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Pokemon Heroes
Miramax Films


6.8

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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)

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Brimming with values that should serve its young audience well: altruism, friendship, self-sacrifice, responsibility.

Chicago Reader Bill Stamets

A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.

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.

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."

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.

Chicago Tribune Patrick Z. McGavin

An insubstantial addition to the cycle. It looks cheap and feels slapped together.

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.

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.

LA Weekly David Chute

Surprisingly, not bad.

Village Voice Nat Johnson

The pied piper of shameless kiddie-marketing strikes for the fifth time in as many years.

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.

Variety Robert Koehler

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

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Doesn't have much to offer viewers who aren't still eagerly awaiting their first adult tooth.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair.

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.

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!

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!

Pokemon Heroes Miramax Films

Pokemon Heroes
Miramax Films