AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
Aaalright, time for my cup of tea.
First off, this movie has some weird liberties with logic. Ash apparently beat 3 gyms with nothing but Pikachu and a Caterpie that hasn't evolved yet. He's a prodigy, apparently. Incineroar's Blaze is brought up one time, but no one decides to point out Charmeleon has it as well. Then the ability is never brought up or doesn't trigger on the second battle for Incineroar. Period. And Pikachu sending a one-ton something-something Snorlax in the air with just Iron Tail? Goodness.
Don't get me started on the ghost Ash on the real world.
They milked the friendship thing sooo much it felt cheesy. It peaked when Butterfree was released. Now if you saw the original release episode, you may be sad this happens once more. But sadly, in movie format, the audience doesn't get enough screen time with Butterfree save for its last 5 minutes because everyone else is taking screen time as is.
Onto the characters.
Ash: I want to become a Pokemon Master!
Verity: So, the best trainer of all?
Ash: No, better than that!
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...You wanted an explanation for that at last in movie form? Sorry. We're still trying to figure out where Springfield is.
Ash, Verity just needs to be suicidally stupid and she'll be a female you easy. When she does that, MARRY HER. I actually liked her, probably because she was a real portrayal of an action girl in the anime that's not a one time COTD. And her Piplup wasn't annoying. Wow.
Sorrel: It's said that Ho-oh lives at the end of a rainbow.
Me: So do Leprechauns, Sorrel, and them big pots o' gold.
Sorrel was just decent but I liked him less than I did with Verity, who seemed to have more stuff than he did. His Lucario has got to be the worst representation of the line by the writers yet since it spent almost all its time sitting, walking, standing around doing nothing memorable, let alone changing expressions enough. Then I noticed it was entirely missing in a few scenes even while Verity's Piplup was around. In fact, Pikachu and Piplup didn't even interact with the jackal, or Ash. Literally. Like what was the point? The freaking dead Luxray had more backstory than the living Lucario. How is that possible?
But then Sorrel reveals meeting his Lucario restored his faith in making friends with Pokemon. Time for an expository flashback!
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Any moment now.
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I mean, the dead Luxray got a flashback, so why not for the living Lucario?
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...Screw you, writers.
TRio starts as buffoons and their scenes are extremely spendable. They don't even meet Ash in person. They're more useless than ever.
Ash's tantrum for losing was...believable, honestly. He did think he was an unstoppable perfect trainer who would never lose, which was only fueled by the Rainbow Hero story on his side. Shame that we'll never see Ash Ketchum: Car Master...
Those Primeape were...aggressive? If anything, Ash's Primeape was a demon.
Marshadow was boring, though. It just kept stalking the group and only became the main conflict because Ho-oh being the villain would have been detrimental. In fact, why even bother injecting a Gen VII Pokemon and other Pokemon and characters outside Gen I and Gen II, besides celebrating an anniversary? They felt like unneeded distractions that didn't bring much to the table.
Cross was a flat character till he revealed he also saw Ho-oh, but I wished we could've seen some more backstory on that. Oh, and his Midnight Lycanroc has literally the same amount of importance as Sorrel's Lucario: gets a mention that they met before and became friends, but the movie fails to explain more than that. His Incineroar existing only to fight was a major letdown.
The music was...awful, like always. Goldfarb not only composes the horrendous music, but he also increases the volume so much you can barely hear the characters talk.
Overall, this movie really wants to move your nostalgia, but only diehard fans will be moved. Otherwise, this is a decent movie that makes Ash have the usual level of spotlight ahead of anyone else... Also, Verity and Sorrel had more potential as recurring characters than being cursed to one movie, but alas.
...Does Bonji not have a Pokemon at all?
...And by the way, I love the fact 30-something guys screamed profanities at theaters just hearing Pikachu say more than 5 words while little kids were around.
First off, this movie has some weird liberties with logic. Ash apparently beat 3 gyms with nothing but Pikachu and a Caterpie that hasn't evolved yet. He's a prodigy, apparently. Incineroar's Blaze is brought up one time, but no one decides to point out Charmeleon has it as well. Then the ability is never brought up or doesn't trigger on the second battle for Incineroar. Period. And Pikachu sending a one-ton something-something Snorlax in the air with just Iron Tail? Goodness.
Don't get me started on the ghost Ash on the real world.
They milked the friendship thing sooo much it felt cheesy. It peaked when Butterfree was released. Now if you saw the original release episode, you may be sad this happens once more. But sadly, in movie format, the audience doesn't get enough screen time with Butterfree save for its last 5 minutes because everyone else is taking screen time as is.
Onto the characters.
Ash: I want to become a Pokemon Master!
Verity: So, the best trainer of all?
Ash: No, better than that!
...
...
...You wanted an explanation for that at last in movie form? Sorry. We're still trying to figure out where Springfield is.
Ash, Verity just needs to be suicidally stupid and she'll be a female you easy. When she does that, MARRY HER. I actually liked her, probably because she was a real portrayal of an action girl in the anime that's not a one time COTD. And her Piplup wasn't annoying. Wow.
Sorrel: It's said that Ho-oh lives at the end of a rainbow.
Me: So do Leprechauns, Sorrel, and them big pots o' gold.
Sorrel was just decent but I liked him less than I did with Verity, who seemed to have more stuff than he did. His Lucario has got to be the worst representation of the line by the writers yet since it spent almost all its time sitting, walking, standing around doing nothing memorable, let alone changing expressions enough. Then I noticed it was entirely missing in a few scenes even while Verity's Piplup was around. In fact, Pikachu and Piplup didn't even interact with the jackal, or Ash. Literally. Like what was the point? The freaking dead Luxray had more backstory than the living Lucario. How is that possible?
But then Sorrel reveals meeting his Lucario restored his faith in making friends with Pokemon. Time for an expository flashback!
...
...
...
Any moment now.
...
...
...
I mean, the dead Luxray got a flashback, so why not for the living Lucario?
...
...
...
...Screw you, writers.
TRio starts as buffoons and their scenes are extremely spendable. They don't even meet Ash in person. They're more useless than ever.
Ash's tantrum for losing was...believable, honestly. He did think he was an unstoppable perfect trainer who would never lose, which was only fueled by the Rainbow Hero story on his side. Shame that we'll never see Ash Ketchum: Car Master...
Those Primeape were...aggressive? If anything, Ash's Primeape was a demon.
Marshadow was boring, though. It just kept stalking the group and only became the main conflict because Ho-oh being the villain would have been detrimental. In fact, why even bother injecting a Gen VII Pokemon and other Pokemon and characters outside Gen I and Gen II, besides celebrating an anniversary? They felt like unneeded distractions that didn't bring much to the table.
Cross was a flat character till he revealed he also saw Ho-oh, but I wished we could've seen some more backstory on that. Oh, and his Midnight Lycanroc has literally the same amount of importance as Sorrel's Lucario: gets a mention that they met before and became friends, but the movie fails to explain more than that. His Incineroar existing only to fight was a major letdown.
The music was...awful, like always. Goldfarb not only composes the horrendous music, but he also increases the volume so much you can barely hear the characters talk.
Overall, this movie really wants to move your nostalgia, but only diehard fans will be moved. Otherwise, this is a decent movie that makes Ash have the usual level of spotlight ahead of anyone else... Also, Verity and Sorrel had more potential as recurring characters than being cursed to one movie, but alas.
...Does Bonji not have a Pokemon at all?
...And by the way, I love the fact 30-something guys screamed profanities at theaters just hearing Pikachu say more than 5 words while little kids were around.
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