It's here! My full review! I bet you all have been on the edge of your seats waiting for this, not able to sleep at night due to you being so curious as to what I thought about the adventures of Amy Rose and her step into a parallel universe. My verdict? Ready? READY?
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The Visitor of the Space Fissure (Deoxys) was totally a better movie than this.
The first eight minutes before the title sequence were done excellently, with some absolutely brutal action between Giratina and Dialga. Too bad that was a false indicator of the rest of the movie, which quite frankly bored me to tears. The culminating battle that was attempted near the end (which involved random beams fired between Giratina and an Arwing) was pretty mundane, and the overall setting didn't have the impact that places like Alto Mare and Alamos in previous movies had. The Reverse World sounds creative on paper, but turned out to be totally uninteresting, even with some unique artistic style. The "normal" world wasn't much better, as even though the train ride was cool, they didn't do much with the setting.
The characters? Shaymin was cute, but it didn't give off that charm that Manaphy did in Movie 9, and its ability to constantly "refresh" everything (don't know or care to learn the attack name) came off as being pretty lame, given how many times it was used. Zero was one of the more generic villains we've seen in these movies, but he actually had potential to be interesting, given his relationship with Mugen. I felt they could have gone deeper with that and their past, but they didn't. Speaking of Mugen, I wasn't a big fan of him either, other than his occasional haughtyness and him essentially being the reincarnation of Dr. Octopus.
Regigigas really disappointed me, as even though it tried to use the power of global warming to stop the impending ice age, it was the events in the Reverse World that really stopped it, rendering its role fairly useless (though I admire being able to summon hundreds of Mamoswine out of nowhere and have them do your bidding). Muku.BIRD was more heroic in its role, saving Shaymin from its plummet into the bottomless abyss.
The overall movie was an anticlimax. A glacier is very slowly crawling toward some town. Some random Johto forest Pokemon might lose their homes. Brock is in danger of becoming extinct because nobody is paying attention to him. Oh yeah. Brock. Not only did he not get sucked into the Reverse World with the others at the beginning, but he didn't get to fly onto Zero's Doomship, being left behind in two intense scenes. And his Pokemon didn't do anything, either. The movie also lacked the token cute girl that had plagued every previous movie, unless you count Infi, who actually doesn't count at all.
"But Suikun, do you have anything positive to say?" Well, this is normally the part where I'd mention how the music was nice and all, but the soundtrack was perhaps even more generic than the plot. I don't recall a single memorable piece that I'd like to hear in the series; a first for these movies. Most of the time, I hardly noticed the BGM. I didn't even care for the Crystal Kay vocal over the credits.
Movie 4 is and likely always will be the bottom of the barrel in my books for its hysterically awful battle sequences and horribly failed attempts at emotion, but I think I'm gonna have to award this 2nd place not because it was totally awful - as it wasn't - but because it was so dang generic in every sense of the word. The Deoxys movie - which previously held that position - at least had some pretty cool characters (Tooi exluded) and a fun technology-based theme. This movie just didn't excel at any area, even though it didn't really bomb outside maybe the use of Regigigas.
EDIT: On second thought, this movie's climax wasn't quite as pathetic as Blocky Attack. I may end up ranking this above Deoxys within time...