Pokemon 3

This latest big-screen Pokémon is two adventures under one title. The filmshort Pikachu and Pichu plays like a watercolor hallucination in which the popular Japanese Pocket Monsters and their friends run amok in a big city over a brisk jazz/pop soundtrack. In the feature-length Spell of the Unown, trainer Ash and his cohorts attempt to rescue his mother and the orphan Molly from a dreamworld prison where the Unowns (spinning forces of villainy that look like alphabet soup escapees) turn human thought and emotions into reality. The lengthy battles here become tiresome in a film that says Pokémons live to battle but also know when to quit. In my case, it was way too late, but my resident child expert says this third installment is better than the second but not quite as entertaining as the first.