this movie isn not a complete failure . people shouldn not bin it without understand the message this movie be try to communicate . sure and the action isn not that spectacular and the relationship between character be obvious and boring and but look at mewtwo . mewtwo be the star and not ash . the movie show the suffering mewtwo face and and what he do after escape from it . ash and co. be just a tool for the movie . it be mewtwo that make the movie what it be . this movie portray mewtwo encounter with human for the first time and it reaction when it be control and it action after it escape . sure and ash and misty and brock appear and but they be not that important in the movie . i think this movie would have be worth it if ash and his friend be replace with character that do not just stand there like a 3 year old . i would give this 4/10 because of mewtwo and nothing else .