'Pokémon 3: The Movie' Reaction and Review W/ The Media Raptor

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0:47 you what's new dynabeads it's me the media Raptor and welcome back to the final installment of the meteor of reaction interview with the media Raptor okay not the last one I'll be doing plenty of these afterwards with the last installment of this trilogy sort of pretty obviously we're going to review Pokemon 3 tonight so you don't have to watch it then we'll talk about it uh this is the one I'm actually the most excited about once again I knew nothing about this movie up until when I picked

1:33 up those VHS like a few days ago thing is though when it comes to the legendary Pokemon Entei is one of my favorites due to how he looks I think if I had to list off my favorite legendary Pokemon there would be Dialga Entei Rayquaza and Groudon which is weird considering the fact that I'm a grass trainer or at least I was but we don't really have many glut grass legendaries which greatly annoys me but Entei has always been such a cool design because he always kind of have minded me of a mixture while looking at him now who reminds me of a mixture of well a dragon mixed with what this might seem weird a Chinese lucky cat in a way or a Chinese cat then also mixed with a Saint Bernard

2:18 I know that sounds crazy but I just think his design is cool and reading the back of the VHS case here this really does seem like it has the best plot out of the three as it currently stands mm was pretty good was very entertaining number one the first movie was just sort of math but I do hope Pokemon the movie three is by far the best of them because it seems like we have a recurring pattern of these movies getting better furthermore there is a three-pack blu-ray I could get for like 20 bucks or something of the three movies if this is a good movie if I do genuinely enjoy it I will probably pick them up at some point if not I'll probably just stick with the VHS tapes and not watch them for a good long while once again I've never seen this movie that should be kind of obvious cuz I'm doing it for R&R so I

3:03 have like I'm going into this with no childhood attachments to it aside from a liking of Entei well who appears to actually be the villain in this as well as the unknown Pokemon showing up which admittedly I always thought were really cool just you know just Isaac from a design standpoint I thought Pokemon then the shape of letters what's both kind of weird but also kind of interesting yes also this will be the last one for a while where I have this blanket up in the background anyhow dinah'll dudes let's just hope for the best so only one way to find out if this will be any good let's kick back relax and watch Pokemon the movie three hands that

3:51 what's know it's Pokemon three the movie that is gonna really bug me because it looks like it can spell it either way okay so this movies off to a fantastic start like I'm not even lying this is an amazing start but something is really distracting me the unknown in this movie for some reason or CG in a 2d animated movie it's very very noticeable when nothing else so far has been CG it's just just it's weird because they're constantly moving around in a circle and

4:36 they really do stick out so it's just I don't know it's very distracting for what so far has been a really good intro this is gonna be really depressing if it's going than where I think it is [Music] well okay this actually might be one of the most depressing things that were seen if this ends the way I think it has to end this honestly could be like unbelievably depressing I don't even know really what to say at this point like I just feel so bad for this kid okay so maybe this is something that

5:22 they changed and later like incarnations of Pokemon and different shows and stuff but I don't remember Pokemon essentially being taken out in a fight in one shot okay that this is sort of like a filler point in the movie I'm pretty sure so doesn't bother me all that much but I it is kind of weird how these Pokemon are just getting like a one-shot like constantly maybe it's good like they're magical or something cuz of this whole dream world thing which is actually a pretty cool idea I actually think this is a pretty interesting film so far but overall like I just maybe it's just a thing that was brought up later on but these Pokemon unless you had like a level 99 Pokemon and you were in like Pallet Town or something I'm pretty sure

6:12 they didn't die in one shot called it emotionally crushing moment that was actually pretty emotional like compared to the previous two that was just depressing and it's a really interesting plot point they're building on right now I I think this is actually really this is a really interesting idea is what they're trying to building towards with this idea of the character of Molly you really do feel bad for her but everything she does just makes sense and it just hurts partially due to the animation have to say but this almost hurts to watch how is there still half an hour left

6:59 this is movies this movie I think is about over unless down maybe they counted that short beforehand as part of it uh yeah okay I'll be real this was I'm confused unless they actually did count the short beforehand as you know like part of the whole runtime which they might have made him it's only an hour long I'm a little confused regardless that was a really good ending well it was a really good fight a really good way to what I believe was calm like comedy in the climax yeah just I looked at confused

7:45 and a bit surprised I was entertained greatly a mots the mock didn't really fit the review I'm just confused as to if there's gonna be more or not but if this is where it ends it'd be pretty satisfying as an ending well that was Pokemon 3 the movie and that was just just really good that was just a good movie let me just grab the tape out and they'll talk about it [Music]

8:35 so so I've seen all of them now out of there's like some time like ten more Pokemon movies I haven't seen but I've seen the original three and out of the original three what did I think of them all well to be honest the best one by far was all this lighting is really bad again the best of them by far pokemon three second best pokemon mm and kind of the worst was pokemon the first movie so what did Pokemon three do so well the others didn't well entirely it was exactly what a Pokemon movie should be there was plenty of Pokemon fights like legitimate trainer battles some really good comedy a really interesting story bringing in new characters new Pokemon and ultimately expanding the universe and also a

9:22 surprisingly emotional story I'm kind of gonna I'm gonna kind of spoil it because well this movie came out in 2001 it's an old movie and if you're a fan of Pokemon you've probably seen it by now but I need to explain why this story was worked so well now again I have to say this every time these are kids movies so it's not like a world-changing story in fact very few kids movies have like a world-changing plot to them but Pokemon 3 had a surprisingly emotional one because it focuses on well we follow the small girl as well as ash and the other is named Molly to me who essentially in a very very much like most kids movies loses her parents and she ends up wishing that her dad would come back ultimately though through the power of the unknown and just some essentially

10:08 its kind of some plot shenanigans it's never fully explained Entei shows up and believes that well technically he's her dad because that's what she wishes for therefore approving my theory that Entei is one of the best Pokemon cuz he just straight-up goes oh this little girl thinks I'm her dad I'm her dad now and just starts taking care of her then when she wishes for a mom he ends up kidnapping Ash's mom so that might seem you know like a pretty simple story we're trying to stop we're - is trying to get his mom Entei is trying me to stop Entei from like turning the whole world in a crystal but the thing is what it really does well is the emotional moments as expected there was going to be a moment where molly had to learn yeah I'm not

10:54 your mom and Nancy isn't your dad what I wasn't expecting and it's partially has to do with the acting is how well they were going to handle it there was a very good buildup of showing her connecting with both Ash's mom although she was hypnotized and Entei really believing that they were her parents and you might go wait how does this girl not know that a Pokemon isn't her dad there actually is a good reason you know by kids movie standards they do actually justify most of her beliefs to an extent they are a little dumb but as a kid you know you probably wouldn't look people I wouldn't see issues with them but they do actually give her enough character give her enough screen time interacting with both Ash's mom and Entei that the moments when you have when she has to learn that her they aren't her real

11:41 parents are shockingly emotional I didn't cry I never cried in any of these but I certainly did feel like I had been hit in the gut by it it just was very it was quite sad and I do it the idea that the unknown which are known to be reality-warping Pokemon are essentially creating whatever her dreams are that was an interesting plot point and all like this whole Crystal Palace and everything turn into crystal and even Entei showing up is all because of her dreams her memories and her thoughts that's an interesting plot point now granted how the unknown work where they came from and how she I'm not control over them is kind of pushed to the side in favor of Pokemon training battles and some heartwarming family moments and once again if you're a kid you're not going to question it too much because if

12:27 you play the game you know unknown can warp reality and they made that clear enough that we may not know exactly what these things are but we do know they're powerful enough to literally distort the fabric of time and space and create things out of thin air so the plot works the only real complaint I have with the character is unlike the first movie ash has a bit of a here's a gets hit with a stupid stick very briefly but also quite justifiable because keep in mind that he saw his mom get kidnapped and he's trying to save her and it's that whole it's actually really good character for him of how much he cares about his mom and how far he's willing to go but he straight-up challenges

13:14 Entei with a togepi and a four-hour game know what is that uh that's like water crocodile Pokemon it stands at hind legs I forget what it's called give an ignore me now but I'm not looking at all the challenges Entei a Pokemon that is literally a only ever been seen up you've only ever heard of in legends with two very basic starter Pokemon are two very basic low level Pokemon now granted it does make sense why he'd do that because you know fueled by anger and desperation and I need to save his mom maybe it was thinking straight but it was kind of a um dude are you thinking straight right now moment for me furthermore I mentioned this during the actual movie the Pokemon really seemed to go down easy in this movie

13:59 like during a couple of the trainer fights it's they get hit once and then they're out now I do understand these movies are 90 minutes long as suffered except for 2000 which was actually an hour and 40 minutes long I understand that for little kids you don't want to have like a three hour movie and probably the reason why they didn't have longer fight scenes like they do in the TV show is because in the TV show they have an entire season up to like 25 episodes to tell a story therefore they can have they can have three episodes based on one gym battle and make the whole episodes based around the fights in a movie it's hard to hit that balance of having multiple trigger battles that don't drag on and ultimately take away from the plot so ultimately it comes down to the kind of how do you want to

14:45 look at it you can either sit here and complain that oh well the Pokemon go down way too easy or you can understand that it kind of had to be that way because there was no real easy way for them to make this these battles you know like work in the sense yeah I hope you understand what I'm saying there was no they could make these battles long enough to both be entertaining but also not too long that it would take away from the rest of the movie and unlike Pokemon the first movie these two at least especially Pokemon three really felt like a movie it didn't just feel like hey here's a few episodes what could be like a three-day partner episode made into a movie Pokemon 3 really felt like they were going what's a full-length film we could

15:32 do what kind of story could we tell with this time now granted the story still does have some holes there are still some the dialogue is pretty mm but at the same time it is what it is it's Pokemon it's not it was never known for having the greatest dialogue ever like I said Ash does make some stupid choices but what is good here is very interesting I really like the ideas of the unknown feed on essentially taking from a young girl's dreams and the sad emotional truth of her getting so drawn into what she believes is her family that she doesn't want to accept the fact that her parents are gone or at least one of them is spoiler alert her dad is okay in the end thankfully I think now just been a really depressing ending if it turned

16:18 out hey yeah your dad's still dead though everything's great but your dad's dawn at enter is gone and you have no one left welcome to the world of superheroes yeah so I don't think they would be able to do that and still get away with like this being for little kids so it's a good plot the most entertaining out of the three II in fact this was the best out of the three so far and it's just really well done the writing well there's there wasn't as much humor as the second one or at least not as much funny humor as a second one I don't know why but Team Rocket really has a weird habit of breaking the fourth wall in these movies and when they do break the fourth wall in this it is pretty funny however unlike the last movie it really feels like they were just kind of here because fans would expect them to be

17:04 here and granted they don't have much screen time so it's not like they're wasting time or anything they have like maybe six minutes in total no not even that like four minutes in total maybe of actual screen time so they don't exactly waste too much it does feel like they were underutilized but at the same time this isn't really a plot that calls for every character to be brought together like with endgame for example which don't worry I'll review that soon unless that way vide reviews already up before these videos come out I'm filming this before I've shown the review for any game because well these take longer to review to film just just let me have this okay so the writing it's a great kids movie and looking at it if it wasn't a kids movie it would still be entertaining it

17:51 would still be good I can watch this as somebody who has no nostalgic connection to it and say I greatly enjoyed this would I watch it again yes this is the one I would actually come out and say yeah I'd watch this again not by the way not probably not even till like maybe next year but I would watch this again same with 2000 I'm far more likely to watch the third one again but yeah it was a good movie part of that is held by the acting part of what makes I kid you not the emotional scenes really work is the girl who plays Molly he's a really good voice actress I'm gonna actually look up who played her real quick while I talk about what made it work so well the main thing that made her work so well is she supposed to be like a six year old five

18:37 or six year old at most so she is very much a small child not only did the voice actress they got to player to be sound like a small child but it isn't an annoying small child and more than that it actually is a child who can actually ammos who can pull off these emotional moments and work with it hang on she actually is a very well be actress who played Molly her name is Amy Burnham I'm just checking I think I know that from somewhere Oh what do you know she played uh well she's safe from Yukio

19:22 and the one thing I would know her from is she's Charmy be in a lot of Sonic was not expecting that that's cool actually I'm cool like that's kind of funny it was not expecting that regardless she was a great job in this movie because she's able to pull off the emotion of a child so well part of that is helped with the animation once again this is a step up in animation from the previous movie now giving us much bigger and clearer character designs as I will be honest not sure if I mentioned this last time Mull Tris Articuno Zapdos even lugia to an extent don't look that great they look good like it's clear these are legendary Pokemon but they certainly they don't look as details that could be now granted that maybe is because I grew

20:08 up watching Diamond and Pearl so I was used to seeing this much higher end animation than Pokemon but at least in Pokemon 3 they made the animation much better I did mention though the CG in it is really weird and really distracting it is pretty dated CG but it doesn't look bad it's just a very noticeable I believe if I was a kid and I watched this I probably wouldn't have noticed it but I'm noticing it now so I feel the need to bring it up don't worry it's not a deal breaker it's not even that bad it's actually looks decent for what it is but everything else looks great like I said I love the design of Entei and they gave him a lot of detail the crystallization of the pout of like a home and the city and the like the valleys looks really cool the crystals themselves have a very interesting color

20:55 scheme to them that is makes them very nice to look at what else I'm just thinking that given I have any real complaints with the movie Entei admittedly there is still a lot of like the choppy animation but then again it is Pokemon I'm gonna it always did kind of have choppy animation even till this day but it's much more it's more stylized today than it was back then my point still is it's interesting to see how far it's come the animation does look good in fact I'm surprised how good the animation looks about almost 20 years later how good this animation still seems when compared to well Pokemon today like it this looks like

21:41 theatrical animation not just TV animation put on a big screen so yeah the animation is really good the voice acting is really good for what it is the script it's good for what it is and it's entertaining on its own the music there's another rap song at the beginning which admittedly it's bad it's bad rap but it's also the fun kind of bad like it's it's the cheesy china rap that if you like nineties cheese like all that like yeah radical cool stuff you'll really enjoy it if not it's only like a two minute song so you can just ignore it or fast forward but overall I really don't have as many complaints with it as I did with the previous two movies so in the end I can recommend Pokemon 3 the movie I'm

22:28 giving it 3 Raptor claws at a 4 I really enjoyed this a lot more than I thought it would to me this is pretty much what a theatrical Pokemon film should be I'm not actually sure if it was the least theatrical we have to check that later but this is really what a theatrical Pokemon film like I said should be it's got the action the characters the emotional bits and well Pokemon mm didn't have a good story good characters it didn't have much fighting in it you know the fighting was much more contained to the legendaries all duking it out this one had a balance of having to fight not only a legendary but pokemon trainer battles as well while it didn't have stakes like this where the world can potentially be destroyed this one had emotional stakes that really grabbed you and made it hard for

23:15 you to walk away from No Entei just a great Pokemon in this because he's like yeah I'm gonna be your dad now I guess Molly is ridiculously cute and this is coming from someone who doesn't always like kids and movies you can find them who can easily get greatly annoyed by kids in movies but no up not this one sorry the Pokemon 3 really got their child character great they got it down and they made it work so yeah if you do have kids I can highly recommend Pokemon 3 if you're a fan of Pokemon you haven't seen it yet check it out I believe you will greatly enjoy it overall can I recommend the entire like Pokemon og trilogy of the first movie 2003 yeah admittedly the first movie isn't

24:02 the best in my opinion but then again I think it also has to do with the fact that it was very much a building block with that we were given Pokemon 2000 which was improvement still had plenty of issues but was still quite good but because of that ultimately we got Pokemon 3 which was just a very good movie in almost every category sure it's kind of it's pretty predictable and it's not the most emotionally investing movie like you will get emotionally invested in the characters but it won't be like if something bad happens you won't like break down in tears over and like I think they tried to with the first movie but no it's not the first movie but I can still recommend them if you got kids who love Pokemon these are harmless and they're great distractions if you have you're a fan of Pokemon but you haven't seen these movies I can recommend

24:49 watching them all at least once as for a recommendation on buying the Blu ray 3-pack if you're a fan of Pokemon and you love these movies but you don't own them yet go right ahead and buy it it's the perfect thing for you if you haven't seen these movies but you like Pokemon if you can find it for like 25 to 30 dollars at most go ahead the stores I've seen it are trying to saw it for thirty five to forty dollars and fifty five dollars for a steelbook it is not worth that much you can find it for like 20 bucks to thirty bucks at most it is worth it Pokemon two and three are great Pokemon one is just okay but really Pokemon three is worth it all on its own and I know you can't buy them separately but I also know people like buying a

25:35 three pack because that way they just get them all at once and don't have to pay for three separate DVDs or blu-rays so ultimately if I can find need three pack at a good price I probably will pick it up because I did have fun watching these now these movies did not restart some like big big love of Pokemon for me I'm not gonna rush out by a bunch of trading cards big by des and a gameboy and buy all the old games or anything and I wasn't expecting these two I was just hoping they would be entertaining and at the end of the day they were entertaining that to me is all I wanted if you want to know why I'm just hoping they were entertaining these were not movies meant to tell stories let's be real here these were movies

26:21 meant to sell cards and toys that isn't an issue look at the Lego look at the Transformers movie the animated one did a review on in a while ago I absolutely loved it you can make a movie based on a property that is entirely designed to sell toys or merchandising and you can still do it well Pokemon three shorter so you can do a really good movie or at least a very entertaining one at that so I don't think like these movies I wasn't hope I wasn't expecting them to be like the greatest thing ever where you must watch them if you haven't seen them and I must go out and get all pokemon stuff now I wasn't expecting that and really that's not what these were for these were meant to be made for fans of Pokemon to enjoy and if you are a fan of Pokemon these movies will be right up your alley

27:08 as someone who hasn't been a fan of Pokemon in a while I still got enjoyment out of them so you know what that's good enough for me let's just hope your sector Pikachu is a really good movie because that one is one I'm genuinely excited for because well Ryan Reynolds and because it seems like it's kind of going in a different direction and all these Pokemon movies but I'd love to talk about that when I get around to watching it when it comes out in theaters so with all that done if you enjoyed this video please leave a like and subscribe because it just helps this channel grow and lets me know I'm doing something around here if you want to talk about movies comment down below what was your favorite Pokemon movie am I missing any of the Pokemon films should they review more if so which one should I review let me know down below and if enough people ask for him I'll

27:54 get around to doing more of them anyhow with that being said until next time this has been the meteor after saying keep cool and I will see all you Donnell dudes around later my dog is snoring and it created this cutest thing ever