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Pokemon: The First Movie

Pokemon: The First Movie

Alternative Titles

English: Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back
Synonyms: Pokemon the Movie: Mew vs. Mewtwo
Japanese: ƒ|ƒPƒbƒgƒ‚ƒ“ƒXƒ^[ ƒ~ƒ…ƒEƒc[‚Ì‹tP

Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 18, 1998
Duration: 1 hr. 36 min.
Rating: PG - Children
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 7.111 (scored by 12181 users)
Ranked: #18842
Popularity: #216
Members: 16,411
Favorites: 21
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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action adventure comedy shounen

Synopsis

A team of scientists use the DNA of a rare Pokemon, Mew, to create the world's strongest Pokemon, Mewtwo. Not wanting to be used as an experiment, Mewtwo uses its psychic powers in a violent rage to destroy the scientists who created it. Mewtwo then tries to learn how to focus his powers with the aid of Giovanni, the man who funded the scientists' operations, but discovers that it is being used again. So Mewtwo decides to find its own purpose in life, and carry out its revenge on humans by destroying life on earth by using a deadly storm. Ash Ketchum and a group of other Pokemon Trainers are summoned by Mewtwo to have a battle with it, but they soon discover that they're only being invited so Mewtwo can clone their Pokemon for it's own purposes. Ash then tries to find a way to stop Mewtwo's plot before it can be carried out. from ann

Related Anime

Parent story: Pokemon
Sequel: Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns
Side story: Pokemon - Pikachu's Summer Vacation

Characters & Voice Actors

Takeshi
Takeshi
Main
Stachel, Marc
German
Stachel, Marc
Pikachu
Pikachu
Main
 
Mew
Mew
Main
Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese
Yamadera, Kouichi
Nyarth
Nyarth
Main
Blaustein, Addie
English
Blaustein, Addie

Staff

Yuyama, Kunihiko
Director


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Jun 11, 2008
kiriska
This was a movie that broke the box office records for an animated feature at the time. Of course, records have come a long way since then, but this was still a fun movie.

STORY - As a kids' movie for a kids' show, the themes in Mewtwo Strikes Back are actually quite impressive. The morality of cloning and genetic modification/enhancement is a very real debate that ripples through the scientific community now and again, and it's interesting to see that idea translated into a Pokemon movie. Thus, as far as its target audience goes, the core plot of this First Movie is definitely doing something read more
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Apr 27, 2009
SpoonfedTribe
I used to be a Pokemon fanatic, as many youngsters did, but unlike everyone else I probably saw this movie for the first time in 2001 because I jumped the bandwagon later than everyone else. I remember very little about watching it, but I do remember that, in contrast to the series, it was exceptionally dark and very sad.

Let's put some perspective here: the movie, in the English dub, opens up with Mewtwo coming out of some cloned form of hibernation (which is strange for a children's movie) and it's assumed that he's absolutely pissed off that he's been cloned and what-not. So he proceeds read more
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Opening Theme

"Mezase Pokemon Master '98" by Rica Matsumoto

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What a movie!
gdavge2003
9 replies by vindemon64 »»
05-06-09, 7:07 PM

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