Pokemon the Movie 3 Rocket Rabbit Commentary

0:00 welcome back everyone to our rocket rabbit commentaries uh movie commentaries because yes we still actually do these um it's just been forever since we did our last one because I had problems picking out what movie that we wanted to do and uh I decided to pick out one of my favorite uh movies Pokemon the Movie 3 now why are we not doing Pokemon the Movie 1 because Pokemon the Movie 1 recently got a uh C uh CG animated remake and I don't think I could actually find that one and I would want to do that one specifically because it doesn't actually change the movie all that much but you know it looks better and why aren't we doing Pokemon the Movie 2000 which everybody loves well because I don't actually like

0:45 Pokemon the Movie 2000 sorry but this one this one is absolutely [ __ ] amazing mostly because we have a much darker uh okay it's not because of the much darker theme although to be perfectly honest I feel it's because of the much darker thing that we've got um and because our characters have progressed to to the point to where they're actually allowed to be slightly more than just their jokes because you know uh Brock at least in the anime was effectively one joke and uh here Brock is actually really good um have you seen this movie before Mr Cloud yeah I saw this movie in theaters growing up as a matter of fact awesome I remember I remember enjoying

1:32 the movie certainly um um I just thought that this being the third installment in the featurelength Pokemon movies to hit theaters in the United States that this was another stepping stone on a slippery slope down in a downward spiral of quality not to say that it's a bad movie that it it may it it makes you wish that the movies were either staying the same level of quality or going up but this felt like a step backwards really you you think that this is actually worse than Pokemon 2000 so slightly I I think I I think I have fer reminiscences of Pokemon 2000 in this movie okay especially considering that I I still remember to this day like where I

2:19 was when Pokemon the Movie 2000 was five days away from hitting theaters okay uh this movie is certainly enjoyable of set in the Pokemon Universe following our heroes in the original Pokemon anime run with the trio Ash Misty Brock friend Pikachu and other colorful cute cuddly Pokemon joining us along the way as we correction that I have to throw at you we are past the Indigo League actually we are uh early days in jotto actually is the timeline for this movie early days in jotto yes very early all right so with uh with our primer out

3:05 of the way I think we we are ready to start um we are starting H after the advertisements which would normally accompany the movie because uh um I don't remember if this actually got a DVD release but the VHS tape had a lot of advertisements on it so there yeah they they tended to do that back in the VHS days so we set yeah we're also set to take a mid movie intermission and your commentators Mr Gad and Mr Cloud will let you know when the intermission has begun so that uh those following along with their own movie at home will know when to pause the movie in order to accommodate for the intermission which also will be

3:51 followed by another countdown in all right Shall We Begin Mr Cloud yes we are ready now are you ready out there in movie plan yeah oh yeah let's do this okay three two one press play also Dan Green is in this movie well thank God for that he he plays ente doesn't he yes he plays an ente and uh Molly's Dad see I did not have that Association growing up with this movie mov so that will that will be found very pleasing to the mature and

4:38 adult Mr Cloud here I do wish that our copy had close captions but it does not oh well it's it's it's a it's a Pokemon movie they're they're talking about Pokemon talking about the legendaries the unknown entirely sure how much the dub actually changes the story I think Spencer's wife is uh left him specifically because he was uh uh too uh too committed to researching the unknown you know that's one of many fun Jabs that we make at at the uh cartoons

5:23 and movies growing up is like we we have these uh we could draw we could draw these inferences that are not necessarily grounded in reality but are supported by numerous Clues you know where's where's mother where's father is Andy from Toy Story actually a psychopath um only a little bit that's a p Got Mail Right messenger pidgeys cuz Spencer here is in talks with Professor Oak a and uh and Professor Elm actually this uh this is neither of them but but uh yeah we will learn later that Professor Oak has actually been monitoring uh Spencer's research on the unknown uh for some

6:10 time and those of us following along from the horror movie classic The Exorcist May realize that uh men on archaeological digs and excavation sites are likely to have their entire houses Infested by demons and what have you or in this case U or in this way eldrich entities the eldrich the movie does do well at getting you seated with these brand new characters in their really cool Mansion bye Spencer and behold we have returned to the ruins of

7:00 elf that's right the alphabet now as a kid the uh uh the alphabet uh shapes that the unknown were making were actually still very confusing to me I could make out a good portion of them but uh without full context I I just straight up did not understand this puzzle all right solving solving the puzzle of the ruins of Al yes mhm huh huh Scrabble pieces Spencer is Fallen under attack by computer generated images yes behold the aldrian powers of the

7:47 unknown well that accelerated quickly very quickly and now Spencer is gone from the movie you got some splaining to do Mister what' you do with your buddy and here poor little mly is in this gigantic house all by herself yeah um guys why did you bring the treasure chest back well there must be an explanation just not on screen because you know we're not allowed to actually

8:33 say say the word death on screen I mean they hey that that they can't prove that he's dead this this is po this is Pokemon that there is definitely some kind of Pokemon powers at work and so Molly opens uh opens the cursed Treasure Chest right right the P the Pandora's Box allegory P tier Griffin Peter Griffin and then once again tears

9:25 activate the Pokemon Magic don't you wish Unown were actually this powerful in the games Mr Cloud I mean at this at this point like the unknown are just despicable and to answer your question yes I do wish the unknown were this powerful unknown actually on its own is a mediocre Pokemon at B no no on its own unknown is a useless Pokemon Mr cloud like the only point of it is to try to collect all the 26 iterations well actually we're up to 29

10:10 because you get exclamation part you get exclamation mark you get um a question mark and I think there's one other character colon It's not colon oh finally now we have the gr now we have the the grammar to support the letters let it go let it go it's all unnown anyway here I stand in through losing bra ah come on little girls going to be just fine look look at all look at all little girls happy little googly eye

10:57 looking Pokemon friends cuz really that's the only thing that's stopping this from being truly horrifying one is one of course is Molly reminiscing Story Time with Papa and also that the unknown do at least look somewhat cute and here's where we get our only real explanation of what is actually going on um Molly's EXT extreme depression and uh and emotions uh related reled to her grief yeah they're directly influencing what the unknown are doing right because the unknown are

11:44 Pokemon and Pokemon are they they're they're supposed to obey Pokemon Masters so here we could treat Molly as the master of the unknown at this point a she s she summoned a miror duplicate of a legendary Pokemon right that this is not actually ente this is the this is the unknowns uh simac man simula shore that sounds way closer than what I had in mind

12:29 oh look at this the maid servants now are without a job what to do now why should we care because they're Pokemon to collect of course I really do enjoy this movie damn it it's a good it's a good blend of traditional animation in CGI which also is what Pokemon the first movie and Pokemon the Movie 2000 had accomplished um what was CGI in Pokemon the first movie because I think it was just the birthing tubes wasn't it well that's

13:17 that's so said any any amount of CGI is going to be is going to be held in contrast to the rest of the animation style and just like a typical episode of the anime Pokemon we have the narrator yes hey a God you're useless I think actually they used a different voice actor for the narrator for the movies um maybe possibly looking for love oh baby

14:07 that's right so we are you know uh we're past the first couple of badges for ash but Chikorita has not yet evolved into bay leaf grand ball yes I actually really like this remix um oh it's really weird because uh poke uh because the Pokemon remixes are honestly um a much higher quality than the original Pokemon theme in my opinion the the MU the music that they have included with the Pokemon movies like Back Street Boys uh has been uh definitely setting the bar where it needs to be with respect to the hype

14:52 around these movies the young people got to just fall in love and have their ears massaged all the way through also this trainer uses giraffa IG and therefore she is my second favorite trainer in the movie The Chikorita is not poison type therefore he's just going to take a break one more Step Up the Ladder now see oh but Ash does have his shiny knock so P Pikachu aom knock toow high five all right apom is just monkeying around

15:38 at this point for this stupid tail Hand high five all right oh also uh uh Ash manages to remember that he still actually has a good portion of his Kanto uh Team uh tied to him as well so yes this Bulbasaur should absolutely destroy this Butterfree actually because you know it's upwards of level oh 40ish n no the okay yeah level 40 Bulbasaur maybe but what if it's a level 38 Butterfree uh it's unlikely hey syndic Quil all right now now we see the third the third of the

16:24 three Johto starters against Mankey yep it's Mankey syndic Quil is so [ __ ] adorable it's a whole new world fire Graphics Pokemon fainted Y kick ass catch them now this let's see she's played Butterfree aom that Quagsire go get him Pikachu yeah the quagar is actually a ground type so so he just finds it funny now

17:11 [Music] headbutt let's go for a swing set ride Pikachu then fly ouch I think I think that actually right cuz Quagsire did take some damage from that and Quagsire fainted my [Laughter] boy that was fun now let's have lunch or breakfast [Music]

17:57 whichever so asash and friends were just on their Dippity new kind of day finding Pokemon trainers and battles and such having Adventures when all of a sudden they look out in the distance unfortunately Greenfield is not Canticle in jotto so I mean given of the party that ashes got it supposedly is between etique and uh and mahog uh not not mahogany but Golden Rod yeah but it's supposedly between Golden Rod and and and E critique damn it Brock he does become

18:47 better later on in the movie I promise which uh brings me to the point that really challenges the viewing experience for the Pokemon movies is uh context is it's just just as we're we're filling in the blanks of context as to what's been going on in the lives of these characters up to this point that uh they they didn't just fall out of the sky that if you get you get more you get more for your experience if you've actually been following along with the anime not not so much the m not so much the manga but definitely the anime so that you could recognize these characters cuz really that that is that is the premise of each of the first

19:33 three movies is they were busy they were doing something Ash is on a quest to become Pokemon master and then this happened now for the record a majority of the movies uh follow that template um I know that it keeps up for both uh for both forever and heroes but the connection on Heroes is much looser than it's supposed to be oh hey look it's the C it's the camera guy in newsperson from uh Pokemon Sapphire oh right right why why is it called Iceland if it's green uh because it's very cold up there hey miss

20:21 Mom all right and then and then all of a all of a sudden Ash's mom reveals that she had pictures of these characters and on the fridge this entire time yeah uh Spencer uh Spencer is actually distantly related to Ash's mom so yeah Molly uh it will actually come up later that Molly is technically Ash's cousin yeah which is fine there's not not there is not much known about these unknown

21:11 no no no no no that that's if if they were only acquaintances growing up then that means that they're not related H I might have actually P picked that up from the sub my I'm not entirely sure I mean doesn't does it really does it really matter it does not actually matter for the record movie is the movie does not need that familiar connection because uh because Greenfield is in fact being you know slowly encased in uh in uh unknowns ice so and and that that also leads to the third Trope that also was pre was prominent in the first two movies is

21:57 there's an end of thee World scenario happening right now uh that that that unknown that unknown nice is not going to stop with Greenfield it's not going to stop spreading until it covers the entire world I mean we don't actually have proof of that to be perfectly honest it might it might as well be the case although although with respect to like meww trying to conquer the world and then what's his name sending the legendary birds on a field trip uh this is actually the mut of the of the three end of the world scenarios we see yeah so now so now we understand why uh why miss Mom doesn't act why deia doesn't

22:42 actually import impart any of the other future adventures in the franchise since when the hell was Greenfield right next to Pallet Town no we're not next to Pallet Town she took a car dude jotto and Kanto are right next to each other oh in one day behold ente knows extreme speed because it is Generation two and everyone that moves fast is supposed to have extreme speed well by the time this movie came out Pokemon Gold Silver and Crystal all had gotten you well acquainted with the legendary dogs and how they behave in the games which is nice that ente is

23:29 actually pretty consistently well represented here except for the part that he can talk if only unknown could actually learn hypnosis then it might actually be useful for something wow did you see that oh P oh right P Pikachu is trying to stop what's happening y

24:17 unsuccessfully but unfortunately 's High base stats allowed him to resist the El the Thunders shock yeah Ash it's unknown out there H the jokes keep coming it is a cozy bed oh yeah does does Molly I don't think Molly even knows what her own mother looks like uh she does she

25:02 actually does have a picture of her mom uh she's the other chick in the Hat snuggle kids your parents are your parents they're the only ones you got and there's no there's no there is no substitute on earth that could come close I mean ente and dilia do come pretty damn close mostly because they're actually here it's just it's just a little bit creepy that's all it's very creepy that's the entire

25:53 point they took the windmill and all the trees with it let it go let it go you already did that joke Mr Cloud to hell with all of Greenfield

26:42 oh thank God we have characters who could fill in with a plot dump and it's a very short plot dump thankfully he is he is the Poke he is the Poke Prof after all also Charizard Valley oh right right Char this this whole segment largely escaped me that yeah this is where Char this is where Ash's Charizard has been this whole time yeah then Charizard realizes he doesn't feel like being an [ __ ] right now well enough to split through the ice

27:35 but that's it we'll take it down with machines and from now he's just being a little brat spikes hey you know you can really hurt someone doing that it's all right the dude's the dude's all right he was wearing a helmet stupid

28:23 unknown so what is our plan Professor Oak but Ash is um and Ash is like well where's my call damn it do I have to just do this on my own now uh about that whole you know

29:11 continuity thing cuz these are people we're talking about okay this surely this this can this absolutely cannot go on forever thanks Brock oh what what apom and trainer friend are coming along too Lisa Lisa is not coming along but she's making sure they can communicate because at this point Ash still doesn't actually have a poke Tech so oh yeah that's right the PO the Poke naav yeah it's one of my favorite addition to third generation

29:58 Pokemon was the poke naav so then you can have rematches with people boy the this the this whole story is just abounding with plot convenience that Brock actually had has in his hands a map of the grounds oh to be perfectly honest it's not it's he's likely able to acquire s such a map from either Elm or uh uh or hail's assistant Jesse you know what large Pokemon Duty your balloons come on and then

30:46 because Team Rocket had tried flying in they distracted ente while Ash and friends are able to make their epic intrusion it I'm sorry infiltration right well time to get your Pokemon come on wheezing can float uh James doesn't have wheezing at this point and Jesse does not have our yeah right they got wob effect where all that woba Fett knows how to do

31:34 is woba Fett we got to call in the National Guard we don't have a National Guard we're in Japan so let's see a ashes team right now is is Bulbasaur Chikorita nocow Pikachu Totodile and syndic Quil and he gets and he gets uh and he gets Charizard in a moment so my Pokemon will help me find my mom

32:20 climbing up the crystal tower Mama I'm Coming Home Professor Oak did say that was an the unknown are going to have their day Mama I'm Coming Home niely done deia and this is why children make dumb villains is because children are dumb they do dumb things like letting people

33:07 do things that are going to ultimately interfere with their plans so deia already automatically knows what's going on ha yes uh yet another uh hypnosis plot just like meww had possessed was it Nurse Joy in the first movie it wasn't just Nurse Joy but it was effectively Nurse Joy yeah yeah now if only they made a Pokemon video game based on this landscape um the Distortion world gets kind of close Distortion world I mean I've never actually played through the Distortion world because

33:54 that would involve getting through the the normal uh the normal uh uh campaign for Gen 4 and uh I dislike Gen 4 quite a bit you can't you can't get a signal through all that come on why not like as far as we know it's uh it's only a it's only a physical impediment Gad I'm afraid that the density the hardness and also the ability of wavelength signals at so many hertz to pass through this material is unknown exactly Mr Cloud but we did learn quite a bit is

34:40 that at least they're still able to communicate cute noises and then the ice grows back but Brock has Vulpix haha right I forgot about Vulpix hey they're they're cheating they got they got too many okay well now it's a good thing that Brock and miss here cuz Ash is only allowed to have six Pokemon at a time and already we've seen like seven of them no um but the only one he's cheating with is Charizard and Charizard isn't here yet so there oh yeah right like just by Charizard

35:26 showing up then suddenly oh looks like I got to send my Pokemon back to Bill's PC Yay see just because we're in a dark and dangerous Adventure doesn't mean that we can't be thankful for our friends right in fact we should be more thankful for to our friends for helping us to rescue our parents behold the St [Music] fwell now that we've actually gone past

36:12 the new uh the uh the news uh segment the movie is actually very is actually very quickly paced and I like that about the movie honestly also we go through a bunch of different locals specifically Greenfield's open Greenfield ha dream dream world just one one thing that I'm thankful for is no you know dream dream world sure uh fro Frozen Frozen uh castle and Ice Wonderland fine at least there's no time travel I can do without a time I can do without a time travel plot right now so is that one of your big issues with Pokemon 4 was that the one with um

37:00 cabby is that you can do anything and it is nap time sure and the stairs are you know 20 feet ahead of you but you know just make new stairs uhhuh screw the rules I'm the voice of

37:52 Brock and Yugi wait really yeah and T is voed by Dan Green no no no talking about oh [ __ ] uh talk talking about um how Brock and S Kaiba from Yugi have the same voice actor ah okay okay so she wants to be a Pokemon trainer right oh now now ente is using his mouth to

38:49 speak which allows her to cheated the upcoming battle the dream dream world yes that's what a what a what a grand thing to to include dreams anything can happen in a dream anything anything I [ __ ] love Brock in this scene to be perfectly honest and we actually get to see most of this particular battle uh we end up we end up skipping a good portion of the fight with Misty sadly all right they they make the

39:38 Pokemon Arena and everything MH Brock you really should have evolved bad into goldbat by now come on dude that is not a g on Mr Cody uh Mr Cloud person this is a bad matchup yes yes it

40:23 is it's super effective po Zubat yeah that's you don't have to feel bad for them the only time when you have to feel bad for the Pokemon is when they're about to kill each other like in Pokemon the first movie all warmed up Vulpix all right cuz they're not cuz they're not real Pokemon just like ente is not a real Pokemon right Brock stop hitting on the nine-year-old that that is actually a

41:09 valid criticism right now is uh like cuz now now you're forced to reckon with just that that Brock is out to get chicks but I did the absolutely they did not intend for that to be a thing it's just unfortunate that of all three why couldn't Misty have been the one who's stuck behind well she is one of the ones that get stuck behind well we are we are going to get into a fight between Molly and Misty where Molly Gets to use the most broken Pokemon in all of generation 2

41:56 broken yep y Here Comes Onyx hi Onyx the Pokemon that defeats almost nobody ever yeah hi FY roll out is not very effective against another rock type Pokemon that but because this is Mr Cloud we're we're we're in a we're in a dream world it does it doesn't matter rational matters that is all

42:41 right we need to take an intermission we'll be back in a moment intermission time we are returning from our intermission and uh Ash MTI and Pikachu are more than halfway up the Crystal Stairs more than halfway that's funny all right are we ready Mr Cloud we are in fact ready Mr gerad all right three two one press play honestly I will say that the uh the backing OST for this movie doesn't have all that many uh doesn't have all that many uh great pieces but it has a lot of good pieces in

43:26 it yeah if you've heard if you've heard movie soundtrack TR s then this should come pretty familiar oh wait oh yeah and there's another thing happening if Molly's here and there's an avatar of Molly in the dream world then who is who oh no uh the uh the unknown created a simulacrum for Molly in order in order to have her you know not actually be in danger while she's doing the Pokemon battle stuff oh right right Danger you know Pokemon have HP meters but not trainers trainers do not have health points trainers do not faint you can't damage trainers that would that would certainly

44:14 lend Pokemon into the hardcore realm of gaming Story Time yes ente has ente has the ability to you know uh specifically bring life to uh bring life to a to a beach welcome back Miss Molly couldn't beat her the the the lady just materialized out of thin air how do you beat that

45:01 just without hesitation Ash says I'm the better trainer Misty sucks at Pokemon battling battle me well technically Misty doesn't I don't think Misty has an onscreen win has Misty ever won a Pokemon battle in her entire career she is the Cerulean City Gym Leader one of the four remember all right now and now which form does she want to take so really this this is the unknown trying to stop ash from disbanding the unknown at this

45:49 point the unknown are trying to protect themselves ah come on it's not it's not really water it's just it doesn't feel like that way to them despite the fact that gravity still works ah kingra I hate this [ __ ] Pokemon for the record I do not hate it because it's a bad Pokemon no no no no no no kingra is the most broken Pokemon in all of generation 2 especially especially while you're

46:36 going through the campaign [ __ ] [ __ ] Claire's kingra and then you come to realize that the eighth gym leader has a KRA it cannot easily be defeated and an impressive level 40 is she yeah she's like no she's like level 40 or 41 cuz uh cuz jotto ends up being extremely uh ex ends cutting off extremely early because you know you you have to do the entirety of Kanto afterwards and and silver or rather red right that the jodo gym leaders cap out at level 40 the Elite 4 uh not 40 45 I

47:24 think I want to say Claire's King 44 actually but no not not the one I remember I'm talking I'm talking Game Boy Color 2001 Pokemon gold silver Crystal that CL Claris King Dr was a level 40 okay that's really weird because Lance is 50 right that's that's how low they cut the levels in Gold Silver and Crystal which honestly I liked that about those games is that you didn't have to like raise crazy powerful Pokemon in order to in order to get on with it I mean hell the level cap was so low that the first gym leader didn't even have a double digit level Pokemon ah yeah like what is this am I am I just fighting birds that got pulled

48:11 out of the wild like just 5 minutes before I showed up almost actually I mean I mean uh a falkner's pidgeotto is really bad the the only difficult thing about the entire the entire battle is the fact that both Pidgey and Pidgeot have mud slab mud slap they slap you in the face with muds you can't see reduces your accuracy and makes the battle take way too long climbing the stairs I got to get your exercise Ash there's more to life than just standing around telling Pokemon what to do all day long

48:56 it's from my non-existent dad deia it's fine non-existent dad and then now we have several candidates for who Ash's Ash's dad is supposed to be but um yeah we don't have any any confirmations for it it's not Professor Oak it's definitely not o it's not Professor Oak

49:51 oh anente you better get back here and straighten this out little wishm girl is getting upset and so CR critical grief separation anxiety well I mean to be fair Molly did just lose her entire family yeah now these crystals are getting

50:43 Jagged the cold never bothered me anyway yeah just punch it harder Ash really pack in those sound effects you are going you know Ash you know Ash I like that you I like that you're actually willing to stand up

51:31 to ente but um but it is another legendary Pokemon and you've not had the best track record of dealing against legendary Pokemon mean defeating them in battle remember the time you died oh no you don't remember that okay oh yeah it's not quite fire blast or flamethrower it's technically flamethrower um but but um Ash is still not good at Pokemon battling yeah and they and they do the

52:19 they do the fire meets fire thing where which fire is going to win out yeah the suggestion of impalement is getting stronger the as the longer this movie goes on so are you going to use her name

53:14 ente and then there was another thing too is why why did they give ente the first honors that uh you know there there are there are two other legendary dogs the raicho suun but this is the only suun gets his gets his moment in the sun in the next movie and REO gets an entire animated special devoted to him well he about flipping time for the record uh of of the three uh raicho is actually my favorite uh I am I am not a big fan of suun despite how competitively viable it is in generation 2 being so damn tanky and ente is in is objectively the worst of the three because it's a physical attacker despite the fact that it's a fire type

53:59 right it it doesn't get to enjoy even being its own type which is pure fire by the way nicely done Ash all right see you thanks jarard see we can't we can't acknowledge that death happens but we can you know prevent death it's it's a movie now it's time now it's time to reckon with the forces of life and

54:50 death uh things have g a little out of hand here a come on come on Charizard you think did did you evolve from did you evolve from a [ __ ] no you evolve from a charmeleon and that Charmeleon was a little [ __ ] Charmeleon was but Charmander was not if you remember this is the only impactful thing Team Rocket does in the entire

55:35 movie they haven't done a goddamn thing yet yeah they don't do anything in this movie they they rescue ash from falling from the tower and that's it and they get a and they get a mentioned by being on the newscast breaking news in Greenfield War has broken out oh they make Pokemon battling look so cool oh look now now now we know how to

56:24 dispel the enchantment right the the answer like like it's it's like Jafar turning into a genie at the end of Aladdin like you you see where this is going and it's actually quite simple the problem is though is now now the child has got to uh grow up a little yeah and it is not fair for her to grow up well I mean it's not like she asked for this it's just the the the the GD unknown man they're they're the ones who did all this hell they haven't even been on screen for the past 5 minutes now I don't have infinite power points Ash Ash you can't solve all your problems by

57:10 blowing flamethrowers at it you sure that's how Charizard solves most of its problems it's either a flamethrower or seismic toss I am so [ __ ] giddy watching this movie I I really love that we actually get EX extended fight scenes uh against ente to be perfectly honest because there really does feel uh with the backing track there feels there's a real sense of can we actually do this because end's on end appears to be on the back foot for a majority of this fight despite the fact that he's actually dominating the battlefield yeah and and it's nice to

57:56 see the Pokemon acting consistently with how they behave in the video games cuz again ente you you spend almost no time actually fighting ente because when every time you catch this you you catch this Pokemon in an encounter you wonder at every single action is he about to run away right that's what they do the legendary dogs are very good at fleeing combat that's why they're so [ __ ] hard to catch yeah

58:45 do it Charizard and then another explosion so technically the attack that and they should be should be classified as here a shadow flare but like Shadow flare is a final fantasy attack not a Pokemon attack so well reminds now reminds me of Mewtwo from uh Pokemon the first movie like does Mewtwo know Shadow Ball because despite the fact that Shadow Ball doesn't exist in generation one not only does it not exist but it's also not consistent with Mewtwo strengths [Music]

59:31 um that's not entirely true actually cuz both es uh because both Espeon and Mew can learn Shadow Ball so right but Shadow Ball is a physical type attack because it's Ghost type true and mwu does not have very good but Mewtwo has great base stats but attack is not one of them yeah that five minute long Pokemon sequence was too

1:00:17 much you shaked me on it Molly come on well it's time to time to put up or shut up who whose uh agenda are you following here uh not a gym leader I mean she has to pick a monotype and uh monotype that's right oh my God they're finishing each other

1:01:09 sentences I mean it is what Spencer would want but he'd also want to be here for that so and the three crystallin Pokemon are just chilling in the background there now what to do about all this Crystal Palace that we found ourselves in yeah Mr Cloud what to do about all this spiky Crystal Palace well it's start it's starting to Wayne but uh we're not we're not quite

1:01:56 through here boys and girls is uh the unknown are still active yeah hi Meowth yeah Team Rocket is flipping useless we mustn't Panic we mustn't Panic we mustn't get

1:02:43 impaled oh this kid just cut the crap already thanks ente so at some point the know's connection uh the unknown's connection to Molly Molly and his fingers uh started to started to deteriorate and we're not sure when that happened yeah at once at once it was just an Us and Them plot now it's now it's a three-way battle Yeah well no we still it's still US versus them it's just that our it's just that our our team has got new members

1:03:32 forever and never and ever what a great sell what a great way to sell Pokemon Crystal ah not really I mean crystal is all about uh uh well Crystal's title is in reference to suun so we need back and so the Pokemon Center has been encased in unknown Crystal stupid useless

1:04:18 unknown Ash again your win record against legendary Pokemon is what one and three right now yeah like that time he tried punching Mewtwo in the face yeah like this this is why Pokemon exists let Pokemon do the fighting for you cuz I I'll be goddamned if the next Pokemon game that I play I have to develop a stat tree for the trainer well you have to develop action combat skills in arus

1:05:05 it can be done just not easily so in the novelization for Pokemon the Movie 2000 uh one of the big things uh that they end up that they end up showcasing SL skipping over in the uh for the dub is the fact that wheezing uh smoke screen Charizard's flamethrower and Pikachu's electricity do a chemical combination that allows them to explode their cages that was that was in the novel version of of that story only yep yeah I remember they they took some liberties with the novelization of Pokemon the first movie copy of which I still have to this very day for the record it's a it's a it's a crudy old

1:05:51 paperback that looks like it's been sitting in a box for 30 years it's because it's been sitting in a box for 20 years yeah well we tried firing fire beams at it Mr Cloud so what else can we do well you got your water beams you got your grass beams your electric beams your poison beams your psychic beams we got all kinds of beams just keep keep sending the beams oh there it is

1:06:41 finally yeah now that Pokemon that we struggled just so much to actually defeat in battle now he's on our side yay it's awesome nothing I cannot do Dan Green does such a phenomenal voice for uh acting acting gig here right well like when when the car when the

1:07:30 character and the expectations meet the voice acting Talent some wonderful things come together yep what have I been explaining the past 35 minutes yay he she used his actual name and of course ashkins to help out too no you got you got he guys he's got

1:08:16 this he's your boy your boy has got the plot important Powers here you need not assist and this is supposed to be sacred fire but but I don't know I don't think ente gets sacred fire in Gen 2 he gets it later but I don't think he gets it in gen two stupid unknown and so the spell of the unknown has been successfully disrupted it's time to go guys

1:09:04 farewell I I I guess I guess part part of the uh part of the flaw of this movie also is that at the end that the villain is a is a conglomerate of derp faac looking characters that well here's the thing the unknown aren't necessarily the villains uh of the of of the story more uh more so the villains of the story is Thea the tragedy of grief well yeah the the grief the grief predicated on the unknown freaking kidnapping a person because see any second now Spencer is going to be back out of the unknown world and he's going to be totally fine well not totally fine I mean he uh

1:09:53 he was uh he was trapped in the U in the eldrich dimension for at least a full week probably a full month no no no this this this entire movie took place all in just one night yeah for our characters but how long did it take uh but how long did it take uh uh how long did it take for um uh uh hail's assistant to come back to the mansion no he he came back to the mansion uh probably that same day okay all right come on they're Pokemon they can they can fly yeah and Kanto and jto aren't actually all that big so and so peace has returned the Green

1:10:45 Field is green once again again woohoo and we even restored the windmill and it was all just a dream no it wasn't Patrick the Stars members finally reemerged from the umbrella Mansion all two of them the night has finally ended because it's just Jill and it's just Jill and Chris that survive right I I think so yeah well Wesker too Wesker survives okay but Wesker isn't a member of star anymore but he was once he

1:11:32 was hey Oak I can't hear a word you're [Laughter] saying it's a cloud it's a cloud in the shape of ENT come on what what about hey Officer Jenny uh we didn't break any uh major laws I promise

1:12:27 that's right woba [Laughter] Fett I I do I do like that wob he he just emerges from the Pokeball anytime he feels like [Laughter] it inscrutable uh guys there's probably a very accessible stairway that you can use stop talking to the

1:13:13 camera and so this was has been Pokemon the Movie 3 it is honestly my favorite of the Pokemon movies got sof spot I've got a soft spot my heart for for a majority of the first five oh right hang hang on a hang on a second here F first all the stupid unknown go back hi Spencer and then and then the dude comes back see you it's it's fi finally it all comes full circle I really enjoy this movie I honestly think that if there if there's ever a Pokemon movie that um that you should go out of your way to watch it's this one yes def detective Pikachu is is

1:13:59 relatively good I think that this movie is better mostly because it's a slightly shorter and it's actually pce better and uh I honestly think that the action segments in this although are not better than the action segments in detective Pikachu are still very fulfilling all right detective Pikachu I I I still haven't seen detective Pikachu yet it's good you should go you should go and see it eventually yes eventually and so Charizard goes back to the Charizard Valley personally the the big thing that sells me on this movie is our is our character interactions and the and the the lengthy fight singals that we get because although we end up skipping the the last third of Misty's uh uh battle

1:14:48 against Molly like and fany only gets to have one attack against Onyx uh for 2ou for 2003 this of the animation in this is absolutely Ely gorgeous and it really feels heavy yeah this this is one of the best looking of the Pokemon movies and now we're back in traditional animation land yeah K Production in art Max what what I find also quite peculiar about the movies is that they have no impact on the on the broader Cannon of of Pokemon the anime no matter what storyline you're looking at like that is

1:15:34 intentional actually oh of course it's so that way nobody it's intentional um because if you go by movie Cannon Ash dies at least once so it's kind of it's kind of weird that uh that uh that the that the anime Cannon doesn't actually use the movies uh at all but I honestly think that they should to be perfectly honest I think that jodo Jour I think that jto Journeys would have been uh would have been a bit more impactful if both of its movies were uh were actually you know were actually uh uh were actually referenced during the anime but admittedly I stopped watching jodo Journeys uh before we before we got the eer deque actually before we got the

1:16:20 golden rod so maybe I'm wrong well looking looking at it in in terms of you know and my God going back 20 years and how far like media and media distribution holy [ __ ] Spencer got his wife back it looks like the unknown had granted Just One Last Wish yay I forgot that Spencer got his wife back but then again I don't think I've ever actually sat all the way through this credit sequence so hey Teddy Ura yeah they make you really wish you stuck around to see the credits to the

1:17:07 end well the uh so they just sell sunflower seeds Mr Cloud I mean it is a good business all right um are are there any other Pokemon movies aside from the first one that you would recommend Mr Cloud hey you can't if you walk away from Pokemon the Movie 2000 without having Lugia theme stuck in your head then you just weren't paying attention yeah Lugia theme is is pretty kickass it's one of those themes where some friends of mine who also grew up with the Pokemon movies like they'll put it on they'll either stream it or they put it on MP3 and I'll stop and say that's Lugia's theme isn't

1:17:53 [Laughter] it uh I was right I absolutely enjoy I absolutely adore this movie to be perfectly honest see he's on his way to Olivine nice so Ash is on his where the hell is the narrator he's he's it's the credit sequence the narrator's gone dude now that is breaking Cannon all right everyone this has been our this has been us commentating over Pokemon the Movie 3 I enjoy it you will probably enjoyed if you're a fan of the franchise and uh yeah go out and see it if you can yeah we thank you for sticking around with Rocky rabbit commentaries while we go through the

1:18:41 movies that helped shape who we are having grown up from a time when Pokemon was all the rage into the modern day where now it is laughably dated oh come on Pokemon is still a good franchise it's not as it used to be mind you but it's still a good franchise and we encourage you to explore more Pokemon check out the games and be the very best you can be be safe everybody