Pokemon Movie 11: Giratina to Sora no Hanataba Sheimi

The legendary Renegade Pokémon, Giratina, encounters the Temporal Pokémon Dialga by a lake and successfully manages to drag Dialga into its home—an alternate dimension separate from the normal world. But a small green Pokémon gets gotten dragged in as well—and though it somehow escapes, Dialga uses this opportunity to escape as well after preventing Giratina from chasing after it.

After accidentally ruining Satoshi and his friends' picnic, the green Pokémon is taken to the Pokémon Center where it is treated for injuries and introduced as Shaymin, the mythical Gratitude Pokémon. Using telepathy, Shaymin demands that Satoshi, Hikari, and Takeshi take it somewhere. But before they can find out where to go, the group find themselves being pursued by both Giratina and a strange man named Zero—both in search of little Shaymin! Will Satoshi and his friends be able to find Shaymin's desired place while keeping themselves out of danger?

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Satoshi Main

Matsumoto, Rica Japanese

Pikachu Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Takeshi Main

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Hikari Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Pochama Main

Kozakura, Etsuko Japanese

Shaymin Main

Yamazaki, Vanilla Japanese

Giratina Main

Kojirou Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Mewtwo Supporting

Musashi Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Okuno, Toshiaki Producer

Okamoto, Junya Producer

Yoshikawa, Chouji Producer

Mori, Takemoto Producer

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Jan 30, 2021

abandonedCat

Recommended

This is the first pokemon movie to consider the events that happened in the previous release. Which makes it sort of a sequel to Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai.

Lore from the games is used to make this movie but the story is still generic. Evil guy trying to capture strong pokemon and Ash stops him. A little bit of backstory is given to the evil guy and there is only one side character, who is also related to the evil guy, which is excellent and makes the story better than most of the generic evil guy pokemon movies. And also evil guys were missing ... for a long time in pokemon movies so coming back to old strategies is not that bad.

Art and sound have always been great in pokemon movies.

A major problem is Shaymin's character. It is too bratty and annoying. I guess they made Shaymin like this because Manaphy wasn't that different from Mew, Jirachi, and Celebi. So, at least Shaymin is unique.

Action scenes were not as strong as Deoxys vs Rayquaza but the choreography is good enough to make them memorable. And the scene where Regigigas enters with Mamoswines was cool.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 14, 2019

PokeFan2112

Recommended

Though a step down from the Darkrai movie, still a good movie overall.

The storyline was somewhat mixed. Though I found all the stuff with the Reverse World really cool (i'm a sucker for "another dimension" plots so I loved this), a lot of the time was spent on a generic "guy tries to capture Pokemon" premise, which I didn't really find very interesting. As well, though Shaymin was cute, I also found him very annoying.

However, it had plenty of other good aspects to compensate. The animation was good throughout. Though the CGI looked really bad (I don't get why they use CGI when the 2D ... animation looks so much better and doesn't mesh at all), the 2D animation looked very nice, and there was a lot of very well-done and lovely scenes. There was a lot of great and exciting action scenes throughout, and the ending scene was very emotional. And in the grand tradition of the series, the climax was excellently done.

Overall, though flawed, this was a good movie overall, and one i'd recommend to any fan of the franchise.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 13, 2023

Chaotic_beauty

Mixed Feelings

One thing this film does really well is making us want to travel with Ash and Shaymin to the flower fields. Too bad the film doesn't let us.

I've got two main gripes with this one. The far bigger one is Zero himself. The villain in this feature is an overly designed, white haired, badly tempered wunderkind. Impossible magical technology and fantastical flying CGI fortress included. Hastily screwed backstory and inane dialogue, too.

Gripe number two is the lack of a character arc for Shaymin. The film essentially starts as a completely different beast than it ends up being. We're treated to a vulnerable pokemon crossing paths ... with our heroes. It's Shaymin, the purifier of nature. He's being hunted by Giratina and in order to secure himself, he needs to meet up with other Shaymin at the fields high up in the mountains. Altruistic as always, our team decides to help and thus we've got an adventure.

Shaymin is rude to them time and time again. Especially towards Ash. He's not really likeable, at least not all the time. Acting like a brat, you may think it's his way of coping with the feeling of powerlessness. Maybe it's a facade to hide his soul drenched in fear? Nope. By the end he's not learned anything - he's exactly the same as he was at the start. All the film makers had to do was rewrite ten lines and there'd be a weak arc in there somewhere. Instead, we get throwaway jokes aimed at small kids.

This is a shame, because the film could have been a great character focused adventure, something pokemon have a knack for. Or would, if they ever focused on it. This leads me to my second point. Shaymin's neither terrible nor unbearlable, thus the film should have been a good adventure, even if a bit shallow. This is where my first gripe returns and strikes again. Half way throughout the film, as you enjoy the landscapes, Zero butts in. Proceeding to derail the film, Zero makes every scene he's in eye-rolling or boring. His plan makes no sense. His backstory is a hastily thrown out one-liner. His beliefs inane ramblings of a madman. Action he offers lasts too long and more often than not, borders on stupid. Due to bad direction, it's not particularly engaging, either.

While there are a few neat moments, such as Regigigas appearing, the film ends up a very flawed character focused story and a bad villain-of-the-film flick. Reverse world was a fun location, even if somewhat underwhelming. A few locations looked gorgeous and Shaymin's interaction with other Pokemon were pretty fun. Giratina stole every scene it was in. In the end this film falls right in the middle. There are multiple good scenes here. The question is whether it's worth watching the whole thing. Since it's the middle part of a 'trilogy' (using the word very loosely), I recommend giving it a spin if you're watching the others. Otherwise, no.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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