Pokemon - Mewtwo Returns
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List Price: $14.98
Features
• Animated
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1997
DVD Release : 04 December, 2001 |
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Pokemon - Mewtwo Returns description
In this direct-to-video sequel to Pokémon: The First Movie, Ash, Misty, and Brock continue exploring the Johto region, then have to rescue Pikachu after Jessie and James of Team Rocket kidnap him. The search leads them to the hidden plateau where the redoubtable Mewtwo has established a haven for the cloned Pokémon from the previou ... review details
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Should have never been made
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Boy oh boy, this is quite a deceiving title. Mewtwo Returns would imply to most fans a revenge type story pitting Mewtwo once again as the antagonistic aggressor. Such a plot probably would've made for quite an enthralling sequel to the original. Conversely, this one runs off in the opposite direction, one which places the once invincible Mewtwo in a helpless position, as it attempts to resume a (since the end of Mewtwo Strikes Back) peaceful lifestyle with its clone buddies. The evil doer in Mewtwo Returns happens to be Giovanni, the malicious, and cruel leader of Team Rocket.
Where to begin with the faults of this movie? For starters, the Pokemon creation team seemed to have forgotten what an omnipotent wrecking machine they portrayed Mewtwo as in the first movie. It's not the newfound pacifist-molded ideology which Mewtwo holds that bothers me with this movie, it's more the weakness in which it seems to have suddenly been infected with. The most powerful of all Pokemon is now a playtoy at the mercy of Giovanni's high tech mechanical contraptions. If you're expecting to see the same Mewtwo as the one in Mewtwo Strikes Back, the one who could stir typhoons with the simple flick of its wrist, you're going to be gravely disappointed (as I was). A plot of technological inventions overwhelming powerful Pokemon can be executed successfully in some circumstances (as was witnessed in the fantastic Pokemon 2000, with the incarceration of Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno through mechanical means), yet it bothers me when it's done to an intelligent, Godlike specimen such as Mewtwo. It undermines Mewtwo's entire character to the point where he loses much credibility in the power department.
The idea of Jessie and James helping Ash and the gang in yet another movie is not only moldy by this point, but absurd when considering that it's in defiance of their own boss, Giovanni. The overexposure of Giovanni is another issue I have a problem with. The face of Team Rocket's founder is probably shown more in this movie than it is in all the Pokemon TV episodes combined, taking away from the mystery of his character.
This is the worst Pokemon movie yet, one which the world of Pokemon would've done better off without. |
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