| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Brimming with values that should serve its young audience well: altruism, friendship, self-sacrifice, responsibility.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
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
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
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
An insubstantial addition to the cycle. It looks cheap and feels slapped together.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair.
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| 0 |
New York Post
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
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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