Pokémon Der Film: Diancie und der Kokon der Zerstörung

The Pokémon anime never lets up on what seems to work despite that plan not really working. For the last several entries, the films revolving around Ash and company has been average at best and sometimes falling beneath that. Only occasionally has the story been slightly above average, but that's going back to around a decade ago of films. Unfortunately, it's also getting more difficult to go on about the differences in storytelling especially when the changes feel so minimal. One would think that with a series running for so long that there could be some variety to the films but it looks like the franchise may truly be out of new ideas. This entry really feels no different from that of the past several films. The biggest change are the main protagonists...but that's been expected now. Then again so are other aspects.

The story is about a new Pokémon named Diancie (Caitlin Glass) who can create diamonds but not well. She is the princess of her kingdom that is dying and needs to replace the current diamond which acts as their power source. To do this, she must find the legendary Pokémon Xerneas (Mary O'Brady) to help make this ability stronger. On her travels she runs into Ash and friends where they decide to follow her. However, Team Rocket and a few other bandits are out looking to capture Diancie as well. Shocker. On top of that, there's Yveltal, the dark version of Xerneas who is rumored to be nearby. Anything else needs to be thrown in there? Of course, who's handling this project? None other than the Yuyama Sonoda duo. Geez, these two must really feel confident that these stories are still solid.

Let's tackle something that does work, the main characters. In the black and white seasons, Ash, Iris and Cilan's chemistry were okay but probably rank lowest so far. For the new X & Y seasons, Ash is now joined by Serena (Haven Paschall), Clemont (Mike Liscio) and his little sister Bonnie (Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld). These characters are already proving themselves to be more interesting than the last bunch. Clemont with his ill-fated self-destructive contraptions, Serena with her secret crush on Ash and Bonnie for always trying to match a girl with Clemont; the reversal of Brock's situation. They all have their quirks but are fun and goofy in their own way. The team rocket gang are still fun although they are no longer as serious as they were a couple seasons ago. Despite that, they do get more screen time here than the last few films.

However, that's kind of the extent of the engaging characters. The voice acting is fine by all cast members but the characters still don't amount to much. Caitlin Glass plays a great princess but the role of her character isn't new. Further making things a usual go to are the telepathic abilities and legendary Pokémon. It is understandable to a point that new seasons require new legendaries to keep things going...but the legendaries aren't anything to be impressed over. Xerneas is just another "life giving", "wish granting", insert the god-like term here Pokémon. As for telepathy, it seems like more and more Pokémon are able to speak English with the main characters. Can it least vary some? The other thieves looking to capture Diancie aren't memorable either, even though Marc Thompson is one of the voice actors.

Unfortunately, more could have been done to develop a portion of these characters. The amount of individuals in this story is just more than it needs to be. Animation though is still good for the quality of the franchise. No complaints there. Cinematography was taken care of again by Tatsumi Yukiwaki and now also Aya Aoshima. No reason given as to why it's needed. For music, surprisingly the US dub had its own score composed by Ed Goldfarb instead of Shinji Miyazaki even though he scored for the Japanese dub. The weird thing is that it doesn't look like there was a US album released on this...so the point of rescoring was for...what? What can be said though is that the music sounds a lot livelier and has interesting cues throughout. In some ways it sounds like something of another genre, but it works.

The general components to this entry work like viewers expect. The animation is good, the voice acting and main characters are their usual selves and the music is decent. However, those same familiarities find themselves showing up in the same bland villains, boring legendary Pokémon and generic storytelling.

This movie is not my piece of a beautiful gem ring when the movie heavily focuses on filler and lackluster writing for the same of all movies created. Ash and the crew are on the game to prevent the cocoon of destruction and stop yveltal from destructing the diamond domain by diancie. at least a good amount of Pokémon within the first four generations were brought back to the movie, but none of this ever compensates for the movie's budget and mediocre writing. this movie is a step in pikachu's unfortunate implications and even cruelty. After all of the destruction yveltal caused, xerneas was able to avert the damage yevltal did, and thus saving the diamond domain. My favorite character is Diancie because of her cute look and voice, and her mega evolved form looks even beautiful than sunny skies.

cringe-inducing visuals: 1/5 cringe-inducing audio: 2/5 lackluster writing: 5/5 annoyance: 3/5 disturbing content: 4/5 unnecessary cruelty: 4/5 low production values: 3/5 rancid morals: 4/5 unfortunate implications: 5/5 character derailment: 5/5

other notes: whether loaded with diamonds or not, this movie is nearly full of cruelty to diamonds and filler. it is also a next huge step in horrible morals, and bonnie's flanderization.

This Pokémon is about two pokémons named Xerneas and Yveltal......X in Xerneas and Y in Yveltal i.e.,XY......That's how the Pokémon XY series have been made.

As a Pokémon fan I've never seen every single Pokémon movie from the anime. The only movie I've saw was the Pokemon White movie, and it was pretty underwhelming. Pokemon Diancie and the cocoon of destruction however, is a great movie. Most Pokémon movies aren't that great, like the Pokémon Heroes film, which has some of the WORST Pokémon villains in my opinion. And the first Pokemon movie is NOT the best at all. But this one, from the XY anime, is very underrated.

I adore Diancie in this film, she is super cute and her chemistry & friendship with Ash, Pikachu, Serena, Bonnie and Clemont is so good. The animation and art style is ahead of its time, and I liked the story of it.

It was great to see a pokemon movie with Serena, Bonnie, and Clemont into it. Unfortunately, the movie keeps making the same mistakes that the other lesser Pokémon films made. It's too short! In a movie that has tons of characters that can be really annoying! It's bad when they try to cram in all of these characters in something that's so short. I am still glad to be introduced to all of these new pokemon, even though I'll probably forget them. This movie's plot features a pokemon princess (yes, really) Diancie, who has to make diamonds to stop a cocoon containing Yveltal with help from Xerneas.

Does it seem like I'm just making up words? I feel bad for not being able to keep up with them. Team Rocket do appear for awhile, so they're cool. This just tries to put in so many pokemon and I think they're like five different people that are coming after Diancie in the end. I guess since all featured pokemon in movies can use telepathy, it's not a big deal to hear them talk. The movies themselves are formulaic with Ash and the gang simply meeting some new legendary talking pokemon they have to save. The earlier films really did have variety. Not even an AmourShipping moment! *1/2