Pokemon: The Movie (DVD)

Our household are Pokemon daft. We’ve got all the Pokemon trading cards, posters, the first Pokemon movie on video for Christmas, the yellow Pikachu Gameboy game, the kids watch the Pokemon cartoon series everyday on Sky1 and we’ve even got a few of the Pokemon beanies! Therefore it was odds on that the kids would want to see the movie over the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, this time I was dragged along, as it was one of our “family days”. The quite nice and pleasant idea of the children and my other half enjoying going to the cinema, whilst I was left at home on Dooyoo wasn’t an option! Oh the joy, excitement and anticipation of ...  Read the complete review

Before you read this review, let me give you a little bit of background information before I saw this movie. 1999 was the big Pokemon year, and I was one of the first kids to know about it. When the craze hit, I was right in the middle of it, thinking about Pokemon 24/7. For three years I never even touched anything Pokemon, until this movie appeared on HBO. Personally I thought the first movie was a huge dissapointment, the battles were boring, it had no plot, and it made stupid attempts at trying to touch people emotionally. An absolute disgrace to anime itself. I think they may have succeeded in all three of those this time. *Warning, this review is full of ...  Read the complete review

Everyone (even hardcore Pokemon fans) who has seen the first Pokemon movie, imaginatively titled ‘Pokemon: The First Movie’, will probably be a little bit sceptical about the thought of a sequel seeing as the first movie was a big pile of pants (in keeping with the comic relief theme at the time this opinion was written) but as the title of this review suggests, Pokemon 2000 is a major evolution on the first pathetic effort. I can honestly say that I found Pokemon 2000 (or Revelation Lugia as the movie was called in Japan) a major improvement in every way compared to the ‘Mon’s’ first big screen outing. I guess the folks at ...  Read the complete review

I am an open minded kind of guy, but this poor excuse for a cartoon may have just as well stayed in Japan. Long gone are the days where quality cartoons ruled the toy shelves, no, they are gouverened by a badly drawn mob of little monsters. I saw the movie on pirate for free, thank god i didn't spend money, sorry WASTE my money on being humiliated and goin to see it at the cinema. There is no real story line, a bunch of suposedly cute monsters do battle with over excentric stunts and tricks with fire and electricity. How the Japanesse are raking in the money they are thanx to this shambles amazes even me, and i have seen some poor ...  Read the complete review

For us Europeans there is only 4 Pokemon movies (yep I said only) for those Japanese they have no less than 6, but no matter which country you live in, the second is the best. Ignore the tears of Pokemon crap that filled the first, and the family loving nonsense (which wasn't too bad) of the third, this is where it is at. Naturally I will think that of this film, afterall I am a Pokemon fan, the games has had me hooked for months and yes even for a 16 year old boy I liked the Cartoon, whilst I said it is due to my incredible love for the game... really... deep down it was because of the characters. The love Misty secretly shared with Ash, I actually cried when Ash ...  Read the complete review