You mean they've been working on this thing for over two years yet the human models still ended up looking this awful? Wow. The Pokémon models look good though, so maybe that's where all the effort went.
Since I haven't seen it yet I can concede that it is possible that they look better in motion than they do in screenshots and split-second snippets, but most of the screenshots I've seen of the humans have not appealed to me.
I assume he's referring to the subtitles shown at the film festival or wherever it was that they showed it with English subtitles earlier in the year.
True, but I can understand the reluctance to paying import prices for something that doesn't have English on it when if one waits long enough it will likely come out in English eventually. Add that to the screenshots and trailer snippets showing a very divisive animation style for the humans along with the seeming overall pointlessness of remaking a movie few if anyone wanted to see a remake of (especially when the original is so relatively young and still widely available while arguably looking better despite being 21 years older) and you can see why many may not have much of a drive to buy it. The human animation may look better in the actual movie than it does in the trailers and screenshots, but few are going to be willing to pay import prices to find out.
What would that have accomplished? There would have been no time to flesh out those characters, as the focus was always meant to be Mewtwo and how Ash and Mew reacted to him. SM didn't bring Brock and Misty back twice for nothing, either.
You flesh them out the same way Souji, Makoto, and the ridiculous cast of M21 was: use the first third of the film to characterize them like M22 failed to do with Brock & Misty
There was no time. You're comparing apples and oranges here; both AU movies had very low stakes until their lackluster finales. I do think they should have extended the lunch scene to showcase all of Brock and Misty's Pokemon.
