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“Team Rocket's cloned Mewtwo rebels against humanity, luring trainers into a battle to prevent global destruction.”
Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back
ポケットモンスター ミュウツーの逆襲
7.68
1,495 rank · 285,527 viewers · 470 favorites
Action
Adventure
Award Winning
Comedy
Fantasy
Kids
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Synopsis
Team Rocket's cloned Mewtwo rebels against humanity, luring trainers into a battle to prevent global destruction.
Using the fossil of the Legendary Pokémon Mew, Team Rocket has created the first successful Pokémon clone. Named Mewtwo, the man-made Pokémon quickly becomes upset with the circumstances of its creation and goes on a rampage. It is soon approached by Sakaki, the leader of Team Rocket, and is manipulated into committing evil acts. Repulsed by the tricks of mankind and the cruelties it has suffered, Mewtwo isolates itself from everyone and plots against humans whilst trying to discover its true purpose in life. Disguising as the world's strongest Pokémon trainer, Mewtwo draws in the region's most powerful trainers who want to fight the new, mysterious opponent. With the fate of the world at stake, renowned trainers Satoshi, Takeshi, and Kasumi must battle against Mewtwo and defeat it before it brings about the downfall of humanity.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 39 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 39 viewers settled on.
91%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 7
σ 1.71
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.71 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.6 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 3.7
Yes
No
Score over time
↑ 0.46
Running avg · Feb 2008 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “This is the best Pokémon movie, as it perfectly captures the essence of the anime while delivering a good story. There are no criticisms to be found, making this an easy recommendation for any fan....”
- 7 “Man, this is a classic. Reaching this in my pokemon marathon even I remembered it was quite entertaining, and entertain me it did. These film takes on this ideal of are you really a being of the...”
- 10 “This movie inspired pain in an entire generation. If you experienced that pain first hand as a child, I am sorry you had to go through that. But my god, was this movie finely crafted. Now i...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 33%
Long · 28%
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- Format 1 × 85′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 25m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1998 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-0496 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
- Imagica Producer
- Shogakukan Productions Producer
Licensed by
- 4Kids Entertainment Licensor
- Warner Bros. Pictures Licensor