Too much of everything

Amateur movie with Big budget

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The latest Pokémon movie is simply a big mess, and is in my opinion, the worst one yet. It has too many new concepts that just don't work and it's just overstuffed with too many legendary Pokémon.Hoopa gives Shaymin a run for his money as the most annoying Pokémon ever. He never shuts up and I absolutely cringed every time he said "Were you surprised?". The "alternate" Hoopa is equally annoying.There were far too many legendary Pokémon, and the "big battle" at the end is very all-over-the-place and mainly felt like an extended advertisement for the games. You could have sworn that it was directed by Michael Bay.A lot of Pokémon movies have their share of stupid scenes, but this one has some of the worst. It includes the people somehow being entertained by the legendary Pokémon instead of being afraid, the guy at the stand telling the giant Hoopa to pay for the food it ate, the gang wanting to go to a big city just to have some doughnuts, the many teleport scenes with Hoopa, and several more.The script is pretty weak, and the Arceus-ex-machina at the end was really poorly done.The whole thing just feels overstuffed and recklessly thrown together. This is perhaps the worst Pokémon film of them all, just barely beating out "Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice". Like that film, only the most die-hard Pokémon fans should bother with this one, but everyone else should skip it.RATING: D

here is my fav cartoon in childhood's movie but that movie i don't like what i watched in all it's episodes in my childhood that he fight with his pokemon and here he is just trying to escape they don't fight because another pokemon is powerful they are just running escaping in end that's suck me i didn't expect this to ass and i am thinking now he will catch that amazing pokemon but he didn't maybe story is good but as a fan of pokemon i didn't like it why there is not fight between ass pokemon's and another pokemon even team rocket is just did a side roll but that's not matter i just wanna too see a big fight and this movie doesn't stand in there

**WARNING: This is a review of the English dubbed version of the Hoopa Film that aired on CN and Teletoon**Basically, "Hoopa and the Clash of Ages," is a film that focuses more on random legendary creatures appearing, than any of the main characters' development or goals, relies on conventions previous films handled far better, and overall leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. It's disorganized, rushed, and focuses more on Ash than anyone else by far, as well as legendary Pokemon Hoopa. This film is so awful that there is literally no purpose for having Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, or Team Rocket in it, in fact, they show no personality in this film, and ultimately they were useless- you could take them out of the film, and it would be the same. It also does a cheap cop out towards the end of the film where Hoopa Unbound, who is apparently the antagonist here, takes over Ash and he becomes evil for all of like 30 seconds. One, this evil Ash concept is a copy of an episode of the Anime, Battle Frontier's, "Battling the Enemy Within," that was done better there, and two, Ash's TPCI actress sounded like a straight woman in the whole scene, with disjointed delivery particularly notable when Ash says, "It is over," so the cheapness of the Hoopa Film and its dub are made even more glaring.What makes the film even worse, is its awful English dubbing by The Pokemon Company International (TPCI), though: Ash now sounds like a woman who has a sore throat doing her deepest voice, as opposed to a boy, James now sounds like an old man with a cold, Meowth now sounds like a gristly, raspy gangster, Jessie now sounds like a valley girl, Serena sounds like a woman rather than a girl, Clemont sounds like a man instead of a boy, and to round off Bonnie's actress has a very stilted delivery. Overall, the voice acting in the English dub is horrendous.Almost all the beautiful Japanese OST composed by Shinji Miyazaki, is wiped clean out of existence save 1.5 tracks, something I should add 4Kids, who once had the license for Pokemon, did not do later in their run. However, TPCI is now, and started doing with the previous Diancie film. The Japanese OST is mainly replaced with Ed Goldfarb's poor music composition that never shuts up to allow silence, and fails to shift in tone whatsoever, like one "marshmallow" track.The villains, Team Rocket (Jessie, James, and Meowth) are also given awful rhyming dialogue like, "Slick, that should do the trick," for what little screen time they receive, annoying one more than anything else.Cartoon Network then cut out whole scenes from the TV broadcasts, as did TPCI, of this film, making it even worse and more disjointed.Overall, awful, would not recommend to anyone.

POKÉMON THE MOVIE: HOOPA AND THE CLASH OF AGES (2015) is the 18th Pokémon Movie and the second in the XY series (after last year's POKÉMON THE MOVIE XY: DIANCIE AND THE COCOON OF DESTRUCTION, also reviewed on this site). It offers at its center a mischievous little flying Pokémon named Hoopa, who talks and has a taste for donuts and boasts an extraordinary power found in the three rings it carries on its circular body in which it can teleport living beings and objects (some quite massive) from distant places to wherever it happens to be. Hoopa also has a giant form, with multiple arms and clawed hands, resembling a traditional Arabian Nights genie, as befitting the movie's Middle Eastern setting. The giant form of Hoopa is indeed contained in a bottle like the one that housed the genie in THE THIEF OF BAGDAD and similar tales. Hoopa, in his cute, dimunitive form, becomes the companion of two Arab children, Barza and Meray, who live in a traditional village, and pulls all sorts of pranks on the villagers.A decade later, Barza and Meray enter Dahara City, a modern Middle Eastern megalopolis patterned after Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and encounter our heroes, Ash Ketchum, Serena, Bonnie and Clemont and their various Pokémon. Long story short: Hoopa's giant form, which had wreaked havoc on the village 100 years earlier, is released from its bottle after Team Rocket tries to steal it and begins a new rampage on Dahara City with the help of six Legendary Pokémon it has summoned with its rings (Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and Kyurem), while Ash, Pikachu and little Hoopa summon some Legendary Pokémon of their own (Lugia, Latios, Latias, and Rayquaza). The ensuing battle royale in the skies over the sprawling nighttime skyline of high-rise Dahara City takes up much of the film's second half. The battles are spectacularly designed and rendered and would have been much more exciting in the service of a more engaging story.I had two major problems with this scenario. For one thing, I never quite grasped why Hoopa came in two separate forms, with giant Hoopa able to exist outside of little Hoopa. Barza explains the giant form as "the Fury, the true form of the power that's trying to control Hoopa." He goes on to say that it's "a shadow of Hoopa" and that "the anger is trying to become the real Hoopa." So how is it able to take physical form and lift up huge buildings and smash them? Granted, abstract concepts like this are at the heart of the whole Pokémon franchise and it's futile to seek logical explanations, but in order to suspend my disbelief and accept something like this, I needed a more inventive explanation. Also, I found the mischievous little Hoopa extremely annoying and never understood the various characters' attachment to him. He does some pretty nasty things to them, yet they seem to find him endearing. Put the little Hoopa in the bottle also, I say. (I suspect, though, that the film's intended child audience will find Hoopa much more appealing than I did.) As a result, I didn't find a whole lot at stake for the main characters. They just seemed to enter someone else's story and decided to tag along, a not uncommon plot hook in these movies and less interesting for me than the stories where their own fates are directly affected. It doesn't help that Barza and Meray are such lightly-drawn characters who give us little reason to care about them.The movie comes with a supplementary 14-minute short entitled, "Hoopa, The Mischief Pokémon," which offers vignettes of life in the Arab village with Barza and Meray as children and little Hoopa as their trickster companion. This short is featured as an extra on the Japanese DVD. When Cartoon Network premiered POKÉMON THE MOVIE: HOOPA AND THE CLASH OF AGES on December 19, 2015, it ran "Hoopa, The Mischief Pokémon" in the 15-minute time slot preceding the 6:00PM (EST) start time of the movie. Which struck me as odd, considering that it wasn't promoted at all and would probably have been missed by the thousands of Pokémon fans tuning in at 6:00PM. (I only caught it because I was curious as to why so much time had been allotted by CN to the preceding film, POKÉMON: ARCEUS AND THE JEWEL OF LIFE.) Also, CN ran POKÉMON THE MOVIE: HOOPA AND THE CLASH OF AGES in a 90-minute time slot, a short time for a 78-minute movie, given that there were six commercial breaks of four minutes each. (Do the math.) A comparison screening with the Japanese DVD revealed one flashback scene eliminated and lots of individual establishing shots and short bits of action removed throughout the film. (For some reason, Team Rocket suffered the most, with lots of their reaction shots cut from the CN showing.) The Japanese end credit sequence is about four-and-a-half-minutes long and continues the action with scenes of Hoopa making amends for the damage it caused and scenes of Ash & co. continuing their travels, accompanied by an end song sung by Rei Yasuda. None of this was seen (or heard) by the Cartoon Network audience because the end credits were condensed to one minute for the U.S. showing and squeezed in on the side of the frame while a promo for a CN show ran on the other side of the frame. So, by my count, the movie itself was cut to around 70 minutes for the U.S. premiere. I don't understand why the Cartoon Network did this. They could easily have programmed the movie and the short in a two-hour time slot and not had to cut any of the movie OR the end credits.