Well, I played the game and watched a few episodes of the show, but don’t think I’m any pokemon fanatic. But when it comes to the movie, I AM a pokemon fan in all ways possible. I agree totally with Skysenshi about the reviewers who rated this movie because this movie has one large plot and tells many different lessons to children and adults alike.

Now, if the reviewers Skysenshi was talking about watched the American dub of this movie I cant rag on them too much, but even with horrible voices, it would take some major screw up’s to change the plot. Centering the movie around the pokemon Mewtwo was great enough, but then to throw in a deep Darth Vader like voice actor and give the character a kind of confused and overpowered role impressed me, as should it any person who enjoys those kind of wonderful uses of characters. Now yes the movie was made from a series based on appealing to children, but as Sailor Moon and Card Captor Sakura and many of Miyazaki’s movies have shown us, they can have powerful and adult themes in them also. You don’t need sex, people over the age of 17 or even a war to make a movie appeal to older people. Steven Spielberg made a movie called E.T. and I hardly know anyone under the age of 18 who likes that movie (that happened to star children). No, this story tells the classical themes such as why are people made the way they are, shows that many people feel alone at times (portrayed by Mewtwo) and even shows the basic principles of human nature transformed into a simple, easy to understand movie that children can like and learn from. One of the major problems with reviews always is that people get impressions before they even see the film and come out, even if they liked it, not wanting to give it the full review it deserved. Adults in America have grown up with Disney, but most of the time cannot accept that there are other forms of animation that are as good or even better than anything the Disney company has made (-ahem-…Miyazaki anyone…). Believe me, I live with one of these people who will not watch anything coming from the Asian cinema, but yet owns every Disney film ever made. All I am trying to say is a lot of adults (and people not even there yet) are closed minded. Just be
happy you’re one of the ones who will accept something different.

And my last thing I have to say about this movie, Don’t watch the dub! You won’t get even 1/10 of the powerful feeling or wonderful voices coming from this great movie.

Individual Rating: Art: 10; Story & Plot: 9; Characters: 9; Sounds: 9; Overall: 10

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