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Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi: The Voice of the Forest (also known as Pokémon 4Ever or Celebi: The Voice of the Forest) is the fourth Pokémon movie and the second Gold and Silver era movie. It features Celebi and Suicune. It was released in theaters in Japan on July 7, 2001. It was distributed by Miramax in theaters in 2002. A limited release in the United States took place on October 11, 2002, and the official premiere was on October 25, 2002. Celebi: The Voice of the Forest was shown with the Pikachu short movie Pikachu's PikaBoo.
Plot[]
Forty years in the past, a young Trainer finds a Celebi on the run from a Pokémon poacher. Trying to calm it, the boy is accidentally transported to the present day by Celebi, and thought by all in the past to have vanished. He meets Ash and his friends, but before they can get Celebi to take him back to the past, it is captured by a far more dangerous man, Team Rocket operative Iron-Masked Marauder, whose Dark Balls brainwash Celebi into following his every command.
Cast[]
| Character | Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ash Ketchum | Rica Matsumoto | Veronica Taylor |
| Misty | Mayumi Iizuka | Rachael Lillis |
| Brock | Yuji Ueda | Eric Stuart |
| Pikachu | Ikue Otani | |
| Togepi | Satomi Korogi | |
| Jessie | Megumi Hayashibara | Rachael Lillis |
| James | Shin-ichiro Miki | Eric Stuart |
| Meowth | Inuko Inuyama | Maddie Blaustein |
| Narrator | Unsho Ishizuka | Rodger Parsons |
| Celebi | Kazuko Sugiyama | |
| Suicune | Masahiko Tanaka | |
| Sammy | Keiko Toda | Tara Sands |
| Diana | Anne Suzuki | Roxanne Beck |
| Towa | Mami Koyama | Veronica Taylor Kerry Williams (young) |
| Iron Masked Marauder | Shiro Sano | Dan Green |
| White | Takashi Fujii | Marc Thompson |
| Hunter | Kōichi Yamadera | Eric Stuart |
| Professor Oak | Unsho Ishizuka | Stuart Zagnit |
| Tracey Sketchit | Tomokazu Seki | Ted Lewis |
Reception[]
Pokémon 4Ever received generally negative reviews from television critics. Some critics called it "predictable" and "disappointing", while others stated that "the viewers won't be disappointed". The film received a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 32 of a total 37 reviews being determined as negative, the lowest of the Pokémon film series (original), with the consensus reading, "Only for diehard Pokemon fans". It received a rating of 25 out of 100 (signifying "generally negative reviews") on Metacritic from 16 reviews. In a review of the film, Dann Gire of the Daily Herald said that "nothing feels more desperate than a movie that tries to extort emotions from young viewers. That happens in the animated Pokémon 4Ever, in which colorful characters stand around crying over the shriveling corpse of a magical creature called Celebi. The movie has emotional warmth of tin foil, mainly because it never establishes connections among the characters, or between the characters and viewers".
External links[]
- M04 at Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki.
- Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi: Voice of the Forest at the Internet Movie Database
- Pokémon 4Ever at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia