Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Ash, Pikachu, and their friends come to a desert city by the sea. Here they meet the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa, which has the ability to summon things—including people and Pokémon—through its magic rings. After a scary incident, they learn of a story about a brave hero who stopped the rampage of a terrifying Pokémon long ago. Now, the threat that has been bottled up for years is in danger of breaking loose again.
Our read · Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages (2015) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · adventure · animation 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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