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Pokemon - Jirachi Wish Maker Directors: Masamitsu Hidaka, Kunihiko Yuyama Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Animated, Color, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 81 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Home Vid Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01 Buy from Amazon |
 "Another wonderful "Pokemon" film!"Kudos to "Pokemon" for turning out yet another wonderful masterpiece!Like"Pokemon Heroes" and the other "Pokemon" films,JWM has a unique plot,well-rounded characters,and plenty of action,suspense ,comedy and drama!And the scenes are breath-taking and well-animated! Get this for your family today and watch everyone's faces light up with pure joy! "Amazing! The best Pokemon movie yet!"Out of the 6 Pokemon films that have been released to the U.S so far, this one takes the cake. There wasn't an opening "theme song and battle some random trainer" segment, which I thought was a nice improvement, so the movie could get right into the story. The focus on the bond of friendship shared between Max (Masato) and Jirachi was a welcome change from having Ash (Satoshi) save the world over and over again. Also, the slight undertones of romance between Diane and Butler, and also the darker themes of losing a friend made this movie "not just kids stuff." Superb animation, original music (even the song May (Haruka) sang was the original Japanese track!), almost dead on translation (only a few dumb jokes sprinkled here and there) and even a combination of an English/Japanese ending theme! Now THIS, my fellow Pokemon loving fans, is how a movie should be done! Maybe for the seventh movie (entitled "Destiny Deoxys" being released in February here in the U.S), 4Kids will actually not tamper with the footage (Unedited?! My GOD, could it be so?! *dies*) and include a Japanese audio track along with the standard dub track. I'd KILL for that. This was a definite hit for me, even though I'm considered "too old" (high school) to like Pokemon anymore. It's a wonderfully heartwarming movie; it made me cry a little bit at the end even. Go out and buy it and you'll see what I mean!  "WHERE IS MISTY?!"First of all I'm 13. But not me about the movie. Well the animation is superb and no theme song and battle some random kid part. good. The thing that ticked me off is May's Wish. She wants Ash. I can see it in her pathetic eyes. I just wished Misty was here so she can do her wish (I would know that too). *sigh* to tell you the truth I miss Misty a lot so I didn't bother to watch in with intrest. The song though is great Chiisaki mono is great. So in other words it was ok but it needs Misty to standout like everyone else  "A very cutesy movie"Unlike the other even-numbered Pokemon movies 2000-The Power Of One and 4Ever-Celebi: Voice of the Forest, Jirachi holds good for a Pokemon movie. PROS: -Cute characters -Better than Pokemon Advanced and Pokemon Advanced Challenge -Decent plot and story CONS: -No Japanese audio track (Refers to the DVD) This is strictly for kids only! If you are looking a subbed DVD of the movie, stay away from this DVD. But you don't mind watching anime dubs, Jirachi Wish Maker is worth a look. "Alright, but could have been a lot better..."As an avid Pokemon fan I couldn't wait to see this film, I have all the films so far in both Japanese (as the UK is also region 2 so I get the originals from Japan) and English. However, as I couldn't find Jirachi Wish Maker in Japan and I only have the original version of the short 'Odoru Pokemon Himitsu Kichi' (appaulingly dubbed 'Gotta Dance' in English) I had to settle for just the English version of this film. I feel that the plots of the films are beginning to slip, well, it's not really suprising as this is the SIXTH installment. The story to this film was VERY dull, and Jirachi wasn't as much cute as he was annoying ! Although I am glad that they let another character take over the limelight other than Ash (Satoshi) and Max (Masato) did a great job as main character. As usual, nintendo of America made many dubbing mistakes that just make you want to cringe, for example, when Max wishes for 'candy' Jirachi not only makes candy appear but also boxes of crackers and crisps (or chips to Americans) surely wishing for 'snacks' would have made more sense, even a three year old could see that ! The animation is very rich in quality, which is impressive, but sadly this is ruined by the less than perfect voice acting. Even Veronica Taylor who has had years of experience playing the role of Ash sounded like she had a sore throat at times, this can never live up to Rika Matsumoto's flawless performances as Satoshi. Although impressed that they kept the Japanese background soundtrack (including the instrumental version of 'Advance Adventure' the original Japanese opening theme song) the English versions of 'Chisaki Mono' ('Make A Wish') and the even worse attempt at 'Polka O Dolka' (the theme song from Gotta Dance) can only be described as vomit-enducing to all those with a sense of hearing. As for the short, it is simply terrible !!! and yet, I love the Japanese version, this just goes to show that original really is best. Do yourself a favour and buy the DVD from Japan. I am glad that they have started showing the ending videos along with the shorts though - the one triumph of Miramax over WB ! Problems aside, I generously gave this film a 4/5 rating simply because I'm too much of a Pokemon fan to be able to rate this any lower. If you are not a huge fan of Pokemon then you will simply hate this film ! But not to worry, the first 5 are really good so check those out instead =D |
