My mom took my sister and I to see this movie in theaters. They played a short in the beginning with all the Pokémon having an adventure with no dialogue except for the Pokémon shouting their names over and over... my mom couldn’t bear it, she left my sister and I in there. We’ve been trapped here since
@@Coaxox A movie like minions is geared towards family viewing. It's much easier for the average adult to enjoy with their kids because of the family dynamic. Would parents rather watch a dad and his three daughters do stuff or a 10 year old boy and his friends do stuff?
the way i see it all pokemon movie have kinda same plot. ash is traveling, meeting a legendary pokemon. bad guys try to get the legendary pokemon, ash fight the bad guy, they won. continue the journey. repeat
I haven't seen this film in ages and have yet to hit play to watch this review of it seeing how when I first saw the title I was dreading watching them bash it. Just like how it was hard to watch them bash Marvel Ultimate Alliance a game that me and 3 other friends put like 100 hours into the 4 person co-op story and loving it. So even though I have delayed watching it for 4 weeks its to hard not to watch them as they are too entertaining. But yet as a kid I thought this movie was great and even though I haven't seen it in ages I still think it holds up for the most part. Only seen like 4 of the Pokemon movies to come after this and then I was to old and over the anime and films just stuck to the games. Yet I remember this movie actually having a solid story with Mewto being basically just a genuine pig forced to be stuck in a lab and growing a hatred towards all humans and plotting is revenge. And I remember seeing the Pokemon and Ash turn to stone and that hitting me hard as a kid.
@@wisewolftony did you watch the review? And if you did... did it hurt? Lml I'm not going to lie it kinda hurt but I couldn't help but die of laughter especially since I ended up kind of agreeing with them in the end 😭😭😭
@@matucomedes Yea I did. And although the points are valid none of them matter to the young kids who watched this film. Plus a good chunk of what they talked about is how messed up the world of pokemon is which I have known about for years now like how much of a perv Brock is.
Haven't seen this film in ages yet I still think it might hold up to this day. Now I have only seen like the 3 or 4 movies to come after this. And then I got to old for the anime and films for them to interest me had to start watching more mature anime. And then just stuck to the games and nothing else. Yet felt this film had a pretty go story with Mewto being stuck in a lab and being tested on and growing a hatred towards humans and plotting his revenge. Which I thought was a very interesting and kind of dark plot for a Pokemon film. And then I remember crying seeing Ash turn into stone.
Technically since Meowth just taught himself... I'd say it's at least possible. Also.. is it bad if these sound like they'd be easy better than wolverine's xmen origins xD( tho just throwing wolverine into the pokemon world wolf probably be entertaining for a lil while.
Fun fact: the English version of this movie cut out an extensive prologue of Mewtwo's childhood friends dying that was in the Japanese version. Mason would have liked this film if it had that scene in it.
Spanish dubbed did have it. And that is what I remembered the most of the movie. Mewtwo was to me what Loki is to most people who watched marvel movies.
"Settle down" should be said to most anime characters in general. In the few animes I've watching people are always yelling either at other characters or just to themselves.
Not sure how true this is, but I heard that the error with Team Rocket mistaking Scyther for Alakazam was caught, when shown to test audiences. They decided to leave it in because of how excited the kids were when they corrected Team Rocket’s mistake.
I was so young when I saw this I had to ask my dad to take me and he hated it so much and when Ash got turned into stone and the pokemon are fighting their clones I cried and I remember my dad turning his head to look at me like "wtf are you crying? Seriously?" Thanks dad Haha I still remember that shit
They reveal in a later issue that the Arbok survived because it’s apparently a special one that can regenerate severed body parts, but that still makes me wonder what if it wasn’t? Did the guy with the Charmeleon know it was special? There’s still a lot of questions.
Yes, because a franchise in which you teach children about love and peace by capturing wild animals and forcing them to fight for you till they pass out should be considered the greatest of all time.
Probably because this movie is absolute trash. And the franchise is built around dog fights. You take animals against their will from.their natural habitat and then force them to live in a small ball and fight other animals. It's horrible!
I get the message. The idea being there's a difference between fighting for sport like boxing and MMA, and fighting to kill or just to fight. They just fucked up that the execution of that message.
Or when Pikachu hugs Ash after overcoming Stone Syndrome, it was awesome as a kid cause Ash and Pik had a really tough time getting up to that point in their partnership. I loved this as a kid. If you look at it from an adult's pov, you're gonna have a bad time.
It is undeniably sad. Even though I've never seen the movie and just watched that scene without context, I can sense the emotional weight of the scene. But unfortunately that's all there is, a strong emotional moment. The rest of the movie's plot doesn't make sense.
To be fair, I think the justification to pokemon fighting is that they legitimately enjoy the competition of it, not like chickens or dogs where theyre just territorial, but they actually comprehend the sport of it and constantly love to test themselves. Their happiness stat literally goes up when they fight in the game so I think thats the reasoning.
If it wasn't for this movie, then we wouldn't have Sarah Natocheny voice Ash Ketchum, Pokémon Black and White, and that CGI Netflix remake we don't talk about. Honestly this should've been a 45-minute long special, such a tragedy. Kunihiko-San dreaming to become the Japanese Walt Disney became a big nightmare for him.😔
To clarify: Pokémon have the urge to battle naturally, if humans weren't around they'd still fight each other. Trainers just have the ingenuity to bring out a Pokémons full potential
Ben at the end wiping the tears and then saying in a manly voice "....s'fuckin terrible" I had to laugh silently bc it's 4am and it really hurt 🤣😆 he's seriously a fuckin comedic genius, and should be more integrated with James and Mason somehow. I know they're literally on opposite ends of the planet, but I feel like the hilarious personalities of all three people, interacting with each other, talking about one piece of media; it'd be so fuckin funny that it would just "break the internet" as they say. #bigsandwich
Little known fact but the original name for this movie was actually Mewtwo Harvest which was a nod to the working title of the original Star Wars "Blue Harvest"
this is so nostalgic in the best most awful way. I remember you could go see the movie and you get like a mew voucher card and you could go to like Books-A-Million and they give you like a mew card.
Why doesn't this appear in the Mr. Sunday Movies Caravan of Garbage Playlist? I would have sworn I've watched every episode from the playlist and was pleasantly surprised to find I hadn't seen this one yet! Great job as always.
C'mon it's not dog fight. Everyone knows that Pokémon are creatures that want to reach higher levels and therefore the fights are beneficial as trainers are their only effective way of leveling up.
@@kamorikioko Of course it isn't, it's like saying Hogwarts is a school that lets children walk around with guns and explosives. You're forgetting it's a different world with different rules, Pokémon want battles and Wizards have wands.
@@kamorikioko So to list you the differences: 1- unlike dogs, Pokémon are as smart as humans and they want battles; 2- unlike animals, Pokémon choose and comprehend the world around just as clearly as humans, therefore have agency; 3- unlike dogs, Pokémon fights don't and wouldn't include fight to death nor fights against their will; 4- unlike humans, those humans in Pokémon world are heavily hinted to be genetically the same as Pokémons; Should I continue to prove how your comparison is poor made and how, even though you know little about Pokémon, you still decide to judge it?
This is one of my formative movies, I love it. I can sing all the songs off the soundtrack, I still, in fact, listen to the CD from time to time. And i gotta say, this was a Hilarious review. 10/10 boys
From an outsider POV, Pokémon is conceptually insane but as a late 90s early 2000s kid, some of this review and their questions on the background of Pokémon were pretty rough.
Of course you'd train your dog to kill the other trainer. Cause once you killed the other Trainer. You can add the dog to your own team. Boom! Now you have two strong dogs.
The little bit of Yu-Gi-Oh in this really makes me want you guys to do some episodes of Y-Gi-Oh. The original series, Duel Monsters, I want to see you guys shred Joey Wheeler.
The only part that's worthwhile is when Ash "dies" and between a beautiful score and some black magic by Pikachu's voice actor who somehow conveys real desperation and sadness by repeating the same word over and over. I guess the music during the first clone battle and mew vs metwo is pretty epic too (not the sappy brother song...)
The reason the other guy (Giovanni) shows up is because it is shown that Giovanni has a mysterious Pokémon in armor in the latter part of season one. So they just connected the dots. Even as a kid I was also confused as to why Mewtwo is revealed when we know. It’s a dumb reveal for the main chars only. I also found this movie boring even as a kid.
Ok, as a fan of the franchise: this movie has not aged well. Yes, the characters are clunky, the moral is terrible, but atleast the animation is good. Atleast i can say that it's not dogfighting. The pokemon and trainers are smart enough to not kill one another, that's why in the games you can heal up fainted pokemon: they are exhausted. Also, the "they shouldn't fight like this..not like this" is a mistranslation in a way. Mewtwo didn't "suppress their powers", they just all agreed to fight on equal grounds and in a brutal way, a way pokemon usually don't fight. Yes, i know it makes no sense when an Electric attack can fry a water type or flamethrower can burn grass types, but still. Animals just going tooth and nail to battle one another is way more brutal than a solar beam. Look at the manga versions of the games! Those are extremely brutal compared to this.
Ok I get the Justice League movies, Dragon Ball Z movie and other shitty films on the list of caravan of garbage but POKEMON DOES NOT FALL HERE!! RIP Mr. Sunday Movies.
As a Pokemon fan, I'm sick and tired of people trying to argue that A) Pokemon is dog fighting and B) Pokemon have no say in it. Pokemon are fully sentient creatures that grow by battling, and they want to go with a strong enough trainer who will make them the strongest they can, potentially evolving them if they can. Even then, Pokemon can refuse to fight in a battle if they don't want to. The anime shows it off by Pokemon outright refusing to battle, and the games have it be Pokemon disobey commands if a trainer doesn't have enough badges (since badges are status symbols of their strength, and the most badges a person has, the more worthy the trainer is). That all being said, I think this Pokemon movie is overhyped. Pokemon 2000 and Pokemon 3 are my favorites.
You. I've been trying to find *anyone* like you for a long time! Finally, somebody who gets it! This is all absolutely correct, and I cannot begin to express how tired I am of seeing this "Pokémon is abuse/dogfighting" meme. Thank you for this!
