Film Summary CCXXI (Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back)

Prelude: Pikachu's vacation
So apparently we need to have 20 minutes of annoying little creatures yammering at one another.
Every five minutes the movie stops to remember that it has to have an acid flashback.
So apparently there's more than just one duck in the show. The original duck that I'm aware of was called a ''Psyduck'' he was just a big yellow fellow who had psychic powers and continuously had a headache. He was indifferent about most things in life and that's why I liked him so much. But there's another duck that literally carries around a leak with it as if to say; ''Please eat me. I am a delicious duck. Please chop off my head, drain my fats from my body and Fry up a most delicious meal.
Pikachu's vacation is the worst thing that ever existed!, worst than the Democratic\Republican parties of the United States. Yes Pikachu's vacation is utter bollocks. It's also really freaking cute

The actual flipping film:

The only country that exist in the Pokemon world is Guyana. And that's where the weird little Pokemon that kind of looks like a cat is from. they call it a 'Mew' which isn't much of a name if you ask me.
Now for some weird reason the Italian mobster by the name of Giovanni wants to clone the little kitty cat and create his own magical cat. The nation of Italy doesn't exist but there is one Italian and he's a mobster, way to keep up the stereotypes Japan.
For some reason the little mew-II cat can talk. None of the other Pokemons can talk (Except for Meowth I don't know why the little Jewish cat can talk. if I remember right he was a self-taught cats from a New York boarding school.)
So there are two of them mew cats and one of them wants to rule the world or something like that. I couldn't really pay that much attention to it, you can only whach so much Pokemon before you start taking to drink. I do know that the character Brock and Misty are pretty much Ashe's babysitters. Freaking kid ''I want to be a Pokemon Master''. Why don't you actually contribute to society you lazy stupid bastard.
There are Star Trek sound effects in this movie!
Also there's a weird subplot involving a conversation with the two space kitties where the original space kitty proclaims to his clone that; ''only the original pure-blooded ubermensch can survive in the long run.''
Yep superiority complex that's in a Pokemon movie

I'll give credit to the art design, the movie looks cool it's just a shame that the story is a bit boring. Excluding anything with Team Rocket, Jessie and James are always the most amusing things in the Pokemon show. A shame the actual show doesn't follow them. (although the greatest strength is most likely the minimalistic amount they pop up in something. I show actually focused on Jessie and James probably give repetitive and boring within a matter of minutes.)


Despite all the bad mouthing, a little part of me still loves this movie I guess you can it blinding nostalgia. I think I was around 6 to 8 years old when the movie came out and I was definitely a part of what they called ''Pokey-Mania'' which was the first wave of Pokemon influence into North America back when it was absolutely hugeIt's what I call a feel-good movie. Pokemon in general is a feel-good thing, anytime I'm sick or I'm just upset about something I can pop on the Pokemon (rather that be the television show or the video game) and I'll generally feel better, it's just a bunch of fun little creatures running around and occasionally getting into silly little battles there's no misery, disease or death. Just fun.

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