I just watched the English Dub of this movie....its only just 75 minutes and MAL's DB for it is wrong with the duration time saying 2 hours, which is not the case. >>
I just watched it on BBC2 (UK channel), I missed the first 4 minutes of it and watched on youtube just now.
I was flicking through the channels randomly as I was about to turn it off to go back and finish off the 3rd season of Minami-Ke. Since, the movie is anime, I sat through it because I've never seen it before.
When I was younger, over 10 years ago, me and many were in the Pokemon craze that hit the western world and literally took its legs and flung it up in the air.
Whilst watching the movie, I realised that I have moved on from these kind of animes but I still liked it.
Pokemon, Digimon, Astro Boy (2003), Cardcaptors, Dragonball series and Beyblade are the only animes where I have watched it in DUB. I prefer Japanese audio with English subs the most and have done since I was 12. I have never tried watching any of those shows in its original state but the one I would definitely watch in its original form has to be Astro Boy (2003)..........It was the latest re-telling of Astro Boy and I think it originally aired on Japan in 2003 is my guess. Unfortunately, in the UK, these dubbed animes will broadcast the episodes at random times and sometimes not broadcasting not more than the first 10. I think the Pokemon, Digimon and Beyblade have all the episodes broadcasted somewhat but I of course they suffered from heavy-editing and perhaps removing episodes such as half of the original episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura were removed, oh this is another series I'm eager to watch........simply becasue its CLAMP.
Ok, back to the movie.....it was average, fine, predictable and its exactly what I expected from the dubbed version of this movie. Maybe someday, I will watch everything pokemon in Japanese......LOL. =) I'm being generous and I will rate this movie a 6/10. =P |