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82
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81
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45
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42
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42
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40
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35
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28
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22
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Pokemon Heroes
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring
Addie Blaustein,
Rachael Lillis,
Eric Stuart,
and
Veronica Taylor
The fifth installment of the Pokemon series takes place in a mysterious city on water.
| GENRE(S): |
Fantasy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jim Malone
Hideki Sonoda
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jim Malone
Kunihiko Yuyama
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 20, 2004
Video: January 20, 2004
Theatrical: May 16, 2003
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
80 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Japan |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Japanese (dubbed in English) |

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63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Brimming with values that should serve its young audience well: altruism, friendship, self-sacrifice, responsibility.

50
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
Better for several reasons. First, they've jazzed up the animation. The backgrounds appear to be digital, and they are striking. The story is also less violent and combative.

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Sometimes the 2D and 3D animation doesn't blend, and the heinous pop songs would embarrass Peter Cetera, but there's plenty to like, including a fascinating mechanical contraption and musical score both shamelessly and lovingly stolen from "The Dark Crystal."

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Clearly, interest has waned - both because children grow up and because they move on. It might be time for the folks behind this particular fad to do the same.

50
Chicago Tribune
Patrick Z. McGavin
An insubstantial addition to the cycle. It looks cheap and feels slapped together.

40
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Gallops along at a quick, easygoing clip. Grown-ups may have to scrub the sugar from their frontal lobes. But it's not about them, is it? Never was. Never will be.

40
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Given that most fans are very young, ignoring a key aspect of the Pokemon mythos is bound to confuse and disappoint them.

40
LA Weekly
David Chute
Surprisingly, not bad.

40
Village Voice
Nat Johnson
The pied piper of shameless kiddie-marketing strikes for the fifth time in as many years.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.

30
Variety
Robert Koehler
Demonstrates no improvement or enhancement. But the action this time is even less inspired than past battles

25
Boston Globe
Louise Kennedy
Any richness in the drawing of the backgrounds only underscores the weirdly flat, affectless renderings of the characters moving through them.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
Doesn't have much to offer viewers who aren't still eagerly awaiting their first adult tooth.

10
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Crudely animated, badly dubbed, incomprehensible, boring -- and headache-inducing -- attempt to wring a few more yen and dollars out of a thoroughly spent franchise.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Kids will revolt, parents will snooze, and I will be downright giddy if I never encounter another Pokémon movie as long as I live. Ack!


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