2006 · family · animation · action
Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama1h 45m2006
On their way through the Battle Frontier, Ash and friends meet up with a Pokémon Ranger who's mission is to deliever the egg of Manaphy to a temple on the ocean's floor. However, a greedy pirate wants the power of Manaphy to himself.
Our read: Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · animation · action entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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