Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good concept, poorly executed.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

For nostalgia's sake, I have warm feelings for this movie. It was the year 2000 and I had not a care in the world. All I needed was my Game Boy and Nickelodeon for my world to be filled with wonder. Pokemon the First Movie rocked my 5-year old socks off. Mewtwo was a badass. I even bought the cassette tape of the soundtrack, filled with horrible late 2000's boy band and wannabe pop songs. This movie probably sucks, but why ruin the memory by watching it again?

Pokemon: The First Movie is an awful animated film. It is also a disgrace to foreign- language cinema with the following reasons in The Bad section below. Speaking of which, this film should be nominated a Razzie for Worst Foreign Language Film and it would be a top contender of the year of its release, if such an award existed, which it doesn't.The Bad: 1. Both the Pokemon movies and animated series perpetuate blatant stereotypes of modern Japanese culture. 2. I have not seen the original Japanese version of the film, but just because the original language plays a role in it doesn't mean it improves the quality of the film. Even if I did watch the original Japanese version, it would still be a horrible film. The salt in the wound is the American national bias with its English dub, which skews the English-language voice actors in their favour. 3. The animation is sickeningly cutesy and an example of a very stereotypical representation of Japanese animation, with disproportionately large eyes prominently seen on female characters. 4. The film is used to promote the Pokemon franchise, which is widespread to virtually every form of media, which is one of the reasons why I hate the Pokemon franchise. The franchise is a heavily oversaturated one. 5. The story has an idiotic formula of collecting stupid creatures for the trainers of the franchise to catch. I know the creator, Satoshi Tajiri, is autistic, and I am autistic too. But just because I have autism doesn't mean I like something created by someone who is autistic. That is no excuse for making such an abominable and hateable franchise, and this criticism is coming from someone who is autistic himself. 6. The characters, Satoshi, Kasumi and Takeshi are all annoying stereotypes of Japanese children. I may love Japan, but the thing that disappoints me about the country is that they do not challenge the stereotypes of their country as much as their Western counterparts, and Pokemon is an example of it. 7. Kunihiko Yuyama does not listen to any criticism and continues to make such garbage films with those annoying characters, terrible animation and stupidly formulaic stories, and I dislike him a lot for that. He is one of the worst foreign-language filmmakers of all time.The Good: Absolutely nothing.If you want good Japanese animation, avoid this movie at all costs!

This movie represents weight of copy's life. Myu2 is copy Pokemon. Myu2 is generated by human and Myu's copy. Myu2 attempts to " counterattack " against humanity from hatred to the man who has created only in order to take advantage of the rebound and his own to the system governing the Pokemon because he betrayed the organization that made him. In this story, I know struggling of Myu2 to copy life. Finally real real Pokemon and copy Pokemon fight. The main character, Ash stopped the fight Ting himself. Due to this painful situation we can feel both of real and copy living is important. This movie teaches preciousness of life.

Pokemon doesn't get enough credit for being an animated experience of my generation. I am a 23 year old man who is not ashamed to say how much I loved Pokemon growing up. Farewelling Butterfree was my first encounter with saying hard goodbyes, and many of Ash's successes and failures taught me about life. Its kid-friendly, but in beneficial way.It is therefore a shame that this film cannot appeal to critics without prior experience with Pokemon. Sour adults will listen to one "Pika-Pika" and tune out for the next 90 minutes. And that is sad because Pokemon is actually a very moving and insightful film. Ash and co aren't deep characters, but they don't need to be. The only characters who matter are Mewtwo and Mew, and those are done well. Mewtwo seeks purpose, and strikes back at those who try to restrain him. Mew, whilst a kind an innocent being, completely lacks empathy, as seen in the Pokemon tears scene. Insightful audiences will be able to deduce how Mewtwo's traits therefore originated with Mew. Maybe they aren't as unalike as once thought.There's plenty of Pokemon-level action and humour, as completely expected from what is pretty much an extended episode of the anime. The real thing that sets the First Movie apart from the typical anime episodes is the beautifully done emotional climax of the film. The film's soundtrack, including one of my all time favourite songs "Brother, My Brother", do wonders for this moment. The moment lasts just long enough to devastate the audience before resolving it, something that Frozen completely missed a few years ago.I thought an opportunity was missed to show all 151 Pokemon in the movie (even in the background, it would've been a cool tidbit). Pokemon isn't an animated classic like Toy Story or The Lion King, but its certainly better than the criticism it unjustifiably gets. It exceeds its potential, and for me that is enough.