When Nick and Griffin find out how poorly Pokemon: The First Movie was reviewed, they set out to create a game where players review it the right way.
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virgil.alonso
26.11.20221.) Roger Egbert is a legend
2.) Roger Egebert understands how pop culture works.
Below is the last three sentences of his review:
"But I may have completely bypassed the point and misinterpreted crucial Pokemon lore. This may disqualify me from ever becoming a Pokemon Trainer. I can live with that."
He did a pretty good job.
holotape
25.11.2022Boyp howduy
Melissa Koop
25.11.2022Support comment
Sid Hackney
25.11.2022Emil is 23 now. I wonder if he's still scamming olds.
Kzierbold
25.11.2022I love how Griffin tries to correct Nick's pronunciation of Emil but then decides "nah its not worth it"
Leebee
25.11.2022"ehmill"
MorningMeasure
25.11.2022I finally found Emil….it's Ebert's stepchild's kid
Frank Cortalano
25.11.2022Thank you for making a clip for this. This is my favorite episode of the podcast
mitkitty
25.11.2022I know it's not actually that important but this ep just…made me so angry….I'm not even that big a fan of the first movie but fuck's sake, 90's reviewers, it's a fun kid's franchise! Would you seriously take your kid to go see AKIRA or Mononoke? THEY'RE NOT THE SAME KIND OF MOViE!!!
TheGameGuy
25.11.2022Boyp Howduy
Enoch Kim [yahooeny]
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AmePeryton
23.11.2022You gotta humble yourself before mewtwo
TacitIron Hav
23.11.2022I can acknowledge my memories of the first movie just being nostalgia, but I'm pretty sure 2000 was dope.
RandomU5erName
23.11.2022Hol' up, hol' up, hol' up, hol' up be humble
Christopher Batson
23.11.2022I'm really glad they animated this! Next to Tara's profound misunderstanding of basketball and Shadow of the Colossus, this is one of my favorite bits from the show
DaveKap
23.11.2022To the guy making these vids: Griffin falling off the left side and then slowly laughing his way downward was the best thing ever. Please, more of that kind of thing, including Nick's head spinning. I'm laughing harder at the animation than the actual jokes when you do this stuff.
Cap
23.11.2022I love how they included Pat's Toad tweet in there. "Boyp howdu…"
Sleeping Rabbit
23.11.2022Why did I never watch these until now. Fuck me, so good.
Igorowan
23.11.2022Ever wonder why every single Pokémon movie starts with "This is the world of Pokémon. Inhabited by mysterious creatures, etc. etc.", because the first one didn't have that, it assumed you watched the anime to know what was going on, so they tried to ease the new viewers.
Celeste Smith
23.11.2022I listened to this podcast episode in the car and I had to pull over and stop driving because I was laughing so hard I couldn't see. thanks for trying to murder me, soft boys.
8tymology
23.11.2022ｉｔ ｍａｋｅｓ ｔｈｅ Bort ｌｏｏｋ ｊｕｓｔ ｌｉｋｅ The Bart Man
Ryse Intide
22.11.2022god this bit was so good. thanks boys
LetsNeverPlayAgain
22.11.2022"Cristal" not "Crystal"
sunny z.
22.11.2022How did the video editor get the polygons on the sides of Nick's and Griffin's portraits to bounce with the audio levels? Like what software does that?
dooe
22.11.2022That simile is so bad it makes Billy Crystal look like the NInja Turtles
Monica
22.11.2022can we get a 'humble yourself before mewtwo' shirt please
M. Wayne
22.11.2022Is "Emil" also the kid from "Fucking Stop It, Kyle"?
Felix Schmidt
22.11.2022Pokémen
MetaFess
22.11.2022boyp howduy
Kavukamari
22.11.2022"this is a movie that knows its audience" yeah that's 100% accurate lol
PikaPerfect
22.11.2022If you didn't like the movie, fine, but at least make your review make sense and have some knowledge of what you're reviewing like what the fuck even are half if these lmao
Mudig
21.11.2022Delusional fanboys clouding their judgement through nostalgia. This movie was awful, every way you look at it…just awful.
Obsidian Dragon
21.11.2022HOLY SHITE THE POKEMON WAR THING BRINGS UP BAD FLASHBACKS
My bro and I got some Pokemon Cards (And for some reason they were all monsters) but didn't have the rules or anything, so instead of googling it or anything, my crummy father is just like "Play war using the HP of the cards as the value." and like… He kept on having us play that for hours because he refused to let us watch TV. And that's the story of why I hate War.
TakeYourPills!
21.11.2022What the fuuuck ahah
casey
21.11.2022Emil seems cool, but he's no cheeto champion.
Fryd Fish
21.11.2022Yeah but was it good or not
Sam Woodson
21.11.2022Emil chaotic evil
Willy Isolation
21.11.2022Emil pulled a fast one
StrangeDuckling
21.11.2022When I was little whenever my mom would take us to the movie rental place I'd have her rent the fuckin' Pokémon movies (on VHS, ofc) over and over.
Shit was lit
8000 cats
21.11.2022Learning about a 6 yr old scamming a movie critic out of his Pokémon cards is easily one of the funniest things I've heard
Galvarg
21.11.2022i`m pretty sure they just gave it a bad review because its based off of a game, but the movies are actually good.
a a
19.11.2022It's more than safe to say that critics/reviewers, especially of art (which is subjective), are more useless than a milk crate full of slimy hamster turds.
They are worthless and talentless losers who probably failed at whatever they're throwing shade at and can't get over their extreme inferiorites and self hatred.
Their irritating NEED*, just such a deep *NEED to sound intellegent is so f@$king cringy. They are just so darn desperate to just f@$king drill it home how aware and "in touch" and cool they are. They are some of the worst fake arse posers ever to suck air.
And of course they just come off as the dennis miller douchbag brain-dead use-big-words-wrong type. It is pathetic. Just go to RT or any other movie review site and I can guarantee you that 95% of the GOOD or just plain enjoyable movies are under 50 of whatever tomato meter they got and every douchy vague self indulgent and ultimately either offensive just to be "provacative" or so up it's own arse it created a black hole scores above a 95. Or some trashy sexist BS like Force Awakens. shudders
They're fetid diseased rats. Always scurrying to the eaaiest route to the easiest and quickest dollar/praise. These days it seems to be "men bad, woman good." Ugh, they're even too stupid to understand feminism, they just wanna spit venom at male actors, character and directors while sucking the labias of every woman who breathes. No matter how good or bad they are. Just following the trends without any awareness of anything below the surface. Cowardly and mindless.
Movie reviewers are walking issues of GQ or Esquire magazine. Desperately clinging to a rapidly fading, if not dead-as-a-corpse, relevancy. Selling shite movies/fashion under the table and calling them "reviews". And could not possibly be any farther from intellegent, thoughtful, or cool. I cannot fathom how i'm supposed to express my personal sense of style or culture by buying what some a$$hole who has never met me tells me to
And please God don't get me started on games "journalists". Set them all on fire. Who f@$king pays for these clowns?!
a a
19.11.2022Roger Ebert (is or was??? who gives a poop) like a dumb beefy core wrapped up in a series of thick "look at me imma smart boi" tortilla layers (I adore laborious simlies, I could so crush it as a movie critic). He gets what it takes to create a good review (research) but just whiffs hard on the actual excecution (plays the TCG , which is like playing baseball to understand a video game).
He states that he has researched the Pokemans in order to gain legitimacy to judge from upon high something he clearly does not understand nor deserves the right to comment upon. But is too dumb and lazy to actually DO any decent research.
Remember that when some shitehead shites on something out of ignorance and considers themselves too good to bother to understand it, their opinion is worthless and shouldn't get you down.
big body
19.11.2022i want the whole thing to listen to
edit: way to come through in my time of tribulation, RSS
AspyHC
19.11.2022I do not like the Griffin simulacrum. He’s staring into my soul. Hungry.
Spencer Willits
19.11.2022The sad thing is I never before realized that's why Ash's last name is Ketchum, it's one of those things you hear until you dont pay attention to; RIP me
Ezonater
19.11.2022You're telling me this whole time I've been watching Nick Robinson and MBMBaM and NEVER KNEW THAT THEY WERE CONNECTED???
zmand97
19.11.2022So I just found this out. Just to give some insight, The Room, Howard the Duck, and even Cats got better scores than Pokémon: The First Movie.
Save me
19.11.2022Some of the critic reviews I found online from back in the day were straight-up xenophobic and insulting.
Dwain Simmons
19.11.2022The Japanese version is not horrible