Pokemon Movie 10: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai

Alternative Titles

English: Pokemon: The Rise Of Darkrai

Synonyms: Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai, Pokemon Diamond & Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai

Japanese: ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド＆パールディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ

Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 15, 2007

Producers: Studio Jack

Licensors: VIZ Media, The Pokemon Company International

Studios: OLM

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Kids

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 7.26¹ (scored by 55,590 users)

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Ranked: #2517²

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Popularity: #1643

Members: 88,253

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Synopsis

The beautiful Alamos Town is home to a pair of century-old structures known as the Space-Time Towers, built by the architect Godey to play orchestral music in the area. The towers are also home to the Alamos Town Contest Hall, which is the next destination for Hikari, Satoshi, and Takeshi in their journey through the Sinnoh region. A woman named Alice and her partner Chimchar are happy to guide Satoshi and his friends through the town and its hallmarks.

But the tour is suddenly interrupted when Alice's friend Tonio notices a wave of dimensional disturbances throughout the town—all of which is blamed on an ominous Pokémon named Darkrai. The space-time disturbances continue to intensify as two legendary Pokémon, the Temporal Pokémon Dialga and the Spatial Pokémon Palkia, appear to duel each other, isolating the town and everyone present in it from the world into another dimension!

As he learns that this event was foreseen long ago, Tonio finds that his great-grandfather left behind a way to stop the dueling Pokémon. Will Satoshi and his friends be able to use this last resort to save Alamos Town from vaporizing between the dimensions?

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Adaptation:	Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai
Parent story:	Pokemon Diamond & Pearl

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Characters & Voice Actors

Pikachu

Main

Ootani, Ikue
Japanese

Satoshi

Main

Matsumoto, Rica
Japanese

Takeshi

Main

Ueda, Yuuji
Japanese

Hikari

Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi
Japanese

Musashi

Main

Hayashibara, Megumi
Japanese

Darkrai

Main

Ishizaka, Kouji
Japanese

Alice

Main

Baron Alberto

Main

Kojirou

Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Nyarth

Supporting

Inuyama, Inuko
Japanese

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Staff

Yuyama, Kunihiko

Director, Storyboard

Mima, Masafumi

Sound Director

Sonoda, Hideki

Script

Valencia, Amparo

Script, ADR Director

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Opening Theme

"Together 2007 (Eiga Version)" by Fumie Akiyoshi
"We Will Be Heroes" (English Version)

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Ending Theme

"Be with You: Itsumo Soba ni (Always by your side)" by Sarah Brightman

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Reviews

Nov 30, 2008

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

shadowsaiph (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

This Pokemon Movie, I'd have to say was good for the most part.

-Story-
The story plot was FAIR. When I originally heard about the movie, I thought it would be much much much different. Since I've been a Pokemon Fan for most of my life, I was expecting the movies to have much more of a Climatical part. It did not have a true "climax" per se. It was an average movie with an average storyline.

-Art-
The art was nothing special. The best art I saw was at the very end. The art was just as if it was a regular old Pokemon episode.

-Sound-
Sound was my favorite read more

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Apr 12, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Chaotic_beauty (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

The Rise of Darkrai relies on a big number of epic movie tropes nestled in live action. The film also surprises due to its clear cut structure and by the books approach to various small details. Something Pokemon were ignoring and more often than not, struggling with, ever since the fourth film.

Two guys will compete for a girl and it will be shown, not told. The resolution will be clear as the loser stumbles in the background. No exposition needed. Don't get me wrong, by no means is this a masterpiece. What it is, is a highly polished work following all the standard conventions with enough sophistication to be a good cartoon.

I wouldn't call any single component of the film bad, but where it does stumble, or at the very least, doesn't shine as the rest, are the characters. The main show cast don't get much attention. Plot expiosition is what they've been used for before and that's what they're used for here. By no means are their lines cringeworthy. By no means are they especially interesting, either. This becomes a hinderance which prevents the film from getting a higher rating, as their wacky shenanigans in the second act, while main plot is on hold, don't hold a candle to what comes before and after. They could've been given character developement or something meaningful to do so we connect to them. Slightly boring and overly silly slapstick dominates a dozen scenes. At least they're watchable.

Alice and Tonio are worth a mention. Their simple, but fun relationship subtly embelishes a few moments. Darkrai stole a few scenes, as well. Expecting him to be an edgelord, this was quite a surprise to me.

There's a thin line between an unoriginal ripoff and a well executed, traditional story. I've already praised the film for being the latter. One element of the plot stands out, though. Music. Pokemon flirted with this idea in the second film, but didn't have the courage to incorporate Melody's song into the plot. This is fortunate, since the song wasn't exceptional. I'm by no means an expert in music, but I found the song in here pretty good for what it is - an audience mover. While by no means something heavenly, it works well enough that you can accept it as having mythological significance in the film.

Artwork for the film was pretty good. Use of CGI for the church, while justified, wasn't nearly as flawless as in some older Pokemon works. Still, CGI was utilized in multiple good action scenes. Action was pretty good in general here. Almost as relevant as in the last film's final action scene, Ash gets to do something again. Ash, Dawn & their pokemon are really fun to watch as they wrestle with time and space to save themselves.

There's nothing more to say. It's a highly polished action film with weaker characters than I'd like. Groundbreaking? No. Solid? Yes.

Recommendation to pretty much anyone interested.

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Nov 22, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

RWM13 (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

It’s everything you’d expect out of a Pokemon movie - so I think at least! But still, I was quite surprised about the movie and I consider it as one of the best I've seen (even tough I'm not very into it anymore)

Well, let us start with the Story.
It's always interesting - especially in the case of Pokemon - how they made it so far! At that time over 400 Pokémons - and the Franchise seem to be still growing!
This movie I just watched because I liked (and I still do so) the 4th Gen. very much! And that's why I came to watch it! read more

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Feb 23, 2020

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Renee96 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

This is where the dip in quality for pokemon movies begins.

I'm not saying Rise of Darkrai is a bad film, far from it, this movie does a lot of things right. Like not having so many annoying characters, the animation is great, soundtrack is awesome, as well as the story and characters are pretty consistent.

Although I wish Team Rocket wasn't in the film as they served no purpose other than being annoying cut away gags to pad out the film's runtime. They do literally nothing other than being the annoying caricatures they have been since the end of the gen 3 anime.

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