I just saw The Pokémon Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, this year's Pokémon theatrical feature, on the Cartoon Network yesterday! (My sister recorded it for me on her TiVo for my birthday.) A 70-minute movie in a two-hour time slot, which means that it had 50 minutes of commercials; and it felt like it, too. What impressed me the most was how much better the animation quality, or at least the background paintings, are in 2012 vs. the first Pokémon movie in 1999. The story was the usual "Ash & Pikachu and their friends must fight The Most Dangerous Pokémon Of All, And Learn A Valuable Moral Lesson In the Process". Eeeehh. The coltlike Keldeo is cute.
I just saw The Pokémon Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice, this year's Pokémon theatrical feature, on the Cartoon Network yesterday! (My sister recorded it for me on her TiVo for my birthday.) A 70-minute movie in a two-hour time slot, which means that it had 50 minutes of commercials; and it felt like it, too. What impressed me the most was how much better the animation quality, or at least the background paintings, are in 2012 vs. the first Pokémon movie in 1999. The story was the usual "Ash & Pikachu and their friends must fight The Most Dangerous Pokémon Of All, And Learn A Valuable Moral Lesson In the Process". Eeeehh. The coltlike Keldeo is cute.
Fred Patten