#Watch pokemon the first movie mewtwo strikes back movie#
It should trigger a similar wave of sentimental nostalgia for anyone who's ever wanted a Charmander to call their own.įor a subset of passionate fans, Pokémon: The First Movie was a cultural event, breaking multiple box office records on its way to becoming the highest grossing anime in the United States to date. More than two decades later, a nearly scene-for-scene remake, Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution, has arrived on Netflix, falling into the streamer's Top 10, and taps into the memories of why I poured so much attention into all the Pokémon games, cards, and show in the first place. Her loss, because Pokémon the First Movie was amazing. The movie was where she drew the line, so she let me, a friend, and my brother sit in a mostly empty theater by ourselves.
It was the middle of a weekday, and there was no way my accountant mother was going to skip a bunch of work to sit through 96 minutes of a children's anime movie when she already had to tolerate me watching Pokémon every day before school, calming me down after episodes - like the one where Pikachu almost leaves his main boy Ash to live at the Pikachu colony - knocked me out on my inconsolable kid ass.
The first movie I ever saw free from adult supervision was Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back in November of 1999.