Pokémon: The First Movie (2016)

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!

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

I loved Pokémon growing up. I stopped watching it around 2009-ish and moved on to other things. However I have recently been revisiting Pokémon and have decided to do a Pokémon movie marathon.The first in the series is definitely a good one. I'll admit there is some nostalgia-related bias here, but I enjoyed it as a whole.It does have some flaws. It is basically your typical "bad guy vows to take over the world" story and the animation has not aged well. There are also some questionable scenes. For example, Ash trying to punch Mewtwo was kind of stupid and the "pokemon tears ex machina" scene was pretty contrived.However, there is much to enjoy. The characters were as likable as ever. Mewtwo is an awesome Pokemon. Some of his powers, while outlandish, were wicked cool. You also gotta love Mew.The Pokémon battles and the battle between Mew and Mewtwo will give Pokémon fans some excitement. I also appreciated the messages that we must all live in peace and that it matters more how you live your life than why you were created.Revisiting my childhood was an absolute joy. As for the quality of the movie, I wouldn't call it great, but it was definitely very good and worth watching for Pokémon fans.RATING: B

two characters are a clone of the other... one electric mouse sidekick who is selling tools like R2D2/ewoks in the star wars franchise. Japanese have learned a lot since world war II and are using military style propaganda training to sell toys and some of the work is esoteric occult like Hitler learned in the war, and some is black magik they are selling children using their sexual powers Plot structure is DNA spiral... one strain is incorporate spliced into two and the result is that while one prays on the soul the other is using the body as a host mechanism to the give the soul false hunger for illusion, pokemon games and game boy advance/super Nintendo.good for movie, not best for hicldren but in my ed class this was one of the xamples of a movie that does its best job selling to childrenanother character is metwo aka "the dark one", the "false twin" who is the black antichrist of the main character mew ash ketchum. he falls for illuminati doctrine/false flag and ufos, some of the imagery is directly linked to Satan worship and I am reminding my grilfriends bible right now and I've taken several notes how Lord Metwo is throne to Thiraka the Ethiopian King and Brock/Misty represent the Head of JupiterOuija/candles/satanic lamps are all directly referenced in this movie, as well as "balls"