Zoroark: Master of Illusions (M13)

[Zoruagible]

This is my favorite movie, by far. I love how they showed Paul in the credits. My favorite part of it were the Zorua transforming parts.

[Cobalt_Latios]

You can watch this movie online on Pokemon.com, this weekend only (well, at this point, on Sunday only).

Just thought people would like to know. Kind of surprising, as it's coming out on DVD... on Tuesday.

So... yeah.

'CL

[vipsoccermaster]

It's already over, though. I don't think I'll get the DVD, but it would be nice to have...

[Cobalt_Latios]

It's already over, though. I don't think I'll get the DVD, but it would be nice to have...

Well it's out today.

'CL

[wadder2]

This movie is great I watched it on the internet
I also really liked it cuz my fav pokemon is zoroark xD

[pokeninja123]

best pokemon movie yet.

[Aesir]

Quick questions:

If Zoroark had of died, do you think Ash would have caught it, rather than having it rough it on it's own in his homeland (obviously that wouldn't make sense for the series, but just for a topic of conversation)

Also, considering that Zorua and Zoroark are never seen in the wild in the Unova games, do you think that maybe Zorua's homeland ISN'T actually Unova, but a currently unknown region...I'd like to think that (just like how I don't think of Pokemon like Eevee as native to Kanto, despite being first available in those games, because it's not found wild there etc)

[Psychic]

I found this movie a lot more tolerable and less full of plot-holes than the Darkrai and Giratina movies. It still had the usual plot-holes that Pokemon movies are full of. I really don't see why Kodai had to pretend to own the beasts and risk people discovering he doesn't, or why he has Zoroark turn into them instead of cutting out the middleman and just ordering Zoroark or another equally powerful Pokemon (or a dozen of them) to go on a rampage instead. Anything would have worked as a distraction to evacuate Crown City, so why choose the forms of the city's guardians? Alternatively, a man with this much wealth and power would have plenty of others ways to evacuate. Also gotta love how Zorua can talk for no real reason.

Anyhow, it was a decent enough movie as far as these go. Mostly it was just nice finally seeing Raikou get to do something, and this movie spawned lots of nifty merchandise of the beasts, even Shiny versions, and neat Event Downloads for the game.

~Psychic

[The Great Butler]

I found this movie a lot more tolerable and less full of plot-holes than the Darkrai and Giratina movies. It still had the usual plot-holes that Pokemon movies are full of. I really don't see why Kodai had to pretend to own the beasts and risk people discovering he doesn't, or why he has Zoroark turn into them instead of cutting out the middleman and just ordering Zoroark or another equally powerful Pokemon (or a dozen of them) to go on a rampage instead. Anything would have worked as a distraction to evacuate Crown City, so why choose the forms of the city's guardians? Alternatively, a man with this much wealth and power would have plenty of others ways to evacuate.

He had to do what the vision (the one he had in the flashback to his introduction to Rowena) showed him, in order to make sure the future where he was in Crown City looking for the Time Ripple would happen. He saw Entei, Suicune, Raikou and Zoroark rampaging, then people evacuating followed by himself in the city, so he put two and two together and took the easiest route to actually fulfill the physical appearance of what he saw happening.

[Shneak]

I like how Peg made a cameo at the end of Pokemon Black. I guess she's from Unova, but she was a fan of the Sinnoh team, not the Unova team in the World Cup. Hmm.

[Locormus]

Anyhow, it was a decent enough movie as far as these go. Mostly it was just nice finally seeing Raikou get to do something, and this movie spawned lots of nifty merchandise of the beasts, even Shiny versions, and neat Event Downloads for the game.

~Psychic

And that's really all that matters these days isn't it? I mean I got a dozen shiny beasts, and 4 Celebi, what more did I want? :P Oh, and hey, it got me a Zoroark and Zorua in my White game as well, and the same for my girlfriend's Black :P

I like how Peg made a cameo at the end of Pokemon Black. I guess she's from Unova, but she was a fan of the Sinnoh team, not the Unova team in the World Cup. Hmm.

Who?

[The Eleventh]

Who?

The Pokémon Baccer fan. She isn't seen much, since she evacuates Crown City.

[Locormus]

The Pokémon Baccer fan. She isn't seen much, since she evacuates Crown City.

Aha.. Perhaps she's from Virbank City? Considering Magnemite can be found around there? :P

[Kutie Pie]

It was okay, I guess. Rowena being an undercover journalist was a neat little twist, I suppose, and I think she was slightly more fleshed out than Karl was (or heck, most of the other characters in here), so she was my favorite of the cast, but she stopped looking mysterious and potentially awesome about half-way through like she was as the secretary, where I thought she was plotting against her boss. That would've been neat. Kodai, I thought, was like your classy villain, except that he is willing to kill anything and everyone to get what he wants, so... eh, I suppose. He annoyed me a bit, and I did not like his close-ups, he was creepy looking... though I guess that worked being part of his character.

It was an okay story, I thought, and the movie at least flowed pretty nicely this time around, though Celebi was rather wimpy in this one. At least Celebi did a few neat things in the fourth movie to show off some Legendary power. Here, Celebi kept cowering behind Zorua, and I was screaming in my head the whole time, "You are a Legendary Pokémon, do something awesome!"

I didn't feel anything toward Zoroark's sacrifice, honestly. It could be because I knew she (I'm sure this Zoroark's a she) died at some point, but of course, they brought her back to life, so that didn't help matters in my opinion, but oh well. At least some of the illusions were neat, and the animation was good-looking, even if some of the CGI was really obvious. If anything annoyed me more, it was more or less the voice acting in some parts, and Celebi being a wimp.

So yeah. It was rather decent. There weren't any plot holes that I could see (except for Zorua's telepathy and Zoroark's lack of such powers, that was really jarring to me), and everything was explained, even though flashbacks were a bit too much. It honestly played out more like a long episode than a movie because of that. Not something I'd watch over and over again, but if I'm ever bored enough, or if I'm having a Pokémon movie marathon for any reason, I'd watch it again. At least it was able to stand out on its own unlike the previous couple of movies that were a continuation of each other.

[pokemonsquared]

One of the better movies. However pokemon just cant seem to find that spark that was there for the first 3 movies. Non of the one ghat came later ever felt as good.

[ChiefLucarioOfficer]

I liked this movie, but I wish Zoroark talked like Zorua.

It's pretty weird that Zorua could talk and his parent, Zoroark, couldn't.

[Street Comedy]

A good way to introduce us to Gen 5, one of my more liked movies.

[EmphaticPikachu]

Two parts about this movie that made me like this movie alot better then some others. Not as much as movie 9...But still, this is my favorite pokemon movie minus the "friend ones." (Movie 5, 9, and 11 respectively. I didn't like the jirachi one that much...)

the two parts are...

Zorua-Dawn. Kill me <///3...xD

and number two...I REALLY liked the vision idea. Not the vision itself...but the irony of the illusion that he saw. Kodai didn't plan as much as he should of BECAUSE he saw himself grabbing the time ripple in his vision. He didn't care that Rowena was going to betray him, and that over confidence from seeing the future might of been his downfall. If he hadn't seen that one part...how much do you wanna bet he would of won this?
The illusion at the end was just beautiful. I loved it. It was satsifying...Irony is the word right? My friend called it witty...

Foreseeing the illusion, not the reality. Overall I liked it. That part was just satisfying and I can't help smile when I think of the trick that zoaraok pulled.


My main problem in this movie is the fact that zoaraok thinks its a good idea to RAM an entei using the real flare blitz using his fake one...GREAT THINKING ZOAROARK. GREAT THINKIN' D8.

[wobbanut]

This movie was okay. I didn't enjoy it as much as the Arceus movie, but I did enjoy the running gag with Zorua continuously making itself look like the twerps. Too bad this is also two movies out of three straight with the main pokemon being a bit of a little brat (Shaymin and zorua).

6/10