Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team (2024 film)

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team is a 2024 animated film and the first installment of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon film series. A short film based on the continuation of the film, called "After you Left", was released in September (Japan)/December (USA) 2024.
== Plot ==
Hinata, a 14 year old human girl, wakes up one day finding that they have been transformed into a Pikachu, without any memory of how she turned.
In a world devastated by many natural disasters — that have only begun to happen quite recently —  Hinata and Aqua, a Mudkip, join forces and form a rescue team, Team Rescuers.
The team meets other rescue teams, including a top-ranked rescue team consisting of Alakazam, Charizard, and Tyranitar, named Team ACT. The team makes enemies unwittingly with another rescue team, Team Meanies, consisting of Gengar, Ekans, and Medicham, who seek world domination under the disguise of a rescue team.
Soon after, Hinata and Aqua are told of a legend about a Ninetales laying a curse on a human who had deliberately grabbed Ninetales' tail. Ninetales predicted that the human would eventually be reborn as a Pokémon, and that the natural balance of the world would be upset.
In the quest to discover Hinata turned into a Pokémon, the team journeys to where the fortune-teller Xatu resides. Xatu is quick to realize that Hinata was once a human and tells that her human-to-Pokémon transformation is tied together with the natural disasters.
This conversation is eavesdropped upon by Team Meanies' Gengar, who reveals Hinata's secret to the townsfolk and says that eliminating the human-turned-Pokémon in the legend would return the world to normal.
They are confronted by Alakazam, who says the Pokémon held a town meeting on what they must do to save the world: they must find and kill Hinata and anyone who sides with her.
As they give the team one night to get away, the two leave Pokémon Square as fugitives and make their way to the northeastern most part of the world in an effort to elude the teams that are now hunting them down. Along the way, they encounter the legendary birds Moltres and Articuno, who feel the effects of the disasters in their respective areas. 
They befriend an Absol who seeks to find the true cause of the natural disasters. The trio reaches the top of Mt. Freeze only to be cornered by Team ACT.
They get ready to finish Hinata and Aqua off, but are stopped by Ninetales, who reveals that Hinata is not the human in the legend, that both parts of the legend are coincidental occurrences, and that the world is in greater danger caused by the awakening of Groudon. Team ACT proceeds to try and stop Groudon, while the team heads home to clear all remaining suspicion at Pokémon Square.
After a few days, Hinata and Aqua worry, as Team ACT has not come back from their mission to quell Groudon. Asking to rescue the missing Team ACT, Lombre refuses to let them go, saying there are plenty of tougher Pokémon than them. Shiftry convinces three of the strongest Pokémon, Blastoise, Octillery, and Golem, to form a special rescue team and rescue Team ACT.
After a few days, the special team returns defeated.
After being discouraged by Gengar, Hinata and Aqua are able to get everyone's spirits back up, and volunteer to rescue Team ACT themselves. When the team reaches Magma Cavern, they find Charizard and Tyranitar defeated, with Alakazam fighting against Groudon alone before quickly being defeated. 
The team takes matters into their own hands and defeat Groudon. They return to town as heroes, but their celebration is short-lived as grave news arrives from Xatu. A huge meteor, revealed to be the true cause of the natural disasters, is heading for the world, threatening to destroy it.
The only way to stop it is to ask for help from the sky guardian Rayquaza. It is less than cooperative, but after a battle, Rayquaza agrees to use its Hyper Beam to destroy the meteor. The team reawakens on the ground, surrounded by their supporters, where they find that the world is safe once again.
However, Hinata returns to being a human and leaves the Pokémon world behind.
Thirty years later, Hinata now has a husband and daughter who go to the Pokemon Lab, where Hinata works as a Pokémon Professor, to surprise her for Mother's Day.
== Cast (Japanese) ==
== Cast (English) ==
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