Pokemon Movie 18: Ring no Choumajin Hoopa

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Synonyms: Pokémon the Movie XY 2015, Pokémon the Movie XY: The Archdjinni of Rings - Hoopa, Pokémon Movie 18

Japanese: ポケモン・ザ・ムービーXY『光輪（リング）の超魔神フーパ』

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 18, 2015

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: The Pokemon Company International

Studios: OLM

Source: Game

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 1 hr. 18 min.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 6.60¹ (scored by 34,459 users)

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Ranked: #6399²

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Popularity: #2941

Members: 55,908

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A century ago, the power of a mighty creature known as Hoopa, who is capable of single-handedly defeating legendary Pokémon, was captured in a bottle by a lone traveler. The bottle was then hidden deep inside a cave in the desert, in the hopes that the darkness sealed within it would never see the light of day again.

Years later, a young man finds the bottle and breaks the curses surrounding it, releasing the power confined within it. Its contents take the form of Hoopa's shadow, and it uses its unbound power to shatter the bottle and prevent anyone from capturing it again. The shadow then goes on a rampage and attacks the original Hoopa, while both Pokémon summon other legendary creatures to aid them in their brawl. Satoshi—a budding Pokémon trainer from the Kanto region—and his friends are caught up in the crossfire, and must now work to stop the ravaging Pokémon, or face a devastating clash of legends.

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Adaptation:	Pokémon the Movie XY: Ring no Choumajin Hoopa
Parent story:	Pokemon XY
Other:	Pokemon: Pikachu to Pokemon Ongakutai, Pokemon XY: Hoopa no Odemashi Daisakusen!!
Prequel:	Pokemon XY: Odemashi Ko Majin Hoopa

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Characters & Voice Actors

Satoshi

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Matsumoto, Rica
Japanese

Pikachu

Main

Ootani, Ikue
Japanese

Serena

Main

Makiguchi, Mayuki
Japanese

Citron

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Eureka

Main

Ise, Mariya
Japanese

Hoopa

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Kugimiya, Rie
Japanese

Mary

Main

Nakagawa, Shoko
Japanese

Barza

Main

Fujiwara, Tatsuya
Japanese

Kojirou

Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Musashi

Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi
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Okamoto, Junya

Producer

Yamaura, Takanori

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Yamauchi, Mirai

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Yuyama, Kunihiko

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"Tweedia" by Rei Yasuda

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Aug 13, 2021

Mati_Boi

Recommended

After recently rewatching the whole of Pokemon XYZ, I decided to also re-watch one of my favourite pokemon films to come out, Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. I haven't really seen many reviews posted on mal about this movie and surprisingly enough the positive voices about this film are absent in this scenario, so I'm going express my own viewpoint of the pros and cons, as well as a general idea of what the movies.

(Considering that this is one of my favourite pokemon movies, I apologise in advance if theres bias present on this take)

Story: When you look at how deep the ... iceberg goes down for this circumstance, it doesnt fall very deeply. The plot is pretty simplistic as well to an extent for pokemon standards, Ash stumbles across another mythical pokemon with a somewhat tragic backstory with his friends, and tries to recover it from it's dark self. Not very groundbreaking to be fair, but is that a bad thing? Not at all. Not every story necessarily requires a unique motif to stand out from other media works. The actual events that occur are really enjoyable, such as the character being introduced to Hoopa, how they get to know its past, and the climax of the film, and although I said the plot might seem simplistic, from my perspective it's better than a lot of pokemon movies. The interesting take about the story though is that the original Hoopa has to face off against its shadow, and in order to assist them, they both summon different tyles of legendaries, resulting in a Legendary vs Legendary battle, and I gotta be honest. That was freaking epic, and one of the bigger highlights of the movie. My short problem with it, which applies to the whole movie in general, is that it was a little too short. On average movies are around 1 hour and 30 minutes. This movie was 1 hour and 15 minutes (18 minutes if you count the ending theme song). While it's not a short movie by any means, it could've definitely benefited if it was 10-20 minutes extra. The legendaries fighting one another was great, but in a few instances it also felt short, so it could've been improved dramatically if they gave those fight scenes a few extra minutes, and the story might have been a better experience for some. However overall, despite this pronounced issue, the story aspect is appreciable and deserves a chance.

Art: Art and animation were obvsiouly very good and consistent, and made the fight scenes a lot more exciting than I would expected. Really liked the backgrounds and how it presented Desser city (which aesthetically looked beautiful and probably one of my favourite areas in the series),a and the 3d camera was a great inclusion as well. My small nitpick is that the cgi in a few objects and some pokemon during the legendaries fight looked iffy, but thankfully it wasnt overused.

Sound: While not too memorable, the music was great as well, considering that the XY ost is pretty hype a lot of the times. Some of the exclusive ost from this film have a sort of reggae sound in them, which catches the idea of a few Indian-type similarities portrayed in this movie (Hoopas design, how people used to dress up in the city and keep the city original was crafted), and most importantly the ending theme song SLAPPED and is one of my favourite pokemon themes of all time (English ending song is also pretty nice and has a 90s/2000s feel to it).

Characters: Obviously you have the main gang of the XY series, as well as the inclusion of Hoopa and 3 more characters that took care of Hoopa. Oh, and Team rocket. Yeah those guys. Their addition in the movie was pretty bad overall, and it doesnt help that they were very irrelevant characters in this story overall. But at least we wouldn't have to bother with their nuisance a lot like we usually were in the main series. Speaking of irrelevance, I definitely thought that Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie needed more moments in here. Of course they weren't badly treated like Team Rocket, in fact they were very likeable as always, but they were quite underused to aan extent, but gratefully they played an important role towards the second half trying to revive the bottle, so they weren't useless at all. Moreover, Ash was a very inspirational role model as always, trying to help Hoopa with its general issue of passing through its rings, and had a very sweet moment towards the end. Additionally, the caretakers of Hoopa were great and their backstory with Hoopa was pretty enjoyable as well, especially the fact that they gave Hoopa a new meaning to family, which effectively allowed Hoopa to develop inside. And we've got Hoopa, who is rather a quite disliked by the community with how annoying they found it, and while I dont completely disagree with them, Hoopa wasnt as annoying as they made him out to be, and it wasnt really in your face either. Though I will admit, his childish personality isnt the best to get along with and the team could've done better at positively emphasising his character overall.

Overall: With that said, was Hoopa and the Clash ages a bad movie? Hell fricking no! Sure, it has a few annoying aspects that held it back from being amazing to some peoples perspectives, but I do think those opinions were a little exaggerated to a certain degree, which may have contributed to their blindness of the many pros this film provided. Not to mention, the pros heavily overshadow the cons from my experience of the film, so it dkesnt hold it back from me rating it a high score. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but it sure is an amazing and enjoyable ride.

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Aug 10, 2020

Aryale

Recommended

{{{There are spoilers if you are wondering}}}

Hahaha, now this was another childhood favorite of mine. It was so bad that it was good...
I haven't watched this in years, but I remember how right off the bat ash (or satoshi, i wasn't reading subtitles at the time) and his friends were chilling in a pool, in a desert, literally in the middle of nowhere. I'm not exaggerating, they were the only ones.
All of a sudden they and the water are teleported to hoopa and the person incharge of him (is he a girl? idk). because they (the person) asked for a cup of water. ...

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Mar 30, 2019

Prophet615

Not Recommended

I'll admit, it's been a long time since I've watched any recent Pokemon movies, but Hoopa and the Clash of Ages is definitely the worst out of all the ones I've seen.

There really isn't any story in this movie. Hoopa has an evil side that has to be sealed away, and then a bunch of legendaries are summoned for a battle. Seriously. That's the plot. I've just saved you an hour and fifteen minutes. The bare-bones plot doesn't hide the fact that this movie is basically advertising the games, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire specifically. All the legendary Pokemon that are summoned are ones you ...

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