>>58789073>>58789074>>58789076The Hoenn movies are fun because they were creative with the plots and locations, and the right amount of interesting slice-of-life, while still feeling like "original" Pokémon movies that were still doing new stuff. To me, things started feeling a bit off and derivative in late DP, and by BW, they'd lost the magic. As for M08, Princess May and Aura Prince Ash had great costumes, it gave Advanceshippers material for drawing and writing a ton of cute stuff, it had a killer soundtrack, it had great settings with nice aesthetics, and it felt interesting.
The 3D model background dancers do not age well, though, especially not when watching the movie in HD. M07, as you said, took some neat risks with the alien horror elements. M09 famously placed May into a mommy role, and provided much more Advanceshipping fuel, and gifted us with May's pink bikini and canon cleavage shot. M06 had some moments too, like when May was very aggressively and angrily eating when she didn't get picked to be in the circus act or when Jirachi made her disappear in response to her telling it to "get rid of the problem." And if I'm not mistaken, the Hoenn movies were the last time we really got "Asshole Ash" in the movies, what with him threatening to beat up the kid in M07, then and getting into a fight with Lucario in M08, with May both times having to step in and calm Ash down.
