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Hoopa Movie was mediocre. They never give a proper explanation for things like. What was Hoopa's beef with his 'shadow?' Why is Hoopa more powerful than the Gods of Sea, Ground, Time and Reality that he could command them. Or why Latias/os Mega Evolved despite barely knowing Ash. Or why Palkia, a God of Reality could not stop a vortex of reality destruction in the final forced third act. Not sure about Hoopa's story arc either. It seems, rather than learning about the importance of family, he should have learnt not to be an arrogant shit. Or maybe he had a Stitch-like arc where a found family tames and brings out the best of him?
If we were to consider these movies as a representation of a series, XY Ash does not come off as impressive. Spends most of the movie running from danger rather than using his Pokemon. And he only starts to confront the danger when gifted with three legendaries. Course, that brings up the problems raised above.
Still it's alright as a dumb action movie. The Big Legendary Fight setpiece was what I expected. Though I'm not sure why they chose Hoopa and the year 2015 to make such a movie.
Surprisingly no Amour. I went into this movie expecting at least one scene of Serena obsessing over Ash.
As a reminder, canon game Serena is 16/7. How many Amour fans would there be if Serena was almost 6 years Ash's elder.
On another note, this is probably the fourth movie I have seen- after Lucario, Victini and Keldeo, which is about Ash bonding with the legendary/mythical of the movie and helping them get over their problems. It really goes to show one of the major problems with Pokemon movies- they just kept recycling plots, sometimes with increasingly less impact. Consider how well-received Lucario is. Now who remembers the Victini Movie? No wonder the series faced declining box office return. They were once bold, but then they decided to play it safe.
