Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005) poster
2005 · family · adventure · animation · fantasy

Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama1h 43m2005
ElsewhereIMDb6.86k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • tender
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Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In the legendary past, before Poké Balls were invented, an aura-guiding hero Pokémon named Lucario sensed two groups of armies about to clash, and a threat of a massive war in front of Oldoran Castle in Kanto that would leave no survivors. He transferred this message to his master, the legendary hero Arlon, while he was being attacked by a violent group of Hellgar. During the battle, his sense of sight was lost and he was rendered unable to see. He used the detection of his Aura, and so with the offensive Wave Bomb, he eliminated them. Though by the threat, the queen of Rota, Lady Rin was resolute to die with her civilians, and so Arlon made a choice.

Our read · Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · adventure · animation entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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