Pokemon Movie 16: Shinsoku no Genosect - Mewtwo Kakusei (2013)

Synopsis:

Centuries after their ancestral homeland became uninhabitable, a remnant population of Genesect emerges in the modern metropolis of New Tork City. Led by a uniquely colored specimen and accompanied by the enigmatic Mewtwo, these travelers seek refuge amidst the city’s towering structures, inadvertently disrupting the established ecosystem. Their arrival triggers conflict as they assert dominance over the urban landscape, posing a threat to both human and Pokémon residents. The Genesect leader challenges Mewtwo in a high-stakes confrontation with potentially devastating consequences for the entire city. The narrative explores themes of displacement, adaptation, and the complexities of interspecies relations, demanding a resolution that bridges the gap between tradition and progress.

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Characters:

Dent (Main) - Voice Actors: Miyano, Mamoru, Griffith, Jason, Donnay, Maxime, Minei, Alex, Albano, Davide, Coronel, Bruno, Schwarzmaier, Tim
Genesect (Main) - Voice Actors: Yamadera, Kouichi, Morohoshi, Sumire, Watanabe, Akeno, Furushima, Kiyotaka, Rayow, Scott, Wayland, Tom, Minaguchi, Yuko, Thompson, Marc, Poisot, Elsa, Résimont, Philippe, Zanotti, Matteo, von Hauff, Walter, Solórzano, Humberto, Mounts, Samia, Satou, Kensuke, Felli, Martina, Meyer, Gerd, Lill, Leslie-Vanessa
Iris (Main) - Voice Actors: Yuuki, Aoi, Stevens, Eileen, Wegnez, Béatrice, Paulita, Agatha, Moreno, Susana, Bielli, Francesca, Oeffinger, Marieke, Lin, Angel
Mewtwo (Main) - Voice Actors: Takashima, Reiko, Pultro, Miriam, Lemes, Cecília, Ball, Franziska, Riva, Gea, Servais, Manuela, Ramírez, Elena, Soyeon
Pikachu (Main) - Voice Actors: Ootani, Ikue
Satoshi (Main) - Voice Actors: Matsumoto, Rica, Natochenny, Sarah, Ringelheim, Aurélien, Moreno, Adolfo, Leal, Miguel Ángel, Garbolino, Davide, Combrinck, Caroline
Adeku (Supporting)
Aloe (Supporting)
Araragi, Prof. (Supporting)
Araragi, Professor (Supporting)
Arti (Supporting)
Bel (Supporting)
Butterfree (Supporting)
Cabernet (Supporting)
Caterpie (Supporting)
Chaoboo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mizuta, Wasabi, Thompson, Marc
Cheren (Supporting)
Corn (Supporting)
Don George (Supporting)
Eievui (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yoshioka, Kiyoe
Elekible (Supporting)
Emonga (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kanai, Mika
Eric (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Matthys, Nicolas, Yoshimura, Takashi, Novara, Renato, Muñoz, Eleazar, Paque, Jake, Gutjan, Benedikt
Fuuro (Supporting)
Golone (Supporting)
Golonya (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Borgia, Carmen, Konishi, Katsuyuki
Hachiku (Supporting)
Harmonia Gropius, Natural (Supporting)
Hassboh (Supporting)
Homika (Supporting)
Ishitsubute (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Wayland, Tom, Tokui, Kenta
Joy (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fujimura, Chika, Rosenfeld, Alyson, Martello, Tiziana, Heras, Sara
Kairyuu (Supporting)
Kamitsure (Supporting)
Kenyan (Supporting)
Kibago (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsuda, Minami, Rogers, Kayzie, Loriaux, Fabienne
Kojirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Miki, Shinichiro, Cathcart, James Carter, Araújo, Márcio, Manet, David, Jara, Iván, Klie, Matthias, D'Andrea, Simone, Macías, José Antonio
Kotetsu (Supporting)
Kudari (Supporting)
Langley (Supporting)
Lizardon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Miki, Shinichiro
Lucky (Supporting)
Metagross (Supporting)
Mew (Supporting)
Mijumaru (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fukuen, Misato, Ortiz, Lisa
Mukuhawk (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Konishi, Katsuyuki, Natochenny, Sarah
Musashi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hayashibara, Megumi, Pacotto, Emanuela, Knotz, Michele, Conet, Catherine, Cavadenti, Scarlet, Valencia, Amparo
Narrator (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Parsons, Rodger, Ishizuka, Unshou, Danti, Federico, Hinderyckx, Michel, Vásquez, Gerardo
Nazonokusa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hayashibara, Megumi, Knotz, Michele
Nidorina (Supporting)
Nobori (Supporting)
Nyarth (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inuyama, Inuko, Cathcart, James Carter, Tiraboschi, Armando, Ubaldi, Pietro, Acktun, Gerhard, Tasquin, Philippe, Vásquez, Gerardo
Ordile (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mogami, Tsuguo, Cathcart, James Carter
Pod (Supporting)
Rokon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Aikawa, Rikako, Rogers, Kayzie
... and 9 more characters

Staff:

Mori, Takemoto (Producer)
Odawara, Akiko (Producer)
Werenko, Tim (Producer)
Hosoya, Nobuyuki (Assistant Producer)
Muratsubaki, Takurou (Assistant Producer)
Shimodaira, Satoshi (Assistant Producer)
Yuyama, Kunihiko (Director, Storyboard)
Mima, Masafumi (Sound Director)
Hidaka, Masamitsu (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Sekino, Masahiro (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Yoshikawa, Hiroaki (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Sonoda, Hideki (Script)
Valencia, Amparo (Script, ADR Director)
Iijima, Masakatsu (Storyboard)
Ikimonogakari (Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance)
Landerwyn, Marie-Line (Theme Song Lyrics)
Suzuki, Hideyuki Daichi (Theme Song Arrangement)
Tanaka, Hidenori (Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics)
Wietzorek, Luisa (Theme Song Performance)
Asai, Mitomu (Executive Producer)
Delhausse, Jean-Marc (ADR Director)
Fujii, Yasuaki (Production Manager)
Garza, Eduardo (ADR Director)
Inoue, Akiko (Color Setting)
Iriyoshi, Satoru (Key Animation)
Katagiri, Takahisa (Key Animation)
Kitagawa, Takayuki (Key Animation)
Kurihara, Hiroaki (In-Between Animation)
Miyazaki, Shinji (Music)
Niimura, Kyouko (Animation Director)
Noma, Chikako (In-Between Animation)
Ookaji, Hiroyuki (Key Animation)
Regina, Márcia (ADR Director)
Sakai, Tsuyoshi (Animation Director)
Satou, Toshiyuki (Key Animation)
Satou, Taka (Animation Director)
Satou, Miyuki (Color Design)
Sugimori, Ken (Original Character Design)
Sunagawa, Masakazu (Key Animation)
Suzuki, Takanori (In-Between Animation)
Tajiri, Satoshi (Original Creator)
Takeuchi, Kyouko (Animation Director)
Tanaka, Toshinari (Background Art)
Wada, Takaaki (Key Animation)
Watabe, Yukiko (Key Animation)
Wayland, Tom (ADR Director)

Reviews:

User Lil-Bird (Score: 3/10):
(Note: going off the English dub.) I feel I should start off with a warning about the following review because I have some strong feelings about this film that can come off like a rant. But a warning can really only say so much because even after everything has cooled off from the past year/year-and-a-half, the mere thought of this film and the history behind it still irks me to my core. There is a reason this film is controversial, and even if people do not care about it, even going so far as to say “It's Pokémon/for kids, stop putting so much thought into it”,it cannot be denied that the film has left an impressionable impact, albeit not a positive one. nnAs biased as the review may end up sounding, please believe me when I say that I was willing to give the film a chance. I had been excited about it the moment it was announced Mewtwo was to be a main character, and Mewtwo is one of my favorite characters of all time. The character is popular, he has been since the first movie back in 1998/1999, and for good reason, because he's a complex, dark, tragic character. Even in the watered-down 4KIDS dub where he was made into a villain and his motives changed (though the foundation of it remained the same), Mewtwo was still dark for a children's cartoon. Sure, he may have later briefly become a hypocrite with wangst that could possibly catch Shinji's attention and motivate him to step-up his wangst game (possibly), but nevertheless, his philosophical musings and inner torment about his existence has remained a part of his character. Next to the fact that he IS the world's strongest Pokémon, but that's getting too technical.nnThus, it came as a huge shock when it was revealed that Mewtwo here is actually an entirely different character, and is female to boot. Needless to say, she and the history behind her is the biggest black spot on the film, and while it's all based on personal opinion on whether you like her or not, there is no denying that she came out of left field. I will go into more detail when we get there. For now, I stalled long enough.nnStory (4): The story follows a small group of five Genesect that were recently revived by Team Plasma as they try to adapt to modern day. The leader is the Red Genesect, who is the first to be confused and angry over what happened to their home, and at his command, his army attacks the city, called New Tork City, where a nature park is home to many Pokémon, and also happens to be the place Ash and friends are visiting. Mewtwo had been nearby when she caught the telepathic cry of “I want to go home” from the Douse Genesect, and she arrived to quell their anger as she sympathizes with them because of their similar origins. Red Genesect is the most angry…
User Luru86 (Score: 6/10):
The Pokémon franchise has the track record of playing the amnesiac game whenever a new season starts on TV, but so far the movies have done a good job of remembering their facts. Not this time: Ash has actually met Mewtwo twice by now, in two separate movies, but unless there are two Mewtwos that were created in Team Rocket labs, Ash has no recollection of meeting this one - nor does the sex-changed-Mewtwo recall meeting Ash and learning some valuable lessons of humanity and acceptance. That aside, this movie is a somewhat touching tale of a group of revived Pokémon, Genesect, who are brought tothe world of today by the power of man and slightly altered before their eventual escape into the wild.nnThe scene of the action is Pokémon Hills (a beautiful environment in the heart of a city for different Pokémon to live in), in a NYC replica, New Tork City. It sets a fine dilemma of new inhabitants trying to drive away the old, when the Genesect come looking for their home that hasn't exited for millions of years.nnThe fights, after a while, got a bit redundant. Ash and his friends were rendered to pointless one-line comments and to state the obvious, before Ash once again stood up to reason with the fighters. (Where have we seen this before? Oh, right, the first Pokémon movie, when Ash stepped between Mew and Mewtwo - with legendary results.)nnDeep down, the story is touching, but the execution lacks a little, not finding a necessary sharpness in the midst of the plot repeating itself until long enough has passed for the story to progress.
User Chaotic_beauty (Score: 1/10):
Genesect and the Legend Awakened is the worst thing that happened to Pokemon since the Porygon scene in first season of the show. I usually structure my reviews, but I just want to get this one over with. Why does Mewtwo look deformed most of the time? His muzzle looks like a Lucario ripoff. He's a female now. A different personality, a different voice actor, a different role. First film has apparently been retconned. Genesect are the most unlikable bunch of antagonists in any Pokemon film. Except for maybe Marauder in Celebi. Cold blooded killers and stupid savages, there's no reason to care for them or whathappens to them. nnFilm is overflowing with jaring CGI and bad textures. Mewtwo likes flying into space like a retard just to compensate for being a watered down character from before. Ash meets one and only special snowflake good female Genesect just because plot. Ash is useless in the film and this one would've definitely been better with no human characters.nnDialogue is generally bad throughout all the film. Ash spreads friendship as a solution for everything so much this feels like a parody of itself. There are no exciting fights, no good music and no good locations. In fact, the final showdown location looks like a ripoff from Zoroark's film.nnThis fails at every level, it's insulting to audience, it's insulting to old fans and first to retcon stuff for what purpose? To make a really shitty film?nnI'm not one of those crying over a retcon. Retconning is a tradeoff between new possibilities and faithfullness to the old. It's a risk and it failed spectacularly here. This film was a bad experiment and should never be mentioned again.
... and 3 more reviews

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Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
Demographics: Kids
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Last Updated: 03/29/2022
Aired: July 13, 2013 (Summer)
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Pokemon Movie 16: Shinsoku no Genosect – Mewtwo Kakusei