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Pokémon: The First Movie

Movie
1998
1h 25m
G
Japanese
Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
User Score: 
6.5
Critic Score: 
26
Pokmon The First Movie' Poster
Determined to prove its superiority, a bio-engineered Pokémon called Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu and others into a Pokemon match like none before.
Pokmon The First Movie Poster

Pokémon: The First Movie

G
Movie
1998
1h 25m
Japanese
Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Determined to prove its superiority, a bio-engineered Pokémon called Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu and others into a Pokemon match like none before.
Rating
WATCHMODE
6.5
IMDB
Pokémon: The First Movie (1998) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
26

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Rica Matsumoto
Satoshi (voice)
Ikue Otani
Pikachu (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
Kasumi (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Togepy (voice)
Yuji Ueda
Takeshi (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Musashi (voice)
Shinichiro Miki
Kojirō (voice)
Inuko Inuyama
Nyarth (voice)
Ayako Shiraishi
Joy (voice)
Chinami Nishimura
Junsar (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Sakaki (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice)
Masachika Ichimura
Mewtwo (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Mew (voice)
Toru Furuya
Sorao (voice)
Aiko Sato
Sweet (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Umio (voice)
Raymond Johnson
Raymond (voice)
Sachiko Kobayashi
Voyager (voice)
Yosuke Akimoto
Dr. Fuji (voice)
Shinobu Adachi
Dr. Fuji's Wife (voice)
Directed By: Kunihiko Yuyama
Written By: Takeshi Shudo (Screenplay), Satoshi Tajiri (Original Story)

Featured Comments/Tips

YenneferVengerberg-deleted-1592225592 says...
10 years ago
The best Pokémon movie of all times. A perfect blend of funny and moving moments (I admit to crying a lot of times throughout the movie) without overtly simplistic or cliché plots.
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ChrisWolf says...
4 years ago
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the first movie of this franchise that my children marked as well as digimon. I can say that I had the fortune to see it on the big screen and that at that time it marked an era, with a soundtrack that even played on the radio, even knowing that it was a movie directed for a children's audience and with the introduction of one of my favorite pokemon, mewtwo and with a great fight where our protagonist Ash isolates us to believe that he has died.
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VIPJDM says...
4 years ago
Charmander-2? Bulbasaur-2? Squirtle-2? That blew my mind. And then they evolve too presumably? I think this warrants a few new PokeDex entries!!
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filmtoaster says...
5 years ago
_"The human sacrificed himself... to save the Pokémon. I pited them against each other, but not until they set aside their differences did I see the true power they all share deep inside."_ *mew* _"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life... that determines who you are."_ Love live old Pokémon. I will always remember you.
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Featured User Reviews

LarZieJ
10/10  2 years ago
"We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of what's different... well, who knows"

Alongside Simba talking to his dead father, seeing Pikachu trying to wake up Ash who is turned to stone never fails to make me te More
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