![]() It’s hard to say if the minor tweaks to Mewtwo’s performance made me feel this way, or this is just how I feel watching it as an adult, but. ![]() He puts these kids in danger and steals their Pokémon, clones them, and forces them to fight each other. Watching the movie as a child, I felt like Mewtwo was clearly a villian. The remake’s message still holds up, with its hard-hitting story about how life can come from many different circumstances and how what you do with your life is up to you, but the real surprise was how it got me thinking more about how Mewtwo did nothing wrong. Meowth and Pikachu are fuzzy and adorable, and the style is still simple enough that the curl on Wigglytuff’s head isn’t rendered as a jarring strand of hair, like in Detective Pikachu. While Ash and his friends look a little strange, the Pokémon are even more alive. Image: Netflixīut paired with how lively the Pokémon behave, the animation still functions to tell the same story with the same emotion. Great news: mail-delivery Dragonite is still adorable. My brain tells me this isn’t Ash, but Sash, his weird, ugly cousin. The style is a jarring change from what we’re used to seeing from the more graphic 2D Pokémon anime. The only difference between this movie and the 1999 original is the rendering of every character and pokémon with 3D CGI animation, as well as some more small details about Mewtwo’s descent into madness. He invites the strongest trainers to his island to battle him, including Ash, Misty and Brock, and chaos ensues. The challenge gives him a reason for living. His stint with Giovanni left him tired of working alongside humans, so sets out to see if anyone can beat him. The new, dimensionalized version follows the same plot as the original: Mewtwo, created from Mew’s DNA, starts questioning his existence. And, surprise: it’s just as heartbreaking as the original. Seven months after hitting theaters in Japan, Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution, the remake of Pokémon: The First Movie, has finally premiered in the States, landing directly on Netflix.
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