Review of Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (2004) by Stefan G — 10 Nov 2014

If you've seen one Pokémon movie, you may as well have seen them all, and in my opinion, Destiny Deoxys is the one entry in the Pokémon film series that epitomizes the repetitious nature of the entire film series, and yet I find it hard to believe that Nintendo have made ten more movies, and that they keep doing this year after year.

It's almost as though they finally stopped caring about making movies. In fairness, I'd get tired and cynical if I had to make movies every year. The story isn't completely bad, but it clearly shows a lack of effort, and there isn't a lot of passion.

The movie as a whole is tired and predictable, complete with all the trimmings of an overly long episode of the Pokémon anime. The other Pokémon movies were at least shorter, but I can't help but think that a 90-minute Pokémon movie would be a chore, mainly because there's nothing that really moves me at all.

If there's one good thing about this movie that's even remotely good, it's the animation, but even that seems standard. All in all, this was a very passionless and artificial shell of a movie, and it may as well be a shell of one's childhood too, because you'd have to be very young to get any enjoyment out of it.