Pokemon fans we have yet another new Pokemon movie with us and since I grew up watching Pokemon when it was first airing because yes i'm really that old. I thought that I would take a look at the franchises newest / latest movie and so join me as I give you my review of the dubbed version of the latest Pokemon film with the film in question being called simply just "Pokémon The Movie: Secrets Of The Jungle" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Ask and his friend / Pokemon partner Pikachu encounter a strange young boy who believes that he is a infact a Pokemon and it's up to this newly formed trio to save the jungle which is under attack from a scientist who wants something that is hidden deep within the actual jungle itself. Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / feel that the plot of this very film was the one of this films weakest aspects since the plot of this film is so thin and is so weak that it might as well as not even be there at all in my opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this dubbed version of this very freaking film is Sarah Natochenny as Ash Ketchum and as Delia Ketchum and Ikue Otani as Pikachu. Also starring in this dubbed version of this very freaking film is Michele Knotz as Jessie , James Carter Cathcart as James and as Meowth , Erica Schroeder as Wobbuffet , Rodger Parsons as The Narrator , Edward Bosco as Zarude , Kimlinh Tran as Koko , Billy Kametz as Dr. Zed and Michelle Ruff as Sharon.
Now then as for / in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / feel that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was a very mixed ag of affairs for me personally. Since even tho there are indeed some decent performances in this film there are some performances which are just bad like for example Edward Bosco gives some weird line reading in this film and it's those exact same line readings that bring down the overall quality of the acting that's in this film in my opinion anyways / at least.
Doing the animation for this film is regular Pokemon animation company OLM who have provided the animation for everything that's related to the Pokemon anime and in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very film. In all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very film was really good with this film making some great use of both CGI and traditional 2D hand drawn animation in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then instead of going the full 3D CGI route that the previous Pokemon film went this film returns to the franchises routes. Which I in all honesty feel is the best approach for this franchise since there are so many anime now that are being produced by using 3D CGI animation and it's just nice to see an anime product go back to using the animation style that brought it to the table / dance in the first place in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this the first Pokemon film that came out recently to not be a remake of either a preexisting Pokemon episode or a preexisting Pokemon movie. Since the last few movies have for some strange reason all been remakes which is just a pointless thing to do since all of those remakes all do is serve to remind you that you could be watching the originals which are always much more freaking better in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then the other weakest aspect of this film for me personally is the films main villain since we aren't really given any reason as to why this person is evil. As such they just across as being evil for the sake of being evil and that doesn't make them a compelling character if anything takes away from there character because of the fact that we know nothing about this character and which even tho this film indeed a kids film and thus meant to be seen and hopefully possibly even enjoyed and loved by little kids there is no excuse for having a weak villain since even kids films deserve better and that's because kids themselves deserve alot better then this film in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then this film has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty nine minutes and fifteen seconds. Which if i'm being honest this long running time is a bit on the long side for this film and this is where the films issues really do shine through because first of all there's not enough there interms of either plot of story to cover that / this long of a running time and secondly the villain isn't a strong enough character to carry this film on his back and as such I really do feel that this story and villain would have been better suited being in a Pokemon special rather then a Pokemon movie in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then according to IMDB this film is being listed as an action film at least according to IMDB anyways and that means that I have to talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film and well in all honesty I in all honesty think / feel that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film. Was oddly not that good and I say that because the ideas behind this films action scenes / action sequences are indeed very cool and unique but this film doesn't rally take full advantage of it's jungle setting and that lets that's in this very freaking film down at least in my opinion it freaking does anyways / at least.
Overall this film was just a huge let down in every single way possible in my opinion anyways / at least so much so that I can't really tell who will actually like this movie since there's nothing in here that's for die hard Pokemon fans and kids won't find this movie interesting or even entertaining enough to keep on being engaged with this film in my opinion anyways / at least Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very in this very review and as such that means that this film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Pokemon fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images that I actually and personally used in this very film being the official Pokemon fandom wiki page just simply due to the fact that nearly all of the images that are up , and on and featured on the official Pokemon fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition in my opinion anyways / at least.
