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Pokemon Heroes
Miramax Films

Pokemon Heroes reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 27 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.8 out of 10
based on 17 reviews
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based on 34 votes
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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) 

What The Critics Said

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63
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Brimming with values that should serve its young audience well: altruism, friendship, self-sacrifice, responsibility.
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50
Chicago Reader Bill Stamets
A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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50
Chicago Tribune Patrick Z. McGavin
An insubstantial addition to the cycle. It looks cheap and feels slapped together.
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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.
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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.
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40
LA Weekly David Chute
Surprisingly, not bad.
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40
Village Voice Nat Johnson
The pied piper of shameless kiddie-marketing strikes for the fifth time in as many years.
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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.
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30
Variety Robert Koehler
Demonstrates no improvement or enhancement. But the action this time is even less inspired than past battles
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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.
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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.
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10
The New York Times Dave Kehr
Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair.
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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.
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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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jo P. gave it a10:
It has to be the bestest cartoon I have ever seen!!! please

Poke Fan gave it a10:
This was one of the more enjoyable Pokemon films. I hate that people gave this movie a bad rating because they think the Pokemon Franchise is throughly spent. They are wrong. This franchise will be around for a long long time.

Sam gave it a7:
It's a decent film. I enjoyed it. It's the best of all pokemon films, but not the best of all films. It's a film that with a likeable main character i could've given it an 8.

liz gave it a4:
Cute the first time,hten after that i could get a pillow and snooze like a snorlax.

Vincent J. gave it a10:
This movie is just one of the best.

Jonathan H. gave it a 10:
This movie is great! I dont know why it is so great but it is.

Aaron F. gave it a 10:
I dont know i just love it so bad! and its so out of this world to me!

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