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starstarstar Betsy Sherman - Boston Globe
starstarstar Nancy Churnin - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Melanie McFarland - Seattle Times
starstarstar Bruce Westbrook - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Robin Rauzi - LA Times
starstar Mark Jenkins - Washington Post
starstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Hannah Brown - NY Post
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
star Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
star Steve Simels - TV Guide

Well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming

- Betsy Sherman

Any adult who can sit through this shameless TV commercial masquerading as an entertainment experience without immediately joining the Communist Party is, frankly, morally dead

- Steve Simels

Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back

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A super-Pokémon lures all the other Pokémon to an island, hoping to lead them into battle against the world. With the voices of Veronica Taylor, Philip Bartlett, Racheal Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Ootani. Director: Kunihiko Yuyama (1999, G)

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