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thatpurplejune

agree with you, especially about all of the prophecy magic feeling fatally arbitrary and ungrounded. i'd also add that the pacing is super wonky—they seem to have compressed an entire generic three-act action movie into the first 50 minutes, and then (presumably to give lugia a sufficient amount of screen time) dragged things out for another 30 based on the contrivance of ash simply not having collected the third macguffin or put two and two together about the prophecy yet. and so we get this bizarre tearful character moment where ash bravely resolves to… continue doing the exact thing he's already been doing the whole time. brilliant!

i think a functional rewrite of this movie would have the revelation that ash is destined to save the world occur in the first act, and then have the pivotal moment of character growth come when the gang realizes that melody is the true chosen one. ash would have to let go of his ego, and melody would finally realize the true value of her island's traditions and step up to restore the balance of nature by playing the song (or whatever). ideally the villain would have a meaningful relationship and confrontation with the heroes, and his plan would hinge on melody failing to appreciate the importance of communal ritual. could have nudged it closer to being mediocre than to being abominable, anyway.

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