Pokémon: The First Movie (2016)

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Blistering performances.

Pokemon movies tend to be bad movies, at least that's what everybody normally thinks if you have never seen the Japanese version of these movies. Japanese subs can never save the movie but they do help them tremendously. And this movie has that most apparant. Okay, so here's the deal with this movie. The English Dub is like a good bad movie which is stupid a lot of the time but still fun to watch, kinda like a funny Shyamalan movie but the Japanese Sub is infinitely better, but not enough to save the whole movie and is comparable in quality to something like a good Shyamalan movie. The reason is that the movie itself is the same between the two but the writing, themes, and music choices are actually superior in the sub than in the dub. The reason is that although the dub music sounds good, there are choices made in the sub version that really make certain scenes a lot more engaging and powerful with one exception, the opening song. The song in the Dub is kickass awesome while the sub's theme song is really stupid.Thematically, the sub is also a million times better. Rather than subverting and ignoring the original message of the movie with dumb politically correct nonsense, the sub carries an interesting series of moral questions that actually build on one another. The movie has effort put into the message which is reinforced by dialogue, scenes, and actions performed by characters and Pokemon. Furthermore, the message isn't obvious and you have to think about what's going on. However, some things are kinda wrong with the dialogue at times and some lines unfortunately don't make sense, however it is still better than the dub's dialogue. However, with that said the Sub can't change certain plot decisions made in the movie meaning that a lot of stuff can't be explained with logic. However, the explanation is actually there for most of the sub and has things that can be understood if one pays attention to the movie...for the most part. This is something the dub doesn't do, it just lays down a bad explanation for events that doesn't make sense to the viewer(s) and you just have to break your suspension of disbelief. The voice acting in the sub is also way better. People sound organic and conversations feel natural between people in the sub while people in the dub sound stupid and corny a lot of the time with a few exceptions. Overall I'm giving this a 7/10 for the Sub while the dub gets a whopping 5/10. If your gonna watch this and want a bad movie, watch the dub you will not be disappointed. If you love Pokemon, like me however, and want a better movie (not great) but better movie please don't watch the dub, just listen to the Pokemon theme in the dub and then watch the Japanese sub. It is a lot better and way more enjoyable.

I am not a huge pokemon fan or anything like that but this was on TV and I figured, why not? As stupid as it is, pokemon is iconic and the first film is sort of a must watch for anyone looking to be a pseudo intellectual pop culture historian. Whatever, I just wanted to see if it was a worthwhile anime and meh, it is okay. The story was simple but promising until it became about something else and blah, blah, blah. Long story short - it is okay.

The enormous Pokemon franchise got off to a pretty mediocre start with this first movie (proudly naming itself as such too), at least in English territories. Despite being one of the biggest cash cows on Earth for nearly two decades there has never been a definitive edition of this movie in English. Arriving in theatres here in the UK almost 2 full years after its debut in Japan the translation completely changes the plot to something that goes against the very nature of the Pokemon concept.Unless you were a hardcore fan of the TV show there was simply no way you could have understood what was going on and I can only imagine that there were scores of frustrated parents sitting in theatres, scratching their heads, wondering what sort of culture their sprogs were going to unleash on the world when they came of age.Evil scientists have produced a clone of Mew, dubbed MewTwo, who revolts against his creators and attempts to take over the world with his superpowers. Coincidentally, the first Mew to be born in many hundreds of years, suddenly rises out of the water and begins exploring the strange, new world he finds himself in (this is merely guesswork as absolutely none of this is explicitly explained). Ash, Misty, and Brock are lured by MewTwo to a secret island lair where he attempts to steal all of their Pokemon. By sheer luck, or bad writing, Mew is also on the island and prevents MewTwo from his global domination.The English version tries, and horribly fails, to make it hip and fashionable (by 1999 tastes) but the supervising producers obviously did not understand the franchise that they were messing with and totally flubbed it.I am sure that the Japanese dub is a better movie. The series improved after this, but it truly is a bad start.

Okay Lets beginAround Febuary i read critics reviews of Pokemon the First Movie and saw that they thought it was boring at the same time why did i trust the critics if they said "Wild" Was "Great" ....Not so much but cricrts words and rented the movie with low expectations and once again, the critics are wrong. I found myself exited and on the edge of my seat in Joy and thrill nonstop something hard to find movies now a days but with a movies that are "Great" i cant find that Spoiler here: when the battle was in its peak for minutes i felt as if it was like the 2014 sugar bowl the Pure interesting This is one of the best movie I've seen in a while and I'm glad i saw it!-bulidernation