By the time the fighting between clones and their originals turned to fraternal bonding, I was quite moved, even blissed out.
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
The film is obviously a long-form episode of a show better digested in 22-minute segments.
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's just a sound-and-light show, linked to the marketing push for Pokemon in general.
50
USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
Plays a little like a pacifistic variation on Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon."
50
New York PostHannah Brown
New York PostHannah Brown
Strictly a kids' movie, but parents may be relieved to sit back and enjoy the fact that for two full hours, they won't have to hear the kids asking them to buy any more Pokemon trading cards.
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Essentially, the film functions as a holiday catalog, introducing fans to a new Pokemon whose effigy they can collect in trading cards.
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
With its incomprehensible plot, flat visual style and indecipherably mixed messages (violence is good; no, wait, violence is bad!), this movie seems chiefly to be an excuse to sell even more trading cards.
An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."