Pokémon: The First Movie

    Pokémon: The First Movie
    1998

    Synopsis

    Determined to prove its superiority, a bio-engineered Pokémon called Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu and others into a Pokemon match like none before.

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    Cast

    • Rica MatsumotoSatoshi (voice)
    • Ikue OtaniPikachu (voice)
    • Mayumi IzukaKasumi (voice)
    • Satomi KorogiTogepy (voice)
    • Yuji UedaTakeshi (voice)
    • Megumi HayashibaraMusashi (voice)
    • Shin-ichiro MikiKojirō (voice)
    • Inuko InuyamaNyarth (voice)
    • Ayako ShiraishiJoy (voice)
    • Chinami NishimuraJunsar (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Chicago Reader

      By the time the fighting between clones and their originals turned to fraternal bonding, I was quite moved, even blissed out.
    • 63

      San Francisco Examiner

      The film is obviously a long-form episode of a show better digested in 22-minute segments.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      It's just a sound-and-light show, linked to the marketing push for Pokemon in general.
    • 50

      USA Today

      Plays a little like a pacifistic variation on Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon."
    • 50

      New York Post

      Strictly a kids' movie, but parents may be relieved to sit back and enjoy the fact that for two full hours, they won't have to hear the kids asking them to buy any more Pokemon trading cards.
    • 50

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      Essentially, the film functions as a holiday catalog, introducing fans to a new Pokemon whose effigy they can collect in trading cards.
    • 25

      Baltimore Sun

      With its incomprehensible plot, flat visual style and indecipherably mixed messages (violence is good; no, wait, violence is bad!), this movie seems chiefly to be an excuse to sell even more trading cards.
    • 20

      TV Guide Magazine

      This totally sucks.

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