“Pokemon aren’t meant to fight– not like this!” Nurse Joy cried out as two ponyta locked in combat slumped to the ground exhausted. MewTwo had used his psychic powers to block their special abilities, and now they fought one another in hoof to hoof combat.
Of course, my husband had to make a comment and totally ruin the profound atmosphere of the moment. “Nurse Joy is right! Pokemon aren’t meant to fight like that. It is so much better when they fight using electricity to fry their opponent to a crisp!”
I had to admit that I was a little confused by the irony of the whole situation. This was my first time watching Pokemon The First Movie, which to my surprise was literally called Pokemon The First Movie.
Nurse Joy’s despairful dialog continued. “It’s useless!`What can come out of it?”
Neesha then woefully responded, “Nothing but pain!”
Of course, that statement was too good for my husband to let it pass by without it being salted with his sarcasm. “Yeah, because there is definitely no pain involved in the traditional form of Pokemon battles.” His comments really were funny, but I just gave him my typical, unamused look.
“Maybe, that was just a bad translation,” Brett suggested. “Maybe it’s something else in the original Japanese script.”
Here, we were, gathered as a group of close friends, all in our late twenties watching Pokemon The First Movie and discussing the deeper meaning of the dialog. And, I was feeling inexplicably happy by it all!
Only an hour earlier, I had called Barrio’s pizza. “Yes, I would like a pizza with just plain cheese on one side, heavy pepperoni on the other, and a line of olives dividing the two.”
“Okay . . . ,” the girl taking my order responded hesitantly.
“I need it to look like a pokeball.” I reaffirmed confidently.
The order of a pokeball pizza was by far the most exciting thing going on at the local pizza place, because not more than 5 minutes later I received another phone call from them. The pizzatiers were concerned that once it was cooked, the pokeball would not look as defined. They asked if it was okay if they left the pizza uncut to preserve its original glory. They had definitely taken this job seriously!
Instead of Ash, Misty, and Brock, I had my own gang of Pokemon trainers gathered around my table to eat pokepizza, bananas (nanab berries), raspberries (razz berries), and pineapple (pinap berries). Once we were fed and had finished the movie, we struck out on a mission of our own to capture the local neighborhood Pokemon. In Meowth-like words, “It was the purrfect ending to a clawesome day!”
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