"Pokémon: The First Movie", but boring.
Movie in more sentences:
A powerful Pokémon is cloned from the remains of the mythical Pokémon, Mew, but struggles with the reason for his existence and illegitimacy as a living being.
After learning how cruel humans can be, he decides to take matters into his own hands and sets up a plan to collect worthy trainers and Pokémon to clone for himself.
Inferior script, inferior pacing, inferior character building, inferior music (if there even was music playing), and our dub's new Meowth voice actor is still unbearable to listen to. A pat on the back is deserved for -I guess- not completely copying everything from the first movie, but the additions and changes made were so pointless, why even? "Why even" to this whole movie project.
Everything that made the original memorable got erased. The most well-known Pokémon movie soundtrack, "Tears of Life", doesn't even make a return in the form of a remix, rendition, or parody. When Ash dies, you just get Pikachu in a silent room screaming his lungs out next to the corpse of his master. Powerful, but the insertion of a short familiar melody at the end of that scene would've been better than another standard orchestra tune sucking me dry of my energy.
The drawn-out scenes with uninformative extra dialogue, the lack of background music, these made it challenging for me to keep my attention at times.
Evolution is cinematically weak and the intro scene is a good example of that. The way Mewtwo entered the world and killed his creators used to be fast, to the point, and somewhat frightening..
I also don't know if this was our dub's doing, but Giovanni didn't even clarify to Mewtwo that he was created FOR HIM. So Mewtwo, for the one millionth time, asks himself the question "Where am I, who am I?", thus seemingly doesn't know why he exists, making the reason for his retaliation vague.
Even Mew, the cutest thing to have ever been conceived by an adult man, overdoes it in this movie. I was glad to hear its cry mimicked accurately, though. I couldn't stand the sound of Mew in that Lucario movie.
So, much like "I Choose You!", this was a waste of time for everybody involved; the people who made it and the ones who watched it.
