I hate this film, and for someone who often treats bad films with mere apathy at worst, that's quite the accomplishment. This film's main conflict (get the Genesect out or else the city will explode!) is only allowed to happen because some unseen architect had the idiocy to build a city's power supply under a nature reserve filled with animals that shoot lasers and breath fire without even putting security guards in, and not once is this called out on. Our sympathies are told to lie with the violent bugs that forced the park's residents out at gunpoint and not the angered Pokémon wanting to get their home back.
And then there's the star Pokémon themselves. Short and sweet, this Mewtwo has no logical reason to exist at all ("because I felt a new one would be better" be damned), its plotline feels very disconnected from the rest of the film, and it suddenly cares about humans even though moments ago it wouldn't mind if they were killed. There is no reason for there to be five Genesect when only two are focused on and given characterisation, and said characters never go beyond "homesick crybaby" and "violent asshole who suddenly stops being violent at the end for stupid reasons". And really, after sixteen films and several human villains portrayed without any form of sympathy or redemption, would an actual Pokémon portrayed that way, no sappy heel-turns or misunderstandings to be had, really be too much to ask for? Especially when they're the creation of the games' main villains and seem designed to be an evil(er) counterpart of a popular Pokémon?
There are several more problems with this film, too many to list. In summation, you'll likely find Genesect mediocre at best, and at worst a disgrace to the first movie, its Mewtwo, the franchise in general, and quite possibly humanity as a species.
Pokémon: Garbage and the Fanbase Affronted
I hate this film, and for someone who often treats bad films with mere apathy at worst, that's quite the accomplishment. This film's main conflict (get the Genesect out or else the city will explode!) is only allowed to happen because some unseen architect had the idiocy to build a city's power supply under a nature reserve filled with animals that shoot lasers and breath fire without even putting security guards in, and not once is this called out on. Our sympathies are told to lie with the violent bugs that forced the park's residents out at gunpoint and not the angered Pokémon wanting to get their home back.
And then there's the star Pokémon themselves. Short and sweet, this Mewtwo has no logical reason to exist at all ("because I felt a new one would be better" be damned), its plotline feels very disconnected from the rest of the film, and it suddenly cares about humans even though moments ago it wouldn't mind if they were killed. There is no reason for there to be five Genesect when only two are focused on and given characterisation, and said characters never go beyond "homesick crybaby" and "violent asshole who suddenly stops being violent at the end for stupid reasons". And really, after sixteen films and several human villains portrayed without any form of sympathy or redemption, would an actual Pokémon portrayed that way, no sappy heel-turns or misunderstandings to be had, really be too much to ask for? Especially when they're the creation of the games' main villains and seem designed to be an evil(er) counterpart of a popular Pokémon?
There are several more problems with this film, too many to list. In summation, you'll likely find Genesect mediocre at best, and at worst a disgrace to the first movie, its Mewtwo, the franchise in general, and quite possibly humanity as a species.