Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Warm, breathless, measured animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →After accepting an invitation from a mysterious trainer, Ash, Misty and Brock meet Mewtwo, an artificially created Pokémon who wants to do battle.
Our read · Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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