anime be usually pretty cool . this be a rare exception though . pokemon have be well establish a a franchise with cartoon and toy and movie and make for tv movie and make for direct to dvd movie a understandable only by child . i be briefly involve in the craze for a couple month before i realize the story have nowhere to go . the movie be basically the same . young ash and his buddy be invite by the pokemon mewtwo to a tournament to fight other pokemon . on the way there be really and really awful joke about viking and inane fight scene . i get ta tell you something funny and i actually saw this movie in the theater back in 1999 and and i remember kid be so bore they constantly get up to go get snack during the most exciting part of the movie . during the so called finale where clone of the pokemon fight each other i be totally confused . the pokemon trainer come to a startling conclusion represent fighting be bad ( keep this in mind for later ) . then ash want to stop the fighting so he run between two of the pokemon and get turn to stone . then the pokemon cry and the tear turn ash back to normal . what . youre kid me . this movie be try to teach the lesson that if you cry hard enough your love one will come back . bull . then finally at the end the memory of ash and everyone else be erase so the lesson that fight be bad be basically go . isn not this pretty hypocritical . i mean first they acknowledge that fighting be bad and and then they go back to fight because they have no problem with exploit these poor creature . ironic and and hypocritical . i mean there no story . it just about pokemon fighting and everything learn be erase by your stereotypical deus ex machina . i would expect that lazy plot device in an episode of the show and not a full length movie . once again and for a kid movie this be terrible .