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Pokemon Month: Best of Pokemon: The First Movie Commentary Track
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Welcome to Pokemon Month where we aim to be the very best podcasters like no one ever was! This month we are diving into the weird and wonderful world of Pokemon, from its dubious rumours to it's film debut! In this video, Satsunami and Martin MacAlistair join forces to comment over Pokemon's first blockbuster entry Pokemon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back! And with a naming convention like that, things can only go right...right?
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Transcript
Introduction and Special Commentary
00:00:00
Speaker
Hi I'm Mark McCaster. Welcome to Chatsunami. We're here for a very special month. It's Godzilla month. It's not Godzilla month. It's Digimon month. Welcome to Pokemon month.
00:00:23
Speaker
Hello everybody and welcome to this very special commentary track of Pokemon The First Movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back and
Promotional Efforts and Marketing
00:00:32
Speaker
Knuckles. Joining me today is none other than the Pokemon master himself, Martin McAllister. Martin, welcome back. Thank you for having me on the show. I'm very excited to talk about this film. No, no, no. Give it the full title. Pokemon The First Movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back. I assume we're watching the Japanese version and not the... What kind of film?
00:00:53
Speaker
Do you think I am?
Mewtwo's Quirky Traits
00:00:55
Speaker
As soon as it's in English. Yes. If we had to wait there, we'd be like, is it in English or is it in Japanese? We don't know. I mean, even if you look at some of the promotional material, they went hard for this one. I mean, it was even in the SpaghettiOs. Get out of my SpaghettiOs, you two. You son of a bitch. Do you know fun facts?
00:01:20
Speaker
You should see the face he's making, right? Fun fact, what? Mewtwo in the comics has a big spoon. So it's not necessary. It's not out of the realms of possibility that he's coming from a spaghetti was okay.
00:01:39
Speaker
Let's talk about the film. I am talking about the film! Wow, you remember that Pokemon card? I also love how very lax these people are. Yeah, they've got that atmosphere about them of I'm not about to be blown up. Which is a very bad atmosphere to have when you're about to be blown
Logistics and Management Skills of Mewtwo
00:01:57
Speaker
up. Yeah, how wrong they are. I'm just an experiment. A laboratory specialist. Yes. I'm going to say like, more or less, man. I was going to say, it's like blowing up the Harry and Bruce act to do that.
00:02:10
Speaker
Oh no, a secret recipe! Oh no, the original recipe! That's why they had to get rid of it, beauty blew them all up! Oh so is this the first episode of Pokemon where they kill people? Because those people are definitely dead. No, they're fine, this guy's shit like a moon.
00:02:28
Speaker
Doctor Moon, no! I may be a lab experiment with your shape like a moon. Yeah, you create ourselves, Avon, what of? Do you think commercial planes fly over this island? And if you look to your left, you'll say, oh my god! I have a sister that works in there. Not anymore. I love how he's got a, like, game cube handle. I have to pick him up and vote for him.
00:02:55
Speaker
What does Giovanni know about psychic powers? He's got a big spin collection. I have a cat. Cats aren't psychic. Well, not that you know. Oh, of course. Also, who goes to a gym with an Onyx? You're begging to be beaten up in the street. Oh boy, my first battle. Oh no!
00:03:17
Speaker
Onyx, my love! It's my level 5 Onyx. I have spoons. Give me the spoons. Oh no! Oh no, my spoons! There can only be one.
00:03:30
Speaker
Oh no, electricity might work like this! Why am I here? I love that because it's like me at work, right? And you know, you're doing like something very mundane and then you're like, but why am I here? I relate to muting more when I'm an adult rather than a child. And you two have some banger lines in this. Oh he does, yeah. How is he gonna tidy up that island? He's gonna get a lot of poke builders.
00:03:55
Speaker
I was thinking like do you get contractors in and how does Mewtwo get contractors in? Can I get a pocky credit card?
00:04:04
Speaker
I can't express. Here he is, Captain America himself. Team Magma? Yeah, no, that's a Team Aqua one. It's on a Team Magma column. Yeah, I think everyone was, you know, going wild being like, oh, it's Team Aqua! Even though they didn't exist at the time. I think I'd say, like, yeah, this is one of those
Power Dynamics in Pokémon Universe
00:04:23
Speaker
retro specs and things. They always just like the look of the logo. I actually just want to leave the commentary track. Just mute me for a bit. Welcome to Pokémon Karaokemon!
00:04:33
Speaker
Don't find you're really cool. And he's wearing weighted ankle bracelets if he takes him off, so much stronger. Yeah, just run! If you're weightless! Gravity is no longer my master! But, yeah, this is final! What a physique to be fair. I'm also... Working towards forearms. Working towards forearms.
00:04:55
Speaker
The rare double bench press. I think the concept of power scaling doesn't really work. I'll perish the thought. Pikachu is like a multiversal threat. The spirit bomb. Of course. Do you think Pikachu can bounce this bit of bomb back?
Nostalgia of Pokémon Card Trading
00:05:15
Speaker
Pikachu is iron tail.
00:05:18
Speaker
Cause you know if you've got a pure heart and Pikachu obviously does, so just throw it out there. Could Pikachu let me own your heart?
00:05:26
Speaker
throw a master ball, that's the only way to catch people. Do you remember when we were in school and people used to trade the cards around? Yes, because I had its own card. Yeah, I had its own card. But I remember someone gave me that and there was like a huge stink because a lot of kids were giving away the card. So like, mums were on the phone, my mum would go do it to other mums and say, oh, you give such an analyst.
00:06:02
Speaker
It's a Spanish meme.
00:06:08
Speaker
See that screen of him holding his hat? I don't know why but I just wanted to point that out. Do you like me? Yes, no. Sometimes I'd do that if there's a storm outside. See I'd never thought about how did he build this until you mentioned it. Oh look it's me under the truck.
00:06:30
Speaker
He's under the sea under the truck. Oh no, that's the sea.
Mewtwo's Diverse Skill Set
00:06:35
Speaker
Oh no, they ruined it. I'm just gonna say, that's the sea beside Vermonian City. He's got like a big spiral staircase. He's got the big one now. Why do you need a one now?
00:06:45
Speaker
I mean, he's an aesthetic girl. He likes what he likes. Well, true, true. Does this building have plumbing? Like, did Mewtwo learn plumbing and, like, electric and stuff? What do you mean? Does Mewtwo go to the toilet? Does he have his big waterbox on the sky? No, I'm not so bothered about Mewtwo's biology. What does it mean, like, did he have to, like, this is before YouTubes, you couldn't just YouTube how to do stuff, so how did he learn how to do electricity?
00:07:13
Speaker
That is an amazing mental image for you. I mean, have you seen his hands? Do you? Kind of like, type that into a full page. Also, who came here with that vein and that? And was like, yeah, I'm going to take on the world's greatest Pokémon trainer. Read the type chart, mate. I mean, read the room. To be fair, this guy's just walked in with a peek at you, so. But you know how they say later on how, oh, not only a small number of trainers made it over. Does that imply that
00:07:43
Speaker
Some of them didn't make it. Yeah, does that imply there's a lot of PC Pokémon not getting lifted?
00:07:51
Speaker
Oh my, oh my indeed,
Team Rocket's Ignored Disappearance
00:07:53
Speaker
oh no. Did Mewtwo have to phone a fairy company and be like, hi, my name is Mewtwo. I want to get some of these guys over. Would you be able to run a fairy? What kind of sizes do you have? Would you be able to get someone on the other island that can talk and video some of me? There's a lot of logistics here. A lot of boring things he has to do. Also, I just love seeing that line by Broke there where he said, she sure looks familiar. And I just have to sit there like,
00:08:18
Speaker
Nudge Joy looks familiar because it's like the one big matrix pod they all come out of. Can you imagine if this poor 10 year old boy's been bodied by like an onyx let's say or something, he's lying bleeding out in the ground and she's just like some trainers have to really have to do this themselves. It is their challenge.
00:08:43
Speaker
You know, you're like, there's something wrong here with you, lady. What city in Canto is that accent from? It's actually maybe, you know, dialect for fuchsia city. I was going to say, ruchia city. Okay, that's good. Speaking of accent. This is offensive to all Scandinavians, I guess. Oh, hold on, she said Vikings or Vikings? Yeah, that implies there's Vikings. Yep.
00:09:14
Speaker
That is such an American statement. That is world destroying that is a Minnesota and Pokemon. I mean if there's two Pokemon that can take out Indian elephants then the Minnesota Vikings aren't really that far of a stretch.
00:09:37
Speaker
Good thing she had a Pokeball in her hand. I was just thinking that. Good times she managed to get Starmie as well, not like Psyduck. She just panics and swims away. The yoga to Brock had any Pokemon that could swim. Can you imagine being the voice actor in this situation? It's like, okay, your character's drowning. Isn't my character a child?
00:10:01
Speaker
God, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. OK, I don't think this is working, does it? Read the down script. This is not what my character would do in this video. Yeah, he would grab a Mewtwo. No, no, listen, you've not got control on Mewtwo. Now, why not? I feel as if the character... Look, Jim, the film's already been animated, OK? We can't change this. You're not an actor, actor, you're a voice actor. No, I think he would still have a Mewtwo. He caught me at the start.
00:10:29
Speaker
I like that village, you see like Goldeen? Like how do you exist on land? And like the anime always like just makes a joke out of it doesn't it all the games like no no it flies. Just hovers. Yeah hovers, duh. Right imagine doing your shopping and just a Goldeen behind you. Excuse me sir are you gonna take that bread? It's like what the hell?!
00:10:47
Speaker
I do love it when some of the older sprays look like they're six feet off the ground as well. I hate them swimming towards you. I always remember when I was going to call my friend, but it's something I had on Facebook.
Comparing 'Twilight' and Pokémon Reviews
00:10:59
Speaker
It went and had a big rant because it's Twilight. This is back to the kind of time boxes. But Twilight had a better review score of Metacritic than Pocron this movie did.
00:11:14
Speaker
Ooh, it's one of those terrible thoughts. Yeah, it might be, but at least it's a competently made phone. So, where would you rather go? Colorado, Minnesota.
00:11:25
Speaker
I don't know, I mean, am I gonna get nuked in Colorado? So it's either I'm gonna get shanghied by some Minnesota Vikings. I don't know, is Minnesota in the other water? No. Why have they got Vikings? I'm not sure actually, it probably does. They just used a weezing. I was just thinking that, like, they used water Pokemon, but... It would be funny to see if they came up because it's a... Okay, Minnesota doesn't need water. It's just imagine the weezing came up and all these dead gold eels.
00:11:56
Speaker
I just imagine the parents at the time be like, for God's sake, I could have been, you know, I could have been doing my taxes here, but no. Instead, I'm watching, I think. I could have been one, one episode to my three episode marathon of Coronation Street. I knew you were going to say Coronation Street.
00:12:14
Speaker
the size of those doors, there's no need for those doors to be that big. Could you imagine if like you two started building this and was like, you know what, just put one door in, just like a shack, like just a wee house. It doesn't need to be so grand. Is this like what happens with Minecraft, where it's like you build it and you make a mistake so you have to build it taller and now it's like he's stuck with the door. It's very similar to Minecraft and it's very similar to grand designs.
00:12:40
Speaker
You two was on the caravan for like six weeks and went over bungees sitting in the stress and going for a sport. So you're saying they went to Pocus Paine and it didn't work out. It came back. There's a couple of ten year olds at the bottom of the ocean. I don't think you call this a test. I think you call that manslaughter. Do you know what the crazy thing is? I've just realised this. They never ask about Team Rocket.
00:13:04
Speaker
Ash, broken Misty, for all we know right now, they're at the bottom of the ocean. And they're just like, oh well, Pokemon battle, let's go.
Ash's Heroics and Critiques
00:13:13
Speaker
Even Tokabe's like, I'm free, finally. This is actually similar, I don't know if you've seen the new chicken run-through. Did they plagiarise that from this?
00:13:26
Speaker
For legal reasons, that's a joke. Why does he need to spy those staircase? He can fly! I don't see him in the middle! A lot of this is just aesthetics. That's not a good angle, you two. You think he's well like, just saying I'm wrong. Just saying I'm wrong. Go, go! This is finally getting super ash.
00:13:48
Speaker
I'm not, I didn't know he was super average. Harder, even! I know what! Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
00:14:14
Speaker
Did she just butt-dialed that? We've all been there. We've all sat on a computer that replicates Pokemon. Oh no! I hope my butt doesn't edit this episode! If you want to listen to more episodes, you can just buy my butt. You can check us out on Chatsunami.com. Yomero! We've established that Mewtwo knows about indoor promen, and now he knows about genetics.
00:14:38
Speaker
He also knows about video editing. That's true as well. Cause he had to make that video. My hands got some skills. I don't got my tie. I've been watching the Digimon. What was this gonna be? The Christmas toy of the year?
00:14:52
Speaker
It makes a good point. Or it could be saying the most heinous thing ever. I'm just like grieving. I agree with you, Mewtwo. Kill them all. Kill them all. Why is everyone just sending their Pokémon one at a time, man? Dust this picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean? Like, that woman's got the Clefable. Just get Clefable to use metronome guillotine.
00:15:14
Speaker
What, do you think I might chout say to Garam? No, it's just like, he has like, guillotine or one of the one-hit KO moves and just gets rid of Mewtwo instantly. No, I was just thinking more like Garam's only Mewtwo self-destructing. I'm gonna have to take a rain check on that Pokemon better! So, there's three Pokemon that fight against them. There's Ash's Charizard, which is just called Charizard.
00:15:34
Speaker
They are as brute-to-root, which is the Venusaur, but it took me ages to understand what he was saying because he says it in such a weird way. But Blastoise is called Shellshocker. I call it Shellshock because I can't put the ER because it's too long, but I still call it Shellshock. And it's such a cool name. You tell me Giovanni never went back to that island.
00:15:57
Speaker
To be fair, Giovanni probably flew over this helicopter and went, oh, I can't wait to see what this turns into! I'm buying one too! See what I mean? And Charles starts saying then Pokémon speak and your mother! Look at that waddle, that Chad walk! What's his name Vince McMahon? Do you think you'd put in a fight against yourself? No! Fair.
00:16:31
Speaker
It's just he's like Charizard, leave it to me Do we get a sick evolution in this film? I don't think we do. I just don't know. No. Well, Asher both sent her up tight It's water white you I'm big boned He's gonna catch Ash
00:16:56
Speaker
Oh my god, he can't hear us, he's already a pot! Let's run! I mean, fair play to Sypha there. The only one thought! Backstabbed.
00:17:09
Speaker
Why was that, like, so human? Why you mean they're gone? Ahh!
Voice Acting Challenges
00:17:14
Speaker
Pikachu's getting caught here. Can you feel it? Oh, look at the top. It's just the rings, like, commentaries, like, oh, Pikachu's getting caught. I just know it. Oh, there's Pidgeotto. Get out of there, Pidgeotto. Wigglytuff looks more and more like a minion the more you look at him. He does. But anyone who doesn't know, I'm getting shown pictures of Wigglytuff. Yes, I know what a minion looks like.
00:17:36
Speaker
Satsu said to me as before we start recording that there's one thing missing in his whole life. So wiggly tough minions. Wiggly tough minions. Oh there we go, look! Rainbow Road over here. Pikachu look out for that blue shell. Gravity be damned. Are you gonna say like, what was your plan? I think you mean, don't go home! I hope someone got fired for that one though. And then we hived because, you know, fair play.
00:18:02
Speaker
Oh, these Pokémon and more! You can buy them at the Toy Show! I think what they should have started with was... I think you mean Electro-Jigless, Neetu-Gran-Tike! That is a Renato Hero! And indeed, Pidgey! I'm a ghost in the show!
00:18:17
Speaker
Can you imagine being the guy who worked on the Pokémon film? He's like, how great, what am I working on? You're working on the grabby claw. What, so I'm not working on Pikachu? Or you're in between? I don't think you do go on for good sake. My kids know I'm working on this. No, no, you did the bit with the grabby claws. It's like, you're when a friend stays over. You know, the respectable time of it is like...
00:18:38
Speaker
What now? Hands or thighs? Well. It's time to go now. We are speeding through this film in the sense of like nothing. That is a very nose looking nose there. It was very human looking. Very bulbous. It's her, she's going to war. He's got a gun. Strike back from this mutable.
00:19:03
Speaker
Yes, here he goes. Ash, this isn't how Pokémon battles are supposed to go. No, no, he's right. So, honey, how's the Geordie? Oh, fine, they threw down with a psychic car. What? I've always wanted to punch a whale. Is it because you're built differently? Yeah, I can punch a whale. I would punch for a Mewtwo if she wanted to say I'm built differently. Hold on, they just said they didn't know what Mew was. Therefore, they didn't know his name was Mew. Therefore, Mewtwo's been introducing himself as number two of a thing they didn't know the number one of.
00:19:30
Speaker
I love how he just doesn't pay attention. He's like, that's a huge soliloquy, oh boy, and I'm going to say this and that, and I believe in the evolution of, are you paying attention? Look at me when I'm talking to you. Muse, meet and have a conversation with anyone when subway service isn't good in half the screen. I'm just fumbling at it. Be careful, Mewtwo. He's part of the TikTok generation. Wow.
00:19:55
Speaker
That was a quick follow. So thank you everyone for joining us today! Do you know what this film could do with a countdown to Ash fighting again at the top right? They should be fighting! This is tournament illegal! Same. You need it, you need a good point there. Or you could be saying the most again heinous stuff in the world! I think Colorado should be purged! You know!
00:20:22
Speaker
You know, Dear Boromon had a good point. You! No! Bad cat. Is this the famous Pikachu slop in Pikachu scene? Yep, that's the one. This is the Brother My Brother song. Brother... Cat in cat. Pokemon shouldn't fight like this. I should be down there.
00:20:47
Speaker
actually be fucking with myself. Do you know how YouTube could actually avoid people crying about this? It's okay if you win, you get a badge. And it was like, cool beans, me too, cool beans. That's the thing, they're making this out to be sad but this is what Ash does with them all the time. This is a daily occurrence. Did you just punch me? I was thinking that, these Pokemon, I don't know why they were just going fisticuffs, they've all got moves and stuff they could use.
00:21:13
Speaker
Muda, muda, muda. Look at that stance. This is the stance I also take when a song comes up. My brother. No, don't make me fight another Pikachu, even though I've done that before. Shell shocker, no. My boy. You. That was gross. British, no. Have the rest.
00:21:40
Speaker
This is like the bit in Return of the King when all the people come back to see Frodo and are like Gandalf! Aragorn! You! What can come out of it? What can come out of it, indeed, Nurse Joy? You know, the fact that they fight keeps you in their job, Nurse Joy.
00:21:59
Speaker
Right, this is like the entire Pokemon universe is set up for them to fight. Oh, so the clone move. Can't speak. Can't speak. Because they learned a language. So he did. Whereas he's just lazy. I got it. He wasn't born with these. He was a duel, I can go for a week. A year straight. Is that how you imagine the Marble Olympics? No, this is it. I want to see them slap. Yeah, he does. I didn't hear no bell.
00:22:28
Speaker
a gif that spawned a thousand reactions. So I find the person that destroyed my diet over New Year's. It'd be funny if he just threw a rock. I was going to say he just brings out his glock. Figure two, get down. They could have stopped this fight at any moment and recalled all of them. They don't want to, they want to see it. The curiosity, honestly. Oh no.
00:22:54
Speaker
If a clone of you appeared and you started fighting yourself, I wouldn't get involved right away. I'm not going to lie to you, I'm going to watch for a bit. It's like, on the one hand, I want to stop this. On the other hand, I'm morbidly curious. I'm curious who's going to win over at Satsu and Chatsu when they fight me to square off. So I'm going to sit and watch for a bit. Why do I look like a red panda? I can't punch you. Just two red pandas left. Which wasn't that great at the beginning. Oh my god.
00:23:21
Speaker
Ash evolved into a ghost type! Do you remember? Do you know if you get stuck between two Pokémon attacks you turn to stone? But that's just the rumour!
Mewtwo's Philosophical Reflections
00:23:30
Speaker
The Pokémon rumour! This is probably an incredible discovery if they didn't get their minds wiped here that Pokémon tears can cure all sorts of bonkers illnesses. That's true. Because what's going to happen is someone's going to walk in between two Pokémon fighting and get turned to stone and they're like, nah that's not what we can do for them.
00:23:47
Speaker
Too late. I'm sorry Mr. Mann, it's terminal. I need several Pokemon to cry. Instead. Just sloppin' Mr. Mime in the bag. Come on, cry, don't you cry. I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life. Pokeballs I've unmuted. Honestly, this film doesn't deserve that quote.
00:24:15
Speaker
He's such a good quote. Great writer. And then you're like, oh yeah, that came from the Pokemon film. The same one where Pikachu slaps himself and cries. I can't believe we sat and watched this whole film. I feel like nothing's happened. Nothing has happened. What the hell was that? You two, have you seen Bad Boyz II? Final voice!
00:24:38
Speaker
Does he reverse time? Or does he just... Can you two reverse time? See, this is the thing. I can't remember. Like, look, he's reversed it to before. No. Yeah, look. I hadn't even thought about that before. Why does that sign say welcome and exit over a... It's welcome, I'm used to the exit. No, I'm not buying that. Would have always see her again. Yeah. No, we never do. Has that a flying truck? How does my truck...
00:25:09
Speaker
Every time I hear, like, a phrase like that, it always reminds me of a few much good Zilla versus King Good, you know? I saw a real live Pokémon! I saw a real live dinosaur! Good for you! Well, good for you! Being miserable, damn!
00:25:24
Speaker
Oh! We should have watched Pikachu's vacation. I forgot that was part of this as well. Oh, of course. Because that's when Pichu gets introduced.
Teaser: Pokémon vs. Digimon Debate
00:25:32
Speaker
See, I was going to suggest that, but then that means that we would have had to have watched the Angela and the Condor short for the Digimon trouble. And I'm not going to lie, I'm taking my battles here. That's fair, you know what, I'll accept that. In the interest of fairness, I get it. You know what, I'll accept that. It's hard to
00:25:54
Speaker
And there's not even one. Oh, there we go. Babyspace. Babyspace! Emma Button? My boy. This is definitely her. Yeah. So on a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate this? And is it better than the Digimon film? I want to say it is, but you'll have to find out next week on the episode now. We're starting again. Yes, the time will have worked. Oh my god, they repeated it again.
00:26:20
Speaker
What was that? Did you know it was just a dispute about one another? I did not, but I know I do. Thank you all so, so much for listening. If you want to listen to more commentary tracks from ourselves, you can listen to it at patreon.com forward slash chat tsunami. If you also want to listen to the best of, you can listen to it on the website, as well as a YouTube channel, chat tsunami dot com. I was like,
00:26:42
Speaker
There's a forward slash in there I'm sure, but no. Thank you 4Kids, fairly cool. But as always, stay safe, stay awesome, stay hydrated and most importantly please do not trust any psychic cats.