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'''The Rise of Darkrai''' (Japanese: '''ディアルガ{{tt|VS|たい}}パルキア{{tt|VS|たい}}ダークライ''' ''Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai'') is the first [[Generation IV]] Pokémon movie, the first of the Diamond & Pearl movies trilogy, and the tenth Pokémon movie overall. | '''The Rise of Darkrai''' (Japanese: '''ディアルガ{{tt|VS|たい}}パルキア{{tt|VS|たい}}ダークライ''' ''Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai'') is the first [[Generation IV]] Pokémon movie, the first of the Diamond & Pearl movies trilogy, and the tenth Pokémon movie overall. | ||
It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2007. It was aired in North America on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network and it was released on DVD on May 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in the UK on September 29, 2008 and in Australia on November 5, 2008. In Spain it aired | It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2007. It was aired in North America on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network and it was released on DVD on May 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in the UK on September 29, 2008 and in Australia on November 5, 2008. In Spain it aired on Jetix on September 6, 2008 and in Mexico on May 13, 2009 on Open Signal, instead of Cartoon Network. In Portugal it aired on December 25, 2010 on Panda Biggs. | ||
==Other posters and DVD covers== | ==Other posters and DVD covers== |
Revision as of 00:51, 26 December 2010
- This article is about the movie. For the manga, see The Rise of Darkrai (manga).
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The Rise of Darkrai (Japanese: ディアルガVSパルキアVSダークライ Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai) is the first Generation IV Pokémon movie, the first of the Diamond & Pearl movies trilogy, and the tenth Pokémon movie overall.
It premiered in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2007. It was aired in North America on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network and it was released on DVD on May 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in the UK on September 29, 2008 and in Australia on November 5, 2008. In Spain it aired on Jetix on September 6, 2008 and in Mexico on May 13, 2009 on Open Signal, instead of Cartoon Network. In Portugal it aired on December 25, 2010 on Panda Biggs.
Other posters and DVD covers
- Pikachu the Movie 10 poster.jpg
Pikachu the Movie 10th poster
Synopsis
Template:Incomplete synopsis On their way to participate in the next Pokémon Contest, Ash and his friends have come to Alamos Town, where they meet a girl named Alice, and her Chimchar. The two run a hot- air balloon that takes travelers into Alamos Town.
While Alice is showing them around the town, her friend, Tonio, sits in his lab, reading Godey's diary. It tells of Alice's grandmother, Alicia, who was playing in the garden one day when she was a little girl. Suddenly, she sees a Luxray trying to attack something, when all of a sudden it is engulfed by a strange orb that puts it to sleep. Alicia runs to it, then sees Darkrai laying under a tree. It is hurt, and she helps it to heal by playing Oracion on her leaf whistle.
We return to where Alice is showing our heroes around the garden. Ash, Dawn and Brock let their Pokémon out to play in the garden, and Piplup sees a berry on a tree. It reaches for it, but another Pokémon eats it. Angered, Piplup starts to fight, and Ash, Dawn, and Brock are about to intervene to separate them when Alice starts to play "Oracion" on her leaf whistle. When she finishes, all the Pokémon are calm. As she starts to explain about the song, a Gallade runs up to them, motioning for them to follow. It leads them to where the garden has been distorted. Then, Baron Alberto, an influential man of the town, arrives on the scene. Alberto is confident that the devastation is the work of the legendary Pokémon Darkrai. Then, from the ominous shadows, Darkrai suddenly appears before them. Darkrai tells them to, "Go away!" and it attacks with a Dark Void that hits Ash and puts him to sleep.
Ash dreams that Pikachu is killed, but Pikachu shocks him awake from out of the nightmare he is having. As Ash and friends leave the Pokémon Center, Tonio runs up to them and tells them that Space- Time is about to be destroyed. Thinking that it's Darkrai, Ash and friends go off to find the Pokémon. Just at that moment, a fierce battle between Dialga and Palkia is unfolding in an interval of space-time. Space-time is torn apart by the collision of terrible energies. Through the tear, Alamos Town can be seen.
After all the Pokémon are at the Pokémon center, Alamos Town is completely covered in a massive fog which can not be cleared off and causes anything which attempts to leave the town to be reversibly entering the town, resulting in no possible escape. Baron still believes that it was still Darkrai who had caused all this. All the trainers follow Baron to confront Darkrai, but Ash, Brock, and Dawn do not go along listening to Tonio, who doesn't believe Darkrai is up to this. He believes Darkrai is good since he had saved Alice in their childhood. It is revealed that the two of them were playing in the garden when Alice tripped off the cliff and fell. Tonio ran to her (knowing that he would fail) but a silhouette of Darkrai zipped out and caught Alice just before crashing. Hearing that, the trio now agree that it was not Darkrai who caused the havoc. Tonio explains that the distortion caused from the spiritual images of the sleeping Pokémon was caused by an multidimensional disturbance from when Palkia entered the realm. Later that evening, Tonio finds Palkia resting between the towers. Darkrai, who was fighting Baron, instead tries to attack the resting Palkia. Ash then realizes that was what Darkrai was trying to tell him in his nightmare, that the two legendary Pokémon are waging war.
As Palkia and Darkrai battle, Palkia switches the town back into its home dimension. But as Palkia is about to hit Darkrai with one of its attacks, Dialga opens fire on the two and immediately runs into Palkia, thus continuing it. As they brawl, the entire town is going to dissipate into nothing (due to the severe injury suffered from Palkia). Darkrai constantly fails to fend them off as the town evacuates into the garden. After Tonio reads a passage from Godey's diary, Alice hears the word "Oración" which means Prayer in Spanish and that is the name of the song she plays on the leaf whistle. Tonio indicates that "Oración is the song that could soothe even the fiercest rage". They realize that they must play Oración on the towers' musical instrument to stop Dialga and Palkia from their feud.
After finding the music disc, Ash, Dawn, Alice and Tonio begin to head up the tower by balloon as Brock helps Nurse Joy evacuate the townspeople. On their way up, Dialga fires its Roar of Time while Palkia stands in between the balloon and Dialga. Palkia dodges the attack, leaving the beam to crossfire with the balloon. Darkrai instantly comes to the rescue and takes the massive blow from Dialga. However, in the process Palkia and Dialga fly by the balloon, causing heavy damage, and leaving Ash and Dawn to travel up by foot which takes a lot of time. Dialga and Palkia continue their confrontation and now they are going to deal the final blow. Dialga is charging its Roar of Time while Palkia charges it's Spacial Rend. When both the legendary Pokémon discharge their attacks, Darkrai crosses the attacks' line and forms a sphere around him to absorb the massive impulse that would wreck the entire location. Baron who had already turned back to himself then believes Darkrai was not the foe. As Ash and Dawn make their way up the tower, they watch as Darkrai's sphere gets weaker and eventually shrinks. The dragons, fed up with the Dark Pokémon intervening with their battle, both shoot Darkrai from both sides. Having almost no armor or the energy left, he bravely takes the destructive blow and disintegrates as he floats up into the air. Everyone looks on with the fear that now that Darkrai had perished, they too would suffer the same fate in the next moment. Tonio then mentions that if the dragons' signature moves collide once more, their dimension will be completely destroyed.
Ash and Dawn then end up running to the musical instrument, only to find that the electrical power source is down (as the dimension itself was disintegrating). Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Pachirisu provide their electricity to get the machine running. The song plays loud throughout the small section of what's left of the town. The song successfully calms the dragons down, Dialga flees and Palkia restores everything back, returning Alamos Town to how it originally was along with the townspeople and the Pokémon living in the garden.
At dusk, Ash, Dawn, Brock, Alice and Tonio thank Darkrai and respect everything that he had done for them. A tear of condolence and thanks for Darkrai drips down Alice's face. Ash and Dawn began to cry, both knowing they would probably never see Darkrai again. As they walk away, Ash stops as he sees a shadow on the cliffside. He along with everyone else looks back at the cliff. Later on the Space-Time Towers, they find Darkrai standing heroically on top. Everyone is relieved that he is safe and Alice cuddles next to Tonio as they look onto Darkrai who then glares with a lit up eye, as the film quickly fades. In the end credits, it shows the aftermath occurring after everything, such as the Pokémon contest which Dawn competes in (which the girl with the Infernape wins). Not too long after, it shows Dialga hovering towards its next destination awaiting a battle, which will start the next adventure Ash, Dawn and Brock will face.
Featured Pokémon
Debuts
- Darkrai
- Infernape
- Empoleon
- Torterra
- Lickilicky
- Chingling
- Finneon
- Lumineon
- Gallade
- Drifblim
- Tangrowth
- Yanmega
- Luxio
- Luxray
- Gible
- Bronzor
- Honchkrow
- Purugly
- Shellos (East Sea)
- Cherrim
Cast
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Ash | Sarah Natochenny | Satoshi | Rica Matsumoto | サトシ | 松本梨香 |
Pikachu | Ikue Ohtani | Pikachu | Ikue Ohtani | ピカチュウ | 大谷育江 |
Brock | Bill Rogers | Takeshi | Yuji Ueda | タケシ | うえだ ゆうじ |
Dawn | Emily Jenness | Hikari | Megumi Toyoguchi | ヒカリ | 豊口めぐみ |
Jessie | Michele Knotz | Musashi | Megumi Hayashibara | ムサシ | 林原めぐみ |
James | Billy Beach | Kojirō | Shin'ichirō Miki | コジロウ | 三木眞一郎 |
Meowth | Billy Beach | Nyarth | Inuko Inuyama | ニャース | 犬山イヌコ |
Narration | Rodger Parsons | Narration | Unshō Ishizuka | ナレーション | 石塚運昇 |
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Darkrai | Scott Williams | Darkrai | Kōji Ishizaka | ダークライ | 石坂浩二 |
Tonio | Rich McNanna | Tonio | Kōichi Yamadera | トニオ | 山本耕史 |
Alice | Khristine Hvam | Alice | Rosa Katō | アリス | 加藤ローサ |
Baron Alberto | Sean Reyes | Baron Alberto | Kōichi Yamadera | アルベルト男爵 | 山寺宏一 |
Kai | Ax Norman | Dai | Ryūji Akiyama | ダイ | 秋山竜次 |
Maury | Joshua Swanson | Katsumi | Hiroshi Yamamoto | カツミ | 山本 博 |
Allegra | Emily Williams | Maki | Shōko Nakagawa | マキ | 中川翔子 |
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Production supervisor スーパーバイザー |
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Animation supervisor アニメーション監修 |
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Executive producers エグゼクティブプロデューサー |
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Producers プロデューサー |
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Animation producers アニメーションプロデューサー |
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Screenplay 脚本 |
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Character design キャラクターデザイン |
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Executive animation directors 総作画監督 |
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Animation directors 作画監督 |
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Color keys 色彩設計 |
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Colorist 色指定 |
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Art supervisor 美術監修 |
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Art director 美術監督 |
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Director of photography 撮影監督 |
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CGI director CGI監督 |
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CGI producer CGIプロデューサー |
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Editor 編集 |
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Music 音楽 |
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Music producers 音楽プロデューサー |
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Sound recording mixer 劇場用レコーディングミキサー |
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Original score (partial) 一部原曲・作曲 |
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Sound director 音響監督 |
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Recording studio 録音スタジオ |
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Audio production 音響制作 |
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Animation production アニメーション制作 |
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Soundtrack
- Main article: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai Music Collection
Manga Adaption
- Main article: The Rise of Darkrai (manga)
Trivia
- The events of this movie happen between the episodes Steamboat Willies and Top-Down Training, and premiered in Japan between those episodes.
- Yuyama Kunihiko traveled to Spain together with screenwriter Hideki Sonoda and composer Shinji Miyazaki, to various places including the Sagrada Família and Park Güell in Barcelona, to get ideas for the setting of the movie.
- The design of the Space-Time Tower is based on the Sagrada Família.
- Also, the architect behind the Space-Time Tower is named Godey, and his descendant is named Tonio, both references to the architect of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí.
- In the English dub, Darkrai is referred as a he, even though Darkrai is genderless in the games.
- This is the first movie to feature the opening theme of the season after the one it corresponds to. In other words, despite being the 10th movie, it features a version of the opening theme of the 11th season, We Will Be Heroes
- Players who had pre-ordered tickets for the Japanese run could receive a Deoxys. In major cinemas, a Darkrai could be downloaded. Instructions on how to get Darkrai were provided before and after the feature presentation by Meowth.
- This is one of the few movies without a human antagonist. The three others are Mewtwo Strikes Back, Destiny Deoxys and Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
- In the trailers, Ash is seen flying over a Pidgeot. This scene was never in the movie itself.
- On the wall that features Alicia in the center of the Space-Time Tower, there are many Pokémon and their counterparts on the opposite side of Alicia. They are: Solrock and Lunatone, Dustox and Beautifly, Gallade and Gardevoir, Volbeat and Illumise, Zangoose and Seviper, Electivire and Magmortar, Plusle and Minun, Wormadam and Mothim, Leafeon and Glaceon, and the two variants of Gastrodon.
- The number of Pokémon debuts in this movie is matched only by Mewtwo Strikes Back, Spell of the Unown and Jirachi: Wish Maker; this is because these are the only movies to follow the beginning of a new generation. With the exception of the first movie (which was released more than two years after Generation I had debuted), no Pokémon were introduced in any of these three movies that could not be found in the games of the respective generation. Counting the corresponding Pikachu shorts, Mewtwo Strikes Back had 22 debuts (of which 3 were Generation II Pokémon), Spell of the Unown had 16 and Jirachi: Wish Maker had 14, or 15 if including Groudon as having a live debut. This movie had 18 debuts within itself, or 20 if considering Dialga and Palkia's appearances as their live debuts.
- Five minor characters from other movies make a cameo appearance in this movie:
- A man and his daughter, who were briefly seen with Aipom in the beginning of Pokémon Heroes, are given a similar appearance alongside Chimecho and Chingling.
- A man from Jirachi: Wish Maker, where he sold May her Wishing Star, sold Dawn a Lunar Wing.
- Finally, the mother and girl that were reading the legend of Rota in the beginning of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew were seen buying cotton candy and running away from Darkrai. These two are seen again in the next movie.
- The following promotional cards were released as the 10th Movie Commemoration Set. Each corresponds to a Pokémon film. The first 11 were bought as a set, complete with a gloss paper folder and protective sleeving, while Darkrai had to be obtained when purchasing a ticket.
- The opening scenes includes references in a row to all earlier movies:
- It starts of with a fleeing Mew that is attacked by a Mewtwo which uses Shadow Ball, only to be stopped by Mew by absorbing the attack with a shield (Mewtwo Strikes Back).
- Coincidentally, despite the animation change, Shadow Ball retains the original animation from the first movie.
- Then, a Lugia appears, flying alongside Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, and makes the cloudy sky sunny again (The Power of One).
- A large number of Unown appear, and soon, an Entei uses Fire Spin on a Pokémon (Spell of the Unown)...
- ...which actually is a Celebi that soon heals itself, stops the Fire Spin, and flies to the side of a Suicune that roars and jumps (Celebi: Voice of the Forest).
- A Latios and Latias then fly across the screen (Pokémon Heroes).
- A giant, angry Groudon comes from an explosion at the ground and roars, waking up a Jirachi that flies away (Jirachi: Wish Maker).
- In the ozone layer, two Deoxys flee from Rayquaza, who uses Hyper Beam, which destroys a cliff (Destiny Deoxys).
- A Lucario suddenly jumps from the cliff and Regirock, Regice, and Registeel use Hyper Beam (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew).
- A Kyogre then makes a majestic jump out of water, being followed by a Manaphy. (Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea)
- After the above scenes, both Mew and Ho-Oh fly past Earth seen from space.
- Both of these pokemon Ash has seen as rare pokemon that he only had a glimpse of. Ash saw Ho-Oh on the first episode as seeing a mystery pokemon and he saw Mew at the end of Mewtwo Strikes Back!, flying through the clouds.
- If these references to previous movies are counted, The Rise of Darkrai has the most legendary Pokémon in it, with 23, though only three (Dialga, Palkia, and Darkrai) are featured.
- The only pre-Generation IV Legendary Pokémon not to appear in the prologue is Raikou, which had not yet appeared in a movie. Raikou would not appear until Zoroark: Master of Illusions, three years later.
- It starts of with a fleeing Mew that is attacked by a Mewtwo which uses Shadow Ball, only to be stopped by Mew by absorbing the attack with a shield (Mewtwo Strikes Back).
- A replica of the Alamos Space-Time tower was featured in the museum in A Secret Sphere of Influence.
- Elements and motifs from the previous movies are seen in this movie, including:
- Three trainers present to show off the final evolved forms of their starter Pokémon (Mewtwo Strikes Back).
- A song to calm the fighting between powerful Pokémon (The Power of One).
- Battling in another dimension (Spell of the Unown).
- One of the legendary Pokémon dies, but comes back to life by the end of the movie (Celebi: Voice of the Forest).
- Pokémon to human transformation and vice versa (Pokémon Heroes).
- A romance that slowly develops and is later canonized at the end of the story. (Jirachi: Wish Maker).
- Battling within a large town or city and almost destroying it, as well as having a character that uses computer research to forsee the upcoming situation (Destiny Deoxys).
- Constant flashbacks which serve some importance to the plot. Also, the title Pokémon mistaking a female character for one of her ancestors, due to being close with said ancestor (Lucario and the Mystery of Mew).
- Solving a riddle (Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea).
- The Lunar Wing that Dawn bought in the movie returns in Sleepless in Pre-Battle! thus making the movie canon.
- This is the first and only movie where the title sequence music does not contain the introduction theme of the original games.
- The Shellos that appears in the movie is in their East Sea form. According to a recent map of the anime, Alamos Town is actually on the western side of Mt. Coronet, although it is unknown whether or not the Shellos was from Alamos Town.
- This is the first Pokémon movie to be rated PG in the United States and the first Pokémon movie to be rated in the United States at all since Pokémon Heroes.
Errors
- The same Japanese voice over that is heard in Tanks for the Memories! is heard when Dawn sends out her Pokémon to play.
- During part of the scene where Ash and Dawn's Pokémon are running up the spiral staircase in the Space-Time towers after being separated from their trainers, Aipom was mistakenly left out.
- In the opening scenes when Palkia used Aura Sphere, it missed Dialga, however in the games, the attack never misses.
In other languages
Language | Title | |
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Chinese | Cantonese | 決戰時空之塔 帝牙盧卡VS帕路奇犽VS達克萊伊 |
Mandarin | 決戰時空之塔 帝牙盧卡VS帕路奇犽VS達克萊伊 | |
Danish | Darkrai Slår Til | |
Dutch | De Opkomst van Darkrai | |
Finnish | Darkrai nousee | |
French | Canada | L'ascension de Darkrai |
Europe | L'ascension de Darkrai | |
German | Der Aufstieg von Darkrai | |
Italian | L'ascesa di Darkrai | |
Korean | 디아루가VS펄기아VS다크라이 | |
Portuguese | Brazil | O Pesadelo de Darkrai |
Portugal | A Ascensão do Darkrai | |
Spanish | Latin America | El surgimiento de Darkrai |
Spain | El desafío de Darkrai | |
Swedish | Darkrai Slår Till | |
Box office performance
- Source: goo 映画
2007 | Jul. 14 - 15 | Jul. 21 - 22 | Jul. 28 - 29 | Aug. 4 - 5 | Aug. 11 - 12 | Aug. 18 - 19 | Aug. 25 - 26 | Sep. 1 - 2 | Sep. 8 - 9 |
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Overall ranking | ⇨ 1st | ⇩ 2nd | ⇩ 3rd | ⇩ 5th | ⇨ 5th | ⇨ 5th | ⇩ 8th | ⇩ 9th | ⇩ 10th |
Domestic movies | ⇨ 1st | ⇨ 1st | ⇨ 1st | ⇩ 2nd | ⇧ 1st | ⇨ 1st | ⇩ 2nd | ⇩ 3rd | ⇩ 5th |
Animated movies | ⇨ 1st | ⇨ 1st | ⇩ 2nd | ⇨ 2nd | ⇨ 2nd | ⇨ 2nd | ⇨ 2nd | ⇩ 3rd | ⇨ 3rd |
The Rise of Darkrai earned a franchise record of 5.02 billion yen (US$47 million).
See Also
External links
- Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai at IMDb
- Official website (Japanese)
- Bulbanews: Director Kunihiko Yuyama speaks about tenth movie
- Bulbanews: Full Movie 10 title revealed
This movie article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of Pokémon animation. |