Pokemon The Movie 2000 is a sequel that caters to spoiled brats who do nothing but suck the money out of their parents' and adult guardians' wallets as well as a waste of time on something much better, like the Walt Disney Animation Studios films, or drawing and colouring their favourite characters from those movies. Like its predecessor, it deserves a Razzie for Worst Foreign Language Film, if such an award existed. This is why I despise Pokemon. It is such a huge cash cow franchise that even it makes the other cash cow Nintendo franchises, Mario and The Legend of Zelda, both of which I love, look underrated. I actually regret being a fan of Pokemon in my childhood. I wish I was never one in any stage of my life.The film has a stereotypical animation style so heavily used in Japanese animation, so cutesy, it is ugly and unpleasant to look at. The voice acting in Pokemon, both the series and movies, is a waste of the actors' careers and talents, both for the original Japanese cast and the English dub cast, but for different reasons. For the former, they work for the quintessential stereotypical animated series of their local country, since that franchise is sickeningly ubiquitous in Japan, that they cater to spoiled brats in the country that have the relentless desire for stereotypically cute animals stored in a ball in their pockets. For the latter, it is a tad worse, since they are voice actors that working with a screenplay that was not written in their language and a thriving cash cow franchise that loves to take parents' and adult guardians' money. The English dub voice actors could have been doing something much better with their careers and talents, like working with Hollywood movie stars in American animated films, but sadly, that never happened. The writing is idiotically formulaic. I know it is written in Japanese, but just because it is written in Japanese doesn't mean it is good. Writing that is written in a foreign language can still be bad. The director, Kunihiko Yuyama, is one of the worst directors in foreign language cinema. The characters are annoying stereotypes of Japanese people, and for that reason, Satoshi, Kasumi and Takeshi, deserve no empathy at all.The Pokemon movies are worse than the direct to video sequels of big budget Disney films, at least those films have redeeming features. The Pokemon films have no redeeming features at all.

First off: why did they make a sequel if the first one was awful? That's the main question. The movie wants to be one of those movies that link themselves into the "action-adventure-comedy category" when it feels more like a LOVE STORY! First off, there's the stupid PokeShipping in this entire movie that shoves its ass right in front of the screen so people can get a crack at PokeSex. Then there's the unoriginal writing which feels more like the movie Home than any other movie. But, the animation, the voice acting, the music, it's actually good when it comes to those things. But unfortunately, everything else this movie tries to do ends up being all messed up.

Honestly I just don't get it. Look I am 18 years old now and Pokemon was a major part of my childhood since I grew up during the Pokemon craze. I'd remember when I would always watch the anime everyday. Now onto my point, I understand that Pokemon the Movie 2000 is not a masterpiece by mainstream standards but I think that to give it a 4.4 out of 10 is just too harsh. Because when you think about it, Pokemon movies are more serious (and at times more dramatic) compared to the series, and I especially feel that Pokemon the Movie 2000 is one of the most epic Pokemon movies I have ever watched so far, especially the scene where Lugia fought the three legendary Birds of the Kanto region.So overall, this movie is not as bad as it was made out to be in here, and although it has its flaws, I highly recommend this movie for all Pokemon fans.

Well, now we change the subject. You can watch this movie and enjoy it even if you are not a poke-fan of those who dress as Pikachu and goes with a Game Boy saying: "Hey, I am a Pokémon master". You can be a regular guy of the audience, watch this movie, and have a opinion not based in the Pokémon thing. Is not a masterpiece, but compared with the first one, is the best Pokémon movie ever made. I have to admit that the plot is not bad at all, well, it has a little bit religious and magic-cheese background, but it has also a good message inside it. The bad guy of the movie is one of those who dresses as a Pikachu, or at least as an idiot-40-something old guy, and collects stupid silly things just to do nothing, only to say: I got this or that. The poke-fans are like that. So this movie shows regular people (Ash a silly regular boy upgraded by the events) fighting against the zombies made by Nintendo and Warner Bros. The ecology background is another different stuff, so I am not going to say: Hey, the planet is going to hell because of our fault. That's not the subject of the movie. What's the subject? Easy. Nintendo made a lot of zombies and now needs somebody to fight them. The visual part of the movie is great also, well, the CGI Pokémon are taken from Pokemon Stadium, but the vision of those skies full of birds with snow (another silly thing, ha ha)and twisters and water tentacles (does James Cameron know that they used his Abyss serpent for the end?) makes you go: Interesting...very interesting. A new world presented to us into this movie. A good advice: ENJOY IT.