I Watched All 24 Pokémon Movies So Let's Rank Them

I have officially uploaded a video. This started out as a quick video idea that would take maybe three/four weeks and ended up being a few months so sorry about the lack of uploads. I really wanted to make a video about the Pokémon movies and this felt like the most sensible way to do one.

Watching every Pokémon movie over the course of a couple of weeks and then ranking them didn't feel like a massively difficult video to make but developing a script from about 60 A4 pages worth of notes that wasn't a complete mess wasn't easy. Hopefully this has come out somewhat successfully. Thanks for watching!

[ricifgl]

Another thing that makes the power of us better; in Japanese, sudowoodo is called usokkie, which means the sound it makes is ‘uso!’ Which basically means ‘that’s not true’, so sudowoodo is following him around immediately calling him out for his lies, which is why he’s usually angry at him.

[JRD]

I always loved the Darkrai/Giratina/Arceus trilogy. It really went into the worldbuilding and has literal GODS

[loziclec.]

Fun fact about the twist ending in 4Ever: the Japanese version didn’t spell-out that Sam was a young Prof Oak. The only clue is Tracy finding Sam’s sketchbook during the credits. The dub commissioned some new animations to make the connection clearer for the English-speaking audience (as well as some more scenes of Team Rocket).

[TheRandyDeluxe]

I thought it was heavily implied in Pokemon 3 that Molly's mom disappeared *because* of the unknown and that's why her dad was studying them, right?

So in a world where time and space can be easily reset, it's not crazy to think Molly's mom was returned when her dad was too.

Although I agree it's a weird plot point to include at all.

[danielryan]

Starts video "Oh this'll be fun."
Sees Spell of the unknown at 23 "Oh this isn't going to be fun...

[fideljr]

so Molly's mom was trapped with the unown too, that's why his father started investigating them in the first place. So when his father was released, so was her mom. I honestly love this movie; COME ON, CHARIZARD COMES BACK.

[relaxingred]

I still remember the line from Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.

James: Diamonds... Pearls

Meowth: Let's finish the season first.

[qb]

Personally, The Secret of the Unown holds a high place and a lot of fond feelings for me simply because it came out when my dad passed away and seeing Molly's struggle in the movie resonates with me

[tritrawithamixtape]

I really love pokemon 3. It just, felt like an unironically good movie. Most movies I am like: "Its a good pokemon movie" but pkmn 3 I am like: "It's a good movie" I could write a whole long page about this but tbh... i feel like there are others who can explain my stance better.

[overqwilgaming]

Power of Us is legitimately one of my favourite movies of all time. It follows the stories of a handful of characters that have no connection to each other wandering around a big city which occasionally share an interaction between one another another that all come together in the end to solve a problem using their assets or skills they were too afraid to show during the story.

I mean the movie doesn’t even follow one specific goal or storyline. It’s just some people trying to have a peaceful vacation at a festival and it turns out incredible

[jorgehuertas]

How is Pokémon 3 the worst? The struggle of Ash trying to get back his mom is relatable, the main villain being a little girl that is being manipulated by the unknown is brilliant

[TheAbsol]

I'm so glad Heroes made top 3. It's one of my favorite movies, and all of the Ash and Latios moments are absolutely adorable. The ending crushed me when I first watched it, and the movie was very well paced. (Also, the girl at the end was _definitely_ Latias.)

[TheManInBlueFlames]

Rise of Darkrai has got to be my favourite. It's so emotional and it tries to prove that just because a Pokemon looks evil doesn't mean it necessarily is. I got it on disc from Woolworths during its closing down sale in the last month before it closed here in the UK and I watched it with my friends when I was in primary school. It's been a while since i've watched it but I've definitely watched it at least three times! There's something about it that is so good that everyone else seems to have missed! Nostalgic at least now!

[script_]

Lucario and the mystery of mew is definitely the one that brings me nostalgia. I remember as a kid I had gotten into pokemon. While looking at movies I found the pokemon movies and was excited! My parents let me choose a few movies to rent, and although I don't remember all of the ones we rented, Lucario was the one I remembered the most and rewatched so many times!

[Lucarioforce]

Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was always my favorite as a kid. It was why Lucario was and remains my favorite pokemon. I definitely stopped watching after the Gen 4 movies, but these reviews make me want to watch the most recent movies, particularly the Power of Us. Thanks for the movie marathon review!

[Severezz]

I can't believe you didn't mention Munchlax in Destiny Deoxys, Munchlax gives me life

[trevian]

Something I didn't notice in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew until recently is that the "immune system" for the Tree of Beginning takes forms of prehistoric and fossil Pokémon, sort of a nod that the Tree of Beginning existed in the prehistoric era of the Pokémon world, since "the beginning".

[lycanrocknroll]

Molly finally getting out of her delusion and yell "You can do it Entei" instead of father and Entei still carrying out his fatherly will showing that the unown can't control such emotions even if they created it.

[pokepress]

43:05 so, just to clarify this, Meowth’s speech is actually a creation of the ‘99 dub. In the ‘98 Japanese version, he remarks about the moon like in the remake. That said, while I get what the ‘98 version was going for, I think the ‘99 dub’s speech is very well written and should have been in the remake. I can only assume it isn’t because either:
A. Takeshi Shudo’s estate insisted it stay in the localization.
B. The use of 3-D models meant that they would have had to reanimate the scene to match significantly altered jaw movements (unlike the hand-drawn version where you can get away with dialogue when a character’s mouth is facing away from the camera without their head moving), and there wasn’t the time/budget for that.
C. The localization underestimated how attached audiences members (on average) were to aspects of the ‘99 dub and didn’t prioritize changing it.

[endeavr_]

Also fun fact, the American version of "Mewtwo strikes back" is nothing like the original version of the movie, lacking both the deep complexity the director wanted and an animated introduction that was shown on tv and in a radio drama to tease the movie in Japan. In the original Dr. Fuji is working on clonation to clone his daughter that died years ago. In this effort they clone the three starters, his daughter and mew, and the five become friends in a world where only their conscience exist, and where Ambertwo (the cloned conscience of Fuji's daughter) teaches Mewtwo about what it means to be alive. Mewtwo is the only one to survive the process, and when he is released from the tubes he has no memory of the other dead clones, nor of amber's lessons about life, and so he wants to know why he is alive, what is his purpose in this world. He even goes as far as striking a deal with Giovanni to find out what's his value, because if he is strong then his life has value. He doesn't want to kill everyone for no reason, he wants to show everyone that his life has value even if he is the result of an experiment. The army of clones he constructs is not to kill everyone else, he doesn't know that they are stronger than the originals, on the contrary he wants to show that clones are as strong if not stronger than the originals, and therefore their lives have value. In the end Mew comes to fight Mewtwo not because he wants to protect the world from distruction, but because he is ENRAGED that a "cheap human made copy" would even exist, let alone compare itself to the "only original living creatures", mew can't forgive Mewtwo's very existence, and he wants to fight him to the death. Meanwhile Mewtwo just wants to know what it even means to be alive and what worth has his life, a life that was given to him by humans, humans that saw him as nothing more than an experiment. And in the end when ash is petrified and all pokemon cry for him and those tears bring him back, that is when both mew and Mewtwo realize that it doesn't matter if you are a copy or an original, both matter equally and both are equally alive (it was revealed in the short about Fuji's daughter, completely cut in the 4kids version, that Pokemons are special because their tears are filled with life and that is why ash is brought back by tears. And the fact that both originals and clones had the same life in their tears is what sets them as equal). Even Misty's, Brock's and everyone else's dialogue during the confrontation between clones and originals is not about how "fighting is wrong", it's about how both groups are made by living creatures and all their lives have equal value. But alas 4kids and warner felt that a having a morally ambiguous villain was too hard for American audiences because kids are too fucking stupid to know who to root for unless you turn the villain into Pokemon Hitler.