Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Warm, breathless, gentle family / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Ash and friends (this time accompanied by newcomer Dawn) arrive at an idyllic village on their way to their next Pokemon contest, where chaos will soon erupt with the prophecy of two Pokemon Gods (Dialga and Palkia) and the arrival of a mysterious, seemingly deadly Pokemon named Darkrai, which has the power to distort space and time.
Our read · Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai (2007) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal 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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