#m019

Volcanion is a great legendary for the movie, usually they’re cutesy smol legendaries or personality-free forces of destruction but here we have a good middle ground with a tsundere type who grows and changes as he interacts with the characters.

Speaking of I love Ash in this movie, it’s good to see him honest to god fighting with someone and getting into petty squabbles and shit, I kinda missed that lol. And I’m also a sucker for seeing how much shit the poor kid goes through,in the end though he gets to be a badass with Greninja so it’s cool. It also felt like the rest of the group were allowed to do more, with Clemont finding away to free Ash and Volcanion, Serena making outfits and all of them actually taking part in the battle. TR even has a good role like wow they actually serve a purpose in this movie!

The only negatives I can really think of is that it probably didn’t need to be as long as it was, and Magerna isn’t super interesting, it’s cute but she could’ve done more. Also I didn’t really care about the movie characters (the blondes) but that’s expected. Overall though this movie was a pleasant surprise, I’d say watch it.