Blog:Pokémon Strange Journeys: The Rise of Dr. Eggman (Fake Movie Collab, YTF43)

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Pokémon Strange Journeys: The Rise of Dr. Eggman is a 2015 Japanese-American-British animated film and the first in the Pokémon Strange Journeys film trilogy. It was produced by Satsuki Film Company and released on August 7, 2015, just after the first season of the television series ended.

Plot
Dr. Eggman, having captured Ash's friends after they left, plans to take over the entire Pokémon universe, and it's up to Ash and his friends to stop him.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Much like the first season of the Pokémon Strange Journeys television series this movie is based on, most of the main characters act nothing like themselves (up until the near end, see WIS 10).
 * 2) *Misty and May shout almost every word and throw tantrums for stupid reasons (and in fact Duplica does the latter once in this movie, since she's been flanderized to just repeating other characters' phrases or copying their actions like a little kid).
 * 3) *James is on Ash's side rather than Team Rocket's.
 * 4) *Dawn is unable to walk (therefore having to use a wheelchair) or even open her mouth.
 * 5) It is unbelievably long (so long that it makes you wonder whether they deliberately made it this long to make the film an endurance test), and of course has loads of filler and padding, and we mean loads. In fact, 60% of this movie seems to be filler.
 * 6) Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog characters DO NOT MIX. Nuff said.
 * 7) *This wasn't the first time a Sonic the Hedgehog character made an appearance in the Pokémon Strange Journeys series, as Cream the Rabbit had made an appearance in the first season episode "James's New Home".
 * 8) Atrocious writing, with several plot holes (again, like in the TV series). The fact that DAVID FAILBURG is one of the writers of this movie does not help in the absolute slightest.
 * 9) It doesn't feel like a Pokémon film at times, as there is hardly any Pokémon battles or anything that you would expect from the anime. That would have been more of an excuse for the long run time than dinking around.
 * 10) Much like the TV series this movie is adapted from, this movie rehashes elements from other properties with little to no subtlety. Most of this movie appears to be a re-hash of The Mr. Men Movie, an abandoned fan-made movie made at Doink.com by JH Entertainment.
 * 11) Like in the TV series, the narrator says obvious things or things characters are about to say or have already said. Because of the movie's length, this can be just as annoying, if not even more annoying, than in a 22 minute episode.
 * 12) In one scene, Dr. Eggman tricks Nicholas into turning into an Eggsecute, and eats him right after he did so. While one could say that he died from being eaten, he somehow reappears during the final fight, with no explanation whatsoever.
 * 13) In another, Dawn (at the time in her disabled state) literally poops herself. Seriously.
 * 14) *Fortunately, we don't get a changing scene like in Playing with Fire, however we do get a scene of Brock reluctantly scrubbing Dawn's wheelchair.
 * 15) The main characters get James, Misty, May and Dawn back to their former selves by using a computer and modifying the code that Eggman programmed to get them into their previous states in the first place. How is that even possible?

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The art style and animation, while definitely inferior to the original Pokémon anime, are admittedly nice to look at.
 * 2) The voice acting for some characters is fairly decent (aside from brainwashed Misty and May, of course).
 * 3) The music is actually well done.
 * 4) There are some entertaining moments here and there, including:
 * 5) *A scene where Ash has to perform a mirror routine with Duplica before he can progress. This ends with Ash pretending to shoot Duplica, and fools her by pretending he's been shot.
 * 6) *Dawn throws her wheelchair at Dr. Eggman's desk after revealing that she's back to normal.
 * 7) *The final fight scene. Looks like that scene is where 99.999999999% of the film's budget went to.

Laughably Bad Dialogue

 * Dr. Eggman: Hello, Ash-boy!


 * Dawn: Surprise! (throws her wheelchair at Dr. Eggman's desk, breaking both the desk and the wheelchair)
 * Dr. Eggman: (crying) My beautiful desk!


 * Dr. Eggman: I am going to press the big red button!
 * Narrator: Dr. Eggman is going to press the big red button.

Trivia

 * Contrary to popular belief, this film actually was screened in advance for critics, however Satsuki Film Company and 1happycats Productions didn't have enough time to make any changes and released the film in this state.
 * This movie features pretty much all of Ash's friends from the entire Pokémon TV series, right down to the one-off characters (including the aforementioned Duplica from the Indigo League episode "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion", and Molly from the movie Spell of the Unown).
 * Ash's Pikachu makes his comeback in this movie, since he was captured by Team Rocket at the beginning of the TV series.
 * This was the first film produced by Satsuki Film Company to be distributed by 1happycats Productions, who would later purchase the company in 2018, before splitting back up the year after.
 * This is the longest film from both 1happycats Productions and Satsuki Film Company to date.