Looking for a positive review? You now know someone here does LOVE the Remake. I had no nostalgia for the first movie, but if you are calm, I'm sure you can see reasons why the remake is better than the original. They made very good changes mainly plot is CONCISE and PERFECT pacing !!! Nothing too long and straight to it, never got bored. First thank that they dropped the Professor's backstory, it dragged, added nothing of value, and was unnecessary to the grand scheme of the movie. Mewtwo is DIFFERENT, we got that. I love that instead they expanded the Giovanni gym battle using Mewtwo. ANDit was VERSUS/DESTROYING AN ONIX along with the Gary Oak Nidoking part. The scene in the original was so short and never fully utilized. It was something I wanted to see more of.

Mewtwo and Gyarados were BADASS in 3D. THEY really stepped up the camera angles and the 3D CGI of the ocean waters were fantastic! The Pokemon battles were AWESOME and even fight with some modern Pokemon moves. The 3D modeling was good, Ash Brock Misty looked like the real deal to me from 2D to 3D.

There were a lot of great minor improvements. Team Rocket are smarter for actually bringing a decent Lapras boat that looks hell lot safer to get into than that broken wooden boat in the storm. Seeing the wooden boat that would obviously capsize was cringe, did anyone have brains?

The Ash scene was way better in the remake than the original. Completely fixed what I didn't like in the first place just by being CONCISE and GOOD PACING. In what is stepping up when there is trouble, Ash was heroic breaking up the fight and in turn perishing which would just be naturally sad.

In the original, the Pokemon vs. clone showdown dragged which not only started being stupid and was cringe. Ash stood and watched and begged them to stop to just run up and sacrifice himself so we supposed to feel all touchy and sad.

In summary, the Remake made the already decent plot GOOD without the cringe drama or stupidity, so it is CONCISE. The movie is really cool and has great rewatch value. Watch this and then Mewtwo Returns. Both Amazing.