PSA: Pokémon YouTube Channel Airing Pokémon 3: The Movie This Weekend

I didn't know there was Pokemon 3 movie.
I remembered only watched the first and second movie long time ago.

I've never actually watched the second movie. I have no idea why.

May as well give it a watch when they add it.

@drypaphmrbro Cobalt video downloaded no longer supports YouTube downloads probably after YouTube changed the way it works

@Anti-Matter There's way more than just three movies, too many to even remember how many

Limited time? YT-DLP begs to differ. Great movies.

Oh dear, even when I was 12 years old they were simply horrible.

This is a nice nostalgia trip and always good to see Nintendo movies. Still can't believe there hasn't been an official English release of the Animal Crossing movie, especially given how many copies and systems New Horizons sold...

Pokémon 3 was the first movie I recall watching in the theatre. I remember the theatre experience being a little freaky at my young age, especially being pretty unfamiliar with Pokémon at the time.

My friends and I are doing all sorts of movie marathons right now. I could see us doing the Pokémon movie marathon.

Nothing is only available for a limited time on the internet.

I still had the VHS tape of these movies in my basement, can't watch those anymore due to my VCR being broken a long time ago but will be staying tune for these remaster versions on YouTube.

Watched it live on the YT premiere. It's not a good movie, but the nostalgia was fun.

Haven't seen any of those original movies in ages. Might as well watch it again through a few work breaks.

I still have the VHS tape for this...but no VCR to watch it. It's one of the very few tapes I've been unable to get rid of due to nostalgia.

Only movie I cried to as a kid, well, that and ET lol.

Out of these three, I've only seen the first one... I've seen almost every single Pokémon anime episode, but in regards to the movies, I'm surprisingly lacking when Pokémon is my favorite franchise! I've seen every Pokémon episode/movie except the following, unless I'm mistaken:
Ruby and Sapphire seasons 8-9 (currently watching this one on Hoopla)
Diamond and Pearl seasons 10-13
Some of the later Black and White episodes
Horizons episodes that haven't been dubbed yet, obviously
Pokémon movies 2 and 3
Possibly one of the Hoenn movies?
All of the Sinnoh movies
All of the Unova movies

Is this really only for a limited time though? Every previous upload of the Pokémon TV channel is still available to view to my memory. Perhaps they're removing it in a little while to make people want to purchase it elsewhere?

The first three movies are fantastic! 2 is my personal favorite although 1 & 3 are also amazing as well. It's because of the 2nd movie that Lugia is my #2 favorite Pokemon (after my OG starter Blastoise). Later Pokemon movies are good but don't hold up to the same epic scale as the first 3.

Heck yeah, it has multi dub support.

Oddly, the English track sounds kinda low compared to the LATAM one.

But this is great, 1-3 are probably the best ones.

My older sister has the soundtrack.

"Don't you say you love me, you don't even know me..."

I watched the first two a ton!

Pokémon The First movie is dark. Like shockingly dark for a Pokémon story.

I literally just rewatched it recently, so I'll pass. Besides, I'm saving my tears for when I watch Digimon Last Evolution

I'm surprised they're doing this considering how easy it is to download videos from YouTube. Still cool though, will need to rewatch Pokémon 2000.

I do remember watching the movie in the theater. It was indeed the late '90s. Like, a month left of the decade.

I wonder if they have since redubbed the movie to remove a line I specifically remember where Ash seems to have awareness of the Minnesota Vikings.

@Anti-Matter They've been pretty much making a new one every year for some time.

@Bentleyma I had only seen the other movies when TPC did a marathon stream on Twitch for the 20th anniversary of the franchise.
But I recall Ash died multiple times.

I do remember the stream was a good time but also thinking, goodbye, POKMON! (referring to how they streamed with some captioning that was, not the greatest ) WHA BOUT THAT?

I just finished watching it, and I had a memory of watching it when I was sick once so a lot of the scenes took me back to that time.

I do remember crying watching Pokemon the Movie: I choose you! I should give that one a rewatch.

@Anti-Matter there's like 24 of them, 25 if you include detective Pikachu. And I would not be surprised if I missed something like some Japan exclusive movie or spin off movie.

The video appears wobbly a times. (Look at 29:41.)

Yeah there are like 20+ of these movies, but pretty sure the first 3? were notable because they had widespread theater releases (outside Japan) back when anime movies were popular at your local theater where it came with promotions and all of that marketing instead of the 98% straight to dvd tier.

Back when Pokemon, Digimon, and YUGIOH being in the theater was a big deal for kids and family would take them for their “cartoons”

Anyway random trivia: Pokemon 2000 I believe was the first time Ash/Satoshi the main protagonist got a kiss onscreen (With Misty being jealous back when Misty used to have that reoccurring crush subplot early in the show that went absolutely nowhere in the end.) with of course the former being absolutely clueless. Obviously not counting random kisses based on comedy gags/zero romance intentioned.

The question is how long time limited time is... I finally can show the movie to my children in Danish, but I'm not too sure if I can convince my wife to let them watch it before Friday evening 😅

@Arawn93
It's funny. I remember way back when, while I was terrified of the first movie, I saw the second one twice, and the third once. (In theaters ofc) I missed out on theater releases of 4 and 5, only finding out about them in Nintendo Power too late.

There was a gag Team Rocket kiss in the first Sabrina episode as technically Ash's first, but Melody (I think that was her name) gave the first romantic kiss. To be followed later by Latias.

I'm honestly still upset that nothing came of Misty, as apparently, aside from the obvious, there were ads in Japan suggesting the first movie was to be the end, showing an adult Ash and Misty together.

Also, the first movie has different implications in the Japanese version, as Mew is notably more antagonistic to Mewtwo, while Mewtwo has less expressly evil motives.

Why have you put a hyphen in "limited time"

Oh I'm so going to watch them! When I was a kid a friend gifted me the first movie on VHS, it came with a Mewtwo card. I became a fan since then.

Aren't these movies on DVD/BD already?

@Arawn93 I saw the 5th movie in theaters as a kid & didn't even know until many years later that it was a limited release.

I still have the promo mew card, which a friend of mine, who watched one of the movies in the theaters gifted to me. Thank you, I think I never appreciated it enough.

This was the best Pokemon time.

I saw 1 in the movies and remember everyone reacting fiercely, so they must've done something right!

Also loves the catchy m2m theme song
🎶 Don't say you love me, you don't even know me. If you really want me, then give it some time (give it some tiiiiime). Something something hearts in a hurry, s'not like We're gonna get married. Give me, give me, some timeeee.🎶

What this has to do with Pokemon only a Swedish/Danish producer of teen pop knows. But it's catchy!

@MarkyVigoroth : Not sure what you're talking about there (we're talking about the second film, right?).

It's normal for shot-on-film animation to not be perfectly stable, though this upload appears to have a more processed appearance that may also have been digitally stabilised (and scrubbed of its natural grain field), which doesn't look true to source, at least judging from a YouTube upload that I briefly sampled on my phone. My Blu-ray copy should serve as a better reference.

@Hapless : I could be mistaken, but I believe content flagged as being "for kids" doesn't have ads.

Think it's pretty handily the weakest of the three but still have a soft spot for it, might give it a watch this evening.

Personally my favorite of the movies overall (other than maybe Detective Pikachu) is pretty handily Power of Us.

I still miss the Pokemon TV app on the switch...

@OrtadragoonX

Dark for the anime, but the original Manga was arguably even more extreme

While Pokemon The Movie 2000 doesn't quite beat out the first movie in my book, I love it for showcasing the legendary birds and the fact that it gave us a beautiful, haunting theme for my favorite aquatic legendary Pokemon.

Also, Lawrence is hardly a "trainer".

I don't know what it was about the first movie, but it marked my time as when I moved on from my childhood Pokemon obsession.

I don't think it was the (boring) plot or anything, I just remember we saw the movie and suddenly my interest waned. If anything, it was the addition of a different style of Pokemon. I still love the games, and play them but my obsession level definitely changed.

I still have my 24k plated Charizard from BK that we got that same day though.

Everything is free to watch yo.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, Nintendo released a series of Pokémon cartoons including the iconic I Choose You, on GameBoy Advance cartridges. You could watch them anytime, anywhere, with zero advertisements or wireless connection. Sure the visual quality was not great since it was 20 years ago on a low power/resolution system, but that was back in the days when entertainment actually was a priority over profit. Good times! Other companies released cartoons on GBA too, such as Disney, Strawberry Shortcake, and more.

It’s honestly pretty generous of them to upload a 47 year old movie for free

I saw the 2000 movie in theatres as a kid and got a free ancient mew card which has to be the coolest card ever. I still have it.

@SillyG I was talking abou The First Movie, which got pulled by the time this was updated.

Did anyone else have those cups of jam with Pokemon on them from around the time, Charizard Psyduck and another I'm forgetting, my dad was super cheap and would re-use cups of jam for kid's drinking cups.

Not my thing but pretty cool.

The anime that are on Youtube for those regions it's compatible for are pretty nice. But if Pokemon is world wide access that's pretty cool.

First and second one have now been removed from youtube.

Annoying.

I’m guessing the first two aren’t free to watch anymore?

MY FRIEND MALAMAR!!

Dang it, I watched a few minutes of PKM 2000 and before I knew it it was already gone...

@The_Nintendo_Pedant or the original Watership down. Cartoons were really dark back then in comparison to the soft movies these days. I watched Dumbo with my kids a while ago, they didn't seem notice those things though, they just like the elephant and mouse. I don't think we will ever see those kind of things from Disney again.

@1UP-HUSKY Watership Down was never a kids movie and that was the issue, parents assumed it was for kids because it was a cartoon and had bunny rabbits but it was never meant for children.

Also Disney put out plenty of films with mature themes for children, i mean Pixar is a good example of that.

How have you guys not reported on the Malamar takeover that Pokemon is doing?!?! New Mega incoming??