The Pokémon franchise has the track record of playing the amnesiac game whenever a new season starts on TV, but so far the movies have done a good job of remembering their facts. Not this time: Ash has actually met Mewtwo twice by now, in two separate movies, but unless there are two Mewtwos that were created in Team Rocket labs, Ash has no recollection of meeting this one - nor does the sex-changed-Mewtwo recall meeting Ash and learning some valuable lessons of humanity and acceptance. That aside, this movie is a somewhat touching tale of a group of revived Pokémon, Genesect, who are brought tothe world of today by the power of man and slightly altered before their eventual escape into the wild.

The scene of the action is Pokémon Hills (a beautiful environment in the heart of a city for different Pokémon to live in), in a NYC replica, New Tork City. It sets a fine dilemma of new inhabitants trying to drive away the old, when the Genesect come looking for their home that hasn't exited for millions of years.

The fights, after a while, got a bit redundant. Ash and his friends were rendered to pointless one-line comments and to state the obvious, before Ash once again stood up to reason with the fighters. (Where have we seen this before? Oh, right, the first Pokémon movie, when Ash stepped between Mew and Mewtwo - with legendary results.)

Deep down, the story is touching, but the execution lacks a little, not finding a necessary sharpness in the midst of the plot repeating itself until long enough has passed for the story to progress.