Ryu Taylor
Unwavering beliefs. Richter Taylor is my name now.
Until a proper review thread for this movie opens up, I'll just leave my thoughts on it here:
The art in the ending credits and the environments are the only part of the movie that looked good. Everything else looked awful, even worse than they did in the trailers and freeze-frames.
The script is as full of plot holes as the JP script of both M22 and M01. There was not so much as an attempt to explain how the Pokemon tears thing worked. And also, if Mewtwo's not an outright villain this time around, why keep that storm around? He isn't out to destroy the world with it in this one, which also raises the question of why he makes clones of everyone's Pokemon. Originally, he intended the clone Pokemon to be the population of the world once it was his, but now...basically no reason. This Mewtwo (and JP M01 Mewtwo) makes no sense at all. Plus, the dialogue in general apart from the maintained 4kids-isms isn't good; it's uninspired and bland.
The performances are excellent, especially those of Sarah Natochenny, Dan Green, and the returning cast from the 4kids dub. They did a great job despite having such a dull script to work with.
Except for the OP and ED of both the JP version and the dub, the soundtrack was awful. It's never a good sign when they let Shinji Miyazaki do remixes, and this OST was full of them. Back when I heard this OST from a Youtube playlist, I had given it a 21/100. But now that I've experienced it with the movie, I'm knocking that down to a 16. Happy as I am that the circus music that was in JP M01's flying Pokeballs scene got removed and replaced with something more suitable, it doesn't save this OST.
The story has the same "makes no sense" problem as the script does.
In numbers:
Story: 60
Animation: 50
Scenery: 90
Music: 16
Performances: 96
Script: 60
Overall: 39
Sad to say my prediction came true: I didn't like this movie. In fact, it's the new third worst Pokemon movie.
One more thing: there is no forgiving how terribly they bastardized the scene of Ash turning into metal. Pikachu's almost-catatonic quiet despair from the original beats the over-the-top wailing from this version easily.
The art in the ending credits and the environments are the only part of the movie that looked good. Everything else looked awful, even worse than they did in the trailers and freeze-frames.
The script is as full of plot holes as the JP script of both M22 and M01. There was not so much as an attempt to explain how the Pokemon tears thing worked. And also, if Mewtwo's not an outright villain this time around, why keep that storm around? He isn't out to destroy the world with it in this one, which also raises the question of why he makes clones of everyone's Pokemon. Originally, he intended the clone Pokemon to be the population of the world once it was his, but now...basically no reason. This Mewtwo (and JP M01 Mewtwo) makes no sense at all. Plus, the dialogue in general apart from the maintained 4kids-isms isn't good; it's uninspired and bland.
The performances are excellent, especially those of Sarah Natochenny, Dan Green, and the returning cast from the 4kids dub. They did a great job despite having such a dull script to work with.
Except for the OP and ED of both the JP version and the dub, the soundtrack was awful. It's never a good sign when they let Shinji Miyazaki do remixes, and this OST was full of them. Back when I heard this OST from a Youtube playlist, I had given it a 21/100. But now that I've experienced it with the movie, I'm knocking that down to a 16. Happy as I am that the circus music that was in JP M01's flying Pokeballs scene got removed and replaced with something more suitable, it doesn't save this OST.
The story has the same "makes no sense" problem as the script does.
In numbers:
Story: 60
Animation: 50
Scenery: 90
Music: 16
Performances: 96
Script: 60
Overall: 39
Sad to say my prediction came true: I didn't like this movie. In fact, it's the new third worst Pokemon movie.
One more thing: there is no forgiving how terribly they bastardized the scene of Ash turning into metal. Pikachu's almost-catatonic quiet despair from the original beats the over-the-top wailing from this version easily.