I’ve always thought Pokemon was a cheery take on illegal cock-fighting, and except for an old girlfriend who thought the Jigglypuff song was a riot, i never really got into the cartoon series. In Pokemon Apokelypse, director Barry Liu and Kial Natale take the subject a bit more seriously by setting the action in the real world, and making it dark. Really dark.
It’s only a fan film, but the production quality is high, which earns the entire crew a lot of points.
Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment. You can follow him on Twitter @MajorSpoilers and tell him your darkest secrets...
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This is just cool. I love the little touches, and the people in charge of the effects deserve a crap load of applause.
I knowed them Pookiemons was of the Devil!!
That was really well done. I think I would actually see a movie like this.
Thank god it was a fan film, don’t get me wrong it was good but this would be the biggest piece of crap in a long time if it was a Hollywood movie, I mean god dammit can we stop with the “Everything needs to be gritty because the Dark Knight did really well in the box office even though the grittiness had nothing to do with it’s success.”
End rant.
Oh my, this is the Pokemon of my dreams. Yeah, I love the bright sunny shine happiness of the original show (before they got ride of the old voice actors and made me hate it), but this strikes me as being how pokemon could be. The light in the dark, that’s what its all about.
I would totally watch this, side by side with the Smash Bros film, “There Will Be Brawl”
Everything looked good except for the pokemon themselves.
When you consider that was a fan made trailer, it was Really well done. Kudos.