A peek at the Pikachu Pokémon world of wonders -movie land
style.
From clip to clip, the film takes us into the ‘alleyways’ of
many memorable film scenes. It doesn’t clone other movies but it does remind
us of a déjà vu good feeling of the joy of the familiar.
‘La joie de vivre’ is evident in this amazing sleuthing production
about detecting one’s past and finding clues about death -amongst a few other
things.
No disappearing rabbits into hats or out of them in this
magical movie land, but rather action scene sequences within settings based on
memorable films such as Jumanji and Jurassic world. The film is also reminiscent
of Star Wars in some ways.
The latter parallels are meant in terms of settings and
characters mostly, rather than in terms of story line.
The costumes and sets are to behold and clinch the pulse to ‘Aladdin’.
Portals are more the magical lamp style.
From the sequential colourful summary above, we move to the
couch of details.
It’s a mesh and pick and mix of rock and roll stages as well
as of New York style talk show couches -in some scenes. In others, it is a ‘park’
of characters rampaging through danger zones, like in the movies mentioned
above. Instead of dinosaurs or zoo animals we find ourselves faced with Pokémon
monsters of various colours and animal looking traits.
They range from blue to pink to all over hexagons of many forms
of rectangular and circular shapes and sizes -for kids of all ages.
Star Wars ‘Chewbacca’ and all, and perhaps even a pink
looking ‘Cheshire’ style Alice cat too! All can be spotted in this ‘Mad Hatter’
party. ‘New Year’s Eve’ hats not included in the price of the amazing movie…
The story takes us from the ‘discovery spirit channel’ to
the channels of clues found through detection of police work/ NYPD style. We open
the files on the X Pokémons and human 'muggles' alike. Our research and viewing
lead us to the bad: the world of possession.
The ‘intruders’ on the Pokémon worlds prefer possessing their
amazing forms and mutating them rather than befriending them. The latter option
of befriending them is what the good team of human and Pokémon heroes opt for…
As it should be: friendly worlds together of two species
living in peace, rather than the distorted world of false ‘hybridation’.
Follow the clues from scene to ‘movie’, to setting to
setting, to character to character, into the ‘costumed’ finale of ‘freedom from
possession’…And freedom from possessiveness….
We have to -as the team of ‘good guys’- defeat the distorted
hybrid beings and free them from their ‘gargoyleish’ prison of stone and ‘Poke-poses’.
We pause to admire the special effects of puffs and smokes
and flying fires. Action scene style water dragons and ghostly whites of misty
images, take us to the end of the 'filmic' production.
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