As ever, accompanying grown-ups should either take a good book or, better still, avoid the film completely by bribing another adult to go along instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 23, 2019

Perfect for fans of the franchise; anyone else, though, will probably get bored and annoyed. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2018

So-so, violent movie for series fans only.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2010

The animation doesn't display the kind of artistic advances that would compensate for the underdeveloped story.

| Mar 26, 2009

The lengthy battles here become tiresome in a film that says Pokmons live to battle but also know when to quit.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2004

For kids and diehard fans, it's OK. Others beware.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2003

Childless couples everywhere should rejoice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2003

One would think that three feature vehicles for Pikachu and his mind-numbing friends would be sufficient to convince our kids that there's got to be something better available and cause their interest in the avalanche of trashy collectibles to wane.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

action-packed ... suspenseful without being terribly scary. Although the lengthy climax caused the kids sitting nearby to make a meal of their fingernails, they couldn't take their eyes off the screen.

| Jun 10, 2002

it's surprising that this project wasn't shelved from the get-go, but it seems the contract for the third and fourth spin-off films were inked along with that of the second Pokmon movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2002

Subsequent Pokmon battles give Nintendo the chance to showcase a few new characters, but equal effort is not made in the psychological arena.

| Mar 24, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

This one isn't nearly as gut-wrenchingly awful as the first one -- the animation is better. But it's still so bad it hurts.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2001

The animation and script still look as crummy as ever.

| Aug 10, 2001

Lighter than its predecessors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2001

If not exactly enjoyable, then at least halfway tolerable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2001