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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 |
 "This movie is a waste of valuable film reel."What a pathetic edition to the pantheons of the world's movies. Sure, we have a "movie" cashing in on the unquestionable success of the Pokemon cartoon series, but I wonder just how many people actually stopped to realise the movie was simply an inflated episode of the cartoon? or perhaps even just three episodes strung together? This film... so badly that I'm not even going to give an account of the plot (if I did it would simply be a rambling along the lines of "Charmander casts his fire spell on Some-Other-Irrelevantly-Named-Badly-Drawn-Japanese-Cartoon-Character" and a simple repetition of this kind of thing). The characters are unaddictive (there are way too many of them for starters), the plot trails off in about a thousand direction, the effects are every bit as bad as the cartoon and the language is so simplistic it is hardly going to accelerate children's learning processes (surely something like this designed for children should help them cope with comlpex language skills?). Such a bad addition to the world of movies is this that it is one of the VERY few movies I haven't seen all the way through - I left after 40 mins to watch a real movie (I think it was Jaws). Okay, so its designed for kids. Big wow - so is the very successful, and far more impressive, Toy Story 2, and A Bug's Life, which appeal to all ages without the non-essential obsession with literally scribbled pictures of pointless magical creatures. Avoid this movie at all costs. It is a waste of time, money, effort, attention and everything else, and there is ALWAYS going to be a better kids movie out there. Pixar looks pretty good, and you can never miss with Disney. Oh, and I haven't just slated this movie because I don't like Pokemon, I did it because I genuinely believe it deserves it. The original Pokemon movie is marginally better than this and if you must see Baulbosaur and co. in battle on the big screen go and see Pokemon The First Movie. Alternatively, watch an episode of the cartoon, which is infinitely better and (because it is much shorter) far more tolerable.  "I love Pokemon!"I confess, I am a 25 year old who loves Pokemon! This movie was very cute. It's really a disaster movie, like Independence Day, but with Pokemon. There are definately parallels with the James Bond series (the rich, evil villan), Deep Impact (natural disaster sequences), and Armageddon (the world waits in terror as one man saves the world), but this is really for kids and adults who have not grown up! "The best example of why Pokemon is bad for you"Watching some of this movie with my 2 year old cousin, I came away with only on realization : Pokemon could only appeal to a 2 year old. Actually, it insults the intelligence of a two year old. No plot, no story, no realistic characterizations, just a filler. The Digimon Movie was definitely better than this.  "UNEXPLAINLY ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR 2000!"Since i saw the first Pokemon movie boy, i was dissapointed,but this one it's really very great, it's beautifuly written with, avery candy eye,and it's very exciting and smart, ENJOY! "Excellent Movie!! Disregard the biased"Pokemon 2000 was a vast improvement over the horribly translated First Movie. The voices were above average; not the same re-used voices from the TV show, though I dislike what a brat they made out of Misty, who was very cute and charming in the Japanese version. The dub music, though, indeed rivals the original Japanese score and creates a more exciting atmosphere, unlike the Batmanish music of the First Movie, which was not appropriate (or good) at all. The 3-D effects combined with regular hand drawings, are quite neat, especially the villain's airship. Finally, I'm glad that they didn't change the dialogue too much; most of it was very closely translated and there weren't stupid Team Rocket Puns. Young Anime fans will enjoy this movie, and Pokemon fans should pick this one up. Although I'm extremely disappointed that there isn't a Subtitled Japanese Audio Track on the DVD which is what, might I add, that prevented us from hearing the wonderful original Japanese voices and music from Mewtwo Strikes Back. On another note, I'd please ask you to ignore the unfair, biased review of a previous review of the day. Reviews should be as unbiased as possible, but when you use phrases such as "movie is a waste of valuable film reel" or "Some-Other-Irrelevantly-Named-Badly-Drawn-Japanese-Cartoon-Character" I think you're going too far. |
