Pokémon: The Movie 2000/YMMV


 * Awesome Music: Two words: Lugia's. Song. The flute version is very pretty itself, but the orchestral version in the climax? Wow.
 * What about one of the songs on the soundtrack, Polka-mon? Take 2 parts Pokemon, 1 part Weird Al Yankovic and 3 parts awesome and you'll get what may be the best part of the movie.
 * Here's another song from the film "The Power of One", by the late great Donna Summer.
 * And here's yet another song from the soundtrack that is considered as Hilarious in Hindsight: "Flying Without Wings" by Westlife, later Covered Up by American Idol's Season 2 winner, Ruben Studdard.
 * Values Dissonance: Misty yells at Lawrence for collecting Legendary Pokemon as trophies. Which is, you know, basically what you do in the games.
 * To be fair, trainers in the games have to put up a fair fight to catch a Pokemon, and Poke Balls are a lot more comfortable than cages. The "Gotta Catch 'em All" slogan was coined by Norman Grossfeld, who famously knows roughly as much about Pokemon as the average person knows about nuclear fission. Battling is really the main focus of the games, rather than collecting (given that all you get for completing your Pokedex is a diploma).
 * As an amusing side note, the chief who recites the prophecy warning about disturbing the legendaries is named Tobias in the closed-captioning. The same name as a later trainer whose act of capturing and using legendaries in battle opened the subject to debate again.
 * What an Idiot!: Lawrence III apparently decides that destroying the world will be worth it if he can complete his collection.
 * Actually even stupider. He doesn't REALIZE that he's behind it, despite the disruption he's caused being the only logical conclusion. Although when he really takes the Idiot Ball is when he lets the twerps, who're clearly angry at him, loose in his gallery with the imprisoned Birds. When you tool around in an airship the size of a community college, you couldn't think of ANY other place to put them?
 * But he's an ego maniac. He probably wanted them to see how awesome his collection was.