Review BW053: Over the Rainbow! Maracacchi Musical!!

[Hellwarden]

It was a solid episode I thought. The Trio and their Pokemon interactions were sweet, and while I do wish the Tripple Battle had actually finished, it was nice. {Maybe they're saving the tripple battles for Ash and one of his rivals?} The gangs respective dances were cute too.

 

[Trainer Gabriel]

A rather meh episode overall. The first half was just practicing dance moves with, as usual, one Pokemon of the group that needed more confidence in itself. Then of course it gets over the problem and the CotD wins the musical competition. :zzz:

The best part of the episode...

...was this.

 

[Piplup]

My thoughts as I watched the ep:
- Chingling
- Pokémon Contest
- Season 3's Bellossom ep
- Cilan's annoying BGM again
- I miss Brock
- So now Musical = a Pokémon Contest's performance round? ok...
- POKEMON BATTLE, the solution to everything!
- The introduction to Triple Battles could and should have been much better than that
- "lol hi cactus trio, want to come with me? yes? yay!" lamest "capture" ever in the whole show

 

[Hellion]

It was really... really... a rehash of that bellossom episode, but it wasn't actually a bad episode.

Good points

+ Dent: Again, hilarious. When he did the Russian dance, I was like... whatisthismybodywasnotready.

+ The scarf-wearing cactus: I felt bad for it, and even though it was the exact same thing as the bellossom, I still though it was endearing.

+ Animation: This episode really made the pokémon and the attacks look good. I was screaming, "Bring back contests" at my computer screen.

+ Levitating Buffron: Just... genius. XD

Lukewarm points

- Yanappu and Pikachu: Neither was grating, and at times they were funny, but I kinda felt neither had a really really funny moment.

Bad points

- Iris: She went back to not really feeling like a friend to the guys, she brought the mood down a couple of times in an episode that was mostly comedic. Her ballet jazz on crack routine was blah.

- Kibago: He needs to shut up... like... now.

- Mijumaru: He needs to stop appearing to do nothing entertaining... like... now.

- Emonga: She needs to be released never to be seen again... like... now.

- CotD and the other two cacti: Bland/Very bland.

- Random Girl singing Best Wishes: OH NO THEY DIDN'T.

Yeah... average, but definitely not one of the worst this saga has offered.

 

[MarshiyanMisutaa]

"Best Wishes!" was the best part.

 

[Sheep]

I personally found this episode really cute but wish they didn't make musicals Pokemon contests in clothing, lol.

Well, Maractus was beyond adorable, which made the entire episode. There's Emolga too, whose little voice I adore. <3

 

[Dogasu]

I finally got around to watching this episode.

Like most other people here, I thought it was just "alright." Not amazing, but not terrible, either.

I liked Satoshi's Japanese dance because it showed that, as much as the show's been whitewashed over the years, he's still a young Japanese kid at heart. That part made me smile.

The girl singing Best Wishes was just awful, though.

 

[DynoStretch]

also. this scene.

All we needed was Zangief and Gorbachev to jump in and join them and this episode would had earned a 100% from me.