Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
Warm, breathless, gentle family / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.
Our read · Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal family · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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