I would advise the viewer to watch that movie instead of this one. This generally inoffensive, but formulaic film is dragged down by the virtue of being very similar to the superior outing that was the very movie preceding it: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. While the climax after the faux-ending rectifies that a bit, it's not enough. What's worse, with no reactions from people towards legendaries and without interactions between humans and legendaries, this movie creates a disconnect between what's happening and what the stakes are supposed to be. This was done shamefully, just as lazy as in the pony movie two years ago. As they didn't want to bother until the very finale, during the battle the city was generally empty with a few jarring reaction shots of people turning towards the action spliced in well into the fight. However, I will point something that really irritated me - the inconsistent way movie handled the population of the city. It's just another disapointing Pokemon movie for the pile. I could ramp this up to the level insane nitpicking and rewrite the whole script here. This, coupled with a faux ending is dull and firmly puts this outing into the "at least it's not obnoxious" camp. Besides a two second money shot where a building gets sliced like bread, the drawn out battle looks unimpressive and is generally boring.
Everyone's just floating in the same way no matter their anatomy. Indeed, the number of legendaries they had to animate flying spread their budget thin. For this reason, character wise, the whole thing is wasted and while it's nice for Ash x Latias shippers (read: reason why people don't like Pokemon fans) to see him flying with the Eon duo, it all amounts to nothing more than cheap effects. While it is an attempt at nostalgia, none of them actually recognize Ash since these movies avoid continuity like Ash growing up in the show. So, what does weight down this movie from unremarkable to a bit dull? The exact thing that hangs on every bit of advertising - the insane numbers of already seen legendaries. Latter being the tipping piece that drags this movie down. Former being standard pokemon movie fare to the point I don't even need to describe it and in fact, I won't. Movie can be divided into two parts, the starting shenanigans and the "epic" plot. Unfortunately, after being beat with them for the last twenty years in the show, like a battered housewife returning for more, I can't muster the energy to protest.
Team Rocket are used especially badly to the point it becomes infuriating. Music is absolutely forgettable and visuals are merely fine. Except Pokemon are getting away with it for the eleventh time at least. By no means am I'm petitioning for Pokemon to shift gears into deeply personal Kino, but you can't keep doing the same sh*t and get away with it. Then some sweet shenanigans ensue and before writers are forced to make the movie into a character study, all hell breaks loose. Fitting the same mold, we've got Ash meeting a cosmically irrelevant legendary pokemon. I'm also disappointed to call it a less exciting derivative of the Diancine movie. I'm happy to say that it's not offensive. I'm sure I wanted to make some point here, but nevermind. The more I look back at the past movies, it seems as if quality really is slipping down with smaller and smaller spikes in quality. What's that? The Zoroark movie came out 5 installments ago? Huh, well, I guess the very last one about Diancine wasn't that bad. However, this doesn't mean some movies, such as Zoroark: Master of Illusions weren't enjoyable. Of Darkrai, some eight movies ago and we didn't have an unironically great movie since Pokemon Heroes some 13 years ago. Sure, we didn't have a legit, consistently good movie since The Rise Once every few years the team will push out something a bit better or if we're lucky, genuinely enjoyable. When you crank out sequels yearly, care and originality become a problem. And if they do, I guess one day I'll be forced to descent to the mortal plane and walk the waking world eternally just to review these little fuc*ers. Sometimes it seems as if these'll keep coming out forever. Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages is the whooping 18th movie in the Pokemon series.
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