Pokemon Movie 07: Rekkuu no Houmonsha Deoxys

High-tech LaRousse City is a pretty impressive place to visit—and a pretty impressive place for a Pokémon battle, too! Satoshi heads straight for their renowned Battle Tower, but things don't turn out too well when his battle partner turns out to be a scared boy named Tooi. Because of a frightening childhood incident, Tooi is scared of all Pokémon—even cute ones like Pikachu!

There's a lot more to be frightened by when Deoxys shows up and takes control of the city, shutting down the machines and taking everyone captive. One Pokémon that is not amused is the Legendary Rayquaza, and it will do whatever it takes to remove this invader from its territory! Meanwhile, Satoshi, Tooi, and all their friends may be caught in the middle, but they're certainly not out of the fight!

(Source: Official site)

Satoshi Main

Matsumoto, Rica Japanese

Pikachu Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Takeshi Main

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Haruka Main

Kawana, Midori Japanese

Rayquaza Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Deoxys Main

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Masato Main

Yamada, Fushigi Japanese

Rondo, Tooi Main

Hidaka, Noriko Japanese

Kojirou Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Kasumi Supporting

Mori, Takemoto Producer

Yoshikawa, Chouji Producer

Okuno, Toshiaki Producer

Yuyama, Kunihiko Director, Storyboard

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Aug 19, 2009

Splendiferous

Recommended

This film, no, masterpiece deserves more than just a round of applause my friends; for it is one of the greatest movies in this long line of epic tales.
The story begins when Ash, May, Max and Brock journey to LaRousse.
This magical city is really cool! There are numerous flying robots that patrol and regulate the city and they are super kawaii desu~
The story continues when Ash stumbles upon a pokemon contest, now this is where the movie really shines; the battle scenes!
The sound, the animation and the pokemon truly come together to put on magnificent shows of flashy fight scenes, the choreography is amazing and ... animation top notch!
Later, as Deoxys is born, the story becomes more intrigueing as the city is overrun and taken over by said Pokemon.
Suddenly munchlax evolves, and they all lived happily ever after.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 3, 2011

Luru86

Recommended

One of the best Pokémon movies I've seen so far.

The plot is pretty good, although sometimes not executed in sharpest possible detail (in movies/tv shows directed to kids, they usually jump around a bit to skip anything that might lose the viewer's focus). Altogether, the story was good and touching just the right way, and not hurried for the sake of progress.

This is one of the rare times when the new side-characters in the movie weren't disappointing; they were well made and introduced, and you actually cared about what happened to them. They became something other than meaningless faces tagging along for the action; they ... were part of the team.

Team Rocket made their mandatory appearance, but I don't think they contributed too much to the plot in general. And I don't think they were supposed to, either; they were just familiar faces you could recognize in the flow of the movie.

There was also a Pokémon Munchlax that had a small role to play, and it was quite cleverly introduced to the movie. You don't need to do much to gain a certain level of affection.

A good, enjoyable movie although it started to get a little dull near the end. No matter. An entertaining movie for all Pokémon fans.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 13, 2023

Chaotic_beauty

Mixed Feelings

Continuing in the footsteps of the previous Pokemon Advance film, Destiny Deoxys is an ambitious work that falls flat in many ways. Still, compared to Jirachi, Deoxys achieves much more.

Destiny Deoxys flaunts an interesting futuristic city, as expected for a film set in the Battle Frontier. The city is filled to brim with CGI elements and I'm happy to say that they don't seem out of place. Rather, they enhance the setting. The film is heavy focused on plot, thus it can't cash in on the atmosphere completely. Nice to the eyes, art style and animation remain the highlights of the film. There are a ... few unfortunate moments in which Rayquaza isn't to scale, though. It distracts from the action when a superstar looks two to three times smaller than he should be.

Plotwise, the film is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the film is driven by the Deoxys hunting squad. But on the other, it's really about the character of Tory. While the two are combined in a satisfactory manner, neither of the two plots gets resolved in a completely satisfying way.

On the upside, the character development of Tory was natural and believable. The film establishes his character twice. First time in the opening sequence and the second time after he meets Ash. The film uses visual language of Tory's white hair, eyes and clothes to signal viewers his personality - namely, he's a socialy inept introvert. The problem with the opening sequence is that his personality and design are based on what he becomes after the opening sequence due to its consequences. Honestly, the kid ruins the opening sequence by looking badly out of place. It's not a good first impression.

Even though Tory's character development was done well, the film takes too much time to establish him and then wastes time thematically rethreading his conflict again and again in the most inapropraite situations. There are multiple scenes forcing the plot to a halt so characters can talk about the dangers of the situation just to force Tory in a room with Pokemon he fears to create more drama. Yet his character development happens in a few loosely related subtle scenes. As a result the movie often undermines the feeling of urgency and danger it tries hard to establish for little gain.

Tory is not a very complex character and chemistry between the show's cast and film-only cast isn't very good. This often leads to boredom until the plot picks up. Some of the scenes are saved by fun Pokemon interactions. Munchlax is notable for having his own miniplot that is well interwoven into the film.

Basic structure of the plot is fine and Deoxys is given lots of menacing things to do. The problem lies in the fact that the things Deoxys does are cool, but too removed from the film's focus. Often time you'll get a feeling that the scenes are happening out of time and space, since Deoxys is doing nothing and appears only after a character scene is wrapped up.

Rayquaza and Deoxys have a servicable clash near the end of the film and while Rayquaza was misused during most of the film, he ends up being a fine addition to the cast at the end. We're also treated to one of the best action scenes involving humans in a Pokemon film - Ash practicing parkour over the city's haywire defence systems. My only complaint is that it took less than 3 minutes in total. Still, brevity is a virtue. Better leave us wanting more than ruining it.

So, what's the verdict? A neat premise, great art, some interesting character moments and a memorable (albeit short) action scene. Film drags on, misses plot oportunities and is often unengaging and boring. It narrowly avoids falling flat and can be worth a watch if you like Pokemon films.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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