Mewtwo's Hideout News

There are news updates about once a month, but more often if I receive new information. The oldest updates are near the bottom of the page.

Update: 9th September 2008
Another trailer can be found HERE for Mew and the Wave Guiding Hero, also a new Pokémon is revealed in it, Lucario. It looks a bit like Anubis the Egyptian God.

The next Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS will be called Pokémon Pearl and Pokémon Diamond. They are also going to release a game where you can race your favourite Pokémon called Pokémon Dash which will be awesome!

8th Pokémon movie: It is called Mew and the Wave Guiding Hero and the movie will be about Mew! To see the Japanese trailer, go HERE Its the official site for the movie. Here is a teaser poster I found on the same site!

7th Pokémon movie: The name of this is Destiny Deoxys and you can by it from Amazon.com from Febuary 15th 2005!

New Pokémon games info.
Fire Red and Leaf Green are two new Pokémon games for the GBA. They are remakes of the Red/Blue/Yellow versions. In them, Gary is your rival and Professor Oak returns, there is a battle searcher as with Ruby and Sapphire. Other features include: A help feature activated by pressing the "L" key which calls your brother to give you hints and tips, a replay feature where you can view your last 5 saves, cut scenes (short animations) when you enter new areas, Pokédex is updated and has search feature, a new island called "The Island of Puzzle" and new games to play via the link cable.

This is what the packaging looks like for the games in Japan.

6th Pokémon movie!!!!!
Mewtwo was seen in the trailer to this movie, but he doesn't seem to be in the actual movie itself. The name of the movie is Jirachi Wish Maker.

In the trailer, he's seen wearing a cape and standing on the spire where we left him in Mewtwo Returns!

Also, the title of the 5th movie has been announced. It's Pokémon Heroes: Latias & Latios

There are two new games for the GameBoy Advance system. They are Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire.
All the graphics are much better and some things look a little different to how they did in previous games. The Pokémart for example has things like flowers that can be visably seen instead of just boring cupboards and fridges.
There is also a new professor who looks like a younger version of Professor Oak.
The Pokédex looks different too and when you click on a Pokémon a coloured pic comes up of it with information to the side and underneath.
The Pokémon fight scenes are all now in full funky technicolour too and I discovered Pokémon can now fight two on two.
This should make game play all the more interesting! It kinda reminds me of a fake game I played once called Pokémon Diamond...
It all looks very exciting and has advanced greatly from the original dully coloured games with only one gender of trainer and no animations. Maybe one day games will have advanced so much, we will have portable handheld 3D games in the style of Tomb Raider instead of small little cartoony graphics.
I have images of the covers of the new Pokémon games as they have been released in Japan.
They look very much like another Red and Blue version but with groovier names. They should do a purple version lol!

Ruby above and Sapphire below.

Pokémon Advance is in Japan now. Because it's for the GameBoy Advance, there will be many new features added, plus 100 more Pokémon! The new features include:
o Reflections in the water when you walk through puddles
o Footprints in the sand you leave behind you
o Shadows
As well as of course animations of the Pokémon in battle as in Crystal.

The short. A Pika Pika Starlit Sky Camp. Pikachu and the Pichus are taking a trip on the train when the Pichus fall off and get lost in the woods they are riding through. Pikachu goes to rescue them and meets Sonano along the way. Sonano is the pre-volution of Wobuffet.

Here is some info about the 5th movie. It is called Pokémon: Guardian of the Capital of Water Latiasu and Latiosu. The story is set in "Alto Mare", the most beautiful town in the world. Many Pokémon are in the waterway and air garden that stretches and surrounds the town. The island coexists with man. Ash and other people encounter Latiasu and Latiosu in the town. Latias is the younger sister and Latios is her older brother and "the teardrop of the heart" is hidden and protected in the town by them. Rion is the younger sister of Zanna, a famous jewel thief. Zanna stole the teardrop and Ash and Co. are also involved in the incident somehow. The town becomes flooded from her having broken the seal of "the teardrop of the heart" and Alto Mare. It's up to Ash and Co. as usual to save the day.

Here are pics of the two new legendaries, seen in the 5th movie. The blue one is Latios and the red one is Latias. I am unsure of what they are, but they look a bit like Lugias crossed which Togetics and maybe modelled roughly on aeroplanes.

Advance evolutions!
There are now new evolutions of Pokémon and a 5th movie in the making. It seems to be about some water legendaries. There is a lot of computer animation (CGI) in the movie and a lot of water too!
Here are some 5th movie pics.

Mewtwo also features in Super Smash Brothers Melee as a secret unlockable character you get by playing to game for a certain amount of time. Then you get to play as him. The game is for Nintendo GameCube and features brillant graphics plus a zoom in and pause function too. It also includes all your fave Nintendo characters like Super Mario, Pikachu and Donkey Kong.

Mewtwo is in the intro credits of the fourth series of Pokémon (Pokémon Johto League Champions)!! He's standing on the spire where he was at the end of Mewtwo Returns. Could this mean there is a possibility of another Mewtwo episode? Maybe on what happens to him next? After all, in Japan, Mewtwo Returns was also referred to as the Mewtwo Saga and a saga is an ongoing story. Lets hope we see another Mewtwo movie!

The fourth Pokémon movie, Serebii, a Timeless Encounter has, like all the other movies, a short before it called Pikachu's Exciting Hide and Seek. This short is special because it introduces three new, never seen before Pokémon (left). This is the start of the third generation of Pokémon!

THE OFFICIAL POKÉMON SINGLE!!!!
It was released by a new English, London-based band called 50.Grind (That's 50 Point Grind) on the 10 December 2001. The band asked Nintendo if they could release it and Nintendo liked it so much, they said it could be the official Pokémon single and it would maybe even be played in the end credits of the TV series! However, it never was.
It even has Mewtwo in it (well, they sing "Mewtwo, gotta catch 'em all" at one point) and he appears on the front of the second CD single cover. They released the single on two CDs. The first CD has the full version, the radio version and the dance version and the second CD has the radio version, the karaoke version and the video.
I bought both, but unfortunately, it only appeared to be available in certain shops and never even entered the charts. It was totally weird! Later on I heard it was released with some other Pokémon songs in America.

A special episode of Pokémon dedicated to Mewtwo was aired in Japan on the 30th of December 2000. It is called "Myuutsuu! Ware wa Kokoni Ari" in Japanese. Directly translated, this means "Mewtwo! Here I am". It's English name is Mewtwo Returns. This has got to be the best episode of Pokémon yet (you get to see Mewtwo walking!!).
This episode is the fourth Special Episode in Japan. It was also written by the same man who wrote the movie's original script and is like a sequel to Mewtwo Strikes Back. It lasts for approximately 80 minutes and is like a movie written for TV. It came out translated on video and DVD on the fourth of December 2001 under the name of Mewtwo Returns. If you want to buy it, you can get it from Amazon. It was released in North America on 3rd December 2001 first of all (around a year later to its first release on Japanese TV screens) and not in the UK until 28th Febuary 2002 under the name of "Mewtwo Returns, the movie".

Here's my review of Mewtwo Returns!
Well, 4 Kids actually did something right for once. It was kept as far as I can see identical to the original in animation with no bits cut out. Mewtwo debated his existance a lot as usual and even at the end seemed lost. I just wanted to give him a big hug!! Anywho, it had the normal comedy parts too, like Brock's frying pan and when Team Rocket saw Mewtwo, James remarked "This is like the sequal to a movie I missed." If only he knew! Also, the bit with the water. Everyone loved the fresh taste of it, but when Ash had some, he said "It kinda tastes like somethin's been swimming around in it..." Maybe Mewtwo went for a morning swim each day ^_^ Basically, it was just like an extra long episode of Pokémon. Like most other Mewtwo fans, I felt like ripping Giovanni's throat out when he hurt Mewtwo, but Mewtwo's power seems practically limitless. Another thing is that they never bothered to translate the clone Meowth's voice. If you listen closely, he says "Nya nya nya" all the time, which is how a Meowth would talk in Japanese (Nyarth being his name). However, when you listen to it, it does sound a bit like "Meow meow meow", so I guess that's why they left it. Mewtwo certainly has a big heart not to have destroyed Giovanni instead of wiping his memory. I think it was cool he didn't wipe Ash, Misty, Brock, Pika, Jessie, James or Meowth's memories because there's a good place to leave it open for another episode in the Mewtwo Saga. Maybe he'll join Ash one day. Meowth turned out quite a hero and translator of the Pokémon, helping to convince Mewtwo at the end not to wipe everyone's memories. Domino was cool too, it would be nice to see more of her in future Poké episodes.
My final rating is 9.8/10 for Mewtwo Returns. The reason for this is.....well, nothing's perfect and I want to be truthful. They should release merchandise of it! We want Mewtwo plushies!!!

The fourth movie is called Serebii: A Timeless Encounter. This fourth movie is about Pokémon #251, Celebii.
The name for this movie has officially been confirmed as Pokémon 4Ever. Many Pokémon fans are disappointed by the dub's obvious aim at young children.

Here is the logo for the new movie. As you can see, it's rediculously corny. Cute but naff. In my opinion the title should have been Celebi something. They did it with Revelation Lugia and now they've done it with this one too. Heck, they may as well call it Pokémon the Movie 4. K, I'll stop ranting but I think any true fan knows what I'm on about! In Japan Pokémon has an all round appeal for any age, however everywhere else it seems to be targeting 5 year olds. This is a big disappointment for all us older fans.
Mewtwo will definately not be appearing in this movie, despite previous rumours about it. A Team Rocket Member named Bisashu travels into the future and captures the legendary Pokémon, Celebii, turning it into an evil Pokémon to make it a slave to Team Rocket. Suicune, the Legendary dog of water also makes an appearance.

Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back attracted an audience of 650 people in Japan in the first three days of release in Japanese cinemas back in 1998, earning a distribution profit of 3 billion Yen. It is reputed to to be the most popular animated movie in Cinema history.
A radio drama was broadcast in Japan about Mewtwo's origins. It was called Myuutsuu no Tanjou, or The Birth of Mewtwo. Later, a double CD was released for it, the radio drama (in five parts) on the first CD and the music score of the Japanese Mewtwo Strikes Back film on the second CD. It all goes back to the time when Giovanni's mother was boss of Team Rocket (known as the Rocket Gang in Japan). It was Jessie's mother, Myamoto's idea to look for Mew, but she never returned. Meanwhile, Giovanni became boss and some members found a fossil of Mew's eyebrow, so Giovanni payed Dr Fuji to create a powerful clone. Dr Fuji carried on doing experiments to make a clone of his dead daughter (who was killed in a car accident), but Human clones only survive for 4 years. It was at the end of her life, the little girl called Ai, that baby Mewtwo awoke and they made friends. Unfortunatly, Ai died and Mewtwo became upset, so the scientists put him back to sleep. Next time he woke up was at the beginning of the English version, when he'd matured. In in the radio drama is a bit when the computer actually shoots and kills Mewtwo, when he tries to escape for the first time. But he regenerates himself and comes back to life! That is one powerful Pokémon! And you thought his voice was scary in the English version of Mewtwo Strikes Back, click HERE to hear Mewtwo's Japanese voice. In Japan, Pokémon is called Poketto Monsutaa and Mewtwo Strikes Back is called Myuutsuu No Gyakushuu, meaning "Mewtwo's Counter Attack".
The story line of the translated version of The Birth of Mewtwo is kept practically identical to the Japanese original and baby Mewtwo is very sweet. He's got a cute voice! Also, Ai's English name is Amber.