Video: Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution Gets Gorgeous New Movie Trailer

Interesting music choice there

@DrScottnik
"Interesting music choice there" - the guy who decided to use Gangsta's Paradise in Sonic trailer.

Art style is kinda cool, reminds me of the links awakening remaster but scaled to life-size 🤔

definitely some nostalgia with those scenes

"Interesting art direction choice there" - the guy who greenlit Sonic's design

Didn't know this was a thing.

Can't say that I'm looking forward to a remake of a terrible movie I only ever liked because children have no sense of quality.

I know it is a remake to a 20 years old movie, but some younger fans might have not seen it yet.... to show those scene can hurt the “surprise” and emotional impact

Am i the only one who thinks it's really strange that they never made a Pokémon Movie that's based on the Sun & Moon Anime?

Also i still feel this Remake looks weird and rather unappealing.
I'm not against the Idea of making a CGI Pokémon Movie, but this isn't the direction i think they should've taken.

It’s something new, a concept not grasped by the anime team until Sun & Moon.

This trailer is full of plot spoilers! I know most people have seen it before, but there’s got to be some people out there who’s watching this for the first time!
And seriously what is with this music? I don’t think it’s a bad song, but wouldn’t this trailer be better with actual trailer style, and not just this weird music video feeling?

I don't know guys... compare to the Dragon Quest movie this kinda looks a bit... I do not want to say cheap. Cheap is the wrong word. But the characters do not really blend in well with the backgrounds and they look like they were made out of plastic.

I’ll stick with the original.
The CGI Pokemon don’t look bad, but the humans look... really bad, like they didn’t really know how the wanted to model them. Ash’s eyes look pretty dead.

Wow they managed to fit the whole movie into 1 minute 40

@superpotion Welcome to 2019 movie trailers.

Will we get the previously cut 10-minute intro of Mewtwo and Ambertwo?

POP QUIZ! In what Pokemon product has Rita Ora's music been used before?

Welp, at least there's one change from the original: Team Rocket are no longer pretending to be vikings, but instead appear to be pretending to be sailors instead.

As for the film as a whole, I'm still of the belief that the art style looks fine on the pokemon themselves, but for the human characters it doesn't really work that well.

@superpotion - Except for the last 5 minutes, they made sure to cut that out.

I can't believe Satoshi/Ash is freaking dead.

hmm l doubt Ash is dead, and btw it looks like a game not a film. xD

I mean that was the whole movie.

The Pokemon look fine, the humans suck.

@AlexOlney Hey now, Blender can make some top quality stuff!

As we saw with the Sonic trailer, the eyes make or break the CGI experience. In this case, the eyes of Ash and Misty and even the eyeless state of Brock are extremely distracting and somewhat disturbing. Why are their eyes spread so far apart, and why are their faces squished to where their features look disproportional and unnatural? We did not need a CGI version of Mewtwo Strikes Back, and we definitely did not need one in this form.

@RareFan Cheap is the right word. 😁 Don't know why you're too afraid to use it.

@AlexOlney That's our man!

@retro_player_22
Nah, cheap is a bit to mean. The animation is actually good. It is just the characters designs of the humans and the lightning that makes the movie look cheap.

Another year, another crappy Pokémon anime movie. I'd rather watch Detective Pikachu again.

Ugh no. Anime style CGI looks horrible. The pokémon looks fine but the humans just takes you out of it. The nostalgic memories of the original makes it even worse.

@FullMetalWesker Maybe Team Rocket is different so as not to offend anyone of Nordic-descent. Wait--I hate stereotypes, but that means no stupid "Vikings live in Minnesota joke!" NOOOOO!

@Nagi_Nagisa I think it's mostly because the gang stayed mostly in one place for most of the anime. It wouldn't make sense to make a movie that followed the same previous formula. Either that or the Sun and Moon anime is not movie material.

@Dog Actually, this is CGI, but yeah, it looks pretty crappy.

@ForgottenArctic True, but we get an awesome Lapras boat in its place that I want.

@Nagi_Nagisa Perhaps they're just waiting for the anime (Sun/Moon season) to end first? Or at least a little closer to that point, which is kind of what happened with the last XYZ movie, Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel.

While Sun/Moon have yet to have a proper movie, 3 legendary Pokemon from the Alola dex have already been featured in the past 3 movies: Magearna (the aforementioned movie), Marshadow (I Choose You!), and Zeraora (The Power of Us).

@ForgottenArctic According to the showing at a US Anime Con, its in the movie.

@penamiguel92 The movies were performing pretty bad in Japan during the XY era, with the Hoopa movie being the worst grossing Pokemon movie in the series' history (Which showed how desperate they were, shoving as many Legendary Pokemon in there as they could.). I Choose You and The Power of Us have performed much better, while I reckon this remake was done just to continue the tradition of a movie every July, but not overshadow the Detective Pikachu movie. Regardless, don't be surprised if they decide to stick with the "movie canon" universe.

As usual, there was a teaser for next year's movie shown after the premiere at a US Anime Con (The first time any Pokemon movie has been shown in the US in its Japanese language with subs officially) showing Pikachu slide down a tree vine but in traditional animation. This remake is also a gap filler till whatever they plan for Sword and Shield anime wise.

@Nagi_Nagisa Pokemon movies tend to be well animated. sun and moon... not so much. sun and moon was a MAJOR step down from previous seasons and making a movie for it puts them in the awkward spot of admitting it. they sure as hell arent gonna use that horrible style for a movie but they also arent gonna out the fact they only chose it to save costs.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Yay! (sorry it took so long for me to respond)

@companyoflosers movie 18 did pretty badly in Japan as the lowest grossing film in the series. The movies needed a shake up, which was not going to start with the final XY movie but rather the start of gen 7 with movie 20, hence why they've gone a different direction this gen for the films and have been performing much better.

@ForgottenArctic No worries.

@Angelic_Lapras_King

@KyleHyde They're never going to end the Pokémon anime, it's too much of a commercial for the games and merchandise for TPC.

@companyoflosers Pokémon movies never had good animation. They're low budget compared to something a studio like Studio Ghibli offers..

@Dog Forgive me for wording that poorly and giving you the wrong impression, what I meant to say was that they might release proper movies for Sun/Moon once that region's anime/season is over.

Of course the anime will never end, nobody would doubt that.

@Dog you define a movies animation quality by its budget? i get holding up ghibli as a shining example of good animation, but there are other styles of animation, not to mention different standards based on the time and technology available, etc. you cant say somethings animation quality was bad simply because of its budget. there are a few pokemon movies id say had good animation quality.

Rita Ora? That surprised me. Doesn't sound bad, and the trailer wasn't that bad either.