Review BW082: Movie Showdown! Sortie, Isshu Defense Group!!

[Idon'tcare]

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The Cafemochashippers must have had/be having a field day with this.

Oh god, can Dent get his voice any higher? I thought he would faint from exhaustion with all that fangasaming.

Dent, always play the villain in movies. It's made for him. He's the only one who can conjure up a sadistic side.

 

[CommanderPigg]

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NOW KISS

I haven't watched it yet, but judging from the screencaps, it looks like a fun episode. Perhaps not as exciting as I would have expected it to be, but certain Dentoisms are sure to keep me entertained XD

 

[ehh123]

I take it the Iris twin thing is a reference to those two tiny women that hang around with Mothra.

 

[Jukain]

This is a pretty neat ep showcasing pokewood. Dag you, random rivals. By the way, is this the first time a recurring character achieved something significant?

 

[djulienr]

This is a pretty neat ep showcasing pokewood. Dag you, random rivals. By the way, is this the first time a recurring character achieved something significant?

no, not if that includes contest/gym battle rivals...

 

[Ampharos King]

I am glad that TRio had a very minor role in this episode, because their meddling in Luke's first on-screen production was one of the main reasons why I didn't like BW038 (his first episode). It is because TRio was only featured for twenty seconds here, as opposed to the five minutes that they had in the other episode, that we got to see more of the work that Luke and the others put into making this film. Most of the group's pokemon were featured in the film one way or another, and everybody (even Iris) succeeded in the role that they were chosen to play.

The second half of this episode was better than the first, in my opinion. The first half of the episode was relatively bland, and nothing of importance went on until the second half. Cilan and Luke were merely bonding over their love for Pokemon-related films, which forced Ash and Iris to be left out of the group dynamic. As I mentioned above, Ash and Iris were able to fully participate in the production of the film after the commercial break.

I felt that Luke's rival, Jaws, was a bland character who only served to fulfill the antagonistic role in this episode that TRio was unable to. Nevertheless, Luke's victory in the Pokewood competition here served as an important milestone to his dream as an aspiring film producer. We have seen in Luke's debut episode that he didn't have the resources (the production crew, the actors, etc.) to actually produce a good film back then. The character worked in a small movie theater under the supervision of its owner, and had to rely on a relatively limited resource base (construction paper, filming in a nearby park instead of working with a green screen, etc.) to even produce a film.

It is because Ash and co., and ironically enough TRio, showed up in Luke's life that the movie producer was able to create a film successful enough to receive more funding to work on other films. We have seen this progress during this episode. The staff at the Pokewood provided Luke with computer technology, an existing green screen, and a recording studio--resources that he did not have last time, and understandably enabled him to produce a film that was much better than his first. We have seen Luke's aspirations become a reality here, and I felt that this was a proper resolution for his character. I don't think we need to see Luke again after this episode.

I am disappointed, however, that there was no mention of the battle documentary that Luke had wanted to make after he was seen shooting all of the battles in the Club Battle tournament. Furthermore, we didn't get to see his Larvesta at all.

Oh, and we got to see the wild Meloetta that will be travelling with Ash and co. in BW Season 2. Considering that TRio now has access to the most advanced technology in this series, I am actually surprised that TRio did not have the technology to detect Meloetta even after it turned invisible. Pokemon Hunter J wore special visors that enabled her to detect a disappearing Gardevoir. Why wasn't this the case here?

 

[Champion May]

It's kind of sad we did't have a throwback to BW001 - Giovanni giving the mission to the TRio in their black outifts, even when it's just for a minute. Ohwell, it was a fine episode to me, but I really can't stand the so called "rival".

 

[Ashfangirl22]

The part I really enjoyed was Ash saving Meloetta, that was my favorite part ^
I did like seeing Ash act all heroic in the film, hes like that in real life. Dento acts too much like a villain, some times I think he'd be perfect for Team Rocket. I enjoyed the episode over all, look forward to next weeks.

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I was noticing that DentoxAsh scene, so close to kissingXD

 

[Musashi]

Oh, and we got to see the wild Meloetta that will be travelling with Ash and co. in BW Season 2. Considering that TRio now has access to the most advanced technology in this series, I am actually surprised that TRio did not have the technology to detect Meloetta even after it turned invisible. Pokemon Hunter J wore special visors that enabled her to detect a disappearing Gardevoir. Why wasn't this the case here?

Maybe they weren't aware she could do that yet? They have special goggles in the season 2 opener, so I guess they figured out how to track her.

 

[Cybersai]

After watching this episode and someone mentioning TR above, I didn't even see them in the entire episode. I must have blinked and missed their 20 second scene.

I guess its one of Dogasu's complaints come true, why bother have these 20 second scenes? They don't foreshadow anything that can't be done in the eps they actually have a role in.

 

[Dogasu]

I guess their scene in this episode was just to establish that they're after Meloetta? Even though, like you said, we'll be getting that same information anyway when they actually *do* try to capture it.

Also, one of the highlights of Luke's first episode was how the Rocket trio (especially Nyasu) were actually kind of in-character for once. It's too bad that didn't carry over to this episode.

 

[nattfly]

I really enjoyed this episode, especially Dent's gushing about movies and his role as a villain. He's perfect for the role!

The little movie was fun to watch to, even though the beginning was a bit abrupt, but I guess the episode minutes were ticking away. Lukes rival was a bit bland though, Dent's rival from the last episode had much more character. And Zorua in MGM's symbol was a bit of fun.

Meloetta's cameo made me even more excited about season 2!

 

[Hellwarden]

I have to admit, the MGM Logo parody was pretty brilliant. Part of me wishes that the show would have more fun little homages to the real world, but I imagine finding ones that will recognized around world is actually probably a bit harder than most think.

 

[Musashi]

They've done plenty of real world homages before, (like the competitors in the Don Tournament) but most of the time only Japanese fans would get them.

And as awesome as the MGM one is, I find "Dirty Haderrier" to be the far more amusing reference in this episode. XD

 

[Dogasu]

I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but Hachiku's Tsunbear has its footprints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theater-type sidewalk.

 

[Trainer Gabriel]

Rather fun episode, if nothing else. Interesting to see Luke have some competiton here with movie-making.

 

[Piplup]

I really liked that little nod to the MGM Lion with Zorua at the start of the movie, that was cute.

I totally loved that! XD
Also, I liked Cilan going crazy on Ash at the beginning when Ash just wanted the Gym XD and Ash/Pika/Pig looked cute in their costumes <3

 

[Artichoker]

Cilan was a little mean making Iris cry for making her think about being separated from Axew XD Krookodile's debut was so boring, usually pokemon like this make debut in for battles or to cause troubles.... any other pokemon apart from Krookorok and this episode would have been exactly the same (sorry bad english)

 

[Satoshi_Pikachu]

Eh, I thought it was an ok episode. It was fun, but I agree with Dogasu, I wish we could've seen in-character TR. I miss them so much It would've made this episode so much better. To be honest, I was much more excited by the next episode preview XD And I can't wait for season 2!

 

[97SaturnSL1]

Luke's film needed more coconuts, the air speed velocity of European and african pidoves, holy poke ball grenades,a killer buneary and epic organ music at the end.