Manufacturer: Network
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment

The world domination of Pokémon begets their first theatrical movie. This adventure is a little more complex and dark than the popular TV series, but kids who live for the show will gobble up this film and ask for seconds. Those baffled by the show's popularity, however, will see nothing better here. Mewtwo, a new type of Pokémon designed by scientists to be the ultimate fighter, decides he ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Philip Bartlett, Madeleine Blaustein
Directed By: Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama

The fifth Pokémon movie takes Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu to the city of Altomare, a thinly disguised Venice guarded by the shape-shifting Pokémon Latios and Latias. Two new agents of Giovanni's, Annie and Oakley, are out to capture these rare Pokémon--reducing Team Rocket to the role of spectators. Latios and Latias are linked to an elaborate, computer-generated mechanism that defends ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Madeleine Blaustein
Directed By: Jim Malone, Kunihiko Yuyama

Pokémon 2000, the second film to spin off the powerhouse child-friendly franchise of the turn-of-the-millennium, consists of the colourful if babyish human-presence free, short Pikachu's Rescue Adventure and the more elaborate feature The Power of One. The main attraction is up to snuff animation-wise, with imaginative settings (an island lair, a huge dirigible) that ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Madeleine Blaustein, Eric Stuart, Ikue Ootani
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haigney

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group

The fourth Pokémon feature follows the pattern set by the previous three--and falls into the same traps. The TV series depicts the modest adventures of Pokémon trainer Ash Ketcham and his friends Brock and Misty as they roam an imaginary world, fighting matches and making friends. The features add elaborate CG effects that don't mesh with the flat, drawn characters, and over-scaled threats ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Madeleine Blaustein, Ikue Ootani
Directed By: Jim Malone, Kunihiko Yuyama

The most elaborate of the features to date, Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unown introduces new Pokémon that debuted in the fall of 2000 in the Gold and Silver-edition Game Boy games. En route to the Johto Tournament, Ash, Brock and Misty visit the mountain village of Greenfield, where they encounter an 8-year-old girl named Molly. Her father, Professor Spencer Hale, disappeared when ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart, Rachael Lillis, Madeleine Blaustein, Ikue Ootani
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haigney

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Eric Stuart; Rachael Lillis