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Rating: 10/10 (27 November 1999)

Based in part on the high praise posted on this website, I bought this movie on videotape the first day it became available. I had high expectations, and this movie met all of them. Forget the fact that it's a cartoon -- this is one of the best movies I've seen. It relies on a time-honored formula: take a simple story, and tell it as well as you can. I can't think of a single wasted line or scene in this movie. Most of all, I can't wait until my two boys (3 and 1 1/2) are old enough to ask me about all the questions this movie raises, and to be as moved by the story as my wife and I are. Only regret is not seeing it on the big-screen.
Note to Brad Bird -- your movie will still be watched and loved years after the name "Pokemon" is long-forgotten. Thank you.