Read Wife Sacrifice/ Gross Otaku Overhunting/ Kidnapped to Give Birth
Rating: half dozen.5/ten
Plot: Yukinari/Sam is a young boy who was whisked through time past a Celebi 40 years ago after the legendary Pokemon barely escaped from a Pokemon hunter. He meets Satoshi/Ash and the others after his trip ends and wishes to aid the Celebi who sent him through time since he fears he could be injured. Later healing his wounds, a new threat shows up past the name of Lord Vicious the Mask/The Iron-Masked Marauder who wishes to capture Celebi, brand him evil and use his powers to take over the world!
Breakdown: I actually don't have much to say on the poster this time. Celebi looks decent, anybody's placement is spot-on for a change. Except Pikachu – he seems way likewise big, specially when Satoshi and Yukinari are so damn small-scale. And holy crap, she's a pointless character to brainstorm with but they fabricated Miku/Diane and then small I completely disregarded that she was there on the first few viewings. Why even include her if she's going to take up a penny's worth of space?
Like usual, I will be breaking up the pic into chunks instead of giving another play by play to save space. I decided on fifteen infinitesimal chunks for this 1 since I'll have to be addressing some removed scenes.
xv Minute Mark
I find it odd that the Pokemon of the forest never helped Celebi when it was beingness pursued by the Pokemon hunter. Later on, they all assemble to bring Celebi back to the lake to heal itself and then afterwards to capture Vicious/IMM (Yes, IMM's Japanese name is Roughshod. Much better name and possible Cowboy Bebop reference….yet 4Kids gives us the Iron Masked Marauder…..*sigh*), only they all run away from the Pokemon hunter instead of trying to help….
The quondam woman is named Towa. She keeps her proper noun between the two versions, simply I cannot confirm that because most sources discussing the English version just call her 'the old woman' and 4Kids never puts the roles of the vocalism actors next to their names in the credits.
Just to cleft this out before we fifty-fifty meet him, Deckhand is named Mr. White. What a weird name. Even weirder considering that he'south pretty young and most characters that immature aren't usually called 'Mr.' in the series. I have no clue if this is his dub proper name, but nosotros'll have to assume he was just never given one and that the dub adopted the Japanese one as an alibi.
I have to wonder, how did Fell know that Celebi would be stopping in this time? Or did he not and but got insanely lucky? Celebi could've gone literally anywhen in fourth dimension, past or future, and leaves no indication as to what era it'due south heading to.
The Japanese title screen is so much better than the dub's. And 4Kids was doing and then well in that section in the by few movies.
In the contrary extreme in terms of names, Dundee apparently gets no original version name.
Wow, how many times can they remake the same Mezase Pokemon Master theme song in the original? This version is really pretty cool, but when practise they change it?
Here we are at the scene that was replaced before.
We cut to the kids talking to Okido Hakase/Professor Oak on the video telephone. He holds up a drawing from a book portraying Suicune and asks them if that was the Pokemon they saw. Satoshi confirms, and Okido says it could've have been a Suicune. He's not smiling as he was in the original, he's not adamant about it being Suicune and Kenji/Tracey is in this shot smiling in the background as Okido'due south on the phone.
They ask what a Suicune is, but Okido doesn't know much about it besides the fact that information technology's a legendary Pokemon. Several people from the groundwork are removed (and the angle is changed a chip), Mr. White is behind them as they're on the telephone as well in the original but is not there in the dub.
We keep it relatively the aforementioned for a fleck, explaining Suicune's powers and how he's called the Due north Wind (I find it weird that a Water Pokemon'southward the Due north Wind….shouldn't that exist a Flight type?) As he's exaggerating some stuff about Suicune to seem cooler with Kenji looking embarrassed in the groundwork, Betbeton/Muk hugs Okido. Because of this, Okido is the one who bids them goodbye and Kenji bids good day as well.
If anything, seeing the scene that was cut makes me even madder at 4Kids' decision…Why? Because it was basically the verbal same friggin' scene as the dub version, in terms of visuals anyway. They changed Okido to exist smiling during this scene, got rid of Kenji for whatever reason, painted away the other people in town and Mr. White from the scene, and put in another picture of Suicune from the book, I guess to illustrate what he meant by water purifying powers.
Ultimately, what was inverse was the dialogue, which was 'Oh yeah, that'southward Suicune. He's totally real! I saw him once! And you were in that location and you were there and yous were there….because spoiler alert, I am Sam.' (Funny affair – Sam's Wiki page makes no mention at all of him being Professor Oak. I honestly hope they didn't miss that fact while watching the dub because I only have so much faith in humanity left.)
And so, in essence, 4Kids honestly didn't need to driblet a damn dime on this scene….They didn't need to do anything to begin with, but now they actually didn't need to.
Be artistic with the clips yous have and make dialogue changes. You practically changed the unabridged script of Moving picture 01 and withal you didn't pay the original animators a dime to make special scenes for that! Doesn't your toilet clog a lot with how much money you affluent?
If you really needed that smile, why non Mew Mew Ability his ass and flip his pout upside down? It'd still be insanely dumb, but it would save a ton of money and manpower.
Half Hour Mark
And so I'm guessing that it's a thing in the original that Misty introduces herself every bit a 'beauty' or something like that. Every time Misty introduces herself in the dub she always says either she wants to be the best Water Pokemon Trainer or that she loves H2o Pokemon etc.
I observe it impaired that the only Pokemon we see Satoshi use in this moving picture are Bayleaf/Bayleef (Some other instance of the English name just being the Japanese proper noun misspelled.) and Pikachu….Considering this is the first Pokemon movie to have a legit human Pokemon trainer villain, it's pretty disappointing.
45 Infinitesimal Mark
Oh so Takeshi is just as obvious virtually the lake thing every bit Brock was….Okay. Sorry, 4Kids. Actually, why would you dip him in the lake in the kickoff place if y'all didn't think the water would heal him?
Satoshi doesn't explain what a Pokedex (Poke Guide/Zukan) is, nor do they outset talking about how much Satoshi knows about the hereafter. His tactless comment virtually existence 'sure glad (he'southward) not stuck in it similar (Yukinari) is' is also non present.
Satoshi does say that the sketchbook is similar a self-illustrated Poke Zukan, but he doesn't take the time out to explicate what it is. In addition, the chat afterward is Satoshi asking Yukinari if he'due south aspiring to be a Pokemon Trainer. Yukinari says he hasn't decided and was really traveling to assist him make up one's mind when, and then he trails off.
At that place's a short period of silence before Satoshi finishes Yukinari's sentence and says '….yous woke upwards in the future…' Which is far less astringent of a line than basically telling him 'sucks to be you!' As well, I'g most sure that the extra line about the Pokedex in the dub was to further poke at Professor Oak.
Ash'south goofy pun with the 'Butterfree-Promise you'll be free' line is not present. Satoshi just says he knows he'll get back to his own time.
It always feels weird to me watching the original version of a 4Kids production knowing they left the original score in. I can't really explain why, but after making and so many SDC's and getting used to constant noise and poppy bullcrap, it's just odd. I know they however inserted their own theme vocal and end credits song, merely still.
This motion picture broke the tradition of Satoshi tackling and/or punching something incredibly powerful that would evidently kick his ass or hurt him. Closest he gets is climbing the giant robot spider to wrestle the Dark Brawl from Roughshod. Darn, I really wanted to brand that a tradition. Oh well, I tin can merely hope information technology'southward in Movie 05.
Sure is necessary to brand all that wheat CGI. Seriously, you'd retrieve they just discovered CGI when they fabricated this picture show. Use it sparingly, it has a meliorate impact that mode. Either that or make the whole moving-picture show CGI.
Hour Mark
I practice appreciate that neither Celebi nor Suicune speak in this movie. I've never had much of a qualm against whatsoever of the legendaries speaking, except slightly with Lugia, only information technology'south a welcome change.
I even so don't understand how or why Celebi gets dark lightning powers when it's evil….
Oh come on, not even the original gives an explanation as to why Celebi'southward dying?
Terminate
Hm, I wonder. Is this the first time we've ever seen a dead Pokemon on the evidence? I hateful….it's very unclear in both versions whether Celebi's dead or merely nigh death.
That reminds me, Kasumi didn't cry a drop in the first movie when she idea Satoshi was dead, but she sees Celebi dead/dying and out come the waterworks.
At present Takeshi's crying besides. A boy you've been friends with for over a year dying and you barely react. A Pokemon you've barely known for a twenty-four hour period dying and everyone evolves into a sprinkler.
Since 4Kids kept the soundtrack that means….more than lalalalaalaaaaaaaalalala.
We become a scene that was cut in the dub to put the second telephone call with Oak in at that place. Yukinari wakes up in front of the shrine back in his fourth dimension, Towa finds him and asks if he'south alright and he simply says he had a wonderful dream.
I don't get why this was removed. In comparison to the scene that was inserted, this is incredibly short to justify cutting it unless they had a serious time limit for some reason and they couldn't manage it with their super shiny new scenes.
The ending theme is very gentle and nice to heed to – A desperate contrast to the dub'due south, and much more fitting. A pic mostly about friendship and the forest and whatnot, so take a big party vocal at the stop with a bunch of record scratches. Makes sense. It's fifty-fifty weirder because that the last three movies, which were far more activeness-y and fast paced, had by and large gentle and boring songs at the terminate of those in the dub.
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You lot may notice something odd. I didn't raise my rating on this movie at all. You'd think without the inserted scenes and with the actual footage that I'd exist happier and requite this a better rating…Well, you see there's a tiny problem in this little project of mine. Sometimes, when I rewatch the movie in the subbed version….my opinion lowers on the overall motion picture.
By all intents and purposes, and I honestly detest saying this, barring the inserted scenes and scene removals, 4Kids did a damn near perfect job on this pic….Perfect by 4Kids standards anyway.
They kept the original score (though put in their own OP and ED and the ED does get teethscrapingly grating…) and nigh of the script barring some small stuff was kept exactly the aforementioned. Like I said, the only thing 4Kids did in terms of changes was become off to their own bank accounts and beat kids in the caput with something they honestly didn't even need to know….plus added in a Squad Rocket scene which could've been cut to keep the scene with Yukinari—The point is, it's nevertheless basically the same movie.
The trouble is that, when I rewatch the pic and there's not that many changes….I start noticing bigger flaws in the movie or the flaws I barely took note of before proceeds more weight.
The Yukinari/Satoshi friendship is still very overnice. The villain is yet an bodily villain, but he's all the same generic. At that place'south no real reason given as to why he'south pursuing Celebi nor how he knew Celebi would be in this time period. While I do give props for showing death, of a Pokemon no less (because according to our crying index, Pokemon are more important than people) in that location's no real reason given every bit to why it'due south dying.
The primary bug I have are with the plot outside of the time travel. That really is the better plot in the film. It'south rarer to see someone time travel to your own time and have to deal with that. It'south more mutual for the main characters to time travel themselves. At that place'southward quite a scrap that they could've done with that, but it's sidetracked by the stuff with Celebi.
Did you get that? I simply said that the side plot was improve than the main plot and that the main plot gets in the way of the side plot. If that's not a huge problem, I don't know what is.
The stuff with Celebi isn't that bad, merely it's ultimately the reason why I believe I found this movie so forgettable. I did say it's because information technology wasn't equally ballsy of a pic equally the others, simply this is the part of the movie that is supposed to exist ballsy so there ya go.
I actually remembered the parts with Sam only fine, it was the plot with Celebi that fled my listen. It was predictable and fabricated incredibly silly by the ugly CGI monster and spiky wheatball of doom. And in that location's the fact that the solution was literally the power of friendship.
Though neither version was really preachy near it, the whole matter about the forest beingness destroyed did stink of an environmentalist bulletin, especially as Celebi'due south dying. I already talked about how the forest really was the only matter in immediate danger and that was just because Brutal wanted to evidence off.
It is sometimes welcome to take a break from the globe being in immediate danger, only you lot tin can still have an ballsy feeling without resorting to 'go green!' The plot was and so flimsy they had the villain do that lame reprise when they come out of nowhere to catch the powerful item/beast over again and try to merely run abroad, which is even more predictable because practice you really think any movie would end with the villain getting abroad that stupidly?
In addition, it felt like this movie should've been Yukinari's but Satoshi kept taking the reigns. I know it is his serial, but yous can't tell me Satoshi was really the forefront of picture 03 or 01, then it tin be done.
While I will scold 4Kids three ways from Sunday for those dumb scenes until the cease of fourth dimension, and I, in all honesty, don't desire to change the rating on the dub ane from what I honestly gave information technology before. The rating stays as is. That was a roller coaster of an opinion ride that I haven't felt in a while. It's still an enjoyable movie, merely there are very pregnant bug.
But the burning question still remains…..Who did Yukinari abound up to be?!
Recommended Audition: Even so talking nigh death l+!
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