I haven't seen it. Compare it to the rest of the Pokemon movie franchises. How does it compare to Lucario and the Mystery of Mew? PM2k? Mewtwo's Revenge?
The commercials were HORRIBLE. They really did detract from the movie. Seemed like they would play 8-10 in a row and I would have lost a lot of the flow of the story by that point.
At the very end when it show Darkrai on top of the tower right at the end, I started laughing because the song and the way they showed him, I kept thinking of batman on top of the building.
i was multitasking when it was on, but story-wise it reminded me of lugia bakutan, with darkrai in the lugia role and palkia/dialga as the battling legendary birds. there was even a 'music' theme which was going to stop the battle, as well.
i'll have to wait till the dvd comes out to give my real opinion; i've never been impressed with the movies when on CN because of the (god-awful: what is that 'chop socky chooks' monstrosity anyway? =/) commercial interruptions breaking my concentration on the story. i'm glad they left it letterboxed, instead of the pan-and-scan garbage...
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I agree there was a part where the character died and lost it's mind in the commercials I am like they have that in a kids show? Also what was with the other card game based show they advertised that was pretty lame too. The Chicken one was weirder. I guess it was similar to Revelation Lugia because of Darkrai's role to stop the fighting. However I found most of the animation pretty nice. I still think the Japanese version is so much better. "The World of pokémon" opening/translation seemed overdone in the English version.
Nope it was a regular. Also the whole swap scene is funnier in Japanese.
meh. i just bought sarah brightman's 'symphony' cd today; 'i will be with you' isn't even _close_ to as good a song as 'kaze to isshoni' is, imho.
i'm so glad they've started leaving the original scores in; the japanese scores were always superior to the american. the only theme that was better in the sub version was the one used when melody called lugia in 'pokemon 2000'; that one 'fit' better than the original, imho.
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