Pokémon 3: The Movie

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A movie poster for this movie.

Plot

Spell of the Unown

Pokemon 3: The Movie, also known as Pokemon 3: The Spell of the Unknown, focuses on the town of Greenfield. A resident of the town is Professor Spencer Hale, a research scientist who is researching on the elusive Unown. He and his assistant, Skyler, discover a site of ruins but Hale is sucked into the dimension of the Unown.

His disappearance leaves his young daughter Molly alone with her mother disappearing previously. Molly finds a box of tablets containing Unknown images and begins resembling the letters which summons the Unknown themselves. The Unknown use their powers to make Molly's wishes come true, transforming her manor house into a crystal-like palace which spreads across the town and cuts her off from the world. A fake Entei is created to represent Molly's father. Various people come to help sort out the Unknown, including Professor Oak and Delia Ketchum, Ash's mother.

Meanwhile, Ash Ketchum and his friends have landed into Greenfield in the process and agree to join in the rescue mission to save young Molly. However, Entei kidnaps Delia, following Molly's request for a mother as well. Through Entei's powers, Delia is hypnotized into thinking she is Molly's mother and ends up being kidnapped. Ash, Misty, Brock and their Pokémon head out to the mansion to save Delia, communicating with Professor Oak and Skyler thanks to a PokéGear device given to them by a Pokémon trainer named Lisa. Team Rocket try to investigate the mansion only to be blasted out of the air by Entei into the depths of the mansion. Molly watches Ash and the others through a television and falls asleep, imagining herself being a Pokémon Trainer. Entei then creates a dream version of Molly, however she is an adult trainer, and takes her to battle the three. She first fights Brock but her dreamed-up Pokémon are stronger than his, and then she has a more friendlier fight against Misty in an underwater battle but the winner is not shown.

Ash manages to locate Molly and Delia, but Molly refuses to leave with him and the mansion transforms. Entei refuses to allow Ash to leave with his mother, and fights his Pokémon. He then blasts Ash and Pikachu off a cliff, but they are saved by the arrival of Ash's Charizard. Charizard with Ash on his back, battles Entei until he is knocked out of the sky. Entei nearly kills Charizard until Molly commands him to stop and begs that no more fighting happens, which manages to stop Entei. Ash and his friends convince Molly to leave with them, Entei revealing he was created by the Unknown to be her father.

The Unown suddenly lose control of their powers and start to seal the group in the mansion. Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, Misty, Brock, Delia, Molly and Team Rocket escape down to the hall where the Unknown are. Pikachu and Charizard attempt to break the forcefield protecting the Unknown, but they are joined by Entei, combining their powers to destroy the shield with Molly's support. Entei sacrifices himself and the Unown return to their dimension, reversing all of their effects on the world and returning Professor Hale to the ruins where he vanished.

The group venture outside where Professor Oak, Skyler, Lisa and others meet them. Team Rocket hide in the mansion upon seeing all of the police outside and vow they will succeed or fail in their next scheme. In the end credits, Charizard and Lisa depart from Ash's company, and Molly is seen with her own Teddiursa and is reunited with her father, and later, her mother.

Pikachu & Pichu

The film comes accompanied by a short minimovie featuring Pikachu. In this minimovie, Pikachu and his friends are left on a skyscraper in Big City by their trainers, who go off to prepare an unknown surprise for the Pokémon. Pikachu meets the Pichu Brothers, saving the younger one from falling off an opposite building. Pikachu is chased off a flagpole by a group of Murkrow and uses a group of Hoppip to reach the other side, sending Meowth who is window-cleaning, flying into a billboard. The Pichu Bros. assist Pikachu to return to his friends but they end up going on a journey across the city to the Pichu Bros' playground. On the way, they get chased by a Houndour who they later encounter again. The angry Houndour chases the three around until he nearly knocks the playground over. Pikachu, the Pichu Bros., Houndour and their assortment of friends manage to save the playground. Pikachu realizes it is nearly six o'clock and he must return to his friends before Ash, his trainer, does. Pikachu and the Pichu Bros. use a tire to get to the building, sending Meowth flying again. The three arrive in the nick of time, the Pichu Bros. departing. Ash, Misty and Brock arrive and take the Pokémon into a room where a party has been laid out for them in celebration of Ash and Pikachu's one-year anniversary of their first meeting.

Cast

Regular characters

• Rica Matsumoto (Veronica Taylor in the English adaption) as Satoshi (Ash Ketchum in the English adaption), the main protagonist of the film. He is a young boy who wishes to be a Pokémon master and free his mother from the clutches of Me Snowdon.
• Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu, Satoshi's first Pokémon.
• Mayumi Iizuka (Rachael Lillis in the English adaption) as Kasumi (Misty in the English adaption), a Pokémon trainer and Satoshi's travelling companion.
• Yūji Ueda (Eric Stuart in the English adaption) as Takeshi (Brock in the English adaption), a Pokémon breeder and Satoshi's travelling companion.
• Satomi Kōrogi as Togepi, a Pokémon owned by Kasumi.
• Megumi Hayashibara (Rachael Lillis in the English adaption) as Musashi (Jessie in the English adaption), a member of the Team Rocket. She, along with Kojirō but is also mis leaded and Nyarth, follow Satoshi into the Crystal Tower.
• Shin-ichiro Miki (Eric Stuart in the English adaption) as Kojirō (James in the English adaption), a member of Team Rocket.
• Inuko Inuyama (Maddie Blaustein in the English adaption) as Nyarth (Meowth in the English adaption), a member of Team Rocket. Unusually for a Pokémon, he has the ability to walk upright and is capable of human speech.
• Yūji Ueda (Kayzie Rogers in the English adaption) as Sonans (Wobbuffet in the English adaption), a Pokémon owned by Musashi.
• Shinichirō Miki as Lizardon (Charizard in the English adaption), a Pokémon owned by Satoshi that returns from Charicific Valley in time to save Satoshi from a pinch.
• Satoshi's other Pokémon include:
  • [[Mika Kanai] as Chikorita
  • Yūji Ueda (Kayzie Rogers in the English adaption) as Hinoarahi (Cyndaquil in the English adaption)
  • Chinami Nishimura (Kayzie Rogers in the English adaption) as Waninoko (Totodile in the English adaption)
  • Megumi Hayashibara (Tara Jayne in the English adaption) as Fushigidane (Bulbasaur in the English adaption)
  • Yūji Ueda as Yorunozuku (Noctowl in the English adaption)
• Kasumi's other Pokémon include:
  • Shinichirō Miki as Hitodeman (Staryu in the English adaption)
  • Shinichirō Miki (Eric Stuart in the English adaption) as Nyorozo (Poliwhirl in the English adaption)
  • Ikue Ōtani (Rachael Lillis in the English adaption) as Tosakinto (Goldeen in the English adaption)
• Takeshi's Pokémon include:
  • Shinichirō Miki as Zubat
  • Aikawa (Rachael Lillis in the English adaption) as Rokon (Vulpix in the English adaption)
  • Unshō Ishizuka as Iwark (Onix in the English adaption)
• Unshō Ishizuka (Rodger Parsons in the English adaption) as the Narrator

Guest characters

• Akiko Yajima (Amy Birnbaum in the English adaption) as Me Snowdon (Molly Hale in the English adaption), a five-year-old girl from Greenfield who organizes the kidnapping of Hanako. Her Pokémon consist of Kingdra, Mantine (voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi), Mokoko (Flaaffy in the English adaption), Himegura (Teddiursa in the English adaption) and Gomazō (Phanpy in the English adaption)
• Naoto Takenaka (Dan Green in the English adaption) as Entei, a legendary Pokémon created by the combined forces of Me's dreams and the power of the Unown. and the main antagonist but turned good at the end.
  • Takenaka and Green also voice Doctor Sully Snowdon, Me's father and a student of Doctor Orchid.
• Ai Kato (Lisa Ortiz in the English adaption) as Rin (Lisa in the English adaption), a bandana-wearing Pokémon trainer who battles Satoshi in Greenfield. Her Pokémon consist of Aipom (voiced by Etsuko Kozakura), Granbull, Mankey, Kirinriki (Girafarig in the English adaption), Butterfree and Nuō (Quagsire in the English adaption).
• Hirohide Yakumaru (Ted Lewis in the English adaption) as John (Schuyler in the English adaption), Doctor Sully's assistant.
• Kōichi Yamadera as David, Me's butler.
• Kōichi Sakaguchi as the Cameraman
• Yōko Sōmi as the Reporter

Other characters

• Unshō Ishizuka (Stuart Zagnit in the English adaption) as Doctor Orchid (Professor Oak in the English adaption), a Pokémon scientist and the teacher of Doctor Sully.
• Masami Toyoshima (Veronica Taylor in the English adaption) as Hanako (Delia Ketchum in the English adaption), Satoshi's mother and a childhood friend of Doctor Sully.
• Tomokazu Seki (Ted Lewis in the English adaption) as Kenji (Tracey Sketchit in the English adaption), Doctor Orchid's assistant.
• Ayako Shiraishi (Megan Hollingshead in the English adaption) as Nurse Joy
• Chinami Nishimura (Megan Hollingshead in the English adaption) as Junsā (Officer Jenny in the English adaption)

Box office

The film wasn't very successful in the US, opening at #4 on opening weekend, grossing $8.4 million from 2,675 theaters. The film had a 65% drop in its' second weekend, grossing $2.6 million. The film ended up with $17,052,128 in America, with the film creating more revenue at the foreign box office, making $51,359,147 respectively. The film may not have been as successful in the box office when compared to previous films, (Pokémon: The first movie made $163,644,662, Pokémon: 2000 made $133,949,271.) Despite this, the movie still made a significant profit margin with a worldwide gross of $68,411,275.

Soundtrack

Pokémon 3: The Ultimate Soundtrack
Soundtrack by Various artists
Released	2001
Genre	Pop
Length	58:35
Label	Koch Records
Producer	John Loeffler

Pokémon 3: The Ultimate Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the third series and the movie. Many of the songs were featured on the Totally Pokémon album, but as that was not released outside of America and Australia, this soundtrack gave European fans a chance to own the music. In Australia, some copies of the CD were released with a bonus disc of the musical score of Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (which was also released as a separate disc worldwide), Pokémon The Movie 2000 Original Motion Picture Score.^{[citation needed]} The Japanese and English-language soundtracks contain different tracks.

The second track, "To Know the Unknown" was performed by girl group Innosense. Tracks 13 to 15 are karaoke versions. The CD also features two Pokémon videos, the Pokérap and a scene from the film, which are accessible upon insertion of the disc into a computer.

Tracklisting

1. Pokémon Johto [Movie Version]
2. To Know the Unknown
3. Pikachu (I Choose You)
4. All We Wanna Do
5. He Drives Me Crazy
6. You & Me & Pokémon
7. Song of Jigglypuff
8. Pokérap GS
9. Two Perfect Girls
10. Pokémon Johto [TV Version]
11. Biggest Part of My Life
12. Medley from "Spell of the Unown"
13. Pikachu (I Choose You) [Karaoke Version]
14. Song of Jigglypuff [Karaoke Version]
15. You & Me & Pokémon [Karaoke Version]