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Pokemon - The Movie 2000 Director: Kunihiko Yuyama Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07 Buy from Amazon |
 "A Better Dub Than The First!"I just say after I saw the original version of this movie, I thought this was going to be chopped down to American standerd's. But it wasn't! In fact this was more accurate than the first dub was! There was only 2 (Very small) sceans that were cut, a lot of added computer animated footage, and the dig deeper into Ash & Mistey's relationship! I highly recomend this movie! The reason I gave this only 4 stars and not 5 is because they changed the music so it was all kooky insted of hip and actioness. >_<  "GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!"Wow, this movie ruled. To me it was even better than the first movie. It had alot of very funny stuff, and showed alot of my favorite pokemon: Psyduck. I think poke-maniacs will love this movie, my mom did so even some adults will like it! So go see it, and if you see it during the first week you'll get an official Ancient Mew game card! Cool, huh?  "Not as impressed as I'd hoped to be."I'm a 33 year old mom and I've seen this movie twice in the theatres. I'm a bit of a Pokemon fan myself and my kids are big collectors of anything Pokemon. I never saw the first Pokemon movie (although we own it on dvd and the kids have seen it many times.) Here are my thoughts on Pokemon 2000: the sound effects reminded me of Star Wars sound effects - very, very good. The music was also excellent. I would say Oscar nomination material for the music, but of course, THAT would never happen. the storyline was MUCH better than the tv cartoon series. It was actually a pretty good story, original and much more depth to it than the series. There were some awfully funny jokes in there, and I really liked the characters. We even get to see Team Rocket being amazingly (for them) good-spirited, which gave them more depth than I've seen in the series. The story supported a high purpose, ethical behavior, helping others, heroism, working as a team, respecting the forces of nature, and folklore is an important element. It's a morally uplifting story, and I can recommend it for that reason. I think all the Pokemon were in this movie in some capacity, and that was fun to see. Pikachu is just adorable, as are some of the others. the animation was really not very good and had some odd elements thrown in together. The characters were the same simple line drawings (colored in) as in the cartoon series, and most of the backgrounds looked slapped together. The feeling I got from the background drawings and the drawings of the Pokemon characters, was that it was done as quickly and inexpensively as possible. Only in a few instances did I feel the backgrounds looked really great. For instance, the inside of an airship had this awesome ceiling -- cherubs on a cloud background, like you might find in an old church in Italy or France. Really beautiful. Then you'd see this cheesy animated character moving in the foreground and it simply made it look out of place. Really out of place. The outside of the airship looked like it was computer animation -- and like it came out of the dad's workshop in Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang! -- dozens of spinning propellers and old looking metal holding it all together. But the inside was beautiful marble and that gorgeous ceiling and advanced computers and a villain that could have been played by David Bowie. All these elements together were distracting, I thought. I kept thinking about how the pieces didn't fit, how the characters looked cheesy and the background was insultingly cheap. I wish they had gone for a higher quality production -- they definitely made enough money from Pokemon products to afford better drawings. The bottom line, though, is that the kids liked it. My older kids weren't really excited about it, but enjoyed it. My 6 year old and 3 year old were enthralled. This is one for the kids to watch on video -- on a Saturday evening when the parents are out and a sitter is over. |
