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Pokémon Movies Boy, I say the Pokémon movie
yesterday... and (except for the ending) was it ever good!
Much better than the TV show, a heck of a lot more serious.
Let's see... first of all, the promo
card I got was an Electabuzz. Bah! I don't need him! I need
Mewtwo(s)!
Anyway, the beginning Pokémon
Land short film was weeeird. Those cut scenes with the
Primeapes, Chanseys, etc, were really trippy. I had no idea
to why they were there in the first place. That whole movie
was spiffy none the less. Everyone was cheering when Snorlax
squashed Pikachu & Raichu. Plus we officially got to see
two of the new Pokémon! Snubble and Marril. Snubble
had a very deep growling, rumbling voice and Marril had a
cute little voice. I like.
Well anyway, the short went along
like this. The three human characters dropped off their
Pokémon at this amusement park for Pokémon.
After a short credits intro to the short, Ash's
Pokédex "Dexter" began to narrate. First off, Togepi
(that oh-so-cute Pokémon) began to get irritable
since it was very hungry. Pikachu tried to calm it down by
doing some crazy mace making and wobbly dancing (which was
actually funny). Bulbasaur eventually found some food, but
Psyduck ate it up. Togepi eventually calmed down and lead
Pikachu to a wild goose chase. Well, it took Pikachu down
into the lake and he got all wet and stuff. Finally Pikachu,
Squirtle, and Bulbasaur got Togepi to sleep. Unfortunatly
for them, come walking in is a small group of four
Pokémon, a Cubone, a Raichu, a Snubble, and a Marril.
Their loud laughter and shouts causes Togepi to wake up and
cry. Pikachu tells them to stop, but they don't listen.
Eventually everyone gets into a heated arguement and it
leads to a competition to see who's the best Pokémon.
(9_9)
OK, so the small group of
Pokémon begin racing and stuff and a lot of other
things happen which I forget, and eventually Charizard get's
it's head stuck into a tube. Blah blah friendship and
working together, blah blah blah and then every
Pokémon finally get's Charizard's head out of the
tube. Yadda yadda everyone becomes friends and then it's
time to go. There's not much in it but a bunch of corne---
er... helpful morals and ethics that are symbolized by
Pokémon, making every kid all happy and such.
Now we get to the good part, the
main movie.
Now I really liked MSB (Mewtwo
Strikes Back) becuase of Mewtwo. That Mewtwo is one bad
moth-- uh.. well, it's just bad. He's the cream of the crop
evil for a kiddie movie (next to Megatron from Transformers,
he was too evil). The thing I liked the most was his deep,
Orwellian voice. "This cannot be," was my favorite quote out
of the movie.
To sum the movie up, Mewtwo
was cloned in a lab from some of Mew's DNA. The lab is
located far off the coast of any shore. After several
mistrials and errors, the scientists finally got things
right (sort of) and created Mewtwo. Mewtwo didn't like the
fact that he was nothing but a duplicate and went psycho on
the scientists. Giovanni of Team Rocket eventually got
Mewtwo to join him and aided Team Rocket in capturing all
sorts of Pokémon. Mewtwo eventually learned that he
was made only to be used as a weapon by Giovanni and went
psycho on him. Mewtwo blew up Giovanni's special fortress
and flew off (it was exactly what happened in the TV episode
where you saw Mewtwo fly off after the fortress blew up).
Then Mewtwo flew back to his original birthplace, back to
the ruins of the lab and vowed revenge on all humans.
Point blank Ash. We find Ash and
company on the coast of some place about to eat lunch.
Eventually a trainer comes up and wishes to battle Ash. His
first Pokémon the trainer uses is another new
Pokémon, Donphan (I still perfer Tirephant). Ash,
like always, brutally 'slaughters' his opponent, KO'ing all
of them like it was another day.
Mewtwo keeps watch on him and sends
an invitation to Ash (although Mewtwo doesn't make any
references to himself). The invitation invites all of the
best Pokémon masters and trainers over to his island.
Ash agrees to go (natch).
It eventually leads Ash and company
to a port city, where they will take a ferry over to the
island where Mewtwo is. However a storm begins brewing and
the ferry can't get across. Three brave Pokémon
trainers break Officer Jenny's rule about not using their
Pokémon to get to the island. Ash on the other hand
get a ride from a couple of vikings (guess who?). Brock
comments that he didn't know that Vikings existed, Ash says
that they mostly live in Minnesota (hah hah hah). The trio
(nix the Team Rocket'ed vikings) eventually brave the storm
on their own and reach the island.
On the island, the three are greeted
by Mewtwo's servant. They are lead into a large chamber room
where they meet the three other Pokémon trainers who
traveled to the island. It ends up that Ash and the other
three are the only ones there, since getting to the island
despite the weather deems you worthy enough to be a good
Pokémon trainer.
The all of the trainers and such
then meet up with Mewtwo, in all his glory. However,
everyone becomes upset that Mewtwo is a Pokémon, and
Pokémon can't be Pokémon trainers. Mewtwo
explains his life story (sort of speak) and describes that
all Pokémon are slaves to their human masters.
Eventually all this ruccus starts a large battle between
Mewtwo and everyone else.
Jesse, James and Meowth on the other
hand discover Mewtwo's secret cloning machine. That's where
he can clone all sorts of Pokémon. The three there
find three Pokémon have already been cloned. A super
Blastoise, a super Venusaur, and a super Charizard. They're
faster and stronger than their non-super counterparts.
Well this big battle goes on. Mewtwo
eventually steals all the Pokémon around and clones
them into some more super Pokémon. The original
Pokémon ends up being released by Ash, but not until
after the super Pokémon walk out under Mewtwo's
control. The regular Pokémon and super Pokémon
end up batlting each other.
Then enters Mew. I like Mew. it has
a sweek sute little meep of a voice. Mew, mew! Anyway, the
regular and super Pokémon get tired since they're
equally matched and end up getting tired. As all the
Pokémon take a rest, Mew and Mewtwo begin battling
and such.
Then the movie his a low point (at
least for me) where they cram all the different morals and
ethics and such in a 10 minute time frame. Ugh. Meowth and
his clone begin discussing that even though they're
different individuals, they all share the air and the Earth
and other noticible traits.
Eventually Mewtwo sees the light
about that Pokémon aren't slaves and that not all
humans are evils and such. He eventually stops his little
battle thing and returns everything back to normal. At a
cost, everyone has no memory of what happened. Booo!
Well, that's just about what
happened. I really don't want to ruin the movie for you (if
I didn't already). No doubt that you'll watch the movie
still. And I suggest that you do. I'd like to see the faces
of all those Titanic and Star Wars fools when the
Pokémon tops the box office sales of all time. Hah!
Pokémon: The First Movie; Mewtwo Strikes
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