>>18172692glosses over most of the exciting parts of pokemon (you know, the gym battles and rocket raids) for extended focus on the mundane
generic shounen "power of friendship" bs with charizard can overcome anything
I think I'm in the minority on this one, but I liked the Giovanni episode (although I think they should have cut it shorter if they wanted to have a 4 part ova; it was fine on it's own, but took up too much time for such a short special)