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* Director [[Kunihiko Yuyama]] looked to {{wp|Venice|Venice, Italy}} for inspiration when designing [[Alto Mare]].
* Director [[Kunihiko Yuyama]] looked to {{wp|Venice|Venice, Italy}} for inspiration when designing [[Alto Mare]].
** This explains why the characters say ''{{tt|ciao|hello}}'' and ''{{tt|arrivederci|goodbye}}'', as well as the names of Bianca and Lorenzo.
** This explains why the characters say ''{{tt|ciao|hello}}'' and ''{{tt|arrivederci|goodbye}}'', as well as the names of Bianca and Lorenzo.
* This movie begins the tradition of featuring a next-generation Pokémon during the last movie in the current generation's series. This trend would last until [[M22]], which was released during the {{series|Sun & Moon}}, exactly one day before this movie's seventeenth anniversary.
* This movie begins the tradition of featuring a next-generation Pokémon during the last movie in the current generation's series. This trend would last until [[M22]], exactly one day before this movie's seventeenth anniversary.
* This is the first movie in which {{TRT}} has no contact with the main characters. It is also the first movie in which they are not the last characters to appear before the ending credits.
* This is the first movie in which {{TRT}} has no contact with the main characters. It is also the first movie in which they are not the last characters to appear before the ending credits.
* The English dub of this movie mentions that an {{p|Aerodactyl}} and {{p|Kabutops}} drowned. Though the {{2t|Rock|Flying}}-type Aerodactyl may have drowned, it is highly unlikely that the {{2t|Rock|Water}}-type Kabutops would have.
* The English dub of this movie mentions that an {{p|Aerodactyl}} and {{p|Kabutops}} drowned. Though the {{2t|Rock|Flying}}-type Aerodactyl may have drowned, it is highly unlikely that the {{2t|Rock|Water}}-type Kabutops would have.

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Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
水の都の護神　ラティアスとラティオス Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios
PokéMovie 5.png
Premiere
Japan July 13, 2002
United States May 16, 2003
Home video
Japan December 20, 2002
United States January 20, 2004*
English themes
Opening Believe in Me
Ending You & Me & Pokémon
Pikachu (I Choose You)
The Time Has Come
My Best Friends
Japanese themes
Opening めざせポケモンマスター2002 （映画EDIT）
Ending ひとりぼっちじゃない
Ratings
United States G
Great Britain U
Ireland G
Canada G
Quebec G
Japan G
Germany 6
Australia G
New Zealand G

Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias (Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスター　水の都の護神　ラティアスとラティオス Pocket Monsters the Movie - Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios; officially known as The Guardians of Altomare in Japan) is the fifth Pokémon movie and the final original series movie. It features Latios and Latias.

It was released in Japan on July 13, 2002. Distributed on limited release by Miramax Films, it opened in select American theaters on May 16, 2003. It was released on VHS and DVD in the United States on January 20, 2004. Echo Bridge Home Entertainment released the movie on Blu-ray (along with Destiny Deoxys on the same disc) on May 15, 2011.

Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias was shown with the Pikachu short Camp Pikachu.

Other posters and DVD covers

  • Pikachu the Movie poster

    Pikachu the Movie poster

  • Guardian of the City of Water teaser poster

    Guardian of the City of Water teaser poster

  • Final Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios movie poster

    Final Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios movie poster

  • Movie5 Japanese DVD Cover.png

    Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios DVD cover

  • Japanese poster featuring Latias and Latios

    Japanese poster featuring Latias and Latios

  • Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios logo

    Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios logo

  • Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias title screen

    Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias title screen

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Blurb

Every year the city of Alto Mare holds a special Water Pokémon race through its canal streets—and this time around, Ash and Misty are top competitors! Even though he doesn't win, Ash still finds his own special place in the heart of a mysterious girl that he rescues from two roguish women. But this isn't any ordinary girl—it's actually the Legendary Latias in disguise!

Ash gets a special peek into the secret world of Latios and Latias, but this world is soon threatened by the two women from before—Annie and Oakley—who are after the two Legendary Pokémon, as well as a mysterious jewel called the Soul Dew. These elements combined will let them control a powerful machine that normally protects against danger. When the machine malfunctions, though, it not only puts Latios and Latias at serious risk, but the entire city of Alto Mare!

Plot

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The main film's setting is in the water-themed city of Alto Mare, Johto. The city is watched over by two Legendary Pokémon, Latias and Latios. The story behind the two involves an evil Pokémon Trainer using a Kabutops and an Aerodactyl to terrorize the citizens, until the original Latios came to the city, using his powers to drown the evil Pokémon and turning the streets into canals. However, Latios died and his children were left orphans. His soul is within a special jewel, the Soul Dew.

The Soul Dew is sought by Annie and Oakley, two members of Team Rocket, and acts as a key for activating the Defense Mechanism of Alto Mare (DMA), a special device built in case of disaster. Meanwhile, Ash, Misty, and Brock are visiting Alto Mare on their travels. Ash and Misty participate in the Tour de Alto Mare, a water chariot race. Misty wins, after Ash takes a wrong turn due to an invisible Latias and Latios. Ross, the former champion of the race, gives the group a tour of the city in his gondola and tells them of the city's guardians. Annie and Oakley follow Latias, disguised as a girl named Bianca. Latias is saved by Ash and his Pikachu. Team Rocket are also in the city and decide to follow Annie and Oakley.

The trio later visit Lorenzo, the curator of a local museum, who explains the city's history and also introduces them to the Defense Mechanism of Alto Mare. Ash pursues Bianca, and then Latias in disguise, across the city, eventually discovering a hidden garden where Latias and Latios live. When Latios and Bianca threaten to force Ash out, Lorenzo arrives to clear up all the tension. Latias and Latios play with Ash and Pikachu, and Lorenzo later reveals the Soul Dew to Ash. However, Annie and Oakley's spy robot is watching this, and the duo soon raid the garden, stealing the Soul Dew, capturing Latios, and using both to control the DMA. Latias flees to Ash for help, so they race across the gridlocked city to the museum. Using the DMA, Oakley locks down the city and revives the dead Pokémon to capture Latias. After a long chase through the city, Ash and Latias cause the undead Aerodactyl to crash into a building, and are saved from the Kabutops by their friends' Pokémon. The heroes arrive at the museum to find the DMA going berserk and Latios seriously injured. After freeing Latios, the Soul Dew fades and turns black, causing the DMA to shut down. When Annie tries to get the Soul Dew, it disappears and the city's water becomes a giant tsunami. Latios and Latias use their psychic powers to stop the tsunami, but Latios sacrifices himself in the process. The water returns to the city, washing away Team Rocket in the process. The undead Pokémon return to the museum as Fossils, and Annie and Oakley become trapped inside the DMA.

Latios becomes a new Soul Dew and the new guardian of Alto Mare. Ash, Misty, and Brock start heading off to leave Alto Mare, but Bianca (or Latias disguised as Bianca) stops them before they leave and hands Ash a drawing of him and Pikachu. Saying nothing, she gives Ash a kiss on the cheek before running off, leaving the group wondering who it really was. As the group leave on a boat, they see two Latios and a Latias in the air. Annie and Oakley are sent to jail, where they read a book about Lawrence III and his possessions from The Power of One.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Cast

Cast
Ash Veronica Taylor 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
Misty Rachael Lillis Kasumi Mayumi Iizuka カスミ 飯塚雅弓
Togepi Satomi Koorogi Togepi Satomi Koorogi トゲピー こおろぎさとみ
Brock Eric Stuart Takeshi Yūji Ueda タケシ うえだ　ゆうじ
Jessie Rachael Lillis Musashi Megumi Hayashibara ムサシ 林原めぐみ
James Eric Stuart Kojirō Shin'ichirō Miki コジロウ 三木眞一郎
Meowth Maddie Blaustein Nyarth Inuko Inuyama ニャース 犬山イヌコ
Bianca Tara Jayne Kanon Fumiko Orikasa カノン 折笠富美子
Latias Megumi Hayashibara Latias Megumi Hayashibara ラティアス 林原めぐみ
Latios Megumi Hayashibara Latios Masashi Ebara ラティオス 江原正士
Annie Megan Hollingshead Zanner Uno Kanda ザンナー 神田うの
Oakley Lisa Ortiz Lions Yumiko Shaku リオン 釈由美子
Lorenzo Wayne Grayson Vongole Yūzō Gucci ボンゴレ グッチ裕三
Ross Michael Sinterniklaas Rossi Kōichi Yamadera ロッシ 山寺宏一
Narration Ken Gates Narration Unshō Ishizuka ナレーション 石塚運昇

Soundtrack

Main article: Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios Music Collection

Manga adaptation

Main article: Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios (manga)

Trivia

Alto Mare at sunset
  • This movie was released between EP256 and EP257 in Japan.
  • This movie uses the exact same intro as Celebi: The Voice of the Forest in the dub.
  • Celebi: The Voice of the Forest was released internationally after this movie was released in Japan.
  • Like the previous movies, this one briefly displays Porygon at the beginning.
  • This is the first movie not to feature a remixed version of the season's theme song during the opening credits; instead, an extended version of Believe in Me with no new lyrics is played.
  • This is the first movie in Japan to use a different opening theme than the opening used at the time in the main series; in this case, using the 2002 remix of Aim to Be a Pokémon Master rather than Ready Go!, which had been used in the anime for four months by the movie's release.
  • Director Kunihiko Yuyama looked to Venice, Italy for inspiration when designing Alto Mare.
    • This explains why the characters say ciao and arrivederci, as well as the names of Bianca and Lorenzo.
  • This movie begins the tradition of featuring a next-generation Pokémon during the last movie in the current generation's series. This trend would last until M22, exactly one day before this movie's seventeenth anniversary.
  • This is the first movie in which Team Rocket has no contact with the main characters. It is also the first movie in which they are not the last characters to appear before the ending credits.
  • The English dub of this movie mentions that an Aerodactyl and Kabutops drowned. Though the Rock/Flying-type Aerodactyl may have drowned, it is highly unlikely that the Rock/Water-type Kabutops would have.
  • The reanimated Aerodactyl and Kabutops most likely reference the fossils visible on display in the Pewter City Museum in the games that had been released at the time (and possibly reference MissingNo. and its use of the fossils' sprites as two of its forms as well).
Cyrillic characters on Oakley's computer
  • Cyrillic characters appear on the right side of Oakley's computer screen while she is deciphering the code on the stone plates.
  • In this movie, just like its predecessor Celebi: The Voice of the Forest, Jessie, James, and Meowth land on a protruding object that only breaks when Wobbuffet comes out of its Poké Ball.
  • Ash continues his habit of ramming obstacles, this time throwing himself into a barrier shielding Latios.
  • In a reference to The Power of One, Annie and Oakley read about Lawrence III in prison during the credits.
  • This is the first movie to feature the permanent death of a Pokémon, in this case Latios.
  • Misty refers to the Pokémon world as Earth during Latios's final sight sharing.
  • Images of Mewtwo, Lugia, Entei, and Celebi are hidden in this movie, referencing Pokémon featured in the previous movies.
  • Pokémon Heroes was the last Pokémon movie to receive a theatrical release outside Japan until White—Victini and Zekrom, nearly nine years later.
  • This is the fourth Pokémon movie to air on Toon Disney. The first three were Jirachi: Wish Maker, Destiny Deoxys, and Celebi: The Voice of the Forest.
  • This is one of the first two Pokémon movies to be available on Blu-ray, in a two-pack with Destiny Deoxys, in May 2011.
  • Although the main series switched its animation process to digital animation by this point, this movie, along with the entirety of the Advanced Generation series movies, were still made with inked-and-painted cels. This changed with the release of The Rise of Darkrai in 2007, which was the first movie to be completely made with digital animation.
  • The covers of VHS and DVD releases of the movie refer to the movie as Pokémon Heroes: The Movie.
  • The events of this movie are potentially referenced in The Semi-Final Frontier!, as in that episode, Ash immediately recognized Latios.

Errors

  • During the opening scene, Brock narrates how Ash met Pikachu as the events of the first episode are shown with new animation, but fraught with inconsistencies and errors.
    • Ash is pictured fully clothed when he receives Pikachu, but he was in his pajamas at that point in the episode. Also in this scene, Pikachu's Poké Ball surges with electricity as Ash holds it and Pikachu shakes his head after being released, neither of which occur in the episode.
    • In the very next scene, Ash and Pikachu are running on foot from the flock of Spearow while a storm covers the sky, but the storm doesn't occur until after Ash takes Misty's bike in the episode.
    • Ash's hat faces forward during this entire cinematic, even while Ash and Pikachu are lying on the ground after defeating the Spearow. In the episode, he turns it backward right before jumping into the river with Pikachu and it stays that way for the rest of the episode (except for the very end, when his hat erroneously flips back and forth between scenes).
  • In one scene of Oakley typing on her computer, several keys on the keyboard disappear and reappear.

Dub edits

Scene that did not appear in the English dub
  • Brock narrates the opening of the movie instead of the narrator.
  • The entire backstory of the movie was changed in the dub. A segment of approximately two minutes, which told the story of the origin of the Soul Dew in Alto Mare's ancient history, was cut. This cut also removed the reference to the fact that many Latios and Latias visited and left Alto Mare frequently, causing some confusion to dub watchers when two Latios and a Latias appeared in the credits. This scene is very unique because the animation was done in a storybook-like fashion, something that was only done one other time, when it did appear in the dub.
    • A replacement backstory was added in the form of a story about an evil Trainer who once attacked the people of the city with a Kabutops and Aerodactyl until Latios brought water to the town, drowning the evil Pokémon and turning the streets into canals. Lorenzo also mentions having witnessed the evil Trainer's misdeeds, thus giving him a more personal investment in protecting Latios and Latias.
  • In the dub, the Soul Dew is the soul of Latias and Latios's father rather than the soul of one of their ancestors.
  • The dub makes Annie and Oakley members of Team Rocket, but in the original, the two are working independently and never mention a relationship with Team Rocket or Giovanni.
  • Masashi Ebara and Megumi Hayashibara provide the voices for Latios and Latias in the Japanese version, but Hayashibara provides each Pokémon's voice in the English dub. As a result, Latios's voice sounds like a less feminine Latias.
  • An intense blue tint was applied to DVD releases of the movie that came out of Miramax, making most of the colors much darker than in the original.
  • Original Japanese version

    Original Japanese version

  • Dubbed English version

    Dubbed English version

In other languages


Related articles

External links

Pokémon movies
Original series
Mewtwo Strikes Back • The Power of One • Spell of the Unown: Entei • Celebi: The Voice of the Forest • Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire
Jirachi: Wish Maker • Destiny Deoxys • Lucario and the Mystery of Mew • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
The Rise of Darkrai • Giratina and the Sky Warrior • Arceus and the Jewel of Life • Zoroark: Master of Illusions
Pokémon the Series: Black & White
White—Victini and Zekrom / Black—Victini and Reshiram • Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice • Genesect and the Legend Awakened
Pokémon the Series: XY
Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction • Hoopa and the Clash of Ages • Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon
I Choose You! • The Power of Us • Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Secrets of the Jungle
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