Metacritic Film

Pokemon 3

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

MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences

Warner Brothers
Fantasy
93 minutes | Color
Japan
Released In Theaters April 6, 2001

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)

WRITTEN BY
Norman J. Grossfeld
Michael Haigney

DIRECTED BY
Michael Haigney

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

22 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Kids will love it.
50 Chicago Tribune Loren King
This predictable, uninspired third installment to the endless saga won't win over non-believers.
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.
50 San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Pokemon is over.
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.
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.
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.
30 Chicago Reader Reece Pendleton
If your kids are fans there's probably no escaping this installment.
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.
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.
10 Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Confusing as heck.
10 New Times (L.A.) M.V. Moorhead
Expect to be perplexed.
10 Variety Joe Leydon
The series' quest for different and challenging Pokemon reaches a nearly absurd endpoint this time.
10 Los Angeles Times Robin Rauzi
Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
10 LA Weekly Nicole Campos
Equally as brainless, shrill and calculated as its two predecessors.
0 Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Do yourself and your kids a favor, parents, and head to "Spy Kids" instead.

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