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Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution ミュウツーの逆襲 EVOLUTION Mewtwo's Counterattack Evolution | ||||||||||||||||||
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Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution (Japanese: ミュウツーの逆襲 EVOLUTION Mewtwo's Counterattack Evolution, officially known as Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution in Japan) is the twenty-second Pokémon movie overall. It is a CGI remake of the first movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back.
It premiered with Japanese vocals and English subtitles at Anime Expo on July 4, 2019. It was released in Japan on July 12, 2019.
It was first revealed in a teaser trailer following M21 in Japan, which featured Mewtwo.
Other posters and logos
Plot
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Featured Pokémon
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Misty
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Gary Oak (cameo)
- Giovanni
- Nurse Joy
- Officer Jenny
- Dr. Fuji
- Neesha
- Fergus
- Corey
- Miranda
- Raymond
- Team Rocket Grunts
- Trainers
- Scientists
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Bulbasaur (Ash's)
- Charizard (Ash's)
- Squirtle (Ash's)
- Psyduck (Misty's)
- Vulpix (Brock's)
- Donphan (Raymond's)
- Machamp (Raymond's)
- Drowzee (Raymond's)
- Venomoth (Raymond's)
- Pinsir (Raymond's)
- Rhyhorn (Corey's)
- Golduck (Fergus's)
- Nidoqueen (Fergus's)
- Tentacruel (Fergus's)
- Blastoise (Neesha's; Shellshocker)
- Wigglytuff (Neesha's)
- Mewtwo (original series)
- Mew
- Venusaur
- Charizard
- Blastoise
Cast
Soundtrack
- Main article: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution Music Collection
Manga adaptations
- Main article: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution (manga)
Trivia
- This movie was released between SM129 and SM130 in Japan.
- This is the first-ever fully CGI animated Pokémon movie.
- This movie is co-directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara, the former returning after the previous movie was directed by Tetsuo Yajima. This subsequently makes this the first movie to be directed by two people as opposed to one.
- Takeshi Shudō receives a posthumous credit for this movie's screenplay.
- The first poster for the movie is similar to the original teaser poster for Mewtwo Strikes Back.
- This is one of two Pokémon-related movies to be released in 2019, with the other being the live-action Detective Pikachu movie. Coincidentally, both of them feature Mewtwo in a prominent role and heavily use CGI.
- This is the first Pokémon movie to be released in the Reiwa period.
- Unshō Ishizuka's narration is posthumously featured in this movie.
- This is the first Pokémon movie:
- To be a remake of a prior movie.
- To feature Misty and Brock in main roles since Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias and Zoroark: Master of Illusions, seventeen and nine years earlier, respectively.
- To not feature any Pokémon from the concurrent generation.
- To not debut any new Pokémon in the anime since Genesect and the Legend Awakened, nearly six years earlier. Coincidentally, both movies feature a Mewtwo.
Differences from the original movie
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- Mewtwo's armor has a different design, and can also act as a restraint should he rebel. Giovanni attempts and fails to utilize this feature before Mewtwo escapes the Team Rocket base.
- Raymond's Golem is replaced by a Drowzee, in the process eliminating the error present in Mewtwo Strikes Back, where Pikachu manages to knock out the part Ground-type with a Thunderbolt.
- While Mewtwo observes Ash's battle with Raymond, Nurse Joy delivers some exposition about Misty and Brock.
- Ash's Charizard lets itself out of its Poké Ball and tries to battle Dragonite when it lands.
- Team Rocket attempts to take Ash and his friends to New Island in a Lapras-shaped sailboat, with the Viking motif being eliminated entirely.
- Brock tries to flirt with Neesha, which he doesn't do in Mewtwo Strikes Back.
- When Ash is petrified during the movie's climax, he turns to black stone instead of gray rock.
- The ending credits now feature paintings of Ash and his friends in different areas.
- The post-credits scene, which was previously a shot of Mew flying off into the mountains, now shows Mewtwo and the clones flying toward Mount Quena, foreshadowing Mewtwo Returns.
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This movie article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime. |