Related: The Pokemon Black And White Movies Are A Pointless Exercise In Saying Nothing Having escaped their captors, the Pokemon are now on a mission to find and reclaim their former home in what is now New Tork City, and they’re willing to destroy anyone that gets in their way. Mewtwo reads one of their minds and learns that the group was resurrected from three-hundred-million-year-old fossils by Team Plasma. The Genesect are on a violent tear through the are surrounding New Tork City when they’re intercepted by Mewtwo, who rescues them from an avalanche. The titular Genesect is actually a group of four Gensect led by a shiny red one who is able to control the group telepathically and force them to do whatever it says. Gensect and the Legend Awakened takes place in and around New Tork City, a bustling metropolitan with a central nature preserve called Pokemon Hills.
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The result is a movie that fails to reach its full potential, instead delivering only a neutered message, once again, about the power of friendship. Unfortunately, the plot is horrifically hamstrung by, of all things, the missing rights to Mewtwo. Legend Awakened has a fascinating premise that mirrors the first Pokemon movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back, and explores the ethics of genetic engineering, the power dynamics between humans and Pokemon, and - for the second time in the Black & White generation - the diaspora of a displaced people (or in this case, Pokemon).
This week we’re revisiting Genesect and the Legend Awakened, the final entry in the Black & White series and a real mess of a movie - at least from a continuity perspective. Welcome back to Pokemon Movies in Review, a weekly recap of the entire Pokemon cinematic universe.