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Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You
Pokémon returns back to its most recent conquest in the full-length movie: I Choose You! Great moments with well-known companions and new experiences meet up in the twentieth Pokémon motion picture. At the point when Ash Ketchum sleeps late on his tenth birthday celebration, he winds up with a stiff-necked Pikachu rather than the primary accomplice...
10 February 1970
18 August 1965, Tokyo, Japan
23 August 1977, Okinawa, Japan
30 March 1967, Tokyo, Japan
7 October 1967, Kanagawa, Japan
3 December 1965, Hyogo, Japan
18 March 1964, Tokyo, Japan
15 November 1990, Miyagi, Japan
28 March 1981, Gifu, Japan
17 June 1961, Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan
16 May 1951, Katsuyama, Japan
18 November 1970, Chiba, Japan
18 March 1968, Tokyo, Japan
November 09, 2017
... ultimately the material just doesn't work.
November 22, 2017
Still, there are some improvements here from the original anime. Visually, the animation is lovely to look at, with the glittering rainbow-coloured feathers of the mystical Ho-Oh character especially mesmerising. If only the story is as compelling.
November 02, 2017
It's never boring, but it is undeniably ridiculous. Kids will love it because it's Pokémon on the big screen, and aged fans will have a laugh seeing it with friends.
November 01, 2017
One of Ash's contemporaries describes his encounter with this rainbow-hued bird as 'a priceless experience.' Two decades' worth of vanished, irretrievable pocket money would say otherwise.
November 14, 2017
But there's still a bit of weirdness when it shrugs off decades of precedent, where even imagined and/or understood "talking" has never, ever been portrayed on screen.
November 14, 2017
The Pokémon anime has hardly adhered to the rules of the original games. But Pokémon: I Choose You! goes a step further, ending with a moment so bizarre that my entire theater howled in disbelief.

