5.The Movie made more than 163M$ worldwide. It’s 2016 now and that movie still holds the record for being the most commercially successful Pokemon movie. By comparison, its follow-ups, Pokemon: The Movie 2000 earned US$134M worldwide and Pokemon: The Movie 3 made US$68M. Currently, it’s number 6 on the highest grossing films list and is the number 1 highest grossing anime film from the 90’s!
It is notable that Pokemon is the only franchise that holds multiple positions in the top 10 highest grossing anime films with ‘ Pokemon: The Movie 2000 ‘ being number 10.
Like most other anime movies or series released back in the 90’s. Pokemon The First Movie had to be ‘Americanized ‘.
Nintendo had to give this responsibility to 4Kids Entertainment, and honestly, they did some cool fixes. Legend about Pokemon tears having mystical powers was only mentioned in the English version to give some sort of explanation and context for Ash’s resurrection in the finale. In the Japanese version, it was never explained why the Pokemon were fighting without using any special move in the final battle, but English version fixed it and it was mentioned that Mewtwo was physically blocking all the special moves to make the fight more even. However, some of the scenes were totally removed which can be considered as a negative side of the Americanizing.
The Japanese Staff absolutely loved the changes made to the movie.
Around 30 members of the Japanese production staff of Pokemon: The First Movie decided to watch it in theaters of the USA with the American audience, and that would be the first time they see the re-edited American version of the movie. They were so impressed with the new visuals and original music score composed for the US version that several members were moved to tears during some of the moments like Ash’s resurrection. About 15-20 percent of the films visual were reanimated with the aim of making the scene more exciting and dynamic! The new shoots significantly grab attention as the quality was way higher than most of the film.
ASH never died. Though it is commonly thought that ASH was killed by Mew and Mewtwo’s blast, and was then resurrected by magical Pokemon tears, the film’s director, Takeshi Shudo, has stated that Ash was simply petrified and that the Pokemon tears revived him. However, any human if petrified would be dead in real life.
A direct sequel to Pokemon the first movie was released on DVD and VHS called Pokemon: Mewtwo returns. It was almost an hour long film that featured Ash and his friends encountering Mewtwo and his cloned Pokemon while traveling in the Johto region. The film performed better than expected and was a commercial success.
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