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Pokémon: The First Movie
Directed by
Kunihiko Yuyama
G
1998
75m
Action
,
Adventure
,
and more
6.3
16%
75%
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Scientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.
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Cast of Pokémon: The First Movie
Rica Matsumoto
Satoshi (voice)
Ikue Otani
Pikachu (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
Kasumi (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Togepy (voice)
Yuji Ueda
Takeshi (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Musashi (voice)
Shin'ichirō Miki
Kojirō (voice)
Inuko Inuyama
Nyarth (voice)
Ayako Shiraishi
Joy (voice)
Chinami Nishimura
Junsar (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Sakaki (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice)
Masachika Ichimura
Mewtwo (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Mew (voice)
Toru Furuya
Sorao (voice)
Aiko Sato
Sweet (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Umio (voice)
Raymond Johnson
Raymond (voice)
Sachiko Kobayashi
Voyager (voice)
Yosuke Akimoto
Dr. Fuji (voice)
Shinobu Adachi
Dr. Fuji's Wife (voice)
Pokémon: The First Movie Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Excruciating to endure.
New York Post
Hannah Brown
Strictly a kids' movie.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
"Pokémon: The First Movie" is a dose of extremely low-budget "Japanimation" that -- were it only more proficiently executed -- would rival "Scooby Doo" as the most astounding work of art in the 20th century.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The repetitive plot is essentially a string of excuses for fantastical combat sequences, but somehow several characters' insistence that violence is bad doesn't come off as hypocritical.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Spending 95 minutes with the slight antics of Pikachu, Ash and the gang may seem like an eternity.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
It makes the Star Wars mythos play like Pong.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Heart is something sadly lacking in Pokemon: The First Movie.
Los Angeles Times
Robin Rauzi
Pokemon isn't even good animation, unless the standard of measure is the crude LCD graphics of a Game Boy.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino
With intentionally stilted animation, uninspired music and lame jokes, Pokemon is basically an ultralong version of the phenomenon's own boring TV 'toon.
Variety
Robert Koehler
This pacifist spirit of brotherhood echoes the heroics in Princess Mononoke and other anime titles, but the artistic gap between the Miyazaki masterpiece and this project is huge.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
My baseline for boredom had been standing in line to renew my automobile registration. But now, thanks to this Pokemon film, I have a brand-new baseline.
Dallas Morning News
Nancy Churnin
For the legions of Pokemon fans, the film gives them everything they crave and more.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Every generation of children has some hideously annoying cartoon series to provide parents with much agonizing and many, many buying opportunities.
Boston Globe
Betsy Sherman
The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Adults may cringe at the preachy heavy-handedness and the extremely limited motion animation that sets the art form back a couple of generations.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A shameless plug for Pokemon merchandise? You betcha.
Film.com
Robert Horton
There isn't a moment of wonder or poetry in its very long 69 minutes.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's just a sound-and-light show, linked to the marketing push for Pokemon in general.
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