Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009) poster
2009 · family · animation · adventure · fantasy

Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama1h 35m2009
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  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • surreal
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.

Our read · Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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