As Pokemon mania sweeps the nation, I thought it would be a good idea to give everyone a heads up on this, a movie that countless tired parents will be dragged to by their children (much as I was). First of all, it's actually two different movies: a short film entitled "Pikachu's Vacation" and then the actual movie.

The highlight of the whole shebang is the short, in which a bunch of colorful Pokemon (Pokemen?) go to a resort for a weekend of R & R. One of them looks like an egg and gets upset about something. Then a blue dinosaur with a plant growing out of its back picks an apple for it and sings it a lullaby. It should be noted that Pokemon can apparently only speak in forms of their own name. Thus, the lullaby goes something like, "Bulba-bulb...Bulb-bulbasaur." Then the egg goes to sleep. A bunch of mean Pokemon wake the egg up, and the mean Pokemon start fighting with the nice, lullabye-singing Pokemon, and then they start racing. The race causes a big lizard to get his head stuck in a pipe, and all the Pokemon join together to help him out. Then a duck-looking thing gets stuck to the lizard's foot. So ends the short movie.

The other half is about this cat-looking thing named Mewtwo who can blow up islands and stuff. He's mad about being a clone and thinks that cloning is evil, so he sets out to capture all the world's Pokemon and clone them. Can't argue with logic like that. But the good Pokemon decide that fighting is wrong and convince the all powerful Mewtwo (who can talk, for some reason) to be friendly. Then Mewtwo waves his hand and everyone forgets anything ever happened.

This was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The short film had me in stitches the whole time. Sometimes, I guess it helps to be five years old.

Rating: three turkeys.

Best line: "Bulba-bulb...Bulb-bulbasaur..."

Things that make you go "Huh?": Why no one has figured out that in a couple years, people are gonna be saying, "Poke-what?!?"