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Pokémon: The First Movie
1998
· Movie
· 96 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #488
- IMDb #440
- Google retired #148
- Rotten Tomatoes #439
- Metacritic #359
- Letterboxd #225
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #511
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #214
- Metacritic Critics #385
- Metacritic Audience #159
- Douban #99
- Kinopoisk #440
- AlloCiné #534
- Trakt #245
Every rating
17–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 17, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 26, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The powerful and genetically engineered Pokémon Mewtwo invites Ash Ketchum and a group of trainers to a remote island for a battle. Mewtwo seeks to prove that cloned Pokémon are superior to those raised by humans, forcing Ash and Pikachu to stand up for the bond they share.
Details
- Director
- Kunihiko Yuyama
- Writer
- Takeshi Shudo
- Studio
- OLM, Shogakukan Production, TV Tokyo, Pikachu Project '98
- Released
- 18 July 1998
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $163.6M
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