| 63 |
New York Daily News
Good or bad, it's either a must-see in your house, or not even on the radar screen.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
2000 isn't about nobility and humility; saving the planet from evil collectors is what sells video games.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Of course, there's little else of interest about Pokemon beyond the consumption factor. Buy more.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Will keep kids happy and parents mildly entertained.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A decidedly mixed bag.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Jesse Hamlin
Feels like an extended TV cartoon segment.
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| 50 |
USA Today
What do you have to smoke to understand this?
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Any grown men and women who pay to see the movie face a harrowing ordeal.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
The feature has some lovely effects.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
The storylines are as confusing (or as simple?) to the uninitiated as they were before, but that doesn't stop them from making sense to the kids.
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| 40 |
Mr. Showbiz
Kids deserve better than this. They deserve more respect than P2K is willing to give for the price of a Saturday matinee.
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| 30 |
Variety
A much more intense action vehicle for hero Ash Ketchum and his band of pocket monster trainers than its leaden, sometimes claustrophobic predecessor.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
No better than the first.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
I could make a joke here about the new Pokemon movie.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Hanna Brown
Even duller than the original, but will fulfill its function as a feature-length commercial for Pokemon merchandise.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Mind-numbing sequel to "Pokemon the First Movie."
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
David Chute
Only a 10-year-old could parse the plot.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Kids -- may like this movie. But kids like green ketchup, so what do they know?
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| 10 |
The New York Times
As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Avoid this movie unless a) your child has refused to eat until you take him or her, or b) your house is being fumigated to kill an infestation of mosquitoes with the West Nile virus.
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