A fun little movie with cute characters and animation

| Mar 29, 2021

It's simple, and that's not really bad, but doesn't add much for an adult viewer, either. Without the retrospect on it hard, I think this movie is a solid 7.9/10. I wouldn't mind watching it again, especially with my little one.

| Feb 11, 2021

We know that the makers of this film are capable of something slightly more grand-scale than "video game commercial". They're just not interested in actually doing it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 1, 2019

The climactic battle is long, repetitious and boring, while the film's anti-violence message is crassly expressed.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2019

Inspiring message, uninspired movie.

| Jan 15, 2019

Yes, parents, you poor things, "Pokemon" (derived from "Pocket Monsters") has morphed into yet another money-milking form, and it is going to cost you.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 15, 2019

The story is trite and the cartooning is cut-rate, but youngsters will enjoy seeing their 온라인카지노추천 heroes in a movie-length adventure. Shown with a 20-minute short called "Pikachu's Vacation," so sloppily made that it's barely coherent.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 15, 2019

This film is humourless, boring, impenetrable and with animation of such staggeringly low quality that it constitutes an insult to cinemagoers of all ages.

| Jan 15, 2019

[I]t's pretty hard to sit through this feature-length expansion of the wildly popular kids cartoon series without having dire thoughts about late 20th century capitalism's apparently boundless ability to make people buy utter crap.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2019

"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.

| Jan 15, 2019

I can't avoid feeling it would've been more interesting if they developed something more ambitious, that didn't feel like a retread of the anime. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2018

Not only is this movie really good... , but it actually raised some interesting philosophical questions about the nature of Pokémon.

| Aug 22, 2018

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: F | Apr 4, 2011

Excruciating to endure.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 27, 2010

The story is a humourless retread of a Bond-style world domination yarn with a Frankenstein theme.

| Aug 16, 2007

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.

| Feb 28, 2007

It would be nice to think that 'the kids' would take on board the heavy-handed moral messages, but more likely they'll be looking out for new Pokmon to collect, therefore fulfilling Nintendo's merchandising dream.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

If you're over 10 years old I have four words for you: See Princess Mononoke instead.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 26, 2006