, a character says "this is serious..." and in the English dub says "I wish I had some pants..."! The "Americanisation" of anime is something that has irritated true fans of Pokémon, and although the producers and writers at Kids WB and 4Kids seem to think it necessary, I can assure you, it isn't! What the fans would like to see is the original anime, without the retouching done by US corporations. Thankfully, we still get to see the original anime, due to the efforts of The Pikachu Projectand Fans 4 Fans, and because of the fact that neither Kids WB, 4 Kids or Nintendo of America hold the Japanese copyrights on Pokémon... One thing in the movie's favour is that the animation has been greatly enhanced, so that the 3D rendering of objects such as the double doors leading into Mewtwo's castle and The Flight of Dragonite at the beginning of the movie. So, overall: this film has whetted my appetite with regards to Pokémon-based movies, but in the future, more adherance to the original script would be appreciated.
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