Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"! (Japanese: ゾロア・ザ・ムービー！ポケモンナイトの伝説！！Zorua The Movie! The Legend of the Pokémon Knight!!) is the 38th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 695th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 30, 2011, and in the United States on October 22, 2011.
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The gang are on their way to Nimbasa City and watch a preview for a new Wonder Fighter movie, where they encounter a Zorua masquerading as one of the actors. The Zorua belongs to Luke, a film-maker who also owns a Golett and dreams of being a movie director with Zorua as the star. Luke explains that Zorua has been acting up, becoming stubborn and refusing to play the characters that Luke asks for and ultimately running away from him. Team Rocket watch from the shadows as the gang leave to search for the Zorua, thinking to add it to Team Rocket’s organization.
The gang find Zorua and Cilan works out that it’s a girl and only wants to play the princess in the movie. Luke accepts Zorua’s wishes, securing Ash and friends to play the other parts in the movie with the assistance of Luke’s Leavanny making costumes.
Filming begins on the movie, which tells the story of a Pokémon Knight (Ash) trying to rescue a Princess (Zorua) from an evil pirate (Cilan), with training from a dragon master (Iris). While filming the last scene Team Rocket appear, capture Zorua in an electric beam and take Zorua hostage aboard a plane. Luke sends out Golett who attacks the plane with Shadow Ball, destroying the plane and bringing Team Rocket and Zorua back to earth.
The movie goes on to be a success and Ash learns from Luke’s father about a battle tournament in Nimbasa Town. Luke, Ash, Cilan and Iris all express desire to enter and they leave together for the Club Battle tournament, in which they will all compete as rivals.
With 52 characters, this episode has the longest dub title so far out of Best Wishes episodes, and the whole series in general.
In the dub, Cilan mentions a classic movie called "Yamask of the Opera", clearly referring to the famous novel The Phantom of the Opera that has been adapted into a number of musicals, TV specials, and films, among other things.
This is the third episode to be based on movies, the other two being Lights, Camera, Quack-tion, and Lights, Camerupt, Action!. Also, the former episode and this episode are both written by the same person.
Of the three, this is the only episode to not be based of the phrase "Lights, Camera, Action!".
Errors
On the title card, "Pokémon" was misspelled as "Pokemon", without the e-acute (é).
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