In this edition of Ranked, we here at The Film Magazine have judged each of the Pokémon franchise’s 23 feature length anime films and judged each in terms of quality, significance, lore-building, public perception and critical reception to offer you: Pokémon Anime Movies RankedĢ4. It seems, even 24 movies into its big screen existence, there remains something eternally endearing about 10-year-old Ash Ketchum and his loveable Pikachu. These films are hardly the pinnacle of cinema, ranging from good to outright terrible, nor are they at the consistent quality of other anime studios such as Studio Ghibli, yet fans continue to return to the series.
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In fact, since 1998, Pokémon has released a feature length anime movie annually. In 2019, the pocket monsters made their way to Hollywood with the first live-action Pokémon movie, the moderately successful Detective Pikachu, but this wasn’t this media powerhouse’s first foray into theatres.
This isn’t to mention the Pokémon branded aircraft. Originally a video game released on Nintendo’s handheld console the Game Boy, Pokémon has since spawned a hit anime series, a school playground-infiltrating trading card game, toys of all shapes and forms, and even food. In 2021, Pokémon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time – bigger than Harry Potter, bigger than Star Wars, and even bigger than Marvel.
To say these internationally beloved creatures have had a successful run would be an understatement. It's short, it's sweet and I'm 22.It has been a quarter of a century since Pokémon first emerged onto the world stage. Nearly all of the first generation Pokémon are featured in this, so there is plenty of variety to keep you occupied. Voice acting was good all round, Veronica Taylor will always be my Ash. A moral that I do believe kids will understand beneath the cutesy animation. To cohabit and work together as a team instead of punching, biting and Pikachu slapping each other. It's an absurd story but it does tackle the important message of not fighting each other. I don't want to see Pokémon cry! *wipes tear away*. Yes, we have to endure one Pikachu unwillingly slapping another Pikachu on the face. Children will love this, except maybe for the ending where we are forced to watch Pokémon fight to the death whilst a generic pop song plays over it. The animation has aged extremely well (although the bluray's conversion does have some resolution issues) and it's a nice short film. It is still ever present today, and this was released nearly 20 years ago.
Can we just take a moment and appreciate how strong and ferocious this franchise is. Ash and the gang are invited to take on the world's most powerful Pokémon trainer, only for them to realise it's actually Mewtwo. Believing that he is just a slave, he destroys the laboratory that he was formed in and holds a vendetta against humanity. As a hardcore Pokémon fan, I can say that young Luke was damn happy with this, and old Luke still is! After cloning the mythical Pokémon Mew, Mewtwo was created a vastly more intelligent and powerful psychic creation. This really was made for children and fans of the franchise, if you are neither.well you just aren't going to enjoy it. And to this day, I still believe that this film is a decent continuation of that series. I completely understand that this film is not particularly intelligent or compelling.
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