2006 · tv-movie · animation · action
Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Directed by Masamitsu Hidaka, Armen Mazlumian43m2006
A Pokémon scientist named Dr. Yung has invented a Mirage System that can recreate extinct Pokémon. Ash, Misty, and Professor Oak are asked to help test it out, but the Mirage System is suddenly taken over by a being called the Mirage Master! It's up to Ash and his friends to stop this mysterious villain - but when the Mirage Master steals classified Pokémon data and created a Mirage Pokémon so powerful that Ash and Pikachu can't defeat it, will out heroes still find a way to save the day?
Our read: Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive tv-movie · animation · action entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle tv-movie / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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