Talk:Pokémon: The First Movie/Archive 1

New Pokémon at the End?
In traditional pokémon style, I recall a new pokémon being shown, flying over the ocean at the end of the movie (After the storm calms). Any idea what it is? Mayhaps it's the shiny Ho-oh Ash sees in the first ever episode of the show? Or mayhaps I'm just imagining things. --68.114.18.100 03:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * What happens is he sees Mew then he's like "oh...just like before." As in the Ho-Oh.—ウルタプ 04:09, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * How can you confuse Mew with Ho-oh? Although, of course, many are claiming that the Ho-oh in the first episode is really Mew in Ho-oh form.65.223.58.226 (talk) 22:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC) (like in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew)
 * No, I mean he's once again seeing a legendary Pokémon. Not thinking that he saw Ho-Oh again.—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 22:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Cast
Is it really necessary to have cast listed other then English and Japanese? It looks really cluttered and incomplete, along with the fact that I don't see any FA films with a full cast listing. Spigot Map  15:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe the only voice actors we need are Japanese and English. Anything else should go on that language's wiki. --PAK Man Talk 01:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Domestically making $85,744,662, and internationally it made $77,900,000
"Domestically" means in Japan or in the United States?--AnY FOUR! (talk) 08:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well this films domestic release was Japan, so it made 85 million dollars in Japan and 77 million dollars around the rest of the world. JayKeaton (talk) 21:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Error in the movie
While naming the multiple pokemon captured by Mewtwo, team rocket mistakes Scyther for Alakazam. I'm not sure if this is a error 100% team rocket are often shown as being ignorant. It should be noted that in no point does Alakazam appears in the scene involving the pokemon being captured by Mewtwo and that a real and clone Scyther can be seen doing battle. I think noting this like the polywhirl mistake in the pokemon 2000 article would be a nice addition. Yami (talk) 19:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Many sources on the movie (if IMDB counts as a source) recognise that these were intentional mistakes. The writers made the mistake, then the producers' children pointed out the mistake but the producers decided to keep the mistakes in for the hardcore fans to spot. Someone find the source if they want to include that information. Yili2943 (talk) 05:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * IMDb isn't a reliable source, so it can't be used as a reference, but Norman J. Grossfeld and Michael Haigney say in the DVD commentary that the Scyther/Alakazam mistake was, in fact, brought to their attention before the film's release, but they intentionally left it in (though I can't remember their reason why). As I remember, they don't mention the Pidgeot/Pidgeotto or the Sandslash/Sandshrew mistakes. -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 07:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

biased review section
This is not the first biased review section on wikipedia that i've seen. Whoever said "Audiences other than children will find very little to entertain them." is a complete f**king moron. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamaluigibob (talk • contribs) 05:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Uh, wow, I thought you were going to talk about things we did wrong. What actual critics find wrong with the movie is not our fault. And the swearing is excessive and pointless. It's just a movie. A children's movie at that.—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 18:19, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, but other people besides kids like it too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamaluigibob (talk • contribs) 05:04, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The point is, professional critics gave it negative reviews. That fact is really not Wikipedia's problem.—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 05:08, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

The professionals can go to hell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.98.99 (talk) 14:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I think the issue can be resolved by identifying the reviewers who gave it negative reviews and quoting them to absolve wikipedia from the dispute Yili2943 (talk) 05:39, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Ending
I Watched before i noticed it was't Ho-Oh It Was Mew —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.87.70 (talk) 22:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Corse it was, remember, as a mew, it can transform like ditto into any pokemon form it wants to, so maybe it took the form of Ho-Oh, but an important note is that Ho-Oh wasn't introduced at all until like 2001, and this movie is like 1999. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comet Egypt (talk • contribs) 03:39, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

What Moves Does Mewtwo Use In The Movie?
I am trying to teach my Mewtwo the same moves as the movie's Mewtwo, what are they???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.119.193 (talk) 02:47, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a forum. Discussion on talk pages should be limited to improving the article. -sesuPRIME talk • contribs 04:34, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Soundtrack vs Score
In the Soundtrack section, the little info box is giving information on the Score rather than the soundtrack, which is a little confusing. I don't have the soundtrack info, but maybe we can move the score box to its own section? MJuice (talk) 21:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Slashing the Trivia section
First, per WP:TRIVIA (a part of the Manual of Style), trivia sections are strongly discouraged and should be considered temporary at best. The goal is to get this info into the rest of the prose, where possible. Similarly, WP:NOT states that Wikipedia is not a list of indiscriminate information, which this list had become. So I decided to significantly cut the list. For example, the mulitiple bullet points about the line about "Vikings" are all wholly unecessary--we don't need to list every different translation of every little fact. Second, a lot of this info was original research. For example, every bullet point that stated a Pokemon was misidentified is original research, unless a reliable secondary source has already stated it. Please remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a fan-site, so we're not here to try and point out every "interesting fact" or "error" that exists in the movie--there are plenty of other sites on the internet where you can do that. I've left in only those items that aren't about subtle, in-universe topics, and that are at least potentially verifiable. Please resist the temptation to start re-populating this list with more "trivia," as doing so is a violation of policy and guidelines. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:46, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Mewtwo's origin
Ok, so there's the short called Mewtwo's Origin, which is about how Mewtwo became the way he was, and how he met Amber-two (Kerry Williams), and the other clones. Woulden't that be a rellivent point in the article, i'm going to put it there, feel free to delete it if it is not needed at all, just let me know so I know for the future please. Thank you. Comet Egypt I Am Mewtwo 03:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1a34c65YxY

Are you talking about this short segment? I feel it would be relevant as it doesn't make Mewtwo appear to be that nasty. Its a shame it was cut from the english version to be honest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.70.44.117 (talk) 05:20, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Ho-oh? not at all
What's with everyone's assumtion that it is HO-oh that Ash sees, remember as I state above, mew can take on the shape of any pokemon it wants to, and ho-oh isn't introduced at all until the third or fourth season. How is it possible then for Ho-oh to actually be in the first episode? where do people get the idea that Ho-Oh appeared at all in the series before the Johto saga? Comet Egypt I Am Mewtwo 04:07, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That is a good theory, but just speculation. I am pretty sure that good sources say that Ho-Oh was the Pokemon seen in the first episode. In fact, at the end of the battle frontier saga, Ash sees Ho-oh again, and recounts the times he has seen it, which includes the first episode.(I think, don't kill me if I am wrong) Blake (Talk·Edits) 14:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Where's the english vhs cover?
Where's the english vhs cover of Pokémon: The First Movie? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.64.149.42 (talk) 01:40, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Missing Composer
A composer is missing from the page.

John Lissauer was one of the main composers for the international version. I have even spoke with him and he has confirmed that.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514178/

69.183.40.253 (talk) 02:38, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Summary based on dub?
Is the film summary on the page explicitly based on the English dub of the movie? Eh! Steve (talk) 21:32, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Adding the Template:English anime licensee
Add the Template:English anime licensee. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.65.188.199 (talk) 18:53, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Pokémon: The First Movie (soundtrack)
The film's American soundtrack is not independently notable, no matter how the articles look. It was once redirect; somehow, someone else reverted it back. Then there have been minor tweaks. Re-merge? George Ho (talk) 03:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It's charted in the top ten of the Billboard 200 and in a bunch of other countries and got certified platinum. Surely it is notable..GuzzyG (talk) 06:17, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed. No need to merge at this time.—cyberpower  Chat:Online 01:52, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Copyrights
Pokémon: The First Movie have differents copyrights:
 * Original:
 * © 1998 Pikachu Project'98


 * English:
 * © 1997, 1998 Nintendo, CREATURES, GAME FREAK, TV Tokyo, Shopro, JR KIKAKU
 * © 1999 Kids'WB is a trademark of Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.222.81.97 (talk) 16:46, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Production companies
I'd like to return the production company back to what the original source I have listed as. Per the film infobox standards (which is what we are using for this article), we use the production companies for the film. "Isert the company or companies that produced the film. Separate multiple entries using, and use the "production companies" parameter. In addition, link each company to its appropriate article if possible. When possible, this should be cited to reliable secondary sources that explicitly identify the production companies.". I've double checked these sources with the Variety. who back up the Galbraith source. As this is a film, and using the film infobox, I think we should follow that standards. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:27, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * As there has been no response for the past few days I will assume consensus after approaching parties who were changing this. I'm changing this back to the sourced version now. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:08, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply. Since this is a part of the anime wikiproject, we many need to get a new consensus regarding the film production companies; the discussion is at WT:ANIME. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 15:20, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

International releases

 * 🇯🇵 July 18, 1998 (original release); July 2, 1999 (re-release with CGI animation grafics); November 20, 2020 (Tokyo International Film Festival)
 * 🇺🇸 November 6, 1999 (premiere); November 10, 1999 (original release); February 26, 2017 (Kansas City Japanese Film Festival)
 * 🇨🇦 November 10, 1999
 * 🇻🇪 December 15, 1999
 * 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇵🇷 December 16, 1999
 * 🇦🇷 December 23, 1999
 * 🇵🇪🇺🇾 December 25, 1999
 * 🇧🇷 December 31, 1999 (premiere); January 7, 2000
 * 🇭🇰🇹🇼 February 3, 2000
 * 🇵🇹 March 19, 2000 (CCB, Belém and original release)
 * 🇫🇷 April 5, 2000
 * 🇨🇳🇷🇴 April 7, 2000
 * 🇫🇮 April 8, 2000 (Helsinki)
 * 🇧🇩 April 12, 2000
 * 🇨🇭🇩🇪🇮🇱 April 13, 2000
 * 🇩🇰🇪🇸🇫🇮🇮🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪 April 14, 2000
 * 🇮🇹🇳🇱 April 20, 2000
 * 🇬🇷 April 21, 2000
 * 🇧🇪 May 5, 2000
 * 🇹🇷 June 9, 2000
 * 🇰🇼 June 21, 2000
 * 🇮🇸 July 21, 2000
 * 🇲🇽 August 4, 2000
 * 🇭🇺 November 9, 2000
 * 🇰🇷 December 23, 2000
 * 🇵🇱 February 9, 2001
 * 🇨🇿 March 1, 2001
 * 🇷🇺 October 24, 2001 (video premiere)
 * 🇳🇱 August 2002 (DVD premiere)

Proposal: Split this article between the English and Japanese versions
They are so different from each other it might be easier to split them out.--Coin945 (talk) 02:32, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
 * From an outiser's (one who has only seen the US version, albeit multiple times) point of view, how different is this from the Japanese version, and why do those differences constitute a separate article? —  Paper Luigi  T • C 02:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They are very different. In the Japanese version, there was no storm legend, Mewtwo didn't want to destroy everything in the world, there were no anti-violence messages, or at least there weren't so many of them. Here: https://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/movies/mov01.html you can learn all the differences. The remake's dub is more like the Japanese version of The First Movie than it's 4Kids dub.