Furthermore, the message isn't obvious and you have to think about what's going on. The movie has effort put into the message which is reinforced by dialogue, scenes, and actions performed by characters and Pokemon.
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Rather than subverting and ignoring the original message of the movie with dumb politically correct nonsense, the sub carries an interesting series of moral questions that actually build on one another. The song in the Dub is kickass awesome while the sub's theme song is really stupid.Thematically, the sub is also a million times better. The reason is that although the dub music sounds good, there are choices made in the sub version that really make certain scenes a lot more engaging and powerful with one exception, the opening song. The reason is that the movie itself is the same between the two but the writing, themes, and music choices are actually superior in the sub than in the dub.
The English Dub is like a good bad movie which is stupid a lot of the time but still fun to watch, kinda like a funny Shyamalan movie but the Japanese Sub is infinitely better, but not enough to save the whole movie and is comparable in quality to something like a good Shyamalan movie. Okay, so here's the deal with this movie.
Japanese subs can never save the movie but they do help them tremendously. Pokemon movies tend to be bad movies, at least that's what everybody normally thinks if you have never seen the Japanese version of these movies.