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Duke
01-14-2005, 05:13 PM
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Pokémon Advanced: Jirachi Wish Maker

January 21st, 2005


Gotta catch 'em all! Ash, Brock, May, and Max have to race against time to save a Legendary Pokémon from being used to resurrect another Legendary Pokémon!


Time: 5:00pm

(All times in Eastern)


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Main Feature

Jirachi Wish Maker


Ash and the gang are traveling to a certain site where they will see the Millenium Comet, named so because the comet only appears above Earth once every 1,000 years, and only for seven days. They meet up with a traveling festival that sets up shop at the same spot in order to celebrathe the comet. There, the gang is introduced to Butler the Magician and his assistant Diane, who has a strange rock that literally speaks out to Max! In a shocking revelation (well, to the characters anyway), the rock holds the legendary Steel/Psychic-type known as Jirachi, who can make wishes come true. Max and Jirachi become best buds, but something sinister is going on. Who's after Jirachi and for what reason? Can Max take leaving Jirachi after only a week?

Comments: Personally, this is my second-favorite Pokémon movie after Movie 3. If only Ash & co. used more of their Pokémon and there was a remix of "Advance Adventure" (aside from the instrumental), this movie would be perfect. Oh, and hope that CN plays the Ending theme: It's partly in Japanese!


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Mini-Movie

Gotta Dance!


Team Rocket has finally managed to complete a brand new base for Giovanni, and has captured a bunch of Whismur to celebrate. Meowth, Wobuffet, Cacnea, and Seviper are charged with keeping the base safe until Jessie & James get back with the boss. Unfortunately for them, Pikachu, Torchic, Mudkip, Treeko, and Lotad have come to rescue the Whismur! But can even Treeko resist the power of Meowth's new weapon: a staff that makes Pokémon dance!?

Comments: Best. Mini-Movie. Ever. A fitting send-off (as the next two movies don't have any mini-movies in them), complete with a tribute to the leigons of dancing Pokémon in the Japanese Ending themes. (The movie theme song, instrumentally anyway, is the 2nd Advanced Ending "Polka O' Dolka.")


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NOTES

The first Miramax Pokémon movie to air on Cartoon Network!
Not just that, but the first anything from Pokémon Advanced to air on Cartoon Network!
As if that wasn't enough, it Miguzi's first Movie Special!
This is the first movie not to have a theme song remix during the title screen. And the first movie not to have Misty.
Also the first movie to have May, Max, and the Japanese title theme.
The ending theme is the same song that is in the Japanese version: "Make a Wish," except that half of it is in English, while half is in Japanese (4Kids flew the Japanese singer out to New York to re-record it!).
On the DVD, everything is in widescreen except the main feature. That includes the mini-movie, the end credits, and the Japanese music video.
Kids' WB! continues to piss me off. But that's no surprise. :P
To check out what's happening in the Pokémon world on Kids' WB!, check out my monthly talkback (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=130176), which also hosts the Talkback for Movie #7, which airs on Kids' WB! tomorrow at 10am!

Dogasu
01-21-2005, 03:53 PM
What, no link to my edit list? :p

While commercials for the movie have aired on the network and the Adlink (http://www.adlink.com/resource_center/programming_grids/apg.cfm?netid=18151&default_genre=%5BAll%5D&begweek=01/17/2005&starttime=360&endtime=1770&genre=%5BAll%5D) website still lists the movie as airing, the official Cartoon Network (http://schedule.cartoonnetwork.com/xmlServices/ScheduleServices?methodName=mainSchedule) website has "In the Cards" scheduled to air at 5:00pm. I want to say that the movie will still air, but it wouldn't be the first time that a movie scheduled to air on CN has run into legal issues at the last minute that prevented it from airing at its intended time (the Sailor Moon R movie, Rejected, etc.).

Duke
01-21-2005, 03:56 PM
What, no link to my edit list? :p
Why would I bother to link to your highly-outdated Movie 6 page (http://www.bulbagarden.net/~dogasu/movies/seven_nights/seven_nights.html) or your Edit List (http://www.bulbagarden.net/~dogasu/comparisons/movies_specials/mov_ag01.html)?

Dogasu
01-21-2005, 04:16 PM
Yeah, the main Movie 6 page is outdated, but the comparison is still pretty current.

I guess we'll know in about 40 minutes whether or not this movie airs.

Rabi~en~Rose
01-21-2005, 05:03 PM
no Gotta Dance? thats the best mini movie of them all :(

Harlan_Phoenix
01-21-2005, 05:03 PM
I want an avatar of Mewtwo in that cape. That kicked ass.

Duke
01-21-2005, 05:05 PM
no Gotta Dance? thats the best mini movie of them all :(Yea, it's disappointing. Maybe if it airs on Fridays sometime. Then again, the shorts have been DVD extras on the Miramax movies, so they might not have been included in the package.

And as much as I love the prologue in Movies 1 & 3, this one is just a bit better that both of them, due to all the cool poses being shown.

Y'know, I wish that Pokémon sorceress from Johto League Champions (the one who turned Ash into a Pikachu for a while) had a cameo in this movie. It woulda been cool.

Rabi~en~Rose
01-21-2005, 05:14 PM
Yea, it's disappointing. Maybe if it airs on Fridays sometime. Then again, the shorts have been DVD extras on the Miramax movies, so they might not have been included in the package.

And as much as I love the prologue in Movies 1 & 3, this one is just a bit better that both of them, due to all the cool poses being shown.

Y'know, I wish that Pokémon sorceress from Johto League Champions (the one who turned Ash into a Pikachu for a while) had a cameo in this movie. It woulda been cool.

thats a whole lot of good points Duke! :) and yes that witch lady would have fit in well here but they probably didn't want to drum up memories of Johto :sweat: angry May and Brock is hilarious especially May chowing down on those chips out of anger lol

Duke
01-21-2005, 05:18 PM
angry May and Brock is hilarious especially May chowing down on those chips out of anger lolActually, she ate what was left of the ice cream cone, which is even funnier. :p

It was only a matter of time before May's Japanese voice actor reached the US...

Advance Adventure instrumental pwnz all.

Rabi~en~Rose
01-21-2005, 05:29 PM
May being a good nice sister is something we dont often get to see :) all of those quick day passing by scenes are really nice and fun this is such a good movie

PaQ
01-21-2005, 06:11 PM
Wow, the starting time surprised me for the movie. I thought they'd air after Miguzi, not in place of or during.. Guess half the movie is better than not seeing any.

The Koopinator
01-21-2005, 06:19 PM
OMG they're going to revive teh DEATHSAURER111

Oh. That's Groudon. Never mind.

Tak Mazé
01-21-2005, 06:35 PM
Could someone link me up with a good place to buy this??? I only seem to come across the the dodgy VCD copies :(

CyberCubed
01-21-2005, 06:38 PM
I see the movie on DVD all the time in Toys R Us, Target, Best Buy, etc. It's not rare or anything.

My favorite part of the movie was May's wish sidequest. That was just fun to watch.

Absol is a badass and the rest of the movie is pretty good, worth seeing at least once.

Duke
01-21-2005, 06:40 PM
For those of you who want to see the real Groudon, it will make its true animated debut (outside of intros/video screens) this summer on Pokémon Advanced Challenge.

And as if it wasn't obvious, the song everyone hums throughout the movie is "Make a Wish," a.k.a. the ending song for the movie.

EDIT: O.o I thought it was Foster's first, then Puffy AmiYumi...

Golden Darkness
01-21-2005, 06:46 PM
For those of you who want to see the real Groudon, it will make its true animated debut (outside of intros/video screens) this summer on Pokémon Advanced Challenge.
Summer?

With the way Kids WB airs things it wouldn't be till the next season(ie September) till we see the real Groudon.

The Groudon/Kyorge episodes are 97, 98 of the AG arc. The Advanced Challenge season will only go up to episode 92.

Duke
01-21-2005, 06:47 PM
Summer?

With the way Kids WB airs things it wouldn't be till the next season(ie September) till we see the real Groudon.

The Groudon/Kyorge episodes are 97, 98 of the AG arc. The Advanced Challenge season will only go up to episode 92.Oh, I thought those were the last two episodes of this current season. Guess I miscounted.

YES! They're playing the ending theme!

Bah. They've sped it up. Really, really fast to boot. Boo.

Rabi~en~Rose
01-21-2005, 06:50 PM
sped up credits? why? they have 10 minutes left :(

creativerealms
01-21-2005, 07:10 PM
(Makes a responce that he hopes he is not killed for)

Once again another piece of evidance that shows 4kids improvement that 99% of anime fans will ignore.

Duke
01-21-2005, 07:11 PM
Once again another piece of evidance that shows 4kids improvement that 99% of anime fans will ignore.
Yea, the two biggest faults this time were Miramax (main feature not widescreen) and Nintendo (no Japanese version).

LordTerminal
01-21-2005, 07:11 PM
Yeah I'm not happy to see that happen either. And they could've inserted Gotta Dance but instead decided to thrash out HiHi's Yu-Gi-Oh parody episode instead. (Because as we all know, you can't show Pokemon without anything Yu-Gi-Oh related to even the rivalry odds.)

And dang, Ash and Brock cannot sing. All in all, it was a pretty good movie. Apparently, whilst the show gets repetitive over time, the movies keep getting better. And tommorow, Kids'WB is giving us Destiny Deoxys. Not a bad way to kick that event off. (CN and Kids'WB are buddy buddy with each other after all) Damn, now I'm getting the urge to play Colliseum again. (Still haven't gotten Fire Red yet. And no I am not going to play Sapphire again anytime soon.)

Let's hope Deoxys can offer what Jirachi gave us tonight.


A fitting send-off (as the next two movies don't have any mini-movies in them), complete with a tribute to the leigons of dancing Pokémon in the Japanese Ending themes. (The movie theme song, instrumentally anyway, is the 2nd Advanced Ending "Polka O' Dolka.")
If that's anything like Weird Al's Polkamon song for the second movie, I don't want to hear it.

Duke
01-21-2005, 07:21 PM
If that's anything like Weird Al's Polkamon song for the second movie, I don't want to hear it.The English version is all about...dancing. And partying. And Polkamon = Roolz.

Tash
01-21-2005, 08:49 PM
If that's anything like Weird Al's Polkamon song for the second movie, I don't want to hear it.No, it's a very upbeat song... it sounds a bit Russian... to give you an idea, the accompaning animation involved all of the main Pokemon doing a big fancy broadway-style Dance number. It's a real shame that only two of the ending songs were dubbed.

Dogasu
01-22-2005, 12:00 AM
If that's anything like Weird Al's Polkamon song for the second movie, I don't want to hear it.
Don't worry. Polka O' Dolka is a million times better than the musical abortion that is "Polkamon."

lostrune
01-22-2005, 04:20 PM
I just can't get over that Jiraichi sounds as that stupid Rebecca (Yugioh). :p

Tak Mazé
01-22-2005, 04:44 PM
I see the movie on DVD all the time in Toys R Us, Target, Best Buy, etc. It's not rare or anything.

My favorite part of the movie was May's wish sidequest. That was just fun to watch.

Absol is a badass and the rest of the movie is pretty good, worth seeing at least once.
Yeah that's in the US. I need one preferably in my region or at least a company that exports to the UK.

Dudley
01-23-2005, 06:25 AM
Polka O' Dolka is just like Gotta Dance, except in Japanese.

One of the things I don't like about this movie, is that every time one of the characters mouths open, sounds come out. Like when Jirachi was flying up into the sky carrying Groudon: he was silent in the original version but in the English one he's going: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh...

It's unnecessary, not to mention it sounds retarded.