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Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew Actors: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart (III) Directors: Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 96 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08 Buy from Amazon |
 "Enjoyable, but degrading compared to the Japanese edition."When "Pok?mon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back" premiered in cinemas, Pok?mon was currently at the climax of it's popularity. It is not surprising 4Kids Entertainment decided to edit the American edition; after all, the audience 4Kids Entertainment was aiming for were young children. This film was decent. Yet, because of the plot's change from the Japanese edition, it was almost embarrassing for the teenagers and adult fans to watch. 4Kids altered Mewtwo from a depressed, confused creature into a menacing, vengeful villain. While "Myuutsu no Gyakushuu" focused on Mewtwo in search of himself, "Mewtwo Strikes Back" focused on Mewtwo plotting for world domination. And while it's obvious Mewtwo is suffering from a sense of security in both editions, it's much harder to notice in the American one. Plus, the removal of the entire featurette makes it all the harder on Mewtwo fans. (Such as myself.) The dub only showed it up to where the scientists began extracting the genes from the fossilized Mew eyelash, whereas the Japanese edition included both that AND the second chapter: Mewtwo's bond with Ai. It is essential in the timeline of Mewtwo's life that Ai is included. She was, above all, the only human Mewtwo felt a full friendship and trust with. Ash is defiantly second (and for that matter, the only other human) Mewtwo has a bond with, but nothing like what he had with Ai. Ai was a sister/mother-like figure, whereas Ash is a messiah figure. This film is good, but I suggest for you to purchase "Myuutsu no Gyakushuu" instead.  "Is this pokemon?"The story of Pokemon: The First Movie is a dark one. Mewtwo, a cloned pokemon, hates humans and how they treat pokemon. So, Mewtwo causes a storm intending to rid the world of humans and the weak pokemon. The story is almost too dark for pokemon.  "A VERY GOOD MOVIE"The story line was good. Usually you have a human play the bad guy, but Mewtwo makes a better bad guy! I think Pikachu's Vacation should be after the movie. I was so excited to see Mewtwo Strikes Back that I didn't pay much attencion to Pikachu's Vacation. When I re-watch Pikachu's Vacation, I thought it was so cool! At the end of the movie, it kind of leaves you in suspence because I noticed that Giovanni's memory wasn't erased and leads to the sequel, "Mewtwo Returns." A lot of people hate this movie and I have something to say to those people... give pokemon a break! Geez! People hate the movie just because of Pikachu's Vacation and that Mewtwo and Mew tied at the end of their battle. Overall, this is a movie worth buying! "Number One Movie"Pokemon the movie 1 takes place in the Kanto area. This movie starts when Ash gets an invitation to battle the best trainer in the wrold on an island in the sea. But when he gets to the port where they're supposed to leave from a storm is brewing but Ash and the other heros are not going to give up that easily so they hop aboard a boat with two vikings. The ride was going smooth until it turned out that these vikings were really members of Team Rocket! If this sounds interesting to you then you should check it out right now. If it doesn't I still sugest you think about it. "Good anime flick, bad moral message"Though not graphic in its violence, POKEMON: MEWTWO STRIKES BACK teaches the moral (there are six other morals blended in also) that fighting is the RIGHT way to solve issues? What is up with that? As in the TV shows, a Pokemon trainer, Ash and his other friends, also Pokemon trianers, are heading off to the big Pokemon tournament to be the greatest Pokemon master. Meanwhile, a mean, mutated Pokemon is cloned out of the angelic Mew, called Mewtwo, wants revenge and closes off the tournament by creating a bad storm. But Ash and his friends manage to get to the tournament, and Mewtwo decides to clone all the Pokemon and send them fighting against each other and rule the world. Ash, in order to save the Pokemon and his world, has to fight Mewtwo. The movie is a promising, though short at 1 hour and 9 minutes, cutesy anime flick. The animation is bright and colorful, a fine vocal cast and comic humor is aplenty. But, in spite of the promising things, P:MSB has a flimsy plot and the moral sticking out is that fighting is the right way to settle issues? I give it a full ***** stars, but I subtract 1 for the flimsy plot and another for the the fighting moral. If the writers for the U.S. release had though better, they might have rewritten a moral in there that is better than the... one that is implied in this otherwise delightful animated movie. |
