Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Pokemon Movie 20 Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスター キミにきめた！ English: Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! Spanish: Pokémon Película 20: ¡Te elijo a ti! More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jul 15, 2017 Producers: TV Tokyo, TOHO, Shogakukan, Licensors: The Pokemon Company International Studios: OLM Source: Game Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy Demographic: Kids Duration: 1 hr. 38 min. Rating: PG - Children StatisticsScore: 7.151 (scored by 39,248 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #35752 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2912 Members: 62,237 Favorites: 69 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Nov 6, 2017 HidamariSeashore Recommended If we're going to be honest here, Pokémon needs no introduction, especially when it comes to the anime; a boy named Ash Ketchum gets a Pikachu - a yellow mouse - as a partner, leaves his hometown of Pallet Town, and travels the world while catching new Pokémon along the way, all while he remains ten years old. Well, what if we went all the way back to the beginning and started all over? Perhaps I'm the worst person to talk about Pokémon; I was 10 myself when I ended up being pulled along in the Pokémon craze, and by not looking back, I have ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 5, 2017 Fedginator Not Recommended Even as Pokemon movies go, this one is little more than a bare faced affront to ones intelligence. Despite all of the clear positioning of this film as one harking back to the early days of Pokemon as was clearly evident in the artistic style and most obviously the plot. If you were hoping this was because the Pokemon company were trying to appeal to an older audience of fans who have been fans for years (similar to how they did for the X and Y anime) then either you are wrong for thinking that or the Pokemon company is just completely incompetent. Early on, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 5, 2017 sovest555 Recommended Okay, so gonna go part by part here... Story I am particularly impressed how the movie not only retells the original kanto journey, but also weaves back in a once-long-abandoned plot point with Ho-Oh. While weaving the new hotness with Marshadow in felt a bit forced in some aspects, the story had nice pacing and even had some tension at the climax that ultimately was resolved not with raw strength, but by the bond between Ash and Pikachu overcoming those odds. Overall, all that occurred worked quite well even if some of the older parts were abridged for the sake of moving the story along. Art First off, Ash's ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 8, 2017 Rhapsody- Mixed Feelings After the bunch of generic movies that the franchise was bringing (especially XY's), this film felt like a breath of fresh air, a necessary change and an interesting experience. Even so, it could have been handled much better. At first, the film was very ambitious, trying to mix classic elements with new elements in a single story with the classic theme of "chosen by the legendary", which is not bad, but that same ambition made the development of the film was very inconsistent: they added key elements of the first season, such as the way Ash and Pikachu became friends, Caterpie's capture and subsequent release and ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 4, 2018 9sayaka Mixed Feelings What started as overhyped expectation for a tribute to the classic 90’s anime, a feature length film that promised to shine some light on one of the show’s most discussed fan-theories, ended with affirmation that it’s time for Ash’s journey to come to an end. As to be expected from a Pokemon movie, the visuals were stunning. Like seriously, wow. This film looked incredible, from the lush forests and sprawling mountain ranges to the interior design of the pokemon centers and other buildings, I was never not impressed with the backgrounds and environments. Also stunning was the array of colors. The bright sky blues, the robust ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 2, 2018 Moytramai Not Recommended Too all the pokemon Fans out there, I'm talking about the really OG fans. This I can't help but emphasise that this pokemon movie left me with no feels no reminiese. Just a fairly decent movie which is clearly made to sell to the new nintendo DS pokemon generation, for them to somehow appreciate what has happened in the franchise if any. I mean the very start of the movie I was fully invested to watch but then the new villians flips the script and makes what it is to mean about pokemon something else as if he was actually one of us playing the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 7, 2018 SmilingSakura Not Recommended Pokemon: I Choose You The Movie, is part reboot and part retelling of Ash and Pikachu's first meeting and journey. Art: An over reliance on bad CG effects and underwhelming animation left ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 2, 2017 robiu013 Mixed Feelings So I happened to stumble into another nostalgic beartrap; well not all that nostalgic, since I do still play the games regularly, but as far as the anime goes, I've been mostly disinterested in most things Pokémon since Sinnoh I guess. Now, since gen VI probably, Gamefreak has seemingly grown progressively more aware of us "geezers", who never could quite put down the game boy and say goodbye to our PG-13 digital armies of "dog fighting"-animals. Next to the mega stones, alolan forms and 3DS re-releases of classic games, this movie is another example of this. Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You is in a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 31, 2018 PokeFan2112 Recommended While it may be a nostalgic cash-in, at least it's an enjoyable nostalgic cash-in. The story, which combined elements of season one with a new plot involving Ho-Oh, was pretty thin, but the stuff with Ho-Oh was very interesting and tapped into the "mythical" vibe I so very enjoy when Pokemon does. The rest at least did a decent job convering the bases of season 1. I didn't like Verity, who was bland and had no personality, but his other companion was good, and his voice actor did a great job. There was a lot of good comedy throughout, especially from Pikachu's antics, and there was some ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 1, 2018 Chaotic_beauty Not Recommended For a movie that was neither necessary nor wanted, it was quite an easy watch. Most of it was a slow burn through the basic stories Pokemon watchers know well. It's mostly executed well enough not to be annoying. The plot and characters are middling in every way. They're not interesting, but are a watchable shake up from the dreaded, completely faithful rehash people expected. The only question remaining is, out of all dropped characters, why the hell have they brought Team Rocket back? Technically, it's a competent movie. Most surprisingly, music isn't terrible this time around. Also notable, movie features a remix of the original ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 6, 2017 Ransomcake Recommended I was lucky enough to get to enjoy this movie on the big screen twice (dubbed) Last time I did that was over 16 years ago with Pokémon 2. This movie is propably, THE Pokémon Movie we as fans have, been waiting for. As both old fans, Poké Maniacs (Myself included) and newcomers can enjoy) Now ill try to keep this review as spoiler free as possible. Story:8 Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 28, 2017 OminousWrex Mixed Feelings Well, it's Pokemon. What did you expect? Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You is the latest installment in line of the long-running Pokemon movies that were sloppily put together for the mere sake of having an annual movie. It's an obligation, really, for most currently airing shounen anime (like Naruto and One Piece used to do when they were on air). Being an obligation, it's understandable, albeit not acceptable, that they put together a half-ass movie with a mediocre storyline and soundtrack. Story - 6 Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 11, 2018 space_duck Recommended In this day and age of mindless gluttonous consumption of anime season after season we have deluded our tongues to only savor the utmost of the gourmet dishes. We adjust our critiquing glasses and analyze the shows as 'deep', 'fast-paced', 'symbolic' and most of all a 'modern commentary'. In our society of high expecting monkeys comes the 20th Pokemon movie flipping off Einstein and taking us back to the end of the millennia. Story - It's basically the same story that kick started your venture into anime with a few new Pokemon added to still keep it original. Art - We can see some stellar artwork that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 1, 2019 ZeraX Not Recommended "Hey let's rewrite everyone's childhood memory of the series with a reboot movie that only focus on two Pokemon of Ash's team and screw everything else" - TPC Such a shameless excuse for a movie. Ash had Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Charizard, now they removed all of them except for two for no reason. The story is basically the same but they replaced interesting and fun characters (Misty and Brock) with bland, dull and boring characters that do nothing to the plot and literally are just there to show their Lucario and Piplup to sell merchs. Charizard story is a retelling for the worse. Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 6, 2022 Machete-kun Recommended This review will try it's best to be spoiler-free. To anyone curious about this film, it's more or less a "soft-reboot" of the original Pokémon anime. Catered towards a younger generation, giving them some sort of idea what Ash's adventures were when it first aired (all the while giving its own take on the said journey). Any veteran Pokémon fan would somewhat be disappointed by the cast of characters as they're no longer the original familiar faces we grew up with, but take note that this film is for the newer Pokémon fans. It's a fresh take on Ash's journey per se. Story: 6/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 14, 2018 Ameonna93 Recommended I don't see why so many people are making a big deal out of the scene when Pikachu speaks. It was a totally harmless scene, and it was indicated to possibly be in Ash's head. Did Team Rocket really need to be "sneaking around" in this film? Don't get me wrong, I like Team Rocket. However, since this is a retelling, and they don't know Ash (yet) or his friends, there's no reason for them not to approach him and say, "Hey, we heard you guys were searching for Ho-Oh. We're looking for him too. Wanna team up?" Sure, Verity (Makoto) had seen a wanted poster ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 29, 2017 Half-MagePrince Not Recommended -----------MASSIVE SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE----------------------- The first scene is amazing!!!! It DID bring my memories, so much nostalgia. Then I noticed no old characters like Brock or Misty. I was disappointed. There's a lot ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 13, 2018 Masquey Recommended After watching the hoopa & genosect movies prior to this my expectations were rather low. However I was pleasantly surprised, it was pretty good. I had been shown a certain semi-controversial scene near the end of the movie before watching it and was apprehensive about it, but it the movie it fit pretty well. It was a bit weird getting used to this being an alternate time line which incorporated events from the original tv series but also putting new things in it and changed events around. If you watched the original series you'll recognize certain big events but not enough to be called a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 6, 2018 Moonmapleferret Recommended I’m a big fan of Pokémon and have been for a while now. I loved to watch the Pokémon anime and films with my brother when he still really enjoyed the series. I originally went to see the film during an extra screening in one of the locations the film was being showed at and I went to see the film with my brother (he is younger then me btw) and the film holds a special place in my heart as it brings up memories of playing the games and watching the anime together. While I was exited to see the film, with it being ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 5, 2017 Kimotokitou Recommended First of all, I would like to say that I had big expectations as it's been a while since we travelled back to the 1st few generations of the pokemon anime. Even more so when it is going to be animated with current amazing anime animations and art. I was all into this movie and might have been slightly disappointed in this endeavor, but all the while making me feel that it was worthwhile that I watched it, as I travelled along with Ash on this nostalgic road. Spoilers will be included in this review as I write it down. Story: 7/10 Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
