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Pokemon: Genesect & the Legend Awakened

Pokemon: The Movie 2013
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Suitable for general audiences.

NOTE: Very mild violence

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"It was good"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Fun to watch im deffinitly a pokemon fan and its one of those types I just want to watch over and over again :)

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5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Nice movie

"Good movie"
5 stars"

Is a good movie that Pokemon fans can enjoy.

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Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened (originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: ExtremeSpeed Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens) is a 2013 Japanese anime film, the third and the final arc of the Best Wishes series.

When big trouble threatens the big city, it’s up to Ash, Pikachu, and their friends to stop it!
A vast Pokémon habitat amid the hustle and bustle of the big city seems like the perfect new home for a group of five Genesect. The arrival of these Mythical Pokémon quickly becomes a problem, though: their nest threatens the city’s power supply, and they keep attacking anyone who approaches it.

On top of that, they’ve attracted the attention of the Legendary Pokemon Mewtwo, who sympathizes with them because its own origins also involve human tampering. The group’s leader, known as Red Genesect, doesn’t trust Mewtwo, and their confrontation quickly rages out of control! Can Ash and friends stop these two powerful Pokémon before they destroy the city?

Pokemon The Movie: Genesect & the Legend Awakened Review

"…This one’s quite an improvement over last year’s movie, Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, thanks to a more engaging plot, a stronger emotional pull, and a formidable villain balanced out by an equally formidable Pokémon opponent. The icing on the cake is the urban setting chosen for this adventure—New York City, this reviewer’s ho­metown…

The plot has to do with the resurrection of five ancient Pokémon, the Genesect, from their fossilized remains and their disorientation in the modern world. Reborn in a lab and made to resemble robotic creatures with powerful weapons built into their bodies, the five creatures are at large as the film opens, having apparently escaped the shadowy figures who recreated them, and are desperate to find something they know…When the Genesect lash out at other Pokémon, they are stopped by MewTwo, the super-powered cat Pokémon first introduced way back in 1999 in Pokémon: The First Movie, and a self-proclaimed champion of all defenseless Pokémon. MewTwo feels some sympathy for the Genesect because he, too, was created in a lab by unscrupulous scientists, but his entreaties are rejected by Red Genesect, the gruff-voiced Genesect leader and most powerful of the four. The subsequent flight of the Genesect takes them to Manhattan, which offers a high-rise skyline that closely resembles the rocky landscape that the Genesect once called home—300 million years ago!…

I would like to have seen more battle action in the streets and above the skyline of Manhattan. Those scenes are quite spectacular, but they’re way too short. While the conflict between MewTwo and Genesect is a compelling one, the power station is not the most interesting backdrop for it. However, the reliance on multiple Pokémon from Pokémon Hills to enter the fray and take on the Genesect offers a fresh angle and makes for quite a stirring plot development. The Pokémon defenders are led by Feraligatr, a muscular bipedal alligator-like Water-type Pokémon, who bravely leads the resistance. In fact, he and the other Pokémon play a much greater role in the action than Ash and his friends, who stand by and watch during most of the climactic battle. Even Pikachu, Ash’s Pokémon sidekick, participates in the battle more than Ash does and suffers much greater injuries than I’ve seen him suffer in quite some time. MewTwo, rather than any of the human characters, is the main opponent of Red Genesect and is none too concerned about what happens to the humans. It was great to see MewTwo again, one of the more interesting Pokémon antagonists from the past, but I don’t understand why they have a young female voice actress portraying him. A deep male voice (provided by Philip Bartlett) was used back in Pokémon: The First Movie..I got the following from Wikipedia: “This Mewtwo is an entirely different individual from the one that appeared previously in Pokémon films, possessing a feminine voice and distinct personality traits in comparison to the original Mewtwo.” Okay, if you say so, but I got no indication of that from the film itself. In fact, MewTwo’s flashback to his own creation resembles exactly what we’ve seen from MewTwo’s origin story in the past. And I was puzzled by Ash’s blank-faced reaction to MewTwo, as if he’d never seen the character before. Has he completely forgotten the first movie by now? Another problem I have is the design of the Genesects, who should have been much less machine-like. They look and sound like robots rather than 300 million-year-old fossils come back to life. While they’re genuinely scary-looking and -sounding at times, with exceedingly creepy metallic chewing and chirping sounds, I felt their design should have been more organic, like living beings rather than mechanical creations, and made it much easier for us to feel sympathy for them.

As usual in these movies, the attention to detail in crafting settings based on real world locations is quite impressive. As someone who frequently visits Central Park, I was delighted to see such loving recreations of it in the film…The theme song is very nice, too, being a longer version, with new verses added, of the song from Pokémon Black and White, the series that’s been playing on Cartoon Network for the last three years. In any event, I enjoyed this Pokémon outing a great deal, although I look forward to getting the Japanese-language version so I can hear what MewTwo really sounds like." crunchyroll.com

Release date Australia
December 6th, 2013
Movie Format
DVD Region
  • Region 4
Brand
Collection
Aspect Ratio
  • 1.78 : 1
Language
English
Length (Minutes)
66
Supported Audio
  • Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Number of Discs
1
Country of Production
  • Japan
Genre
Original Release Year
2013
Box Dimensions (mm)
135x190x14
UPC
9318500051615
Product ID
21730070

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