Article de presse en Anglais Film Pokemon 1

« including Sacha, Misty and Peter, in order to seize their Pokémon to clone and become master of the world. To date, this film is still the world's biggest success for a Japanese animation film.

The film was also a true sequel in the form of a TV movie The Return of Mewtwo proposed straight to DVD in the world. The adventure of Pokémon movie is truly a genius tower from Nintendo.

Because nothing could have expected such enthusiasm and such popularity for such a franchise.

It all begins in 1996 when a certain Satoshi Tajiri will imagine a concept of video games as revolutionary qu'addictif: the principle of fighting and exchange between several players holding a Game Boy.

He imagines strange creatures he called Pocket Monsters, and especially forces the player to collect these creatures by imposing the same role play in two versions: one green and one red.

Both games are exactly the same in content, except that some of these creatures are only available in one or the other version, forcing players to exchange with other players via a cable connected between two Game Boy to complete their collection.

An equally innovative concept qu'innovant at that time.

But it also creates a myth by revealing the ultimate creature, the now famous Mew, which can only be obtained at events dedicated.

The scarcity of character therefore making him the object of desire, the concept of Pokemon is all the rage now because there are up to that time had no equivalent.

10 million copies snapped up like hotcakes in Japan, success is therefore total! Nintendo and Game Freaks then decide jointly develop a new and ingenious marketing campaign in 1997 by establishing two elements have now become inseparable from the universe Pokémon card game based on the model of Magic, released in the assembly 1993 is particularly popular with players and collectors today, and of course, the inevitable television series.

At the same time, an independent team will also be created under the name Pikachu the Movie, she will be responsible for making the feature to conclude the series.

Because the series is a great springboard to promote the release of the first two games in the world, 4Kids! immediately grants the exclusive rights of translation and global distribution greatest misfortune of the series itself and fans ...

Puritanism as the United States will lead to the sacrifice on the altar of public Pokémon series giving him a childish character, which is now fully associated in the public mind.

4Kids! not hesitate to sacrilege no respect to the series by overhauling the context redoubling which was too sensitive to their ears, remixing music without imagination, excessive censoring certain episodes, redesigning some settings, reversing many scenes without logic, and obviously in westernizing the franchise ... All this spouting 4Kids! will hit full force attack against Mewtwo, therefore taking away all his intelligence and daring.

Because admittedly, the first Pokémon movie is the very opposite of the series that inspired it.

The writers have really worked their film, and sought to make it a epic coupled with a lot of darkness.

The most interesting remains enigmatic Mewtwo extremely complex character who has nothing inherently wrong.

It seeks above all to satisfy the quest for identity.

The global version of Mewtwo against attack, distributed by Warner Bros.

at the time, allows himself to betray the whole essence of the scenario completely remodeling without any logic.

The opening sequence of the film, nearly 12 minutes anyway, is completely removed because it was too dark for young audiences.

Yet it is crucial to understanding the story.

The international version also completely reworked the thoughts. »