10: 14 - Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea of Misjudgement.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Written by: Dee4leeds

I really doubt this review can be done by anyone other than myself. So here we go...

Recently I was browsing through the 700s on the Virgin EPG or Children's as it likes to be called. I came across the channel "Cartoon Network Too." (Yes it is "Too" not "Two")

What was on?

What do you think?

Pokémon: Battle Frontier.

But that was not so good because of the usage of Pokémon from 252 upwards. But I noticed the movie "Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea" was on after. And I, at some point, would like to view all (currently) 11 pokémon films, so watching was a step in the right direction. So guess what? After viewing I have decided that viewing the newer films will be a good thing. Why? Because they have got rid of the rubbish corney-ness of the first 3.

The film was a good, solid 2 hours. Yes. 2 hours. Not 94 minutes like nearly all animated films. And the 2 hours was filled to the brim with action and storyline. The film is on the basis that an egg of a Manaphy is found and has to be protected by these people. All is going well until the evil pirate "Phantom" wants the egg for his evil mis-deeds. Mwahahaha. A-hum. This is where our heroes Hiro, Ando, Whoops, Ash, Brock, May and that small child no one likes come in. The egg hatches and they have to get him to..."The Sea Temple" or as the title of the film likes to call it "The Temple of the Sea." They get there action happens, your entertained. Every things OK in the end...or is it. (I'm not going to ruin it.)

My only main problem with the film, other than the non-usage of the original 151, is that they created this new villain "Phantom" when the story would of benefited from usage of an old character such as the Pokémon Collector from the Second film. But that's just me, I felt having someone who we already knew was dead set of collecting Legendary Pokémon would of added more depth and character, than a quite caricature-ish Pirate.

Other than that A good all-round film which proves a decent Pokémon film is possible.

Movie Rating: 4/5 - Yes, it was that good. (But now I've over-hyped it there is no way it can deliver.)

Oh I've thought of another complaint with the film. Ash's voice. His balls have dropped.

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