Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
Yet another excellent Pokémon movie.
Following two films that had already demonstrated the franchise's cinematic potential, Pokémon 3: The Movie manages to maintain the standard and deliver another highly competent adventure. While it may not be the grandest entry in the initial trilogy, it certainly packs the strongest emotional punch, offering a story that goes far beyond the simple capture of a Legendary Pokémon.
The first thing that stands out is the animation. As with the previous films, the visual quality is impressive, especially considering it is a production from the year 2000. The environments are incredibly detailed, the effects involving the Unown are beautiful, and the transformation of the mansion into a massive crystal castle creates a unique atmosphere within the franchis…
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Pokemon movie 3, A.K.A. the curse of the Kamen Rider/Super Sentai movies being worst than the main series strikes in the Pocket Monsters franchise. Again we're back at Takeshi Shudo trying to be uberserious and "for adults" and failing hard at it, again we're back at Takeshi Shudo 1:1 ripping off other stuff from other sources (in particular he ripped off the second season of Sailor Moon with this one, which is hilarious considering Sailor Moon was inspired by his work in Minky Momo in the first place), again we're back at my favourites from the show - The Roketto Gang A.K.A. the Super Sentais trying their best to be Akira Suzumura from the toku Masterpiece going by the name of Choukou Senshi Changerion, made a couple of years before Pocket Monsters started - doing zero stuff to speak of a…
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I am always going to have a soft spot for the third generation of Pokemon, especially the anime from around that time. Pokemon Heroes, Jirachi Wish Maker, and Destiny Deoxys are some of my favorite childhood movies, possibly the movies I rewatched the most. But looking back on them now as an adult, they're not anything special. I can enjoy them now only because I enjoyed them as a kid.
Spell of the Unown is a much different story. I did watch this as a kid too, several times, but not quite as much as those others. Yet as I grew older, I'd remember it as the greatest movie. Now that I finally took the time to rewatch it, it's very easy to see why. The movie is genuinely fantastic, and manages to tell a gripping story that is full of the imaginative wonder of the Pokemon universe with a stu…
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Watched years ago when i was like 8 or something, now with 25 i rewached just because i was wanting to watch something related with pokemon and this movie was one of the nuch that camse to my mind.
Now pokemon its an series that doesnt stand out by the complexity of his argument or their characters, almost everyone knows it or at least saw some caps of the series or one of the more than 20 movies that there is to the date, i gonna review the move based in the genere and the audience that its aimed the overall franchise of pokemon and not put it at the lv of others series that doesnt have anyhting to do not only for the genere but the general goal of it.
The plot of the movie its pretty simple and sure it might not be the most epic in comparasion with mewtwo or lugia but i think it was…
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This is going to sound harsh but it's just on my personal enjoyment, I'm not trying to talk on the objective quality of the movie or challange someone's opinion. Disclaimer has been placed.
Spell of the Unknown is a borderline emotionally-manipulative movie for simple minded buffoons. It's just trying to hit simple uwu emotional beats but if you're a little cynical like me, you'll see how mind-numbingly basic & uncreative the story is. No, SotU, pulling heart strings is not enough to have merit as a movie, you gotta try a little harder than that.
The "villain" girl is self-righteous, unreasonable & just aggression inducing to watch. Reminds me of my past younger child sibling, who was too dumb(to put it plainly) to ascess a situation correctly & then threw a tantrum to add insult to in…
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Spell of the Unown, featuring a new legendary and mysterious Pokemon, amply lives up to the previous two movies of the series.
Even though the movie still suffers from the same staging issues, such as poorly-textured CGI and backgrounds standing out of the 2D elements and creating awkward camera work in some shots, the movie amply makes up for it with it's great characters/pokemon acting and it's attention to detail.
While the other Pokemon movies mainly revolved around legendary pokemon, this one focuses on the new young girl, Mii, and most specifically her psyche, in a great way. All the backgrounds/pokemon appearing are the results of her manifesting her thoughts and dreams, giving them solid form, which created interesting settings and lighting effects throughout the movie. Furthermo…
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I apologize for the short blurt nature of this review. This film is part of a Pokemon film rewatch series I am doing with some friends.
We decided to thrown this film into our movie night because "hey lets get that really awful 3rd film in now so we say we watched it". This film is...hard to call a film. Its visual quality is on-par with a tv episode, the soundtrack/score for the film is quite simply awful, and the plot is extremely boring. The Unknown Pokemon are inherently interesting but they are used in such a way that trivializes their uniqueness.
Overall this is a hard pass in my opinion. The Pokemon films worth watching, to this day, in my opinion, are the first film, maybe the second, all of the "Advanced" generation films (the ones with May essentially) MINUS Jirachi the Wish…
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It's time to look at the Pokemon franchise yet again. From back before they traded a good portion of their Pokemon for Galar's mostly shit ones. Yes, I'm still a bit salty about the Dexit fiasco. In any case, I've talked about the first two Pokemon films already. And it's time to look at the third.
Story:
We open with a young girl named Mii. Her father is a researcher studying Unown. He's at the ruins when he vanishes. Mii receives a box with Unown tiles which she uses to accidentally summon the Unown to her home. They quickly go to work granting her wishes which results in them sealing her off, crystallising the area around her and giving her an illusory Entei. Satoshi, his companions, his mum and Professor Ookido all arrive on the scene. Illusory Entei captures Satoshi's mum to take o…
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I remember when I was a kid that I love love LOVED this movie. I used to watch the DVD over and over again when I was younger.
So, I decided to rewatch it and... it wasn't as good as I remember.
Don't get me wrong, it was still a solid movie and made me remember that excitement from a kid. It's corny and some of the voice acting is kind of iffy, mainly with Spencer Hale. However, most of the VAs did a great job, so they should get full credit.
Most of all, I really enjoyed the background music, especially the opening Johto song. It might also be my own preference for crystalline art, I loved the design of the crystallised mansion.
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This is far and away the best Pokemon movie.
It has some hilariously terrible lines, some of the worst lines I've ever heard, but they are so bad that they are all time classics. I'm talking about the English dub here, I can't promise the subs capture that The Room essence of so bad it's good, and who knows, maybe in the original Japanese they are actually good lines (Who am I kidding?).
It also has a plot that just gets more messed up the more you think about it. It's like the Evangelion of pokemon movies. I see a lot of people calling it heartwarming, and yeah, it kinda is but if you actually stop and think about it, it's really not at all.
Anyway. You should watch it, I'm not even entirely joking when I say this is a great movie. It's terrible of course, it's a pokemon movie, but it…
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Please keep in my mind that I have 0 nostalgia for this flick. I never watched it as a kid; Clips I found on Youtube, while I was still under 12 (I'm now 18), didn't interest me; Etc.
So, take it as you will when I say that this is EASILY the best movie that Pokémon has to offer.
The art and animation are both great (nothing groundbreaking or anything but still remarkable in their own right); The sound design does its job well enough; The soundtrack is surprisingly captivating, and the way it's used during scenes really helps elevate the emotions within them;
BUT
The place where the movie truly shines... Is in its writing. Not only does it bring us a pretty interesting look at how someone uses fantasy as a means of escapism, as it also brings us two great characters along with it. Said…
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Not QUITE as good as the first movie, but pretty darn close.
The storyline was very interesting. Not as good as the epic story of Movie 2000, or the deep one of the first, but still a strong one, and the conflict was pretty dark, thanks to it being much more personal, and the lack of a clear villain, the conflict instead centered around an innocent young girl who lost her parents, if anything made it more interesting.
The comic relief was very good once again, with some nice jokes, and there was quite a few very cute/sweet family moments. But once again, above all was the action, animation, and direction. The animation was super lovely, pretty much every scene had beautiful animation, and the direction was top-notch. All the fight scenes were great, and the climactic scenes were absolu…
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*English is NOT my first language! Review will be edited... eventually!*
I can clearly remember, when someone older than me, and actual native english speaker - not like me - once described this movie, as a 'Silent Hill for children'. Linkara, was that you? Anyway, I can fully agree with him, because despite being about pokemon, this movie is dark. And sweet... like a salty liquorice!
What I especially love about this movie, is that the setting for the story itself is actually in this time made... well, smaller, and thus more personal, than the first two movies. The first two movies - while still quite good - where all about saving the world, with rather bizzare messages and morals like, "the war is wrong, even though our entire franchise kinda sorta supports it", and "the power of one m…
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"Spell of the Unknown" stands as the odd one out among two dozen or so Pokemon movies. While most Pokemon movies are driven by plot and action elements, this one stands with a few that are driven by characters. Molly, an aquaintance of Ash has lost her father on one of his excavations trips related to Unown, a mysterious pokemon species. Finding herself all alone, she is given unfathomable power by the same Unown who pushed her father into oblivion. As the traumatized child reshapes the world in her image, Ash's mother is kidnapped by Entei - Molly's projection of a missing father. Thus Ash is forced to venture into the heart of her twisted fantasy and make her realize her folly.
Why am I talking about the setup of a Pokemon movie? Because in this movie, an intriguing premise is used to c…
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"Haven't seen so many strange letters since the last time I placed a personal ad"
You're right there James. Being a Pokemon fan as I kid I enjoyed watching this movie....
It is a family film to be enjoyed by adults and children alike and one-liners like the one quoted above will keep the adults amused while the kids enjoy it for the hell of it. There are times when the 'fourth wall' is broken too that made me want to jump up and high-five someone.
But if you are the grumpy kind of person that wants this movie picked apart......then fine....here it is......I must say a couple of things from an adult point of view too.
Although this movie plays a bit deeper into it's characters than the first two movies, unlike it's predecessors, the third instalment just seems like an extended episode o…
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I watched this when I was a child on video and back then I liked it but I didn't think it was that great. I think this was mainly because I didn't fully understand the storyline.
Now, I think that this movie is amazing! The story is amazing and it was very mysterious. I was literally glued to the screen watching this.
I have been watching the entire Pokemon Anime in order and this movie slits into season 3 of the anime which is where I am up to, it is a perfect accompaniment ot the anime.
I would highly recommend this movie, the music is also very good. I loved the rendition of the season 3 theme tune!
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the third pokemon movie, spell of the unknown~ just wow. i must have watched this sometime in the past as a child because i feel like i've seen it before but it was so long ago i couldn't remember what happened. here i am again to review yet another pokemon movie. the movie had this sort of lonely sad aura about it for most of the time. mostly because of one of the main characters molly and what she had to deal with throughout and before the movie. so far through all the movies i've watched, the sense of friendship, determination, and believing in what you love was even stronger in this movie. the use of entei, the legendary fire beast pokemon, made it all the more epic and powerful. the pokemon battles are hot and so are the emotions. overall, this movie had me on the edge of my seat and…
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I watched this as a child around 5-8 years old- and i remember it clearly- i have it on VHS and let me tell you-it was the bomb! it rocked my 6 year old mind. This was my favorite of all the Pokemon movies out at the time.
It Had Great sound,great artwork, a heartwarming story and as a kid it was just awesome.
They did a lot of character Development on Entei, showing his depth and he wasn't just the bad guy-he was the misunderstood villain,so much that i didn't see him as the true villian-he was the good guy to me.Entei was My Favorite character in the movie because the gave him so much depth,care and feeling to him.
A truly heart warming movie-Much recommended to any Pokemon Fan, Young or old. Overall: 9
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The movie starts off with a slightly ridiculous but cute short film about Pikachu's adventure with the Pichu brothers. (It's actually the lenght of a normal TV episode, about 20mins, so no wonder it felt so long!) While that one was okay, it was a bit childish, not to mention felt a bit drawn out.
The actual movie itself was better than the second Pokémon movie. The plot was calmer and more detailed, the art was beautiful, and I liked it quite a lot.
Sometimes the events did get a bit repetitive, and when the plot had a few crucial turns near the end, I wasn't sure how exactly certain things happened: a Pokémon called Unown is able to create a world from a little girl's imagination, and whatever she wants to happen, they make happen. From that imagination is also spurred Entei, a legenda…
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