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* This was the only Pokémon movie that featured an audio commentary with voice actors [[Veronica Taylor]], [[Rachael Lillis]], [[Eric Stuart]] and [[Maddie Blaustein]]. It was also the last movie to feature an audio commentary with [[Michael Haigney]] and Norman Grossfeld.

** For some unexplained reason, the audio commentary ends about two-thirds of the way through the film. Whether this was intentional or an editing error is unknown.

* Sammy Oak once did the same thing that {{Tracey}} does in modern times: sketch Pokémon.

* Since the sketchbook didn't time travel with Sammy the first time, but did the second, the notebook Professor Oak has at the end is 80 years old.

** This also means that now there are two versions of the sketchbook that exist in the past, the one that is 40 years older, and the first one that became the one that is 40 years older.

* This movie causes a {{wp|predestination paradox|causal loop}} and a {{wp|grandfather paradox}}. If Sammy was forty years ahead of time in the future, how could his present self have given Ash his Pikachu, or caused Ash to go out on his journey with a Pokémon at all, if there was any doubt of him getting back? As well, could Ash have only gotten his Pikachu because Oak thought ahead in the beginning to capture a Pikachu specifically for him, after that adventure? As most Trainers do not have more than one starter Pokémon, and Sammy clearly saw Ash's Bayleef, knowing that he would be receiving a Pokémon from him, as Ash grew up, would have caused Oak to either go with the [[Johto]] starters or to capture the Pikachu that would become Ash's ahead of time. As the latter, rather than the former, was the case, perhaps this is exactly what happened.

* {{AP|Cyndaquil}} and {{AP|Totodile}} appeared in promotional posters for this movie, but did not appear in the film itself.

* This marks the first time in one of the movies that Jessie, James and Meowth work directly alongside the main villain.

* None of Misty's Pokémon (apart from {{TP|Misty|Togepi}}) appear in this film.

* This is the first Pokémon movie to show a Pokémon evolving (that being {{p|Metapod}} into {{p|Butterfree}}).

* This was the first movie that showed Team Rocket blasting off.

* Meowth makes reference to the real world, thinking that the main antagonist is a "Mexican Wrestler", at first.

* This movie marks the first time when a caught legendary Pokémon is featured in the anime, and also so far the only time when a legendary Pokémon is caught on-screen.

* In the beginning, when Ash is shown being given Pikachu, he is in his normal clothes when in fact he received Pikachu in his pajamas.

* When Mr. White is in his flying boat, his gloves disappear. They are later shown again in the next scene.

* When Sammy runs out of the [[Lake of Life]], the only part of his clothes shown to be wet are his pantlegs beneath his knees, despite having been in the water past his waist.

* In one scene when Celebi is eating a berry, the blue tip of it's left antennae is missing.

* This film is notable that for the first (and so far only) time in the series' history, three scenes were specially animated for Western audiences.

** The first was an alternate scene of Ash calling Professor Oak to find out about Suicune. In the original scene, Professor Oak assumes it is Suicune, then shows Ash a picture from a book of Suicune, gives some info on it; however, when he attempts to write a [[Pokémon senryū]], [[Ash's Muk]] smothers Oak and {{Tracey}} apologizes. In the alternate scene used for the English adaptation, Professor Oak confirms that Suicune is one of the legendary Pokémon, gives information on Suicune, and confirms that he has seen it, and he also tells Ash that the legends surrounding Suicune being the embodiment of the North Wind and being able to purify tainted water are true. Mr. White then calls to Ash and his friends, then they run off with Mr. White to the boat. The scene then cuts to an exterior shot of [[Professor Oak's Laboratory]] in [[Pallet Town]], then it cuts to him sitting inside his lab, wondering whether or not he should have told them about what was going to happen.

** The second scene is a comic relief moment when Team Rocket try to grab some fruit from the Marauder's mech only to fall off and get left behind.

** The third scene is an alternate ending. The new ending is when Ash calls Professor Oak again, telling him of his adventures in the forest and how sad he was that he would never see his new friend again. Oak assures him that him and ''Sammy'' would always be friends, no matter how far apart they are. Misty also directly asks how Oak knew Sammy's name. In the original, Sam was shown returning home to Towa believing that his experience in the future was a dream (thereby avoiding the grandfather paradox as stated above, but creating an error: he believed that what happened was a dream, but he still had sketches from this "dream"). In fact, the only clue for the Japanese audience that Sam was actually the younger Professor Oak was during the credits when Tracey finds Sam's faded sketch of Celebi and Pikachu sleeping among Professor Oak's belongings (this does cause a small continuity error, as Tracey finds the sketchbook stashed away among several other old books despite Professor Oak having being shown to have been recently reading it).

* The {{p|Croconaw}} Trainer is unnamed and has no lines in the Japanese version, however in the dub he is given the name [[Dundee]] and is heard introducing himself to Ash as well as when he sends out Croconaw.