Sep 23, 2021
Look, I grew up on Pokemon and still love it. I even have nostalgia for the original MewTwo Strikes Back. I do not, however, consider it in anyway to be a good film. Many people adore and I am sure they have their nostalgiac reasons (like I do for Pokemon 2000), but I cannot pretend that it is a good film, and my problems with this film are exactly the same as that one except worse because the animation and art style for this one just do not look or feel right to me at all. The problem boils down to
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one specific aspect of the plot. Now the plot has several issues. It leaves me with a few questions like "How did Mewtwo makes his huge facility?" "How did he not realize Mew was just chilling around his island the whole time, could he not sense him somehow as a psychic a pokemon?" "Why did Ash turn to stone when he got hit by Mew and Mewtwo's attacks?" "Why the fuck did the pokemon's tears revive him?" Now basically all of those questions can be fairly dismissed as it is a kids film. The first two questions are just conveniences for the plot, and the second was needed set up and pay off for an emotional moment that for many children, myself included, cried to, even if in retrospect it was pulled completely out of nowhere. No the main thing that hurts both Mewtwo Strikes Back and this remake is the fact it tries to have a "Pokemon should not fight like this lesson", In my opinion this is the most brain dead message you can deliver. One of the main appeals of Pokemon is making your favorite monster beat up your friend's monster. Why would anyone think it makes sense for Pokemon to say that having Pokemon fight is bad? It's absolutely ridiculous. Especially since the series had more intense and brutal fights than these movies do, but those fights were fine because......they were for fun? It is absolutely insane to me and the fact that Mewtwo wipes everyone's memories in the end makes it even worse cause now it was all pointless too. Until someone can give a good reason for why Pokemon is ever allowed to have a "Pokemon should not fight" lesson, then I will stand by that these films are not good, this one especially.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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