I Watched EVERY Pokémon Movie: The Movie

0:00 I'm sure anyone who watched the Pokémon anime growing up had fond memories of the movies they were mostly self-contained fun little adventures with Ash and whichever friends he brought on the death store alongside him but how good were they really well I watched all 24 of them spanning across almost every generation to answer that very question and yes this video was inspired by Ted n's Barbie video which is an amazing video and you should watch it if you haven't after you're done watching this one of course so similar to his video I'm splitting the movies into my personally curated and officially recognized eras of Pokémon theatric IC releases first the classic era which took place from 1999 to 2006 based on US release dates the Golden Era spanning from 2007 to 2016 not necessarily because the quality of these movies happen to be better but these are what I grew up with so I'm biased and the modern era which started in 2017 and

0:46 is going to present day where they just do whatever they wanted this will make covering the movies I want to talk about much easier so we can just speed through the ones that weren't all that special these will all be in the dub by the way I've heard that especially for the early movies a lot of the plot can get lost in the less than Stellar translations but that's how I wanted to watch them and those are the versions I'll be talking about and since we're going to be talking about them all we might as well grade them so here's how that's going to go I'll be giving each film a grade out of 20 based on four categories Story how interesting SL unique was the story did I get invested or could I not even understand a single thing that was happen battles how cool were the battles pretty simple category it's a Pokémon movie it's got to have some cool battles it's the law look it up enjoyment how much did I enjoy the movie was I smiling through it all or glancing at the clock waiting for the torture to end and finally Ash's mortality if you've seen a few Pok ju movies you'd already know that Ash is a little bit how do you say

1:33 it insane there's at least one moment in almost every movie where he risks his life for some reason or just straight up dies so that's what this category is for the closer to death he is the higher the score now you might be thinking so in order for a Pokemon movie to Be Perfect Ash has to die yeah yeah yeah pretty much also if the movie has a banger intro song it gets a bonus point so theoretically the best of these movies can get up to a 21 out of 20 but we'll have to wait and see if any of them can reach that level of critical Acclaim and finally one last thing I'm not a Critic and I don't claim to be some higher intellectual being whose takes on these movies are the end all be all I'm just a guy who likes Pokémon a lot so if you've got an opinion of mine that you disagree with that's totally cool I'm glad you can find enjoyment in things that I can't and hopefully we can have a fair discussion about it if you want but with all that out of the way let's get into the first movie on the list which oh

2:20 Pokemon the first movie how [Music] fitting Pokémon the first movie or Mew stri back as might be better known is where it all began basically a group of scientists get hired by Giovani the leader of Team Rocket to create a Pokemon super weapon through cloning but the laws of nature don't like that so it blows up in their face this creates Mewtwo who goes on a bit of a tantrum and builds a sick as hell villain layer on a secluded Island where he invites strong trainers to come and fight him or whatever he hates humans and wants to kill them all but Ash was like What if I killed myself right in front of you and he's like really chill now also Mew is the cutest thing ever mew's whole story is actually super up and really well written and the story that follows is pretty fun so four out of five for that it's a perfect movie for a TV show

3:07 though it does feel like an extended episode sometimes the battles were all right Ash's Charizard versus the Clone Charizard was definitely the Highlight but it totally spped my mind that they got the Backstreet Boys feature for the Clones fighting scene so that took me out a bit three out of five this was such a fun watch though no question like I'll always love this movie until the day I die so if I'm ever not enjoying this movie you have permission to shoot me dead five out of five and Ash literally dies for a few minutes so that's an easy five for the mortality rating oh and it had a great intro so bonus point for that Mewtwo Strikes Back gets a strong 18 out of 20 this one was just as great as I remember it being I also learned from some of my friends that the first 10 minutes of Mewtwo's backstory wasn't included as part of the full movies runtime and some home releases instead being a special feature specifically on the English DVDs which is pretty interesting I guess a little

3:52 girl clone and multiple Pokémon's implied death was a little too much so they had to hide it behind the silly DVD menu anyways next up we have Pokémon the movie 20 the power of one most of the story details are a bit foggy but I remember having fond memories of this movie and I love Lugia so it's got to be amazing [Music] right hey uh future marker here real quick before we get into this one in my original video I missed a lot of context in regards to the story and what was actually going on so I say some things that might not be 100% accurate like some some pretty dumb stuff I won't lie like the prophecy and all the stuff with the birds but even though I understand the context now it doesn't change my final score so just disregard any mention of the prophecy garbage okay

4:38 thanks and dash is never really alone cuz he's got me what are you doing you're not doing anything Pikachu I thought she was going to say Pikachu Misty you've done literally nothing this whole movie okay I don't know if I just wasn't paying attention or something but man this movie did not hit as hard as I remember it there's this evil collector guy and his name is Lawrence III he's trying to capture all three legendary Kanto birds so we can summon Lugia in order to catch him I think I I can kind of relate to him in a way Ash and the Gang get involved in the whole debacle through landing on a random Island which has some Festival going on related to the birds a chosen one which is Ash has to go collect the island balls and bring them to a central point where this girl Melody plays her flute or something H Jinks ens Su Birds fight a lot Ash gets

5:24 all the balls Baja Blast fills the oceans and the world is saved and there's a talking slow King that honestly as chill as I do respect what they tried to go for with this movie having this Festival related to the birds and the culture surrounding it is honestly a really cool idea but I just kept getting confused on what was up with these birds like one second they were chill and breaking each other out of prison then they were fighting to the death like they didn't just take down a huge ass industrial ship together 10 minutes ago I don't know maybe I'm just stupid but it felt really weird to me and it was implied that there were previous chosen ones does this world- ending threat happen at every festival and Ash's name is in the prophecy which is why he was the chosen one so was every chosen one named Ash or is there a different prophecy every time three out of five there was really only one battle in this movie and that was the birds

6:10 screaming and shooting their Elemental attacks for about 40 minutes which got a little old pretty quick so two out of five it felt like this could have been a lot shorter there was some noticeable padding for time and it really dragged on during the climax which killed some of the enjoyment for me two out of five Ash almost drowned and jumped in front of a few attack but nothing too crazy for his standards so three out of five for his mortality but it did have a really good intro song so add a bonus point for that overall Pokémon the Movie 2000 gets an 11 out of 20 honestly I didn't hate this one it was just very middle of the road and filled with choices that confused me it's really hard to follow up after the first movie so I can't blame it for being a little lacking on to the next though my confidence in these movies has dropped a bit but who knows there's still 22 left

6:56 so anything can happen while the previous ones were fun this felt like an actual movie the story was engaging the new characters felt important there were stakes and it was godamn beautiful the visuals for the first two movies were great but spell of the unknown is like a fine arts painting in every scene it's super impressive The Story Goes as this there's a Pokemon researcher named Spencer hail who's trying to figure out the deal with these funky letters turns out the funky letters are alive and they pull them into their funky later to menion not good oh and he's a father too so extra not good now his daughter Molly is left all alone with his Scrabble pieces but she knocks them all over like a fool she gets a wish though so she asks for her father back and the Funky letters spawn

7:41 in ente see before he disappeared Spencer would read Molly a story every night that featured ente and he would also say that he was ente which is like obviously a lie I mean come on dude you're not fooling anyone except for the 5-year-old girl get real but yeah she Associates ente with her dad so that's why he's here now Molly says she wants a whole family so she ask for her mom and ente runs off to commit a first felony cut to Ash in the gang enjoying some time with their Pokémon and oh Ash's mom is here too hey oh ente straight up kidnaps Ash's mom and puts her in a trance so she believes that she's Molly's mom instead so now they got to rescue her I think now is a good time to mention that Team Rocket is in every single one of these movies and they do absolutely nothing but we love them for that anyways sometimes they do small things for the plot but there are some movies where they are literally just in the

8:27 area and make jokes and it's the best I love it back to Molly and similar from meww in the first movie she's got this sick as hell villain layer now she and Ash's mom are watching the news when Ash shows up and snaps her out of the trance but she plays it off because Molly's too stupid to notice what an idiot the group enters the castle and is met with an older version of Molly she wanted to be a Pokemon trainer so it came true in a way this girl isn't actually Molly it's just how she imagines herself to be when she's old enough to be a trainer Brock battles her making some questionable comments figures a cute Pokémon trainer have a cute Pokémon and the others move on walking up these stairs that got to be some sort of Osha violation they run into another Molly and Misty's up next leaving Ash to continue alone also meow says a line that implies that he's aware that this is all a movie you think we're going to get a bigger in the movie what

9:13 are the implications of this what does this freaky cat know that we don't moving on ash makes it to Molly's room and she finds out that she's adopted it's a lot to drop on a vulnerable kid like this so she understandably loses her temper a bit Ash fights ente and gets bodied in an absolutely beautiful setpiece and then one of the greatest scenes in cinema history took place right in front of my eyes early in the movie they set up Ash's Charizard sensing that something's wrong later as Ash is about to be impaled by huge ass crystals he flies in and saves him in the coolest way possible I feel like I deaged back to a toddler during this scene I was yeling a clap my hands like a dang baboon what follows is a pretty lengthy but cool as hell battle between Ash's Charizard and ente you ever watch something and feel like that sliver of childlike Wonder finally returns to you after so so long God just take me back

10:00 sadly Charizard loses but Molly stops ente before he can blow his brains out he gets brought back to reality and everything's cool now I forgot about the funky letters the unknown go a little crazy and seal everyone in the castle leaving them to try and fight back but ente being the realest one ever sacrifices himself and forces the unknown back to their funky letter Dimension and Spencer returns at the end so Molly is back the same amount of parents you had at the start good for her it's just such a great movie Man the main story isn't really about Ash but having his mom be held captive is a great way to get him and the others involved in a way that feels natural and the entire third Act was just absolute Peak genuine Peak easy five out of five for the story it was very heartwarming and pretty sad at times watching a little girl attempt to cope with her grief over her possibly dead parents was

10:45 not what I expected to happen in a Pokemon movie but here we are it was good also ente is the realest Pokemon ever like I need a guy like that in my life as I said a little bit ago the battles in this movie were great too and it wasn't just ash getting the cool battles in this movie either actually remembered Misty and Brock this time around Misty specifically had a super creative scuffle underwater that was very fun to watch and any battle with ente was just amazing five out of five as for enjoyment come on you can guess it's a five out of five again big shocker I know it's just really hard to put into words how much I enjoyed this film so I won't Ash's mortality gets a four out of five would have gotten a perfect score if some orange lizard didn't come save him from getting ripped a shred by crystals but that's neither here nor there at least he lives to see another day for now only three movies in and we got our first 20 to 20 this is by

11:30 far the best of the movies in this era only one point off the Perfection score but everything about this movie was so great I'd be willing to give it that point just because they cooked with this one you know maybe my loss and confidence was misguided this just proves I shouldn't doubt them I'm sorry Mr Pokemon I'll never say anything hurtful ever again I promise anyways next up is Pokémon forever so let's keep this train going [Music] the spirits of the future and the past can travel through time as well and so they've all I feel nothing ah this one was a stinker the movie starts with this basic looking kid walking through a forest he gets stopped by this green-haired girl who gives him this honestly really rancid piece of

12:16 bread and tells him about some Forest Superstition basic kid doesn't listen and goes in anyway but he runs into celby who was being chased by a Pokémon hunter he helps the onion fairy out which leads to it tweaking and sending him into the future we're then introduced to the villain of the movie and I'd like you to guess what this guy's name is you'd think it'd be something like razor or like claw I don't know something cool but no it's iron MK maraud it's got these pokeballs called Dark balls that are basically like master balls but they turn the Pokémon evil name could use a little more work but I respect the Simplicity his plan is to catch celby with one and turn evil so he can rule the world or some junk I don't know throughout this entire movie one thing I and my friends noticed was the increased use of 3D models compared to the last movies this was the early 2000s so that technology was starting to become more prevalent in

13:01 animated media it helped speed up the production process and made some pretty cool 3D environment scenes possible but oh man did it still look bad just wait because it's going to get much worse so Ash and the Gang show up as always and suun is just kind of chilling nearby kind of weird they arrive in this Forest town called arborville and the greenhair girl from earlier is here except she's like super old now about the same Superstition and Ash does not give a rat's ass so he runs off the whole dang Forest starts to Glow because celby actually came to this time period and left this boy for dead against the harsh reality of nature they grab him and run back into town where he wakes up and Ash instantly tries to scrap with this kid we learned his name is Sam and he's from 40 years in the past he reunites with celby and they just kind of chill for a while up until this point I was really vibing with this movie big fan of celby so that helps and there was a really cool scene with this Lake that heals it

13:47 and then they just swim and fly around and just a real good time if you ask me Ash and Sam also have this really sweet moment where they connect about their different time periods but Sam pulls out that ranted ass bread which I feel like you guys shouldn't be eating I don't know did y'all get food poisoning just know I told you so and there's a very pretty scene where a bunch of Metapod evolve and fly away while the sun rises The Vibes were just right with this one know what I mean then the second half of the movie starts hope you didn't forget about the iron Mass Marauder cuz he's back he fights off the main group and gets to celby catching it in one of his dark balls and turning celby evil I just want to know who made these things are they crazy powerful or is celab just crazy weak I feel like a mythical Pokémon shouldn't be able to be turned this easily by whatever power this dude has I mean look at him personally if it was me getting caught in a dark ball I just

14:33 wouldn't let it happen period anyways celab is evil now and transforms into one of the biggest eyesores I have ever had to look at for 13 whole minutes I can't bash it too bad since this was the early 2000s like I said before but oh my God who thought it was a good idea for the climax of the movie to take place around this thing anytime it showed up on screen I was just totally taken out of it now that's most likely because I'm not a kid in the 2000s watching this movie so I definitely have different standards but still holy yeah oh there is in the background God I almost didn't notice it it it Blends in so well my notes for this section are basically non-existent because all I could focus on was this thing evil celab starts ripping up forest and just making everyone's days super difficult not cool but it's fine because suu finally shows

15:19 up to do something it helps Brock take out this evil Tyranitar and onx gets a clean home run across the whole lake honestly might be the highlight of the movie for me it's just hilarious Ash and Sam break into evil cel's dead grass mech suit and give it a hug how sweet oh there it goes they saved the day but celab is like super dead now here's what I thought was going to happen suun purifies the lake or whatever so they Place celab gently in the water to revive it and boom happily ever after but no a portal opens up in the sky and hundreds of other celab just come out of it they sing a little song and celab is revived okay so now the day is saved right oh great it's the iron mass maraud or gun can someone please get this guy a shorter name he grabs celby and tries to fly away but being Ash he grabs onto him and blows up his jetpack he almost falls to his death but celby saves him and then Sam is sent back to his original

16:05 time the end the one cool bit about the ending to this movie is that it's basically confirmed that Sam was Professor Oak in the past which makes a lot of the Sweet Moments between him and Ash have a lot more meaning to them but other than that I just didn't really feel this movie so let's grade this thing the story was a little boring at times but Sam being Professor Oak with all the time travel Shenanigans definitely added to it so three out of five there weren't any crazy battles in this movie so it gets a low score by default but Onyx did hit that crazy home run so two out of five for how short this movie was clocking in at about 75 minutes there were a lot of moments where I just was waiting for it to be over the whole second half with the evil celby and terrifying CG monster really killed it for me so two out of five Ash wasn't in too much danger in this one he took a few tumbles but nothing too crazy so three out of five Pokemon Forever gets a 10 out of 20 on the official

16:52 marker Pokemon movie grading scale the worst of this era I'm being a bit harsh but let me be clear I don't hate any of these movies forever was close but I can't bring myself to hate a single one I'm actually lying to you but we'll get back to that later they're all Pokemon movies at the end of the day so they'll always be at the very least Charming even if they're pretty mid next up is Pokémon Heroes so let's get into [Music] it so Ash kiss is a Pokemon in this one just thought I'd let you know ahead of time rip the bandaid off you know this movie is set in Pokémon Venice where lidios and live and protect it they once saved the city so now they're sworn guardians or whatever some Totally Spies ass girls are trying to find this fancy looking ball that has some kind of

17:37 secret power turns out this ball's in the city how convenient and Ash and the Gang are there too how convenient again Ash meets this strange girl who turns out to be lattos they hang out Ash starts to get some weird feelings about a Pokémon and the Spy Girls steal the fancy ball they put it into this super weapon that's in a museum for some reason and it's powered by lattos so everyone comes to save him as usual Ash's first thought is to punch the electrical cake cage but it doesn't work maybe next time buddy lidios is saved and the super weapon is stopped wait don't touch that ah cool now a Biblical tsunami wave is coming straight at the town but lidio sacrifices his life and dies for real and then Ash kisses a Pokemon this movie was actually super fun I love the setting and the race and Chase scenes in the water were so cool I enjoyed the

18:24 sibling relationship that lidios and lidios had too it was very heartwarming and it almost made me TR so four out of five battles are pretty much non-existent in this one so it's hard to give it a fair score but the chase scene I mentioned before with the huge Aerodactyl barreling through the city canals was such a fun idea that I'll count it as a battle three out of five enjoyment gets a five out of five easily you might be noticing a trend that the enjoyment score is either really low or a perfect score no in between don't worry the trend will continue Ash is relatively safe through this one only being in immediate danger a few times though the times he was in danger were pretty scary and he basically died for a few minutes so three out of five and finally the theme song was Immaculate for this one so it gets a bonus Point Pokémon Heroes receives 16 out of 20 with that we're out of the gen's 1 and two movies and moving into gen 3 not

19:11 quite out of the classic era yet [Music] though drai wishmaker was pretty inoffensive not perfect but at least it didn't feel like I wasted 81 minutes of my life basically there's this circus guy named The Great Butler terrible Name by the way brings a carnival to a random desolate area where Ash and the Gang also happen to beat Butler has this rock that Gerra is inside of and Max becomes its best friend over the course of like an hour or two I don't know why they gave this rare meteor to a random kid but whatever turns out Butler actually wanted geri's power to revive Groudon because he tried in the past but was publicly shamed and has never been the same since his girlfriend Diane isn't having it so she takes the gang cross country to return where she and Butler found the Gerra Rock Butler somehow got there before them and set up a whole

19:57 villain Contraption so he gets to hands on Gerra and summons Kaiju Groudon practically killing everything in the vicinity but they inflate Groudon and sing a really really good song to turn Gerra back into a rock speaking of this song may kept humming it throughout the whole movie and I just someone please get this girl some singing lessons and Brock too like I said this movie was fine though I did like the relationship between Max and Gerra it was very cute so four out of five the climax of the movie was pretty much one long battle and it was all right the Groudon infl was a little weird though three out of five enjoyment as expected was pretty high at a four out of five it was just a nice time overall and Ash barely got in any danger so two out of five bringing the final score to 13 out of 20 now the next movie was one of my favorites as a kid not because I

20:42 remember the intense and impactful story or the expertly crafted characters but because it's got Rayquaza and Deoxys in it and I like them a lot cuz they're super cool so [Music] yeah hey future marker again quick thing throughout this whole review I call the movie's original character Troy instead of his actual name Tori don't even know how this happened I'm just stupid I guess so anytime I say Troy just imagine I'm saying Tori instead thanks the first 15 minutes of this movie are crazy man Deoxys comes down from space and Rayquaza is not happy they have this crazy ass fight while some kid gets lion kinged so hard that he gets irreversible trauma for the rest of his life no biggie rqua eventually comes out on top and deox is defeated or is it fast

21:29 forward some years and Ash and the Gang arrive in laru city and guess who's back though before Deoxys arrives Ash meets the traumatized kid whose name is Troy he's got a few screws loose and has an imaginary friend that everyone around him just agrees to pretend is real out of pity the city goes on lockdown for the usual Alien Invasion but the main cast gets stuck inside and is forced into an apocalyptic scenario there's a force field around the city and for some reason it won't deactivate so they're trapped for the foreseeable future Rayquaza though is not happy again he breaks through the force field and there's this sick as hell City fight between him and Deoxys turns out the reason Deoxys is attacking the city is to find its friend which it lost during its original battle with Rayquaza and double turns out its friend was Troy's imaginary friend the whole time chill Deoxys as I've dubbed it is born and meets with the original one so they kiss

22:15 or something then the Citywide Security System goes awall and starts destroying everything I don't know Troy overcomes his trauma and Rayquaza learn to stop being racist so pretty solid messages all around I really enjoyed the setting and Troy's whole character Arc they're con connection to the battle between Deoxys and Rayquaza was super cool too four out of five I need anyone watching this video to understand that there is one Trope that I love more than anything in this world you take two extremely powerful creatures or entities put them in a big city and let them go at it it's just Peak five out of five just like the last movie enjoyment was a solid four out of five the whole security going crazy bit was a little odd near the end but not enough to kill the vibe finally Ash was fairly safe so nothing too crazy happened three out of five pretty standard Destiny Deoxys gets a 16 out of 20 this one was fun like I feel like I could say that about most of these but

23:01 it still be true no matter what we got two more movies in the classic era left so let's blast through them real [Music] quick I've never been to a Renaissance Fair so I don't know if this is normal but do you usually have to go on a world saving Quest as a part of the overall experience no man what's the point then so this movie is basically Pokemon Fire Emblem but no not that one in the past there was a hero named sir Aaron who lost way his partner Lucario to protect him from a war now in the present Ash wins a battle at this renfair so he gets to lar as the Ora Guardian for the day when Aaron sealed away Lucario he went to this big tree and solved climate change with the help of Mew but it's finally wearing off so Ash and the Gang and Lucario have to go to the tree and figure it out and while this is happening Pikachu and Meowth

23:47 practically get kidnapped by Mew so they're all chilling at the big tree too the group runs into some reggies they explore beta area zero Ash unites with Pikachu and then these weird red Pokémon things consume and kill everyone like I had to look it up while watching these are basically white blood cells that fight and kill anything unknown to the tree so everyone who got eight up was 100% not living oh sorry did I forget to mention that this tree is about to self-destruct yeah so Lucario does the same thing Aaron did and sacrifices himself to stop the tree from becoming a nuke and the day is saved they they really got to stop killing these Pokemon man I I can't take it anymore this movie was super engaging throughout the whole thing Lucario and Aaron's story was super tragic and seeing how Lucario coped with the world around him changing was really cool and really sad at the same time and him going out the

24:32 same way Aaron did at the end it was great can't even joke about it it's a five out of five but the battles there weren't really any except for the battle in the intro they ran from the reggies for a bit but I'd be hard pressed to call them battles so three out of five slap another five out of five on that enjoyment scale I don't care if it's predictable it's the truth I'll be damned if you try to take away my god-given right to enjoy a movie made for children can a grown man not have a good time of watching my childhood hero be swallowed by a floating lava creature oh and five out of five for that by the way he was like super dead also Peak theme song best in the series bonus Point Lucario in the Mystery of Mew gets a 19 out of 20 it was a banger that's all I got to say now time for the final movie of the classic era Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the [Music]

25:20 SE this one was all right we're introduced to possibly the best Pokémon character ever Jack Walker who's a Pokémon Ranger he steals this egg from some some Pirates and off but the egg turns out to be a manif egg and it imprints on May who was taking care of the egg while they being chased by the pirate guy named Phantom the got to return manife to the underwater sea Temple cuz he's the prince of the sea I doubt it but it only shows up during an eclipse May gets super attached to manife over the course of the journey there so we all know what's going to happen next after arriving at the temple everything goes wrong and it starts to flood this whole section where the thing is sinking made me genuinely stressed like I was in the same situation myself so points for immersion I guess Ash tries to save the de but drowns just kidding he gets an air bubble from the power of friendship and then goes Super Saiyan which was like all right cool but also what the hell man then Kyogre shows

26:07 up and kills the pirate guy so man if he leaves to go be Prince or whatever oh and everyone's Super Saiyan now not a bad movie but it did drag at some points Jack Walker carried the entire film if I'm being honest anytime he was on screen was an absolute Joy but even his captivating Charisma can't save rough pacing three out of five even though Super Saiyan Ash was a little out of nowhere it did make for a pretty cool final battle and all the ocean Pokémon up Phantom ship was pretty funny so three out of five just like the two previous ratings enjoyment was also very middle of the road at a three out of five not terrible but not at the same level of that childlike Wonder as the rest you know and as for Ash's mortality he almost drowned but it wasn't long enough for him to get like fully killed just unconscious four out of five Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the sea gets a 13 out of 20 a pretty lackluster

26:53 end of the classic era if you ask me thankfully for you though and regrettably for me we still have 6 16 movies to go [Music] over dark R's the goat all I got to say there's something about misunderstood anti-heroes that just do it for me and dark rry looks sick as hell so that's a plus basically he's a protector of this place called Alamos town they got the biggest instruments ever called space time towers and there's this girl named Alice who was saved by dark r as a kid the town is fairly peaceful but oops space and time gods falky and Diago bring their centuries long to everyone in the town which is super up like keep it to yourself you guys very unprofessional things get pretty bad uh the town is about to be erased from SpaceTime dark R takes a few hits trying to protect the towers but he literally

27:39 dies so to save the day Ash and Dawn forgot to mention Max and may got killed off screen as well play Pia and daga's favorite mixtape in the towers and they leave our Dimension I I didn't know they would show like that honestly and I lied about the Dark Ride dying thing he's fine oh and there was this baren guy who got turned into a licky licky for a bit and kept like licking people it was it was pretty weird please put this guy on a list I love this one as a kid and I still like it now so nothing's changed dark R story was super sweet and made me a little teey at times four out of five the scale of the fight between palia and dieago was actually insane even if they were just using the same move over and over it felt like I was watching a Godzilla movie or something five out of five enjoyment was a solid four it was a simple fun watch but it didn't have me jumping out of my seat for Joy and Ash

28:25 was fine for pretty much the whole duration so two out of five r of dark cry gets a 15 out of 20 funny story when I was a kid the first manga I ever read was the adaptation of this movie and I read it completely backwards I guess I was too stupid to notice the page literally warning you to read it the other way so I experienced the whole thing in reverse and thought it was normal and I had watched the movie so I knew exactly how the plot played out and I still didn't think it was weird my brain was rotted from the very start anyways next up is gutina and the Sky Warrior this one this one was my movie this was my whole personality as a kid man you don't understand the choke hold this movie had on my 8-year-old little brain

29:10 too bad I barely remembered any of it still good though cool thing about these movies set in the C region is that they're all connected like a Trilogy the events of the previous movies carry over into the next which is pretty unheard of for a Pokémon movie it's honestly pretty cool the crazy fight that Diaga and palia had in the last movie brought pollution into gera's world so now natur he's pissed off but Shaman gets caught up in it all by mistake and assumes gutina is trying to kill it Ash and the Gang agree to take Shaman to the flower garden for whatever reason but get caught up in an even bigger predicament on the way up there basically there's this homeless guy who lives in guo's world and he used to have a research partner named Zero but he's evil now for reasons he gets a hold of gutina to steal his life force or something and goes to the rule of the Distortion World honestly I'd let him have it it's been over 10 movies I think at least one of these villains deserves a win but nah they kick his ass and deliver shame into

29:55 the flower garden and Ash cries for some reason even though he and shamon were arguing for like half the movie it definitely still held up from my childhood Shaman can be a little annoying but it was made to be a brat so it's kind of the point zero was so over the top though and I loved it cartoonishly evil villains are the best breed of villain and I'll die on that hill and like I mentioned before this being connected to rise of dark ey was super cool so four out of five the battles were cool but not nearly on the same scale as the fights between Diago and Pia in the last movie still gutina fighting zero in his Fanboy ass ship was fun so four out of five oh wow another five out of five huh super critical and original man what's next going to give the sky a 5 out of five for being blue no again Ash didn't do all too much that would get him killed but he did right on top of a moving aircraft for a bit and that could have been ugly so three out

30:41 of five Tina and the Sky Warrior gets a 16 out of 20 if these rankings were just based off of bias alone I would have given it a 21 but I'm here to spread the truth not my correct opinions now to cap off this Trilogy of sin movies let's move on to arus and the Jewel of Life yes I say arus get over it the final movie of the C Trilogy and a pretty good one to cap it off to be honest about arus coming back to lay judgment all over the people who wronged him in the past don't know why he sounds like a normal dude but whatever turns out he was betrayed after giving some humans The Jewel of Life which brought peace and prosperity to their lands but it was just a 30-day trial period so they had to give it back eventually only they didn't and backstabbed a literal God Not A wise choice but who am I to

31:27 judge so Diaga sends the group back in time to figure out what happened and change the future there's a pretty cool guy named damos and he wants to give the jeel of life back but an evil fella named Marcus doesn't want to so he tries to possess D and betray arus doesn't matter though cuz Ash in the gang intervene and save arus Ash himself does some crazy in this movie by the way like there's no feasible way he got that but yeah the future is fixed and everyone's chill now super fun concept for a movie like this I've always really enjoyed time travel shenanigans that aren't super convoluted and they kept this one simple five out of five battles weren't anything crazy but they were fun nonetheless seeing the Legendary Trio scrap at the beginning was sick as hell though three out of five got another five out of five for enjoyment it's part for the course at this point in this one Ash wasn't too close to dying instead he was close to being wiped from existence

32:12 entirely which is pretty close four out to five and at a point for the Banger theme song arus and the Jewel of Life gets an 18 out of 20 that's the highest score of this era so far but not the best we'll get to that one soon next up is zor Ark Master of Illusions I haven't brought it up but this movie continues a friend that started around Gen 2 where the final movie of that gen features a Pokémon from the Next Generation in order to build up hype for the next game/ anime series it's a really smart idea actually lidios and lattos in Gen 2 Lucario in gen 3 and now Zoro in Gen 4 so let's get into [Music] it at this point I was kind of zoning out to be honest I had watched 12 Pokemon movies over the course of the past day or two and it was starting to catch up with me so a lot of this movie

32:59 just win in one ear and out the other sorry I'm not letting that affect the score though so don't worry about that so the main group are traveling to the city where a major Pokemon bker Championship yes it's called bker is happening but the main guy competing Kodi is an evil who's holding Zoro and Zoro costage Zoro escapes runs into Ash and everything goes to this wasn't a good movie to lose focus on cuz a lot happened in it and I can barely remember any of it legendary beast show up at some point and they're shiny for some reason and celby is connected to the town through clocks so that thing is back I think the evil guy grabbed celby by the neck at some point I I can't fully remember but the movie ends with Zoro dying but not really and kodai getting tricked by an illusion I do vividly remember this one girl having a crazy design and her not doing

33:45 anything you'd think by her character design she'd be more important but she had a total screen time of like a minute if not less I said I wasn't letting my own mistakes AFF the score and that's still true but this story was a three out of five for me I like the D dnamic between zorao and zor Ark and the shiny Beast showing up was cool but other than that it was it was all right same for the battles solid three out of five nothing too crazy but what was there was still enjoyable enjoyment was a four out of five though even if I can't remember most of the story beats I do remember having a pretty good time watching so that's all that matters as for ash he was fine two out of five zor Ark Master of Illusions gets a 12 out of 20 this one was okay that's it moving on this is probably going to be

34:31 controversial but this one was the best movie of this era now before you kill me for having an opinion let me at least explain myself first so some background there's this guy named Damon who can control zeron he helps some people out in order to push his new start up or something but they aren't really having it but after some thinking and more protecting them from a huge Glacier they realized Z is actually really chill moving forward in time this one takes place in a Mountaintop town named indu I think that's how you pronounce it I don't know it's been a while since watch the movie the main Monument of this place is the huge castle poking out of the ground it's called The Sword of the veil and is responsible for sealing the Dragon Force away in order to keep from causing chaos what's the Dragon Force oh it's it's just the invisible power that flows throughout the entire planet granting Perfect Harmony between all of life duh even a baby would know that and it's victini's job to protect this

35:16 Castle as he has been for over 1,000 years Ash in the gang arrive in oke in order to take part in a Battle Competition but before they got there Ash saved some deerling from falling to their desk with the help of vitini giving him a boost a go he's kind of far now I I can't wait wait he he's saying something hold hold on he's saying something we all landed in one piece [Music] what he finds a cave to Trek through but starts hearing voices from vitini telling which way to go eventually he makes it into someone's house Ash you you got to be more careful man breaking and entering could go on your permanent record you know oh oh wait it's Damon he's chill when you get to know him guys trust me chills them around and then it's time for the Battle Competition vitini gives Ash's teing steroids so he he one shots a samuro with Ember and not too long later Scraggy gets some too and

36:01 one shots a hydreon ref ref this can't be allowed someone someone disqualify this kid please VI decides to show himself for a few macarons and befriends the group they take a little walk around the outskirts of town but run into a force field that only aects fi Damon and Manis the mayor of the Town run into the others and give them the lore of the land let me scroll a little bit hold on I got to scroll vitini was once the old King's Pokémon their Kingdom would draw energy from the Dragon Force bringing life and Perfect Harmony but you knew that already in this Kingdom there were two Heroes one standing for truth and the other standing for ideals and would you know it it turned into a war zram and raram got turned into stones and the Dragon Force got a little silly so the King used the castle to seal it and then he died back to the present and Damon wants to bring the castle back to its original location honestly doesn't sound like a bad idea to me his mom wished for

36:48 it so he's not coming from a bad place I I think we should listen to him oh my God he's killing him forly using the power of vitini Damon controls the castle to fly into the sky unsealing the Dragon Force unironically this is one of the coolest set pieces in these movies so far a Gothic castle that's shaped like a sword flying above the clouds is just so cool no matter which way you slice it they were cooking the group attempts to save atini from his cage but zeron oh oh like Z zro oh my bad man I I'll just see myself out I am so sorry have a good day I am so sorry go tries to fight back but is brutally killed in the heat of battle then Ash gets knocked out and sees Vic's memories and his dreams the original King told Victini that the castle should never be moved ever would have been nice to know 20 minutes ago but it's fine everyone heads

37:34 into the under depths of the castle attempting to find reram Ash almost falls to his death for the millionth time but successfully makes his way to Ram's resting place he just forgot to set his alarm happens to everyone Ash then escapes with ram and a sick as hell fight between raram and zro takes place while they're fighting Zam sees all the Dragon Force leaking everywhere and realizes he up a little bit so he flies up and breaks vitini out however the Dragon Force isn't a fan and takes the castle into space Oh and Damon Fell out so he's most likely dead I'm I'm just kidding he's fine okay so there really isn't any other way to explain this next bit except for just saying exactly what happens so Ash freezes to death and loses the life in his eyes we got another Ash death baby let's go Victini saves the day though so every everything's fine the Dragon Force is sealed and the castle is back to where

38:20 it should be they try to fake out Vic's death but like we knew they weren't going to kill him he's he's too cute to kill and that's the movie Let's great it the Dragon Force stuff was a little odd at first but when thinking about the setting and the lore with the Legendary Dragons it's not too crazy and the stuff with Victini and the original King really drove home the importance of this Castle I also liked how even though Damon was the antagonist he wasn't like a maniacal villain or anything he was just doing what he thought was right what his mother wished for even if the things he did to get there were a little questionable it's hard to hate him when he was just trying to help his family me likey four out of five if it weren't for the floating Castle set piece the battles wouldn't have gone gone as hard as they did but they went hard especially anytime goer fought he was going up against a legendary dragon you got to give him some props five out of five enjoyment was an easy five out of

39:06 five say what you want about the black and white anime and I could say some things about it this was such a great story set in that series me likey again and for Ash's mortality do I even need to explain why it's a 5 out of five come on bonus point for the theme song by the way Pokémon the movie Black vitini and rusher Ram gets a 20 out of 20 if I learned anything from this movie it's that inside of you there are two dragons one is gay and the other one is gay and that's just [Music] beautiful this is probably going to be controversial but this one was the worst movie of this era now before you kill me for having an opinion let me at least explain myself first so some background there's this guy named Damon who can control Russ

39:57 I won't lie this movie flew by Edward El is a horse named CIO and he has to prove himself to the swords of justice by defeating kierum don't know why Kum just lives in a Coliseum shaped abandoned train station but maybe that's just the vibe it freezes the swords of justice and Kio gets its horn cut off but Kum isn't finished with him so they go on a cross country Chase for a while after a lot of flashbacks and Iris and silence sacrificing their lives in vehicle crashes he gets a Shonen power up and fights kierum for real he still loses the battle but he wins in friendship and that's all that matters like I said this movie felt super fast it was only 71 minutes so it makes sense but it felt like I just watched an episode of the anime or something story was nice though with some good messaging for the little children three out of five throughout the movie the battles were all right but then the final battle between Kio and kierum came around and it was great they

40:44 popped off with the animation the choreography it was heat four out of five J was a four out of five as well not perfect but still a fun watch Ash was totally fine the whole time though so two out of five good change of pace from the last movie point for Banger theme song as well Kum versus the Sword of Justice gets a 14 out of 20 very average but even an average Pokemon movie can still be a good time so I'm not complaining next up Genesect and the Legend Awakened let's do [Music] it another short one basically me is a woman now congratulations and a group of Genesect are trying to find their home from millions of years ago there's one Genesect who's really cute and nice and just likes this one flower and wants to go home home and the flower reminds it of its home and it's crying and it's

41:30 just sorry sorry the red one's an though they try to take over Central Park but Mewtwo isn't a fan so they try to reason with the mean one and it turns into a awesome City fight what can I say I'm easy they go all the way up to space and red Genesect understands the meaning of life now I'm not going to go into crazy detail since I don't want this video to be longer than it already is but the themes and messaging in the movie actually hit so hard and using two man-made Pokémon to show both sides of that conflict with Humanity was such a a good idea and at the end they find a new place to live with the same flowers that bloomed at their previous home stories a five out of five again it was short just like the previous one but I feel like the time was used so well to get the point across and that one cute genc just broke my heart man battles were a five out of five as well meww versus the red genc through the city was so cool it just makes my brain so happy enj was a four

42:17 though only because I didn't get to see more of the cute Genesect I love them oh yeah I totally forgot to mention Ash through this whole review he was fine there were like one or two close calls but he's a big boy now he can take it three out of five Banger theme song Too Genesect and Legend awaken gets an 18 out of 20 I thought I wouldn't enjoy this random cluster of relatively short movies but they're pretty fun so far and we got a few more of similar length to go so let's keep [Music] on we're in Gen 6 now and we got my boy Greninja so this movie is already perfect I don't care no matter what anyone says it's already perfect long story short Dian is a princess and needs to talk with xerus to rep Steven Universe reference but a bunch of Thieves are trying to kidnap her since she's a walking hopping hovering

43:03 infinite money glitch they'll fight and Chase for a while but turns out no one was briefed about the Cocoon harboring darkness and despair right under their feet so evelt joins them flies around killing everyone as you do diany has a magical girl transformation and everyone's saved good job guys Pikachu yeah the roles from the first movie get reversed and Pikachu gets turned to stone this time but like 2 seconds later he's revived so it's fine then xerus turns into a tree and diany fixes the Steven Universe reference my final note for this was definitely a movie that I watched and I feel like that describes how I feel about it more than I myself could explain three out of five battles were three out of five as well mostly for the cool battles in the theme song segment but there were some other cool moments sprinkled here and there stay in consistent enjoy was a 32 it was okay if anything I should have given this movie a Pikachu mortality rating because Ash was completely unscathed two out of five

43:50 they brought back the OG theme song for XY and it's Peak bonus point diany and the Cocoon of Destruction gets a 12 out of 20 definitely a movie that I watched I'm getting a little tired but there's still seven movies so I can't quit when we're so close I just need a refresher a nice fun movie that makes me smile and not have to worry about the hours days that I'm putting into this please just please let this would be [Music] good what do you do when you lose the will to keep going asking for a friend if you thought I was harsh on Pokémon forever just you wait cuz this one's going to be rough and if this is your favorite movie I am so sorry but you might want to skip this next one before I even get into explaining the plot and

44:35 everything that happens in this movie which isn't a lot by the way let me make just one thing very very clear I hate Hoopa now I see myself as someone who doesn't get too annoyed by fictional characters like some other people do I mean I've seen people talk about characters like they just killed their whole family or something when they were just being a little silly but this one broke me to me there is nothing redeemable about Hoopa in this movie movie it just says the same line over and over and over and over while having this gring voice that made me cringe anytime it opened its mouth but I'm getting a little ahead of myself let's get through the movie and I'll give my opinions as we go okay in the past when Hoopa was extremely powerful it teleported to a random Village in the desert it stole some food and stuff so when the people started to complain it spawned an infinite money glitch Hoopa basically became the ruler of this

45:22 Village and it got pretty bored so it summoned Legendary Pokémon to battle things kept escalating and eventually this dude showed up with a sick custom bong and sealed hoopa's great power away the man took Hoopa to his village and took it under his wing he's got more patience than me I'll just I'll just say that in the present Ash and the Gang are having a pool party when Hoopa starts pulling some pranks Ash jumps through the ring and meets Hoopa they have some not so witty banter and around a little bit before Ash kidnaps everyone and brings them through the Rings as well coincidentally they ended up in the city that they were journeying towards deara City an Old Tower related to Hoopa is a famous tour spot around here so they're planning on visiting it I'm going to be honest earlier I say earlier it was not too long ago I said let's get through this movie and usually with the worst and best of an era I'd go into a little more detail on the plot but

46:07 writing this segment and trying to make it entertaining took so much out of me I just I just couldn't do it so I'm just going to go forward with the cliff notes on this one farewell journalistic Integrity hello bias hoop is evil now but then it's not we get some backstory on the rcus cult members and how they grew up with Hoopa Hoopa is turning evil again but actually fights it off and evil Hoopa is a different enti now and the cool ass bong is broken so they got to make a new one the Hoopa summon a bunch of legendaries to fight for like 30 minutes while the new bottle gets made bottle is done evil Hoopa is sealed again but now Ash is evil we learn evil Hoopa is actually chill all these legendaries in one place cause a rift in SpaceTime and evaporate the tower but everyone gets out safe and God shows up the end like I said at the start I am so sorry if this is your favorite movie cuz I'm sure you never hear the end of how not great it is but I warned you I did

46:54 not like this one at all it was one of the few movies that I could not wait to be over at least with Pokemon 2000 and forever ignoring the issues I had with them I still had some sense of enjoyment while watching them like they were fun movies no matter my personal problems with them but this one was just so nothing it's really hard to put into words which sucks cuz this is like a review so sorry about that but it didn't feel satisfying to watch at least that's what my gut told me which is crazy because 30% of the movie is City fights with big legendary so you'd think I'd be all over it but nah it just didn't hit for me enough of me ranting though let's get into the grading I know I just went off a little bit but the story isn't completely terrible if anything it's one of the few saving Graces the idea of Gris taking away hoopa's power to show that there's more to life than chasing said power is honestly a good message

47:39 that I like a lot and The Inspirations for the setting and culture surrounding it are super cool I love desert city Vibes but that's about it two out of five as I said the story was one of the few saving Graces and the battles were the second even if I didn't really feel much while watching the battles on a conceptual level were pretty cool having a much a legendary Square Off is a fun kind of like Greatest Hits compilation idea and I respect it three out of five if I didn't make it obvious before enj was a one out of five I kind of already explained why so I won't say everything a second time and finally for Ash's mortality he was in freef fall for a few seconds at some point but other than that not too much happened to him three out of five hoopa and The Clash of Ages gets a 9 out of 20 I don't enjoy being harsh on stuff and I don't enjoy not

48:24 liking things like I'm sure most people would agree but when I do genuinely dislike something I'll be 100% honest about it so yeah on to the next [Music] movie I swear 80% of the villains in these movies got to have some kind of futuristic aircraft Volcan gets the equivalent of a wheel clamp placed on him and Ash gets the other so they're best friends now Volcan over here is the protector of MCA so he wants to take her to this really pretty tree and guard it but they get attacked and this creeping this little rich boy kidnapped G none steal her heart so she's dead I mean you need that to live so it's a pretty safe assumption if you ask me and the Heart gets used to power a steampunk Town turning it into a giant floating Castle because of course it does pretty sick fights happen on it though so I ain't complaining Volcan ends up sacrificing

49:10 his life but not really because it's Pokemon movie and MCA is saved wow happily ever after this one was pretty cute got to be honest I like the banter between Ash and Volcan and his growth to accept some but not all humans sometimes four out of five the battles were amazing the use of 3D environment that the XY anime is known for was at full play and Ash Greninja like come on what else would I give it five out of five join was a solid five as well but honestly anything is a five after the last movie I can still hear Hoopa in my nightmares and again Ash was completely safe and sound one out of five Banger theme song as well volcanium and the mechanical Marvel gets a 16 out of 20 and with that we're out of the Golden Era it had its ups and downs but most of them were great movies that I still enjoyed to this day most of them

49:59 before giving the synopsis and all that let me just gush about the art Direction and animation of this movie real quick the Pokemon movies had always looked good on like a base level a decent amount better than how the TV anime looks but this is a significant Step Up in almost every way characters and scenery look incredible the battle choreography and animation are top tier and everything else just comes together for a genuinely Beautiful film to look at and the craziest part is this isn't even the best looking movie in this era in my opinion but let's not get ahead of ourselves here's how this one goes being the official 20th Pokémon movie this is a celebration of the anime so to speak it retells the first few episodes but with a new coat of paint and some twists here and there everything up until Ash seeing ho is exactly the same but after that it starts to shift meets up with two trainers named vity and sorl who are the companions in this reimagining they try to catch ente but it doesn't go too well and he runs off yall should get a

50:44 Pokemon with mean look next time it it really helps trust me something I should mention is that marshadow is basically the Crux of this movie which was kind of odd at first but I'm glad something was done with him compared to the games cuz he got nothing eventually the scene where ash saves a Charmander in the rain takes place in the original anime it was Damian The Reincarnation of the devil who left Charmander behind but this time it's a d named Cross while this scene is going on we learn about sorel's goal to meet the legendary beast and we get a backstory sequence of how they came to be which was genuinely super cool Ash also talks about his goal which in this movie is to find and catch ho with the rainbow feather he received then there's this coolest battle between Ash and cross Charmander evolved into Charmeleon and tries to take on cross and cinor but we don't really need to talk about the conclusion cuz like who even cares about that just trying your best it's all that matters that's what I always say anyway the animation in this battle was so

51:31 great this is how I used to imagine Pokémon battles in my head as a kid lots of movement and back and forth super flashy moves so much intensity it's just a great battle uh yeah so after that Ash throws a tantrum and basically tells Pikachu to off himself not exactly he actually says he should have picked a different Pokemon instead but let's be real I don't think there's a worse thing you can say to a Pokémon than that he gets tired from being extra and takes a little nap in which he dreams about being in a world without Pokémon and sees how much it sucks like we get it Pokémon are so cool and we know our world sucks without them you don't got to rub it in anyways he reconciles with Pikachu and everything turns out good in the end after this another scene from the original anime shows up and I I don't think we need to talk about this one if you ask me it's perfectly valid

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