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Pokemon 3
Warner Brothers

Pokemon 3 reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 22 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.5 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences

Starring Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart, Rachael Lillis, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Ootani, Ken Gates, Amy Birnbaum, and Dan Green

Young Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum and his loyal friends journey to the beautiful mountain town of Greenfield, where they will encounter the Unown, the most mysterious of all Pokémon. (Warner Brothers)


GENRE(S): Fantasy  
WRITTEN BY: Norman J. Grossfeld
Michael Haigney
 
DIRECTED BY: Michael Haigney  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: August 21, 2001 
Video: August 21, 2001 
Theatrical: April 6, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Japan 

What The Critics Said

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63
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Kids will love it.
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50
Chicago Tribune Loren King
This predictable, uninspired third installment to the endless saga won't win over non-believers.
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50
Boston Globe Loren King
This predictable, uninspired addition to the endless saga won't win over nonbelievers.
50
The New York Times Anita Gates
All about bright colors and constant movement.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Pokemon is over.
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50
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Mind-blowing and headache-inducing. But the kids loved it.
42
Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
Enjoyable only if you're under the age of 7 -- or the influence of psychedelic drugs.
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40
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Allowing for the fact that any Pokemon movie is essentially a feature-length commercial designed to make little kids want Pokémon stuff, this one has its moments.
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38
USA Today Mike Clark
OK, Time Warner, a joke is a joke, but the time of tolerance has passed. Get your creatures out of our faces unless you're willing to regale us by afflicting them with Mad Pokémon Disease.
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30
Chicago Reader Reece Pendleton
If your kids are fans there's probably no escaping this installment.
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20
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
If you can overlook its condescending wholesomeness and static, visually drab, endlessly repetitious animation, then you have a more forgiving soul than I do.
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10
Film.com Henry Cabot Beck
The animation is only marginally better than the TV show, which means it stinks, and the story is pretty trite.
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10
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Confusing as heck.
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10
New Times (L.A.) M.V. Moorhead
Expect to be perplexed.
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10
Variety Joe Leydon
The series' quest for different and challenging Pokemon reaches a nearly absurd endpoint this time.
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10
Los Angeles Times Robin Rauzi
Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
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10
LA Weekly Nicole Campos
Equally as brainless, shrill and calculated as its two predecessors.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Do yourself and your kids a favor, parents, and head to "Spy Kids" instead.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

tom b gave it a0:
Ok, kids, honestly i you like this movie, dont, go and read a book or something, how are you going to get in life with a person named ash or i call his"ass" and all this vomiting pile of garbage with animals that dont make sense! dragons, yellow animals that lightning, and the list goes on.... F-.

Kitty gave it a3:
Erk...Okay, I must admit, I like Pokemon. I got hooked when I bought Pokemon Diamond and FireRed...but this movie made me want to carve my eyes and ears out with a very dull spoon...the lines are the very essence of "Cheesy", and the animations DO get a bit repetitive...the plot has enough faults to make the San Andreas Fault look like a tiny crack on the concrete, and I actually didn't expect my favorite voice actor Dan Green to play with such a...monotone voice. Pokemon showed it's ugliness via this movie, and, even though I'm only a kid, a Pokemon liking, Yu-Gi-Oh! addicted kid, I'm going to go all out and wrap this up neatly at the same time: THIS. MOVIE. IS. BAD.

Kevin B. gave it a0:
The sad fact of life is that most people on our good green earth are what I like to call "sheep." Meaning most people on earth follow each other." Everyone ELSE is doing it, so I think I will too." I will admit. When it first came out, I was into the card game, cause I just happen to be a cardgame kinda guy. But the mere fact that this series has dragged on this long is pathetic. What this is, is just a GIANT movie length commercial. "Buy more stuff". The whole movie is not all like this though. There actually is a plot..if you can call it that without vomiting. Basically, you've got this kid who's out on an adventure to capture these evil little creatures called Pokemon (japanese for "poket monsters"). Sounds entertaining until you see it. Horrible voice acting and cheesy lines will have adults and older kids begging for mercy. A pointless waste of time, money and sanity. I would only reccomend this for parents only if you really need your young kids to be quiet for a little bit, then this will more than likely keep them occupied.

liz gave it a5:
Ok,not impresseve but ok.

Courtney Cant Say gave it a 10:
Cool graphics and its a pokemon movie of corse its cool.

Layne gave it a 3:
On the same bloated, bland, and idiotic level where the first two trainwrecks had been critically perched. I can't imagine an animated franchise as bad as this, because Pokemon just keeps getting worse.

Wuff S. gave it a 9:
Oh dear. No, that's not a comment at the film you see but rather at the incompetence of movie critics. I sigh at them, as I usually do. Does anyone actually rely on them? No, I didn't think so. See, I rather thought that if you didn't like a movie involving bright colours, odd yet cute creatures and unending optimism, then you wouldn't go and watch the film. You'd look at the poster and say 'Urgh, this looks like a film of -- etc -- I don't think I'll watch it.' Yet here we have the critics, as usual, trying to tell people the obvious. The movie is perplexing you say? I think they're more perplexing. They might aswell stand in a park and point at a daisy and say; Yellow, isn't it an annoying shade of yellow, look at the yellow everyone, isn't it annoying? Of course, who's annoying in the end, the flower or the fool standing around in a suit stating the obvious? There's a simple truth about this film and it all depends upon yourself. Yes, it is all colour, sound and things going boom. Yes, it is needlessly wholesome and optimistic. Is that a bad thing or a good thing though? Well, that's up to you and you didn't really need to tell me what the film was about did you? You only have to look at the advertisements to know. The real question is; how anally retentive are you? See, now that's a question critics need to be asking instead of just pointing at the yellow daisies. Sure it's a commercial, we know that already. Is it enjoyable? That's all down to each person. Personally (for those of you that's watched, read or heard HitcHiker's Guide to the Galaxy) I honestly believe we need to put all these useless people into a pod and shoot them out into space, to have them crashland on a Planet elsewhere so they can be the problem of some other poor sods. Sure it's fine to give criticque but what's the point of saying; This is this and I don't like this? That annoys me. Why not decide whether you like it or not before you review it and then give your opinion based on plausible reasons? Like maybe examining the film plot perhaps? Would this be a good thing for your kids to watch? Eh, why not. Amongst all the killing and such today, I find the wholesome optimistic nature of Pokémon a nice break. So, yup, it's simple, it's silly and most importantly, it's fun and as usual, delightfully trippy. Are you a plaide suit or a white tuxedo person? Do you worry about the roughness of your toilet paper? Well, like I said, this is all down to you. I know I love it and personally, I'd never listen to any critics before watching a movie. I wonder? Are they paid a lot? Maybe I'll go to the nearby park, point at daisies and see how annoying they are and see if anyone pays me a lot of money. The sad irony is that my pay would probably come in lead projectiles. How do they survive?

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