The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Anita Gates
But the animation, with its rich colors and stylized angles, is fun to watch and at times does seem like a psychedelic "Sesame Street."Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A dismayingly impersonal piece of anime, genial yet chaotic.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Plays a little like a pacifistic variation on Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon."Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's just a sound-and-light show, linked to the marketing push for Pokemon in general.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Essentially, the film functions as a holiday catalog, introducing fans to a new Pokemon whose effigy they can collect in trading cards.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Robin Rauzi
Pokémon isn't even good animation, unless the standard of measure is the crude LCD graphics of a Game Boy.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Possibly the most deranged, pointlessly complex, automatic-writing-like cultural manifestation outside the cosmologies of the more creative psychotics.Read Full Review »
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