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Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (special)

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Alternative title:
A Volta de Mewtwo (Portuguese) 
De Terugkeer van Mewtwo (Dutch) 
Mewtu kehrt zurück (German) 
Mewtwo's Return (Japanese) 
Mewtwo, Land that Meets the Eye (Japanese) 
Mewtwon paluu 
Pocket Monster: Myuutsu! Ware wa Koko ni Ari (Japanese) 
Pocket Monsters: Myuutsu! I Exist Here 
Pokémon - Mewtwo Regresa (Spanish) 
Pokémon - Mewtwo: El regreso (Spanish) 
Pokémon - O Retorno de Mewtwo (Portuguese) 
Pokemon: Powrót Metwo (Polish) 
ポケットモンスター ミュウツー! 我ハココニ在リ (Japanese) 
포켓몬스터 극장판 - 뮤츠! 나는 여기에 있다 (Korean) 
Genres: adventure , drama , fantasy , science fiction 
Themes: equal rights , friendship , monsters 
Objectionable content: None 
Plot Summary: The Team Rocket leader, Giovanni, has found Mewtwo in a remote area of the Johto region. As Giovanni tries to re-capture Mewtwo, Ash and his friends are kidnapped by Domino, a new Team Rocket member, while trying to rescue Pikachu from Jessie and James. The Clone Pokemon are also captured and are then used as bait for Mewtwo. The situation then becomes a battle between the wills of Mewtwo and Giovanni; and Mewtwo also tries to discover if it and the clones have a purpose in life, even though they are products of science. 
User Ratings: 659 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (dub:10, sub:2, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 45 votes (dub:32, sub:11, ?:1, others:1
1 Dutch dubbed
)
 Very good: 86 votes (dub:57, sub:19, ?:2, edit.dub:2, raw:1, others:5
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 German dubbed
1 Swedish dubbed
)
 Good: 158 votes (dub:92, sub:43, edit.dub:9, ?:4, raw:2, others:8
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Finnish dubbed
1 German dubbed
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Dutch dubbed
)
 Decent: 164 votes (dub:115, sub:32, edit.dub:9, ?:2, raw:1, others:5
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Portuguese edited dub
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 So-so: 70 votes (dub:45, sub:16, edit.dub:5, others:4
2 Spanish dubbed
1 Danish dubbed
1 French dubbed
)
 Not really good: 41 votes (dub:25, sub:12, edit.dub:2, ?:1, raw:1)
 Weak: 38 votes (dub:21, sub:9, edit.dub:4, ?:2, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 hindi/urdu dubbed
)
 Bad: 17 votes (sub:6, dub:5, edit.dub:5, others:1
1 Norwegian dubbed
)
 Awful: 11 votes (dub:7, edit.dub:2, sub:2)
 Worst ever: 15 votes (dub:8, ?:3, sub:2, edit.dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
Seen in part or in whole by 1948 users, rank: #608 (of 9903)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.064 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.0581, rank: #7294 (of 10050)
Weighted mean: 6.047 (Decent), rank: #7294 (of 10050) (seen all: 6.06 / seen some: 4.63 / won't finish: 5.65)
Bayesian estimate: 6.075 (Decent), rank: #6575 (of 7615)
Running time: one hour 
Vintage:
2000-12-30 
2009-08-23 (Philippines, GMA Network) 
Ending Theme:
"Boku no Best Friend e (My Best Friend)" by Hiromi Iawasaki 
Official website:
Official Mewtwo Returns Website 
Trivia: We have 2
News: Show:
Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns TV Anime Special Gets Manga Adaptation (Jun 8, 2019)
This Week's Anime and Manga Releases (Dec 5, 2001)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (Dub.DVD) 2001-12-04 (from $52.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Masamitsu Hidaka 
Screenplay: Takeshi Shudō 
Storyboard:
Kiyotaka Isako 
Kōji Fukazawa 
Yūji Asada 
Unit Director:
Kiyotaka Isako 
Kōji Fukazawa 
Yūji Asada 
Music: Shinji Miyazaki 
Original creator: Satoshi Tajiri 
Character Design: Sayuri Ichiishi 
Art Director: Katsuyoshi Kanemura 
Chief Animation Director: Sayuri Ichiishi 
Animation Director:
Akihiro Tamagawa 
Masaaki Iwane 
Sayuri Ichiishi 
Character Conceptual Design:
Atsuko Nishida 
Hironobu Yoshida 
Ken Sugimori 
Motofumi Fujiwara 
Muneo Saito 
Rena Yoshikawa 
Satoshi Ohta 
Shigeki Morimoto 
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima 
Director of Photography: Takaya Mizutani 
Producer:
Makiko Iwata (TV Tokyo) 
Takayuki Yanagisawa 
Takemoto Mori 

Animation producer: Shukichi Kanda 
Animation Supervisor: Yōichi Kotabe 
Assistant producer: Tsuyoshi Fukuda 
Associate producer: Choji Yoshikawa 
Background Art:
Asami Konno 
Atsuko Uehara 
Makiko Fujino 
Sachiko Kato 
Tomoko Yonemura 
Tsutomu Nishikura 
Clean-Up Animation:
Aya Kawasaki 
Hitomi Suzuki 
Jun Otaki 
Keiko Yamaguchi 
Kozue Ryoke 
Mami Shimizu 
Masahiro Nakazawa 
Mayumi Tsukada 
Miki Arai 
Miyuki Hirama 
Nao Satō 
Tomomi Edano 
Toshiko Takamura 
Yumi Nakagawa 
Color design: Norimichi Yoshino 
Color Key: Tatsue Ōzeki 
Composite:
Kazuyuki Yamamoto 
Ryōko Kiyono 
Shinsuke Ikeda 
Yoshiko Chatani 
Yuko Nakajima 
Yusuke Izumiyama 
Digital Manager: Kenji Otake 
Editing: Toshio Henmi 
Editing Assistant: Hiroaki Itabe 
Executive Director: Kunihiko Yuyama 
In-Between Animation:
Akari Fukunaga 
Atsushi Itagaki 
Ayako Misono 
Daisuke Kamei 
Daisuke Miyazaki 
Ikuo Yoshida 
Junko Watanabe 
Keiko Tsujimura 
Miki Kuribayashi 
Mizuho Tajima 
Mizuka Momo 
Sōji Ninomiya 
Takako Uetake 
Takashi Tsuge 
Yoko Kasama 
Yuki Saitō 
In-Between Check:
Fujika Enomoto 
Noriaki Saito 
Key Animation:
Akihiro Tamagawa 
Hideko Saito 
Hiroyuki Notake 
Kazuhisa Kosuge 
Masaaki Iwane 
Masahito Sawada 
Masaki Hosoyama 
Masao Nakata 
Masaru Yoshioka 
Osamu Iwata 
Takaaki Wada 
Takao Ozone 
Takehiro Matsumoto 
Yoshiaki Mizuno 
Yuichi Akimoto 
Yuriko Chiba 
Music Composition:
Go Ichinose 
Junichi Masuda 
Morikazu Aoki 
Planning:
Keisuke Iwata 
Masakazu Kubo 
Takashi Kawaguchi 
Production Advancement:
Kenji Shirai 
Takashi Inoue 
Takehiko Ban 
Production manager:
Nobuyuki Wasaki 
Shōji Ōta 
Production Supervision: Tsunekazu Ishihara 
Publicity: Namie Hashio (TV Tokyo) 
Recording Assistant: Ryōko Nashimoto 
Recording engineer: Nobuhei Hirano 
Setting Assistance:
Gakuji Nomoto 
Hiroyuki Jinnai 
Kunimi Kawamura 
Setting Manager: Tomoyasu Kametani 
Sound Effects: Daisuke Jinbo 
Sound Producer:
Michiyoshi Minamisawa 
Takeshi Nishina 
Sound Production Desk: Akiko Nakamura 
Special Effects: Noriyuki Ohta 
Theme Song Performance: Hiromi Iawasaki (ED) 
Video Editing:
Naoki Kanazawa 
Ryo Naitou 
Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu 
Masachika Ichimura as Mewtwo 
Mayumi Iizuka as Kasumi 
Rica Matsumoto as Satoshi 
Yūji Ueda as Takeshi 

Hirotaka Suzuoki as Sakaki 
Inuko Inuyama as Nyarth 
Kotono Mitsuishi as Domino 
Megumi Hayashibara as Musashi 
Shinichirō Miki as Kojiro 

Aya Hisakawa as Luna Carson 
Chiyako Shibahara as Scientist 
Mayumi Shintani as Copy Nyarth 
Megumi Hayashibara as
Fusigidane 
Pikatwo 
Mika Kanai as Chikorita 
Rica Matsumoto as Persian 
Rikako Aikawa as Butterfree 
Rikiya Koyama as Penishirina 
Satomi Koorogi as Togepi 
Shinichirō Miki as
Golbat 
Hitodeman 
Ishitsubute 
Nyorozo 
Unshō Ishizuka as
Iwaku 
Kunugidama 
Narrator 
Yūji Ueda as Sonansu 
Yumi Touma as Luka Carson 
Japanese companies
Animation Production: OLM 
Backgrounds: Studio Jack 
CG Animation: OLM Digital 
Clean-Up Animation: OLM Digital 
Digital Composition: OLM Digital 
In-Between Animation:
Anime World Osaka 
Snow Light Staff 
Music Assistance: TV Tokyo Music 
Original Concept: Nintendo 
Production:
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions 
TV Tokyo 
TV Tokyo Medianet 
Production Cooperation: East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc. 
Video Editing: Imagica 
English cast
English staff
Music:
Benoit Grey 
Christian Montalbano 
Deniz Hughes  
Greg Kalember 
John Angier 
John Lissauer 
Kenneth Lampl 
Kevin Kleisch 
Louis Cortelezzi 
Manny Corallo 
Wayne Sharpe 
Translation: Paul Taylor 
Executive producer:
Alfred R. Kahn 
Norman J. Grossfeld 
Producer: Kathy Borland 

Adaptation: Michael Haigney 
ADR Engineer:
Armen Mazlumian 
Jeff Pustynsky 
Associate producer: Denitsa Zahariev 
Electronic Graphics:
Jennifer Obrotka 
Ryan Kelly 
Final Mix: Armen Mazlumian 
Music Editing:
Joel Douek 
Susan Shufro 
Music producer: John Loeffler 
Original Music Composition: Ralph Schuckett 
Original Music Producer: Ralph Schuckett 
Post-Production Coordinator: Chris Guido 
Production Accounting: Ray Sterling 
Production Assistant:
Christopher Boncic 
R. Simcha Whitehill 
Sound Supervision: Armen Mazlumian 
Supervising Music Editor: Julian Schwartz 
Voice Direction:
Anthony Salerno 
Jason Bergenfeld 
Michael Haigney 
Voice Producer:
Larry Juris 
Michael Haigney 
Dan Green as Mewtwo 
Eric Stuart as Brock 
Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu 
Rachael Lillis as Misty 
Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum 

Addie Blaustein as Meowth 
Ed Paul as Giovanni 
Eric Stuart as James 
Kerry Williams as Domino 
Rachael Lillis as Jessie 

Amy Birnbaum as Luna Carson 
Eric Stuart as
Pineco 
Squirtle 
Mayumi Shintani as Copy Meowth 
Megan Hollingshead as Luka Carson 
Megumi Hayashibara as Pikatwo 
Michael Haigney as
Blastoise 
Geodude 
Psyduck 
Venusaur 
Mika Kanai as Chikorita 
Rachael Lillis as
Goldeen 
Ninetales 
Wigglytuff 
Rica Matsumoto as Persian 
Satomi Koorogi as Togepi 
Scottie Ray as Cullen Calix 
Shinichirō Miki as
Golbat 
Staryu 
Tara Jayne as
Bulbasaur 
Vulpix 
Unshō Ishizuka as Onix 
English companies
Audio Post Production: Taj Studios Inc. 
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network India 
YTV 
Licensed by:
4Kids Entertainment 
Warner Bros. 
Music: Rave Music 
Production: 4Kids Entertainment 
Voice Producer: Taj Studios Inc. 
French staff
French cast
Adaptation: François Asselin (Quebec) 
Voice Direction: François Asselin (Quebec) 
Benoît Marleau as Mewtwo (Quebec) 
Jean-Daniel Nicodème as Le Narrateur (France) 
Jean-Marc Delhausse as Mewtwo  (France) 
Kim Jalabert as Misty (Quebec) 
Martin Watier as Brock (Quebec) 
Sébastien Reding as Ash Ketchum (Quebec) 

Alice Ley as Luna (France) 
Antoine Durand as James (Quebec) 
Aurélien Ringelheim as Sacha (France) 
Catherine Conet as Jessie (France) 
Christine Séguin as Jessie (Quebec) 
Daniel Picard as Giovanni (Quebec) 
David Manet as James (France) 
Fanny Roy as Ondine (France) 
François Sasseville as Meowth (Quebec) 
Laurent Sao as Pierre (France) 
Marie Van R. as Agent Double Zero Neuf (France) 
Nessym Guetat as Miaouss (France) 
Patrick Descamps as Giovanni (France) 
Thomas Renlund as Cullen (France) 
French companies
Broadcaster: Teletoon (French Version) 
Distributor: Warner Bros. 
Recording Studio: Covitec (Quebec) 
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Jose Luis Angulo (Spain dub) 
Translation: Kenneth Post (Spain dub) 
ADR Script: Jose Luis Angulo (Spain dub) 

ADR Engineer: Alberto Ginés (Spain dub) 
Mix Engineer: Antonio Esquivel (Spain dub) 
Gabriel Gama as Brock 
Gabriel Ramos as Ash Ketchum 
Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu 
Pilar González Aguado as Misty (Spain dub) 
Rafael Alonso Naranjo Jr. as Ash Ketchum (Spain dub) 
Sergio Sánchez as Brock (Spain dub) 
Xochitl Ugarte as Misty 

Ana Jiménez as Jessie (Spain dub) 
Christine Byrd as Domino 
Inmaculada Gallego as Luna Carson (Spain dub) 
Juan Logar Jr. as Cullen Callix (Spain dub) 
Luis Bajo as Mewtwo (Spain dub) 
Luis Manuel Martín Díaz as James (Spain dub) 
Mario Arenas as Meowth (Spain dub) 
Rafael Azcárraga as Giovanni (Spain dub) 
Sofía Galán as Dominó "Black Tulip" (Spain dub) 

Alejandro Villeli as Giovanni 
Carlos Hugo Hidalgo as Cullen Calix 
Diana Perez as Jesse 
Eduardo Del Hoyo as Narrator (Spain dub) 
Enrique Mederos as Mewtwo 
Gerardo Vazquez as Meowth 
Jose Antonio Macias as James 
Jose Luis Angulo as Dr. Fuji (Spain dub; extras) 
Liliana Barba as Luna Carson 
Mercedes Cepeda as Luka Carson (Spain dub) 
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network L.A. (Latin America) 
Cinema Golden Choice (Mexico) 
Dubbing Studio: Tecnison (Spain dub) 
German staff
German cast
(none)
Angela Wiederhut as Misty 
Frank Muth as Mewtu 
Marc Stachel as Rocko 
Veronika Neugebauer as Ash Ketchum 

Gerhard Acktun as Mauzi 
Laura Maire as Domino 
Matthias Klie as James 
Scarlet Cavadenti as Jessie 

Frank Schaff as Narrator 
Philipp Brammer as Cullen Calix 
Thomas Albus as Giovanni 
German companies
Distributor: Warner Bros. 
Dutch staff
Dutch cast
Translation: Hilde de Mildt 

Voice Direction: Joop Pieëte 
Christa Lips as Ash 
Fred Meijer as Brock 
Marlies Somers as Misty 
Victor van Swaay as Mewtwo 

Bram Bart as James 
Hilde de Mildt as Jessie 
Jan Nonhof as Meowth 
Kiki Koster as Domino 

Marjolein Algera as Luna 
Pepijn Gunneweg as Cullen Calix 
Sander de Heer as Giovanni 
Dutch companies
Dubbing: JPS Producties 
Danish staff
Danish cast
(none)
Mathias Klenske as Ash Ketchum 
Peter Holst-Beck as Brock 

Ann Hjort as Jessie 
Peter Zhelder as Meowth 
Thomas Kirk as James 
Danish companies
(none)
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Candice Arellano as Misty 
Julius Figueroa as Brock 
Klariz Magboo as Ash Ketchum 

Charmaine Cordoviz as Jesse 
Hazel Hernan as Domino 
Jefferson Utanes as James 
Julius Figueroa as Meowth 

Jefferson Utanes as Mewtwo 
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: GMA Network 
Dubbing: ALTA Productions 
Polish staff
Polish cast
Dubbing Director: Małgorzata Boratyńska 
Translation: Elżbieta Kowalska 
Producer: Romuald Cieślak 

ADR Engineer:
Małgorzata Gil 
Urszula Ziarkiewicz 
Audio Mixing: Agnieszka Kołodziejczyk 
Hanna Kinder-Kiss as Ash Ketchum 
Iwona Rulewicz as Misty 
Marek Obertyn as Mewtwo 
Marek Wlodarczyk as Brock 

Adam Bauman as Giovanni 
Małgorzata Kożuchowska as Domino 

Anna Apostolakis as Bus Driver 
Beata Jankowska-Tzimas as Luna Carson 
Dorota Lanton as Jessie 
Janusz Wituch as Cullen Callix 
Jaroslaw Budnik as James 
Mikołaj Klimek as Narrator 
Miroslaw Wieprzewski as Meowth 
Polish companies
Distributor: Galapagos Films 
Dubbing: Master Film 
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
(none)
Alfredo Rollo as Brock 
Fábio Lucindo as Ash Ketchum 
Guilherme Briggs as Mewtwo 
Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu 
Márcia Regina as Misty 

Iara Riça as Domino 
Isabel de Sá as Jesse 
Márcio Araújo as James 

Luís Feier Mota as Giovanni 
Luiz Feier Motta as Giovanni 
Peterson Adriano as Cullen Calix 
Satomi Koorogi as Togepi 
Sílvia Goiabeira as Luka Carson 
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
HBO Latin America 
SBT (Brazil) 
Dubbing Studio: Delart 

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