Pokemon, Childhood from a Movie

Ash (Veronica Taylor), Pikachu (Ikue Ootani), Brock (Eric Stuart), and Misty (Racheal Lillis) are settling down on top of a hill, while focusing on Ash complaining about being hungry, a trainer comes roaming around and challenges him to a battle. Ash end in a glorious victory, and the trainer runs off crying, but as the trainer moves along, a Dragonite appears and gives him an invitation to battle the world’s greatest Pokémon Master. Ash accepts, since he himself wants to become the greatest, and the story begins with the four on a brand new adventure. Pokémon was released in November of 1999 and directed by Micheal Haigney (USA version) but was originally directed by Kunihiko Yuyama (Japanese Version). The writer of the movie was Takeshi Shudo.

Pokémon Mewtwo Strikes Back is a must see Pokémon Movie, and is by far the best with an off topic plot from the show but ends in a way that makes sense why it isn’t mention in the show. No matter what age you may be, even though it’s a kid’s anime movie; it will bring back your childhood memories. Rating is varied, but a rating of 4 was the average giving, but in my opinion, it is at least 7.5 out of 10. The basic storyline of Pokémon Mewtwo Strikes Back is Ash and his friends are on an event to battle against the world’s greatest Pokémon Master but are suddenly cut off by a storm. Luckily, some Vikings, according to Ash, mainly live in Minnesota; help give them a ride to the island where the Master is waiting. The boat flips over and they are forced to use their Pokémon to help get past the high currents and the extreme storm. They end up making it there and are confronted by a slave of sort of the Master. They are escorted in and it seems peaceful. Ash and his friends also meet the other three people who were able to make it past the storm and onto the island. Suddenly the lights are dimmed and they meet the Master, who ends up being a cloned Pokémon, Mewtwo (Phillip Barlett), Mew’s clone.The runtime will but you back at approximately 75 minutes.

One scene that gets me is the scene right when the song Brother, My Brother, sung by Bless Union of Souls, start. The camera starts off focused on Ash and slowly shows the fight scene as a whole and how the fight is just meaningless. It zooms into Ash’s face as he is in horror of the pain in the Pokémon’s eyes that are fighting. The colors and lighting shown in the scene is just depressing and just brings you close to tears, one of the 3 times in this movie. Pikachu and the actor Ikue Ootani plays the part well and shows how he will not fight no matter what and the acting helps brings it to life. The song itself gives viewer a sense of uselessness involve in this fight and put the question of why are they doing this in the eyes of Pokémon lovers. The Ending of this scene pretty much ends the movie story but it’s the one scene no one should miss.

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