Pokemon: The First Movie

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[ sequel of Pokémon (TV) ]

Related anime:
Pikachu's Summer Vacation (movie)
Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back! (manga) (1998-07, adaptation)
Pokemon 2000 - The Movie (1999-07-17, sequel)
Pikachu's Rescue Adventure (movie)
Pokemon 3 - The Movie (sequel)
Pikachu and Pichu (movie)
Pokemon 4Ever (movie) (sequel)
Pikachu's PikaBoo (OAV)
Pokemon Heroes - Latias & Latios (movie) (sequel)
Camp Pikachu (OAV)
Pokemon - Mewtwo Returns (special) (2000-12-30, sequel)

Alternative title:

Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back

Pocket Monsters: Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu (Japanese)

Pokemon : Mew vs. Mewtwo (French)

Pokémon De Film: Mewtwo tegen Mew (Dutch)

Pokemon Filmen: Mewtwo slår tillbaka (Swedish)

Pokemon the Movie: Mew vs. Mewtwo

Pokémon, O Filme: Mewtwo Contra-Ataca (Portuguese)

Pokemon: Film Pierwszy (Polish)

Pokémon: La Película (Spanish)

Pokemon: Mewtwon vastaisku

ポケットモンスターミュウツーの逆襲 (Japanese)

神奇寶貝超夢の逆襲 (Chinese (Taiwan))

Genres: action, adventure, comedy, drama, science fiction

Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)

Plot Summary: 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.

User Ratings: 1337 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 42 votes (dub:25, sub:10, edit.dub:3, Spa.dub:1, raw:1, Por.dub:1, ?:1)

Excellent: 92 votes (dub:61, sub:17, edit.dub:6, Por.dub:3, ?:2, raw:1, Swe.dub:1, Fre.dub:1)

Very good: 156 votes (dub:100, sub:25, edit.dub:12, Spa.dub:5, raw:4, ?:3, Spa.sub:2, Fre.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Por.dub:1, Ger.dub:1, Dut.dub:1)

Good: 318 votes (dub:189, sub:68, edit.dub:29, ?:7, Spa.dub:7, Por.dub:5, Ger.dub:4, raw:3, Spa.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Swe.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Por.sub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1)

Decent: 277 votes (dub:179, sub:52, edit.dub:26, Spa.dub:5, Dut.dub:5, ?:3, Por.dub:2, Fre.dub:2, Ita.dub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, raw:1)

So-so: 132 votes (dub:79, sub:25, edit.dub:15, ?:6, Spa.dub:2, Ger.dub:2, Dut.dub:1, Por.dub:1, Swe.dub:1)

Not really good: 99 votes (dub:54, sub:23, edit.dub:13, Swe.dub:3, Spa.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, Dut.dub:1, Dan.dub:1, Por.edit.dub:1)

Weak: 91 votes (dub:49, sub:23, edit.dub:11, ?:4, Por.sub:2, Swe.dub:1, Ger.dub:1)

Bad: 60 votes (dub:38, sub:12, edit.dub:3, Ger.dub:2, Swe.dub:2, ?:2, Spa.dub:1)

Awful: 40 votes (dub:27, sub:9, edit.dub:2, Por.dub:1, ?:1)

Worst ever: 30 votes (dub:17, sub:7, Ger.dub:2, edit.dub:2, Pol.dub:1, Swe.dub:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 2951 users, rank: #170
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.889 (Decent-.11), std. dev.: 2.2573, rank: #3256
Weighted mean: 5.846 (Decent-.15), rank: #3251 (seen all: 5.87 / seen some: 4.74 / won't finish: 0.40)
Bayesian estimate: 5.858 (Decent-.14), rank: #2815

Running time: 96 minutes

Production cost: ¥300,000,000

Vintage:

1998

2007-03-02 (Cartoon Network Latin America)

Premiere date:

1998-07-18 (Japan)

1999-11-10 (United States)

1999-12-25 (Mexico)

2000-03-19 (Portugal)

Opening Theme:

"Mezase Pokemon Master '98" by Rica Matsumoto