by Sando Shojo
Posted 06-28-2003

How's that for alliteration? 

Seriously, though, I'm speaking the truth.  Miramax has awakened the wrath in me by only showing Celebi: A TImeless Encounter in select theaters...none of which were anywhere near my home town.  Not only that, but they cut out the mini-movie, too.  Wait, it gets worse.  To top it all off, they did the same thing to the fifth Pokemon movie, too!  The sixth movie is going to be released, and I can only hope that Miramax will not get the rights to it.

And what about that?  I want to know why Miramax commited such a travesty of justice, by not giving these two fine Pokemon films a nationwide release.  My theory is that they thought, "Well, Pokemon isn't very popular anymore, so let's only show these movies about it in certain cinemas around the country."  Guess what?  There are LOTS, and I mean LOTS, of Pokemon fans who still care.  In the words of EmpressMyuu on the PokeMasters.net forums, "No one should have to go without seeing Pokemon 5."  That is totally right.  And no one should have to go without seeing Pokemon 4, either...or 7, or 8, or 9, or however many Pocket Monsters movies those Japanese people make.  Here's something related that makes me angry: If it were a Dragon Ball Z or Yu-Gi-Oh! movie, it would get a nationwide release.  Those things are still popular.  Plus, there would be hordes of screaming kids who would want to see them.  All the more money for the theaters and Miramax.  So why not do the same thing for Pokemon?  Releasing a Pokemon movie in only select theaters will actually make Miramax LESS money.  Why did they do it?  The world may never know. 

But, still...we've got to save Pokemon 6!