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The synopsis makes it sound like the movie thematically retells the first episode twice, the first directly and the second in a convoluted way involving Marshadow and Ho-oh and him dying, with callbacks to the events of the first season sprinkled in between.
For Ash to risk his life to save Pikachu the first time, then to wish he didn't pick him after losing a single match shortly afterwards sounds dumb.