Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2001)

Japan

Animation, Family, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Anime World Osaka, OLM, Shogakukan Production, Snow Light Staff, Studio Jack, TV Tokyo, jeki

Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Otani, Mayumi Izuka, Satomi Korogi, Yuji Ueda, Megumi Hayashibara

Masamitsu Hidaka

Takeshi Shudo

Taglines: An all-new Johto movie adventure!

based on video game, anime, original video animation (ova), based on tv series

The Team Rocket leader, Giovanni, has found Mewtwo in a remote area of the Johto region. As Giovanni tries to re-capture Mewtwo, Ash and his friends are kidnapped by Domino, a new Team Rocket member, while trying to rescue Pikachu from Jessie and James. The Clone Pokemon are also captured and are then used as bait for Mewtwo. The situation then becomes a battle between the wills of Mewtwo and Giovanni; and Mewtwo also tries to discover if it and the clones have a purpose in life, even though they are products of science.

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