Format: MOVIE
Episodes: 1
Episode length: 75 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jul 18, 1998
Until: Jul 18, 1998
Season: Summer 1998
Source: Video game
Average score: 75%
Mean score: 74%
Popularity: 62,686
Favorites: 748
Studio: OLM
Producers: TV Tokyo, 4Kids Entertainment, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Warner Bros. Japan, Imagica
Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Romaji: Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo no Gyakushuu
English: Pokémon: The First Movie
Native: ポケットモンスターミュウツーの逆襲
Synonyms: Gekijouban Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back Pokemon Movie 1 Pokemon: The Origin of Mewtwo Pokemon: The First Movie Kanzenban Pokemon: Mewtwo no Gyakushuu Pokémon Filmen: Mewtwo slår tilbake Pokémon: Film pierwszy Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew Pokémon Filmen: Mewtwo slår tillbaka

Pokémon: The First Movie

★ 7.5 62,686 members

A team of scientists use the DNA of a rare Pokemon, Mew, to create the world's strongest Pokemon, Mewtwo. Not wanting to be used as an experiment, Mewtwo uses its psychic powers in a violent rage to destroy the scientists who created it. Mewtwo then tries to learn how to focus his powers with the aid of Giovanni, the man who funded the scientists' operations, but discovers that it is being used again. So Mewtwo decides to find its own purpose in life, and carry out its revenge on humans by destroying life on earth by using a deadly storm. Ash Ketchum and a group of other Pokemon Trainers are summoned by Mewtwo to have a battle with it, but they soon discover that they're only being invited so Mewtwo can clone their Pokemon for it's own purposes. Ash then tries to find a way to stop Mewtwo's plot before it can be carried out.

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Note: Originally screened in theaters as 75 minutes, a "complete version" was broadcast on TV the following year shortly before the release of Pokémon the Movie 2000, adding a reconstructed storytelling of Ash and Pikachu's first meeting to its runtime making it 85 minutes.