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Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice is is the second Pokémon the Series: Black and White movie and the fifteenth Pokémon movie overall. It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2012. It premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network in conjunction with YTV in Canada on December 8, 2012, and premiered in the United Kingdom on CITV on December 12, 2012. The movie features Kyurem and its two alternate formes and the Swords of Justice: Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, and Keldeo. In Japanese theaters, the movie was featured with the Pikachu short Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade.
Plot[]
Keldeo is training to become one of the Swords of Justice, like Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion. But when it decides to challenge Kyurem to prove its strength, it ends up badly injured. Later encountering Ash and his friends aboard a train to the city of Roushan, Keldeo drags them into its desperate attempt to escape from the enraged Kyurem and its gang of Cryogonal. As Kyurem's relentless pursuit drives the group from the train into the big city and finally deep into the abandoned mine Kyurem calls home, can they help Keldeo find its inner strength and defeat Kyurem to prove itself a true Sword of Justice?
Cast[]
| Character | Voice Actor (Japanese) | Voice Actor (English) |
|---|---|---|
| Ash Ketchum | Rica Matsumoto | Sarah Natochenny |
| Pikachu | Ikue Otani | |
| Iris | Aoi Yuki | Eileen Stevens |
| Cilan | Mamoru Miyano | Jason Griffith |
| Narrator | Unsho Ishizuka | Rodger Parsons |
| Kyurem | Katsumi Takahashi | Marc Thompson |
| Keldeo | Shoko Nakagawa | Vic Mignogna |
| Cobalion | Kōichi Yamadera | H.D. Quinn |
| Terrakion | Hiroki Yasumoto | Henry Carr |
| Virizion | Takako Honda | Emily Williams |
| Malin | Rola | Erica Schroeder |
Reception[]
Carl Kimlinger, writing for Anime News Network, gave the film an overall grade of C−. He praised the film's visuals and its antagonist Kyurem, writing: "Kyurem is an appropriately frightening antagonist: cold, furious—an unstoppable force of nature. … When he and Keldeo fight, it's fluid and impressively destructive". However, he criticized the character of Keldeo as a whole, writing: "He is maybe the single dorkiest character to come out of the franchise to date. … He looks like a jester crossed with a My Little Pony, as interpreted by Osamu Tezuka at his precious, anthropomorphizing worst", and added: "Every time you're about to lose yourself in the thrilling spectacle of it all, Keldeo's goony mug intrudes and wrecks all of the work that director Kunihiko Yuyama and his team at Oriental Light and Magic have done." Kimlinger concluded: "it has enough color and action to engage younger young'uns through its brief hour-fifteen running time, and like every other Pokémon property it's thoroughly harmless", and added: "as for those of us who have critical faculties… the sooner we can forget the film, and Keldeo's button-eyed horsey face, the better."
External links[]
- M15 at Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki.
- Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice at the Internet Movie Database
- Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia