The Spell of the Unown! (M03)

[Street Comedy]

Best Pokemon movie to date.

[ansem the wise]

i actualy watched this with my dad once and he kept quoting entei for a long time.
And i wish unown had all these cool powers in the game, it would be sweet.

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

This movie was always awesome. I love Molly Hale. She's so awesome. She's my favorite movie antagonist, well I think my second. Zero's pretty awesome. The battle between her and Brock was good. It sucks that he lost. But, when she battled Misty, that's when things heated up. I'm glad we don't know who won between Staryu or Mantine. But, it's good too see them evenly matched. I also like that she's able to change her age. Well, it was because of the Unown. Teenage Molly is my favorite. Charizard vs Entei was something. It seemed that Charizard almost met its end right there.

[Zubeon]

I liked seeing Brock and Misty finally start acting like Gym Leaders again. They'd been accessories to Ash for too long considering who they were before they met up with him. Those two scenes are among my favourites in any Pokemon movies.

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

I liked seeing Brock and Misty finally start acting like Gym Leaders again. They'd been accessories to Ash for too long considering who they were before they met up with him. Those two scenes are among my favourites in any Pokemon movies.

Agreed, it's about time that they did something. Misty got here moment in the Whirl Islands, which I loved every second of but Brock never really got his battling moments.

[ansem the wise]

This movie was always awesome. I love Molly Hale. She's so awesome. She's my favorite movie antagonist, well I think my second. Zero's pretty awesome. The battle between her and Brock was good. It sucks that he lost. But, when she battled Misty, that's when things heated up. I'm glad we don't know who won between Staryu or Mantine. But, it's good too see them evenly matched. I also like that she's able to change her age. Well, it was because of the Unown. Teenage Molly is my favorite. Charizard vs Entei was something. It seemed that Charizard almost met its end right there.

Well, molly's pokemon were overpowered (mosty due to the fact that they werent real), so it seems natural for brock to lose.

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

Well, molly's pokemon were overpowerd (mosty due to the fact that they werent real), so it seems natural for brock to lose.

Not really. Kasumi seemed to do very well against Molly's Mantine with her Staryu, so why couldn't Brock get the same treatment?

[ansem the wise]

Not really. Kasumi seemed to do very well against Molly's Mantine with her Staryu, so why couldn't Brock get the same treatment?

*shrugs* The battle was literally on Molly's terms, I get the feeling that she could have crushed misty very quickly if she wanted to. Maybe the fact that misty was a girl had an impact on molly. (I cant believe im actually having this disscusssion XD)

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

*shrugs* The battle was literally on Molly's terms, I get the feeling that she could have crushed misty very quickly if she wanted to. Maybe the fact that misty was a girl had an impact on molly. (I cant believe im actually having this disscusssion XD)

If there was an impact, it would be because Kasumi said she was a Gym Leader. And to be honest, you're the only who started it. Just saying.....

[*~Silver*~]

The problem is, we don't see it anymore. It's part of what made the writing in Kanto so great. Sure Pokemon handling was a different topic, but now we're not getting any dark topics anymore.

What they describe as scary nowadays is the freaking Rotom-episode.. Well, granted, the Litwick-episode was nifty.. -.-

I don't really watch the newer ones, but when I do watch them I notice that every single episode has completely lost the dark edge that it used to have. Even the episodes like Espeon, Not Included, and episodes like that did have a bit of that edge to them. When Team Rocket had Espeon and were trying to put it in a cage. It wasn't dark, but it was darker than what's been coming out now.

Anyways, it showed up more in the movies. Mewtwo Strikes Back was a pretty dark movie, but they kept it appropriate for kids. As for the movies now, if a Pokemon looks bad it IS bad. Mewtwo looked bad, but he wasn't bad, he was just vengeful. Entei looked like a jerk of a Pokemon, he just wanted to make that little girl happy. Now in the Pokemon movies the Pokemon that don't look like nice guys aren't just antagonists like Mewtwo and Entei, but they really are jerks! Not only that, the movies now are so cute and fluffy that there's no room for those dark edges that were there before...


Blah blah blah...

I should stop now before I leave you with ten long paragraphs to read that are just ranting and ranting about that... xD

*Bows*

[The Power of Pika]

The problem is, we don't see it anymore. It's part of what made the writing in Kanto so great. Sure Pokemon handling was a different topic, but now we're not getting any dark topics anymore.

What they describe as scary nowadays is the freaking Rotom-episode.. Well, granted, the Litwick-episode was nifty.. -.-

Surprising any DP fan would bring up the Rotom episode since that was more comedy. As a DP fan myself when i think of dark episodes, i I think of the school arc with a little girl spirit that tried to lead Conway off a cliff and suck Ash and Angie into the spirit world and even started having an odd evil way of speaking before she got stopped (before that she was speaking similarly to Sabrina's doll. What I mean is seeming innocent for most of the episode and then before getting stopped the voice distorts and sounds pretty evil sounding in the english evrsion anyway) which suggested she was either an evil spirit or demon. It was pretty clear cut that she wasn't from that world.

One of my favourite DP episodes as a result.

The 3rd movie was pretty good but it never really creeped me out maybe because I was a teen when i watched it and wasn't a young child anymore. I tend to like Charizard and Entei battle personally and getting some of Ash's background highlighted. Personally the movie always came off as dreamlike to me and the closest episodes I can think of to that is the episode where Larvitar's mind becomes connected to the unown and Ash and friends get transported in.

[ansem the wise]

If there was an impact, it would be because Kasumi said she was a Gym Leader. And to be honest, you're the only who started it. Just saying.....

*shrugs* all plausible ideas.
( it just hit me "i am online discussing the reasoning of a little girl on a kids TV show." And it struck me as funny, thats all.)

[pacman000]

I watched this Sunday, and I noticed something: Ash's Charzard is only as tall as Ash's mom: Just look at the 7th image from the bottom of this page!

[Kabuto]

Yes, the last of the great movies. Once Pokemon 4ever came they just lost their.......creamy goodness?! Destiny Deoxys came close but there is nothing like the originals. I liked everything about this movie but especially the action and the tower. I also liked the role Entei played and seeing Charizard return for the 1st time was a nice treat.

Responding to this almost 8 years later is wild.... I was inspired to watch this film after seeing Charizard return in Best Wishes. But yeah, I really did like this movie a lot, I think it's still my favorite from the series. It has a more in depth story than the first two movies for sure, and it stands on it's own feet without necessarily depending on being a "Pokemon" movie. Granted I more or less stopped watching the Pokemon movies after the 8th one, so I can't say that for sure but....yeah. I grew up with the English OST of the movie as well, so I really enjoy the score for that (unlike most English Pokemon scores), though Shinji Miyazaki's score is beautiful as always, and I'm glad some of these tracks recur sometimes throughout the series.

[Dwail8023]

Best Pokémon film by far. No questions asked, IMO.