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A 1998 anime film about Mewtwo, a cloned Pokémon created by a scientist and a Team Rocket leader. The film follows Ash and his friends as they encounter Mewtwo and his revenge plot on humanity and Pokémon.
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Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back: Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. With Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ôtani, Mayumi Izuka, Yûji Ueda. Scientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.
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- Kunihiko Yuyama
- 1999-11-12
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Pikachu the MovieposterFinal Mewtwo's Counterattackmovie posterEnglish theatrical posterJapanese poster featuring Mewtwo and MewGiovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, had ambitious plans to take over the world, involving his latest experiment, a powerful clone of Mew—Mewtwo. Mewtwo is very powerful, and also very smart—smart enough to not want to be controlled by Giovanni. It escaped from the lab, and now Mewtwo begins to concoct its own scheme, clandestinely inviting a numbe...
Dr. Fuji, wanting to find a way to restore life by cloning, leads an expedition to Guyana after finding evidence of a shrine dedicated to Mew, the world's most powerful—but now said to be extinct—Pokémon. Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, funds Fuji's research in return for an enhanced, living replica of Mew. Finding a fossil of Mew, Fuji and hi...
Ash's Squirtle is revealed to know Bubble Beam.Ash, Misty, and Brock meet Mewtwo and Mew, but Mewtwo later makes them forget about the encounter.Ash sees Mew again, but does not recognize it since his memory has been erased.Humans
1. Ash 2. Misty 3. Brock 4. Jessie 5. James 6. Gary Oak(cameo) 7. Giovanni 8. Nurse Joy 9. Officer Jenny 10. Dr. Fuji 11. Neesha 12. Fergus 13. Corey 14. Miranda 15. Raymond 16. Amber (Kanzenban version only) 17. Team Rocket Grunts 18. Announcer 19. Trainers 20. Scientists
Pokémon
1. Pikachu (Ash's) 2. Meowth (Team Rocket) 3. Togepi (Misty's) 4. Bulbasaur (Ash's) 5. Charizard (Ash's) 6. Squirtle (Ash's) 7. Staryu (Misty's) 8. Psyduck (Misty's) 9. Vulpix (Brock's) 10. Weezing (James's) 11. Nidoking (Gary's) 12. Arcanine (Gary's) 13. Persian (Giovanni's) 14. Donphan (Raymond's) 15. Machamp (Raymond's) 16. Golem (Raymond's) 17. Venomoth (Raymond's) 18. Pinsir (Raymond's) 19. Gyarados (Fergus's) 20. Seadra (Fergus's) 21. Nidoqueen (Fergus's) 22. Golduck (Fergus's) 23. Tent...
The episodes The Battle of the Badge, It's Mr. Mime Time, and Showdown at the Po-ké Corral feature Mewtwo in scenes that prelude this movie. These episodes were supposed to air before the movie premiere, but due to the anime's four-month hiatus after the seizures caused by the banned episode EP038, the episodes ended up airing on September 17, 24, ...
Kanzenban version
In Japan, the theatrical version had only two home video releases (VHS, February 12, 1999; LaserDisc, July 17, 1999) and was never shown on TV. A new version of the movie, known as the kanzenban (Japanese: 完全版 full version), has been shown in all television airings in Japan (the first one being on July 8, 1999) and in the Japanese home video releases from the third one (VHS, November 12, 1999) onward: this version contains additional scenes and CGI edits.
Digitally remastered version
Similar to Pokémon - I Choose You! and Holiday Hi-Jynx, the Kanzenban version of this movie was digitally remastered to HD, complete with slight color correction. An error is also corrected where Raymond's Machamp now comes out of its Poké Ball only once. It was released on Blu-Ray in Japan on November 28, 2012 with a boxset containing all the movies up to M13, and aired on May 3, 2013 on TV Tokyo. The dub (which retains the 4Kids audio) aired on Cartoon Network January 4, 2014, and was re-re...
Remake
1. Main article: Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution The movie was remade as a 3D-animated film titled Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution. It debuted in Japanese in July 2019 and in English in February 2020.
This movie was released between EP054 and EP055 in Japan. However, it chronologically takes place sometime after EP065, where Mewtwo is seen escaping from Team Rocket HQ. This mismatch was caused b...At ten minutes, this movie has the longest prologue. The prologue was further extended to 20 minutes in the Japanese extended version and twelve minutes in the international extended version.According to Takeshi Shudo's notes on the movie, Ash was petrified but not killed when Mewtwo and Mew's Psychicblasts collided with him, and the tears simply restored him.Some of the Pokémonon the poster did not appear in the movie.Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back on Prime Video (English)Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back on Google Play (English)Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back on iTunes (English)Pokémon: The First Movieat IMDbM01 is the first Pokémon movie, also known as Pokémon: The First Movie or Mewtwo Strikes Back. It features Ash and his friends facing a powerful clone of Mew created by Team Rocket and its leader Giovanni.
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