Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2001)

ポケットモンスター ミュウツー! 我ハココニ在リ MEWTWO SAGA

An all-new Johto movie adventure!

The Team Rocket leader, Giovanni, has found Mewtwo in a remote area of the Johto region. As Giovanni tries to re-capture Mewtwo, Ash and his friends are kidnapped by Domino, a new Team Rocket member, while trying to rescue Pikachu from Jessie and James. The Clone Pokemon are also captured and are then used as bait for Mewtwo. The situation then becomes a battle between the wills of Mewtwo and Giovanni; and Mewtwo also tries to discover if it and the clones have a purpose in life, even though they are products of science.

Date of release
2001-08-17
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (446)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Animation, Family, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Director
Masamitsu Hidaka

Casting

Interesting facts

Pokémon is a media franchise created by video game designer Satoshi Tajiri that centers on fictional creatures called Pokémon. As of 2020, there have been twenty-three animated films and one live action film. The first nineteen animated films are based on the anime television series of the same name, while the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-third are set in an alternate continuity to the anime. The films are produced by animation studios OLM, Production I.G, Xebec, and Wit Studio, and distributed in Japan by Toho, with various studios distributing the films in North America.

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